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Living Room / Cuil search engine

« on: July 28, 2008, 10:47 AM »

Cuil was launched today.



Info @ www.cuil.com/info/



(Source)

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General Software Discussion / HEXelon MAX 6 - free mathematical calculator currency converter units converter

« on: July 25, 2008, 07:15 AM »

HEXelon MAX 6 is a free mathematical calculator, currency converter, and units converter.



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Features:

• Language versions: English, Polish, Czech.
  
• Solves math expressions like: Sin(Pi)-Root(-8;3)+3
  
• Creates user's functions (e.g. surfaces, volumes, and so on). Publishes in Internet. Receives from Internet.
  
• Program shows position of bugs in math expression made by user. Descriptions of bugs help solve a problem.
  
• Prompter shows functions, variables, constants. Simply press SPACE key.
  
• Exchange rates table and currency converter are update from Internet by one click.
  
• Units converter makes easier to convert various units.
  
• 14 categories of units: length, temperature, pressure and so on.
  
• Creates user's variables.
  
• Numeral systems: binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal.
  
• Measures of angle: radian, degree, gradus.
  
• 5 sets of keyboards configured ba a user.
  
• 3 calculators - user can calculate three various math expressions.
  
• Button Undo and Redo.
  
• History of math expressions.
  
• Comprehensive Help.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Free Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008

« on: June 25, 2008, 08:12 AM »

FREE Genuine Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008 Product Key Worth $199.95

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General Software Discussion / The LiveCD List

« on: June 14, 2008, 09:20 AM »

A comprehensive list of LiveCDs + download links. Click on pic to go there.

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Living Room / Simply Google

« on: June 14, 2008, 09:14 AM »

"Simply Google is is the simple version of google.com that has been de-googlized"

Click on pic to go there.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Free Ashampoo Burning Studio 2008

« on: June 13, 2008, 12:25 AM »

Free full version key without time limit for Ashampoo® Burning Studio 2008

Download here

(found via Raymond.CC blog but cannot find the link to the post).

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General Software Discussion / Comodo, Webroot and ZoneLabs bundle Ask Toolbar and Search Assistant

« on: May 30, 2008, 07:34 AM »

I find this odd development... It appears that Comodo, Webroot and ZoneLabs include\bundle as a default (pre-checked) opt-in of the Ask Toolbar and Search Assistant while other security products detect components of this toolbar. Details @ ZA Free/Webroot Products/Comodo/Ask Toolbar

What's your take on this? Would you still consider installing their products?

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General Software Discussion / New Discovery - Advanced Renamer

« on: May 29, 2008, 09:38 AM »

Advanced Renamer, version 02.53.00, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Freeware

Advanced Renamer is freeware program for renaming multiple files or folders at once. It can use several different methods for calculating the new name including multimedia tools for sound and picture files.

Selected features
 

 

• Undo functionality
  
•    Real time preview of file rename
  
•    MP3/ID3 renaming
  
•    Image renaming with EXIF support
  
•    Thumbnail view
  
•    Supports both files and folders
  
•    Several renaming methods
  
•    Use multiple methods at once
  
•    Tag rename
  

Renaming methods
 

 

• New Name with Tags
  
•    New Case
  
•    Remove / Delete
  
•    Replace
  
•    Add / Insert
  
•    List
  
•    File Attributes
  
•    File Timestamp

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General Software Discussion / CleanAfterMe - a new Nirsoft tool

« on: May 24, 2008, 08:22 AM »

CleanAfterMe

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General Software Discussion / Desktop Teleporter on Techie Buzz/Lifehacker

« on: May 22, 2008, 06:27 PM »

tchikien's Desktopteleporter was featured on Techie Buzz and Lifehacker.

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Living Room / Thread removed

« on: May 20, 2008, 05:53 AM »

@Moderator

Why was the thread about Qoo... file transfer deleted?

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Living Room / Commercial Games Gone Freeware

« on: May 14, 2008, 11:47 PM »

List of commercial games released as freeware (via Lifehacker. Be sure to read the comments for more links.)

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General Software Discussion / Eve - a tiny freeware vector editor

« on: April 28, 2008, 11:32 AM »

Embedded Vector Editor (EVE) - powerful, portable and small (73.5 KB). User manual here.

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General Software Discussion / Weird software names

« on: April 18, 2008, 08:51 PM »

What's the weirdst software name you ever came across? And hey, leave mouser's applications out of this...  .

Here's my nomination: Do It with Your Dog.

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Living Room / Dropkick The Faint

« on: April 11, 2008, 12:38 PM »

This one is crazy.



Aim is to drop kick the members of The Faint music band off the stage as far as you can.

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General Software Discussion / [shell-fu]$

« on: April 09, 2008, 07:45 PM »

is a place for all those little command line goodies that you come across and then can never find again when you need them.

(via Hackosis Blog)

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General Software Discussion / Malware writers now number one software makers

« on: April 09, 2008, 06:51 AM »

"Malware now makes up the majority of all new applications: 65 percent of the 54,609 applications developed and released to the public for Windows-based PCs in the past six months were malicious, according to Symantec's latest threat report". (Read on Donna's blog but forgot to copy the link, sorry)

http://www.zdnet.com...744,339288003,00.htm

Okay, found it. It's Donna's SecurityFlash - PC & Internet Security Blog

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General Software Discussion / Q-Dir (File Manager)

« on: April 08, 2008, 08:03 AM »

Anyone tried Q-Dir file manager?

::Some Features::

Favorites:
Quick access to most often used folders.
Drag&Drop:
Move files by dragging in Q-views, and other programs such as MS Explorer.
Clipboard:
Copy/ Paste between the Q-Dir directory views, and other programs such as MS Explorer.
Folder-Type:
ZIP-, FTP-,cabinet-,network-, system - folders, shortcuts ...
Views:
Large icons, tiles, list, detail, thumbnail (Vista: extra large symbols) .
Export:
to XLS, CSV, TXT, HTML.
Popup Menus:
Desktop, My Computer.
Screen magnifier:
anything on the screen can be enlarged.
Color Filter:
Different colors for different item types (e.g. *.log;*.txt).
Highlight-Filter:
Effective way for fast items highlighting.
File-Filter:
Allows for quick and easy filtering of the items.
Columns:
All columns support, and save function .
Quick-Link's:
For fast folder access.
Folder-Select:
Fast & flexible folder selection address-bar/ desktop menu/ my-computer menu/...
Multi-INI:
Several INI files for Q-Dir.
Tree-View:
Simple and quadruple.
Preview:
Allows a quick preview.
Portable:
from 2.77 is Q-Dir portable.

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General Software Discussion / Creative Labs

« on: March 31, 2008, 09:40 PM »

Creative Labs customers might want to read this thread. Warning. It's a monster thread.

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General Software Discussion / Cause of Vista crashes

« on: March 28, 2008, 10:37 AM »

29% of Windows Vista crashes caused by NVIDIA drivers (DownloadSquad article)

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General Software Discussion / Adobe Photoshop Express Beta

« on: March 27, 2008, 01:02 PM »

Adobe Photoshop Express Beta launched.

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General Software Discussion / Small Apps

« on: March 23, 2008, 07:26 AM »

Did absolutely nothing today but surfing the WWW... anyways found a few interesting links for small, useful freeware applications:

Classic Software®

THE AMAZING FAST C

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General Software Discussion / Nirsoft Installer

« on: March 21, 2008, 09:55 AM »

I was looking for a downloader/installer/updater for the Nirsoft utilities set for quite some time now (and I was not the only one  ) and today BINGO. Hope you find this script useful.

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Living Room / Is This Site Really Down?

« on: March 17, 2008, 07:37 PM »

Down For Everyone Or Just Me service worth bookmarking (via Cybernetnews).

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General Software Discussion / Free Microsoft Commercial Developer Tools

« on: February 19, 2008, 11:30 AM »

Microsoft gives away free developer software to students