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Microsoft has released a publically downloadable beta version Office 2010 – Professional Plus edition. This version lets you use this product completely free of charge until October 2010! Included are: Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace, and communicator.
Available for download are both 32- and 64-bit versions compatable with XP w/ [...]
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November 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Free Software | 2 Comments
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In Part 1 of this series, I showed you how to download a lightweight Windows application from Amazon.com that allows you to read Kindle books. In this article, I will show you how to download thousands of Kindle books absolutely free!
How to Download Thousands of Kindle Books for Free!
Download, install, and run the [...]
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November 16th, 2009 | Posted in Deals & Bargains, Free Software, Software - General | No Comments
Everyone by now knows about Amazon’s uber-popular Book reader, Kindle. This featherweight 10 ounce device allows you to wirelessly purchase books online without requiring an internet connection. Until now, books purchased for the Kindle could only be used on the device. However, Amazon.com just released a PC version of the Kindle book reader – and [...]
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November 11th, 2009 | Posted in Free Software, Software - General | 1 Comment
Paint.NET had a major release today of version 3.5 of their software. Until today, I had not heard of this application which surprised me quite a bit. I had thought that the best free photo editor for Windows was GIMP (although I am not a huge fan of it). This is not a GIMP vs [...]
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November 10th, 2009 | Posted in Free Software, Software - General | No Comments
For years VMware has dominated the market as the leader in virtualization. They offer a number of products from desktop to enterprise applications which can be confusing for users looking for a simple way to run, for instance, an Ubuntu instance within their Windows OS. VMware offers one freeware product called, VMware server that runs [...]
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November 8th, 2009 | Posted in Free Software, Software Help | No Comments
This article will show you how to open and edit .psd (Photoshop Document) files without spending hundreds of dollars on buying Adobe Photoshop!
GIMP – Free Photoshop Alternative
For those that are not familiar with GIMP, it is a 100% free, open-source photo editing software that is very powerful. Some uses are: resizing, editing, and cropping photos, [...]
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August 25th, 2009 | Posted in Free Software | 2 Comments
Earlier this week, Microsoft posted the Windows 7 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) build 7100 for FREE download from their website. Users are invited to download and try their latest operating system for free until it expires June 1, 2010. Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista and is expected to be officially released later [...]
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May 6th, 2009 | Posted in Free Software, Windows 7 | No Comments
This article will introduce you to a free, open-source software called TrueCrypt, which encrypts files on your hard drive. This software can be used on Linux, MacOS, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2003/2008. TrueCrypt encrypts/decrypts all file names, directory names, file contents, etc on your hard drive in memory (RAM), without any user intervention. [...]
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April 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Free Software, Linux/Unix, Windows Vista, Windows XP | No Comments
This article will suggest several websites where you can scan your Windows PC for viruses for FREE, without downloading any software. As you all know, there is a huge variety of virus scanners on the market such as: Norton, Mcafee, AVG, ESET, etc. But if you don’t have the budget or don’t want to install [...]
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March 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Cool Websites, Free Software, Windows Vista, Windows XP | No Comments
This article will introduce you to uTorrent, which is a freeware torrent client. uTorrent is an extremely lightweight application ( less tan 300 kb) that is free of any adware and spyware.
Setting Up uTorrent
1. Download & Install uTorrent
2. Start the uTorrent application
3. You must ensure that the port uTorrent runs on (such as 64596) is [...]
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March 9th, 2009 | Posted in Free Software, Windows Vista, Windows XP | No Comments