5 FREE Programs to make your computer (slightly) easier to use and look cool(ish)
This is a neat little gizmo that sits on any side of the screen. In its original format, I found it slightly obtrusive (it covered up the tool bars). I used these solutions. Make it too small to obstruct the toolbars (I did this) Put it at the left of the screen (the right has the scroll bar) Set it to 'Pop up on Mousover' in the dock settings. Some other similar programs are: Objectdock download Mobydock download Y'z dock download Rk launcher download Xwindows dock download Orbit dock download All of these are perfectly good, but again, I prefer Rocketdock. You can download Rocketdock here.
40 Basic Linux Command-line Tips and Tricks | A Platform to Express Your Ideas and Thoughts | fortystones
1. Everything in Linux is a file including the hardware and even the directories. 2. # : Denotes the super(root) user 3. $ : Denotes the normal user 4. /home: Denotes the normal user’s directory. 5. § Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6: Console login § Ctrl + Alt + F7: GUI login 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. cd : The cd command can be used trickily in the following ways: cd : To switch to the home user cd * : To change directory to the first file in the directory (only if the first file is a directory) cd .. : To move back a folder cd - : To return to the last directory you were in 15. 16. 17. ls: The ls command can be use trickily in the following ways: ls -lR : To view a long list of all the files (which includes directories) and their subdirectories recursively . ls *.* : To view a list of all the files with extensions only. 18. ls -ll: Gives a long list in the following format drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-29 05:17 bin where Here r stands for read, w for write and x for executable. 2=> link count 19. 20.
Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick
The 50 Best How-To Geek Windows Articles of 2010
Even though we cover plenty of other topics, Windows has always been a primary focus around here, and we’ve got one of the largest collections of Windows-related how-to articles anywhere. Here’s the fifty best Windows articles that we wrote in 2010. Want even more? You should make sure to check out our top 20 How-To Geek Explains topics of 2010, or the 50 Windows Registry hacks that make Windows better. How to Customize Your Windows 7 Taskbar Icons for Any App Would you like to change out the icons on your taskbar with a beautiful set of icons that all go together? How to Customize Your Windows 7 Taskbar Icons for Any App Change the Windows 7 Taskbar Color Sure, you can hack Windows and install a custom theme if you really wanted to, or pay for a software package to do it for you. Change the Windows 7 Taskbar Color With No Extra Software (Stupid Geek Tricks) Change Your Windows 7 Taskbar Color the Easy Way (and Rotate Between Colors) How to Crack Your Forgotten Windows Password
A.I. Answering Service & Call Center - Mayo and Beer
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar...and the beer. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. was. into the jar. open areas between the golf balls. the jar was full. box of sand and poured it into the jar. everything else. responded with an unanimous "yes." cans of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. laughed. "Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends, your favorite passions--things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The sand is everything else--the small stuff. balls.
Downloadable Computer Repair CDs
One of our Technibble forum members, PcTek9, and a handful of other Technibble members have compiled a large list of CDs for various computer repair tasks. In this list, the following types of CD are available for download: Antivirus Boot CDs, Recovery Disks, Hardware Diagnostic Boot CDs, Network Testing/Monitoring, Data Recovery Boot CDs and Special Purpose CDs. Some of these are free to download, some are not. Be sure to read the EULA for the CD’s you download and the applications you use to make sure you are allowed to use them in the manner you plan to use them in. Many of the CDs contain a variety of different programs and some of the applications are free to use as you please, but some of them disallow commercial use. So be sure to read and abide by the EULA for whatever you use. Also, some of these CD’s may set off an antivirus false positive due to their virus removal, password cracking, system file changing nature. Creating Multiboot CDs
Open Source Living
VLC Media Player
VLC Supports Most Video Formats in HD & Blue Ray Plays most video formats/codecs with no codec packs downloaded. MP3, MKV, WebM, MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, and WMV. Cross Platform Formats: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix. Free and Spyware Tested Safe. Windows Media Player with Comprehensive Format Support VLC Media Player is considered one of the world's best players since it can play almost any audio and video format. VLC Media Player Review Happens all the time, our friends tell us about a strange and fascinating film (generally old black-and-white classic) they've watched and they speak so enthusiastically about it that we decide to download and watch it, however finding such piece of multimedia is not always so easy and we end up downloading it in an uncommon format that our regular player denies to play.
150 Best Windows Applications Of Year 2010 [Editor's Pick]
AddictiveTips is popular for covering the latest and greatest desktop applications, having one of the largest collection of Windows freeware reviews on the web. Now that 2010 has come to an end, we take a look back at the best 150 applications. We plan to cover more topics in 2011, including Cloud OS, Mobile (Android, WP7, iOS), Mac, and much more, apart from extensive Windows coverage. The AddictiveTips team wishes you a very Happy New Year! Without further ado, here are the best 150 desktop applications (in order from January to December) that we covered in 2010. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. iBin (Recover files from USB Drive) 6. 7. To download from Grooveshark and SoundCloud, give SciLor’s Grooveshark Downloader and SoundCloud Downloader a shot. 8. 9. ei.cfg Removal Utility (Create Windows 7 Universal DVD by removing Versions) 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Also check out Moo0 File Shredder. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Also check out 7sDocs. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Another similar tool is WindowsMaster.
