Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier
For those of you who work on a computer for a living, efficiency is always in the back of your mind. While many applications are out there to help, many of them require you to change your habits.
Quick Cliq makes a minor adjustment to something you already do hundreds of times a day. By using a slight variation of how you currently use the right-click menu, you can save a lot of time and clicks.
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Have you ever watched geeky movies in which some tech guy uses a USB stick to log in and out of his PC? Wasn’t that great? So much like you I also fascinated to do something similar on my office PC as there is always someone who keeps peeking when I’m not at desk. Predator is a free tool that can be used to lock your PC while you are not on the desk and yet continue to keep the Windows session running.
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By now, you should have already heard of the popular Wine software that allows you to install Windows applications in Linux. There is also another paid application – CrossOver that utilities Wine and comes with a simplified GUI to help you get the job done easier. Now, here’s another software that is as powerful as Wine and as user-friendly as Crossover, and best of all, it is free.
Wine-Doors is an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux, Solaris or other Unix systems easier. Wine-Doors is built on top of the Wine package, and it provides a easy to use GUI with a one click access to download/install the most commonly used Windows app.
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YouTube Downloader HD is a great little Windows-only application for anyone who likes to download videos that they have seen on YouTube. I can think of a handful of times that I needed an offline copy of a YouTube video when my Internet connection was not available, or YouTube was blocked by corporate policies.
This handy addition to your software toolbox offers the ability to download YouTube videos in multiple file formats which include .flv, .avi and .mp4.
One of the nice features of this downloader is that it gives you the option to download in High Definition formats if they are available on the site. In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how to download a YouTube video with this easy to use software application.
For anyone who is keen to migrate to Linux platform, but can’t live without Windows application, then Wine can be a great solution for you.
What is WINE?
WINE stands for Wine Is Not Emulator. Here is what it is about:
“Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.”
