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Backup Your Facebook Timeline, Photos and Status Updates

kjackson_ott — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:56:22 +0000

Facebook has become a part of daily life for millions of people, many of whom use the service to store photos and contact information. Facebook has become like a digital scrapbook of our lives, but unfortunately, we have very little control over the information we store on Facebook. At any time, the site could change [...]

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Backup Your Facebook Timeline, Photos and Status Updates

Edit PDFs for Free with BabyPDF

kjackson_ott — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:01:17 +0000

The best PDF editing programs cost more money than we like to spend on software. However, some kind of editor is necessary to add text and notes to an existing PDF. In a pinch, BabyPDF is a small, 11 MB download that allows basic editing functions for PDFs. Click the file folder icon to open [...]

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Edit PDFs for Free with BabyPDF

Recover Data from a Corrupt Excel File

kjackson_ott — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:11:45 +0000

Excel files are commonly used to keep and make sense of large amounts of data. Some companies have painstakingly used the same spreadsheets through two decades of Excel versions. So, having a precious spreadsheet suddenly become corrupt is a devastating experience. Recovering data from a corrupt file can be a pain. One of the most [...]

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Recover Data from a Corrupt Excel File

Take Firefox On The Go With Firefox Portable Edition

dcrowder — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:33:25 +0000

When you use different computers, browser settings vary. Unless you save your bookmarks to any online bookmarking site, you can’t take them with you. Loading someone else’s Firefox means different add-ons as well. What if you could take your Firefox with you? This is where Firefox Portable comes into play. With the portable edition of [...]

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Take Firefox On The Go With Firefox Portable Edition

Combine Multiple PDFs into One File

kjackson_ott — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:37:25 +0000

We have PDFs stored on our computers for just about everything, from the manual for our car to last year’s tax receipts. Especially with the tax receipts, it would be best to combine all the individual PDFs into one big PDF for archival purposes. PDFBinder makes combining several PDFs into one file a quick and [...]

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Combine Multiple PDFs into One File

Copy Windows Error Messages the Easy Way

kjackson_ott — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:01:57 +0000

If there is one experience all PC users have in common, it is receiving a system error message at the most inopportune time possible. Windows makes these especially aggravating by not allowing us to copy the text of the error message, meaning we have to retype the entire thing to search the Web for a [...]

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Copy Windows Error Messages the Easy Way

Make Photographed Documents Look Like Scans

kjackson_ott — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:10:49 +0000

While we do not always have quick access to a scanner, most of us almost always have access to the camera on our cell phones. So, in a pinch, we can take a picture of a document and send it to whoever needs it. However, photographed documents look unprofessional and can be hard to read. [...]

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Make Photographed Documents Look Like Scans

Open PDFs in Firefox without Adobe Reader

kjackson_ott — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:56:22 +0000

The latest Adobe X update reportedly does not play well with the latest version of Firefox. Many users report that when they try to open a PDF in Firefox, they are unable to scroll to see the entire document. Most of the time, the window locks and must be closed—or Firefox must be restarted. Fortunately, [...]

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Open PDFs in Firefox without Adobe Reader

Upload Videos to YouTube the Easy Way

kjackson_ott — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:57:16 +0000

YouTube’s upload process can be tedious for power users. Navigating to the YouTube website, then choosing the video, setting categories, waiting on the video to process—all of these steps become very old, very fast. A faster way to upload videos to YouTube is to use software that saves your settings and uploads videos without having [...]

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Upload Videos to YouTube the Easy Way

Make Windows Speak the Time with TickTalker

mgabriel — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:22:50 +0000

Since the clock’s invention by the ancient Egyptian astronomers more than 5,500 years ago, it has now become one of the most important devices humankind has ever created. Clocks serve many purposes. For one, it keeps us updated with our daily activities. Without it the world we know today will cease to exist. Clocks are [...]

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Make Windows Speak the Time with TickTalker

Create Panoramas Quickly using Hugin

akishore — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:25:43 +0000

I’ve written about creating panoramas before, namely using AutoStitch and AutoPano. Both of these are great programs, but I ran across another one that I really liked and figured I should mention since it’s free and open source. Hugin is a cross-platform panoramic imaging tool that is very easy to use. It’s also very powerful [...]

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Create Panoramas Quickly using Hugin

Make a CD or DVD Cover the Easy Way

kjackson_ott — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:55:22 +0000

Custom CDs or DVDs make great holiday gifts for family and friends. Mothers the world over enjoy photo and video montages of their children set to lively music and burned on a DVD. To make the present truly unique, a custom cover for the CD or DVD is essential. While there are many ways to [...]

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Make a CD or DVD Cover the Easy Way

Best Free Download Managers

jclaerr — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:23:06 +0000

If your Internet connection is slow or prone to interruption, using a download manager can save you a lot of time and trouble. The best download managers can pause and resume downloads, download multiple files at once and download files using alternate protocols such as FTP and BitTorrent. They also support downloading of Flash video [...]

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Best Free Download Managers

PartedMagic – Free Partition Manager Software

akishore — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:31:42 +0000

If you’re one of those people who likes to mess around with their computer a lot, then you have probably partitioned your hard drive many times over. If you have never partitioned a hard drive, you can do it very easily with a free tool called PartedMagic. The program is actually a combination of two [...]

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PartedMagic – Free Partition Manager Software

See All Startup Programs with WhatInStartup

akishore — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:52:31 +0000

NirSoft is always coming out with great utilities and one of my favorites is WhatInStartup. You can download the program from here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/what_run_in_startup.html It’s very simple to use and it has some nice features that you won’t get from MSConfig. Firstly, you don’t have to install it, it is just an executable file that runs [...]

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See All Startup Programs with WhatInStartup