Top 5 sites to download free software
Posted on October 5, 2009 at 5:57 am
In the course of the last few years, there have been a few great web sites that have stood out as trusted resources for downloading free software legally. Let me list the top 5 sites that offer this service, so you can use them as resource:
1. Tucows.com – tucows earned its reputation as one of the original free download sites. Now with over 40,000 software titles, it is a very dependable resource for free software with software reviews and ratings. It has minimal ads on the banner, but they are not distracting. Tucows, like MTV, might sound outdated by the savvy downloaders of today but still packs a powerful punch when it comes to providing free software.
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Find most popular searches and topics on Bing
Posted on October 4, 2009 at 5:21 am
Bing is Microsoft’s premier search engine as a replacement for Live Search. We have introduced Microsoft Bing earlier, but this time we will look at how web content providers and SEOs could get statistical information from Bing.
Bing’s xRank, http://www.bing.com/xrank, lets users search for celebrities, musicians, politicians and bloggers, read short biographies and news about them, and track their trends or popularity rankings. With this you can gauge which people are most popular – a great tool for finding celebrity movers and shakers on the Net.
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Magazine style browsing using Google Fast Flip
Posted on October 3, 2009 at 5:49 am
Google Fast Flip is a web application in development from Google Labs. It lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.
To try this web application visit http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/. The page displays thumbnail like representation of the most popular news and magazine sites. With this view, you can see the pages at once alongside other pages.
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How to trace formula dependents in Excel
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 5:01 am
Tracing Excel formula errors is tedious, if not guided by the built-in formula auditing tools. The formula bar itself is a good starting place to debug formula errors but when the formula gets longer and more complicated, a visual guide to trace the dependents is a great help.
You can use the Trace Precedents button on the Formula Auditing toolbar to trace all the generations of cells that contribute to the formula in the selected cell (something like tracing all the ancestors in your family tree). Many times, finding the original source of the formula leads you right to the source of all the error values in your spreadsheet.
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Free photo editing software – Photoscape
Posted on October 1, 2009 at 5:44 am
We have shown you a couple of cool free photo editing tools like Irfanview and Google Picasa. Let me show you another freeware that could become part of your essential photo editing toolbox. The freeware is called PhotoScape from www.photoscape.org.
Like Irfanview and Picasa, this software packs a lot of functionality: picture viewer, editor, animated gif creator, color picker, raw format converter, picture frame maker and others. The first thing a user will see on the GUI is an arranged shortcut to these functions.
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Download files faster using Download Accelerator Plus
Posted on September 30, 2009 at 5:41 am
Is your download speed as fast as it should be? If you recall the days of the “speed demon” 56k dial-up modem, waiting on something as simple as a small digital picture file seemed to take eons. This is when you would get up from your computer and wander off to perform various other tasks to pass the time.
Now that more people have higher speed connections (Cable, DSL, Fiber), as of late, one would imagine that downloading a trial copy of Halo would be fast and steady. Well, not always. Instead of the person carefully watching their connectivity status while running their download, it is the group distributing the software, that is monitoring their bandwidth use.
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