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Friday Game: Google Earth Flight Simulator
Did you know that there is a flight simulator game built into Google Earth? I was stunned to read about this on
12Oct2007 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
Learn A Language For Free With Mango
Even before I moved to America, I’ve wanted to learn Spanish but I’ve never got around to doing it. Now with Mango I might finally find the time to learn Spanish.
Mango is a new web service that helps you learn foreign languages for free. Standard languages like French, German, Spanish and Portuguese are available, as [...]
The Best Free Software For Your Computer - Part II
Not content with putting together one great list of free software, the Connected Internet team have put together a second list. My favourite on the second list is Notepad ++ which is a fantastic text editor and in my view the best available.
There are 9 other cracking free apps listed. So, if you’re [...]
Remove Duplicate Files And MP3 Files
I’ve just discovered another good duplicate file remover. The imaginatively title Duplicate Cleaner can remove duplicate files based upon a number of parameters e.g. size, date, type etc. It can even search within the metadata of mp3 files - handy if you’ve bulk downloaded a lot of mp3 files and you’ve ended up [...]
9Sep2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
Useful Free Software For Your Computer
There’s so many free programs around that it’s hard to say which is best, but Gili over at Connected Internet has had a go, with his Best Free Software list.
His list contains many gems including Foxit Reader, which is an alternative to the awful Adobe Acrobat program. I think Acrobat is a classic example [...]
Delete Empty Folders With Remove Empty Directory
Sometimes things that are free are so good, you feel guilty not paying. Take Remove Empty Directory (RED) that I discovered via TechBuzz. This free program finds all the empty folders on your PC and deletes them.
This may not sound very useful as empty folders don’t take up any Hard Drive space, but over time [...]
YouSwap: Swap Up To 1GB Of Files For Free
Sending large files can be a pain in the ass sometimes. Most webmail programs have a limit on filesizes and using IM isn’t very efficient. A good solution is to use YouSwap which allows you to share up to 1GB of files.
28Aug2007 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
Watch The First 17 Mins Of Prison Break Season 3 Online
Prison Break has to be one of the best shows ever on TV. Although, the last series wasn’t as great as the first, the thrid series looks like it’s going to revert back to the breakout format of the first.
If you’re a fan of Prison Break, then you can watch the first 17 mins of [...]
Copy Handler: Speed Up File Transfers
Copying files between folders, drives or PCs can be painfully slow with Windows file transfer service. If you regularly move big files around you may want to give Copy Handler a try as it can move files up to 6-7 times faster.
Copy Handler program is a small tool designed for copy/move files and folders [...]
EasyCropper: Crop Images With A Browser
I’m not very good at manipulating images. I have to confess that I tend to use Microsoft Powerpoint….
Anyway, if you are looking for a good online cropping tool then EasyCropper looks like a handy little tool. Images can be cropped easily, and dimensions can be set so that you can get images exactly how you [...]
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