Saturday, May 29, 2010

List of Free Apps and Services From a Very Reliable Source

     I was the lucky recipient of two issues of PCWorld that someone had tossed away for trash.  Someone's trash became my treasure when I read the covers;  "Best Free Stuff, 112 apps and services you can't live without" on the cover for the April, 2010 issue and "52 Incredibly Useful Sites" on the cover of a June 2010 issue.  After all, it's  my duty to recycle every chance I get.  Besides the subscriber did PC World justice by allowing someone like me to find, enjoy and possibly subscribe to this magazine.  I didn't receive any type of compensation from PCWorld for telling everyone what a great magazine they produce.  I discovered this all by myself.  I found useful information in both magazines from cover to cover, not just in the feature articles that originally caught my eye.
     Enough of that already.  I'd like to share some of the apps and services listed in the article. Find  the  following eight utilities for saving time and optimizing your system by going to find.pcworld.com/69446:

     Wizmouse - scroll non-active windows
     Win7Library Tool - improve on Windows7's libraries
     Ultimate Windows Tweaker - fine tune your Vista or 7 system
     Teracopy - improved replacement for the copy/move function
     Portable Ubuntu Remix - run Ubuntu Linux on your Windows machine
     Ketarin - automatically updates setup packages
     FixWin - fix several of Windows problems
     Better Paste - lets you paste either formatted or unformatted text

     These downloads are just the beginning.  Find more on the RESOURCES page.  And if you're thinking about getting that subscription like I am...
                         
OK, I can't resist, here's a few more...

InterfaceLift - wallpaper library w/more than 2000 find.pcworld.com/69491
my.brainshark.com - add narration to a presentation by picking up your phone
http://www.backupify.com/ - 1 GB of storage, weekly backups online accounts
Twinbox - brings tweets to inbox and update status find.pcworld.com/69466

Go to find.pcworld.com/69511 to download these timeless classics:
Ad-Aware Free - excellent at stopping spyware
Audacity - powerful open-source tool records sound as well as edit it
FreeConference.com - Schedule and make unlimited conference calls
OpenOffice.org - word, spreadsheet, presentation, database and drawing

Here's the one I'm gonna try first.  http://www.instapaper.com/   This website lets you bookmark anything to read later, stripping the page's content to bare text for your computer, iPhone, or Kindle.  Go completely old-school and print it out.  I never seem to have enough time to read everything I find.  There you go.  You know where to find the rest.
                          

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