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70+ Best Free Alternatives to Paid Software - The Unlearner. Image Editing Pixlr – Fully functional alternative to Adobe Photoshop.

70+ Best Free Alternatives to Paid Software - The Unlearner

(Web, Windows, Mac)GIMP – Another Photoshop alternative. (Linux, Mac)Paint.net – GIMP for Windows (Windows)Seashore – Basic image editing with layers, textures, gradients and more. (Mac)ImageOptim – Image utility that compresses your images for the web (Mac)RIOT – Batch image compression for Windows (Windows)InkScape – Professional vector graphics editor, replaces Adobe Illustrator (Windows, Mac, Linux)Pinta – Another great Illustrator alternative. (Windows, Mac, Linux)Canva – Makes design ridiculously easy with templates for infographics, banners, newsletters, and more. Photography Polarr – Great alternative for Adobe Lightroom. Video Playback & EntertainmentVLC – The video editor everyone loves. EditingOpenShot – Fully featured video editor, alternative to Final Cut Pro/Premiere Pro. Productivity Productivity ToolsWunderlist – The best task-management app ever, period. Messaging. Photo editor online - Pixlr.com.

14 best websites of the week. List of emoticons. A simple smiley This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's mood or facial expression in the form of icons.

List of emoticons

The Western use of emoticons is quite different from Eastern usage, and Internet forums, such as 2channel, typically show expressions in their own ways. In recent times, graphic representations, both static and animated, have taken the place of traditional emoticons in the form of icons. Emoticons can generally be divided into two groups: Western or Horizontal (mainly from America and Europe), and Eastern or Vertical (mainly from east Asia). The most common explanation for these differences is how the different cultures value different parts of the face, i.e. eyes often play a bigger part in figuring out mood in the East while the West puts the eyes as equal to the rest of the face.[1] Western The emoticon in Western style is written most often from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees.

Eastern. Popular Android Apps By Category. SumRando. Free Proxy and VPN - Online but Under the Radar. How to Use Ultrasurf. Circumventing Censorship. (Or, "How I learned to start worrying and start protecting my online privacy") By Doug Bernard | VOA News Illustration by Steve Fuchs At its best, the web can turn your computer or mobile device into a research library, a movie theater, a medical tool or a means to connect with just about anyone else on the planet.

Circumventing Censorship

It’s an open, safe place to be who you are and grow into something new. At its worst, the Internet can become a dark and threatening place - a tool for thieves to steal, corporations to spy and governments to oppress. As the saying goes, the Web is what we make it. Information may want to flow freely, but there are plenty of forces that want to dam up the web’s flow of information and punish those who try to fight back.

In particular, some governments are working hard to wall off parts of the Internet by filtering and blocking what people can see. Think of this project as something like a primer on Internet circumvention and anonymity. Keep in mind. OutSSIDer WiFi scanner. Unchecky - Keeps your checkboxes clear. Identify websites involved in malware incidents, fraudulent and spamming activities. An Incredible Way to Reveal Passwords Behind Asterisks.

27 People Share The One Cool Internet Or Computer Trick They Know. 1.

27 People Share The One Cool Internet Or Computer Trick They Know

A shortcut to any website. Whatever you type into the URL bar can be surrounded by www. & .com by pressing control + enter. 2. An easy way to browse photos on a subreddit hands-free. When viewing picture based subreddits, add a “p” into the url like so: redditp.com/r/subreddit to get a picture slideshow of the posts on that subreddit. 3. Type -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “weezer” into a google search bar.And for other searches, replace “weezer” with whatever you’re looking for. 4.

Hold S and right click an image to do reverse image search in Chrome. 5. The Wadsworth constant, which was proposed by /u/wadsworth, states that the first 30% of any YouTube instructional video is skippable. 6. Ctrl + shift + TOpens up the last tab you closed. 7. 8. CTRL + L highlights the url/address bar in Chrome. 9. If a YouTube video is marked as private I’m pretty sure you can gain access simply by deleting the “watch?”

Top 10 Ways to Access Blocked Stuff on The Web. History of the Internet. 100 Alternative Search Engines.