The best way to get updates about a website or a web service is using the email feature. If the website offers email updates, you will be able to get all the updates right inside your email. The next popular method is to subscribe to its RSS feed. Now, what if the website that you want to track does not offer an email newsletter or RSS feeds? In this case, you will need to visit the websites again and again in order to see if the site has been updated or not. Surely there is a better way than this.
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How To Stay Up-To-Date About Your Favorite Websites
By | February 11, 2012 | 1 Comment
Setup A Free FTP Server On Your Home Computer (Complete Step by Step Guide)
By | January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
If you use the Internet frequently, you must have come across some sites which offer uploading and downloading of files on their own servers. I am not talking about file sharing sites that offer to upload and download files through HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) but the sites that use a special protocol called FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The File Transfer Protocol is specially designed for the process of transferring files from one computer to another over the Internet. This protocol makes it easier to transfer multiple and large files without interruptions and also supports download and upload resuming when possible.
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5 Best Free Alternatives To Microsoft Visio
By | January 20, 2012 | 4 Comments
Microsoft Visio is a professional diagramming software from Microsoft which makes it very easy to explore and visualize complex information and processes quickly. As an IT professional, I find it very easy and satisfying to visualize process flows, network architecture and program workflows. Microsoft Visio is not only limited to the IT field but can also be used with other fields like business, engineering and construction (maps and roads). One downside of Microsoft Visio that is common in almost all Microsoft products is that it is not affordable by a home user. The home user does not need to have very complex diagramming needs so we research and bring the most feature rich and free alternatives to Microsoft Visio.
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5 Best Free Alternatives To Microsoft Project
By | January 14, 2012 | 6 Comments
Microsoft Project is a project management software which makes it a breeze to organize the whole project timeline including the work schedules, budgets and human work hours. Microsoft Project has become the best project management software which every IT professional and manager loves to work with. Microsoft Project is suitable for everyone from a person with very basic project management needs to a very large team with very complex collaboration and management needs. This is where simpler tools with only essential features come in. We share some of the most competent, simpler and free alternatives to Microsoft Project. There are two types of alternatives that I have used, web based and desktop based. Let’s get started with the list.
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5 Free Alternatives To Microsoft OneNote
By | December 22, 2011 | 3 Comments
Microsoft OneNote, as its name implies, is a note taking application from Microsoft. It is very different from other apps like Notepad or Wordpad, which take a linear approach to making a document. While Microsoft OneNote is completely different. It can gather all types of digital information including text, pictures, videos, web clips etc. And it is not necessary to arrange this information in a linear form. You can drag and drop anything anywhere on the canvas.
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3 Free System Optimization Tools to Keep Your Windows In Good Shape
By | December 3, 2011 | 10 Comments
How good would it be if Windows can be the perfect OS that runs fast (all the time), doesn’t hang at all and require low (or zero) maintenance. In reality, the reverse is always true. The bloated registry database always cause the system to go slow, uninstalled software are not removed completely, startup time seems to take forever, applications always take long time to load etc. Luckily, there are always the third-party apps that all of us can use to maintain the system, keep it in good shape and bring our frustration to the minimum. Let’s look at them one by one.
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Best Alternatives To Microsoft PowerPoint (Online And Offline)
By | November 18, 2011 | 9 Comments
Microsoft PowerPoint is certainly the best and the most used presentation software used on earth today. Presentation can be a great resource to share ideas, collaborate or showcase your work to the respective audience or gathering. I have been making presentations throughout my life, starting from school time where we had to present our work and prepare a presentation for it. At that time, Microsoft PowerPoint was the only solution we had and we never looked into any alternatives. However, the world has changed and we always look for software which can do our work cost and time effectively. I have a collected some of the presentation software that can be very useful for various purposes. The software are categorized into online and offline. The online software need no installation. They will open in a browser and you can easily make presentations using them. The offline software will be installed on your computer and will work even without Internet.
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Free Slideshow Maker Software To Organize Photos In Slideshows
By | November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Nowadays the digital photos have become very easy to capture and save. With the advent of larger hard drives with cheaper prices, the space constraint is almost gone forever. Now comes the challenge of organizing these photos because with the passage of time, the collection of digital photos becomes so huge that it becomes very difficult to find a particular photo. I have recently written about 5 free feature rich photo editing software that can make the task of editing photos to your desired effect very easily and conveniently. A wonderful regular reader, Colin Boswell, has asked for suggesting some free software for making slideshows of photos particularly for the DVDs. While most of the slideshow making software are not free, I have a collection of few free software for making slideshows of digital photos.
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5 Online Reminder Services To Remind Of Different Events And Tasks
By | November 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
Even though the technology has made the life of man easier, one thing that has been complex is remembering every bit of information, whether it is general like remembering a birthday, an event or task or business oriented like a business meeting, sending an invoice, following up an email etc. There are many services that make this task of remembering thing a bit easier. For those who use the computer and Internet daily have the choice of calendars, to do lists and reminder services to make the process of remembering different events and tasks easier. This is very helpful in organizing your life whether it be personal, professional or business. I have been working with organizing my work by using different software and services both online and offline. Here I will share some of the best online reminder services that I have found out while trying out many of them.
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5 Feature Rich Photo Editing Software For Windows
By | October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Everybody likes to take photos nowadays, but not everybody is a professional photographer. While I love taking photographs, most of my photos are not perfect and lack the elements of good photography like the light effect, color etc. I usually edit my photos before saving them to my library of photos. If you are professional enough and willing to cough out the money, Adobe Photoshop is definitely the best photo editing suite out there. For free alternatives that can do my job (simple photo editing) easily, here are 5 of them that you can use.
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