nifty freebies

Google Sites

The first FREEBIE worth mentioning is the one geodesic_eye is firmly hosted on. There used to be Google Pages, but this was scrapped and we were all migrated to the new initiative. Google Sites is very user-friendly and easy for newbies to get started on without compromising the tools that are available for more advanced users. Lots of templates to choose from to skin your website and the reliable guarantee of secure content storage within the mighty Google universe. You only get 100 megabytes of on site storage, This means that bulky files, such as images and videos for example, are best stored on a FREE storage service and linked to appear in your posts here. I use PhotoBucket for images and (of course) YouTube for video. Other file sharing sites can help out with PDF and so on.

STARS

PIC FUN

Planetarium

Browser based interactive star map and virtual sky.

Photoscape

Photoscape does what Instagram does and much, much more. It's my

main photo editor since it was downloaded to test a few weeks ago.

Very handy and friendly utility. Free!

Stellarium

Free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows realistic sky in

3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

RESEARCH & SHARING

pdfforge

Free PDF Creator

Most useful. Say you're reading an essay on the web and you need to ponder it

at length. Easy. Hit PRINT, select from the drop-down menu: PDFcreator and, in

a trice, you have a desktop PDF. Neat, in fact nifty and it has a sense of humour

as it does it.

Pixlr

Turn you photos into cool looking effects like vintage and retro snaps.

With this fun and simple darkroom you can apply filters, lightning

and borders as easy as one two three. Free!

DICTIONARY

Gimpshop

Excellent (✓) not bad ( ) could do better ( )

don’t call us, we’ll call you ( )

also see:

Picnik, Grabilla & Irfanview

also:

artpad (online)

sketch & paint (online)

also:

PicMonkey

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*Try this (review) FREE feature rich screen print utility: LiveCapture (download)

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TEXT EDITOR

WordWeb

Simply the Best

Desktop utility and online resource to a

seemingly infinite array of information

Texter

Undowithoutable

It takes a little thoughtful time to get the hang of this excellent utility, but once you do it is an absolute godsend for any PC user. I tend to use this for snippets of HTML code, links and regular blurbs. Entire essays can be logged and actioned by typing a short keyword to trigger the text in question. Definitely a keeper.

EditPad

Multi-tabbed Text Pad and Editor

Totally excellent and that's only scratching

surface. Simple to use ---- top of its game.

Lower Case Switcher

Quirky But Useful

This program will help you to convert letter case either if you need to capitalize the first letter in a name or if you forget to turn Caps Lock off while typing.

uppercase -> UPPERCASE (Ctrl+[) convert to upper case

lOWERCASE -> lowercase (Ctrl+]) convert to lower case

sErGe -> Serge (Ctrl+/) capitalize first letter

dENNIS -> Dennis (Ctrl+') invert text case

WinRoll

Totally Handy

Make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top. Minimize, maximize or close all visible windows, including minimizing to the tray area. Make a window translucent.

MIND MAP

Copy This Path

Handy

Sure, you can use address bar inside a folder, but what

about files? ---> just select your target and right click.

There are more utilities on this link - check 'em out . . . .

Freemind

Hyper-link Your Cognitive Clusters

Zillions of uses. Say you're outlining a piece of writing. First, you can extrapolate from your core concept (mindmapping what comes to er, mind) and then, when that's satisfactory, you can link to the actual work files in progress and also link to your research locations on the internet. All in one central place. The temptation is to have too many mind maps on the go, so some discipline is necessary! For research purposes this software is particularly useful for creating timelines and relationships between typologies (example: the history of Japanese literature and a visual web of haikai's various formal expressions). This connected outlining is an great way to remember facts and figures.

jZip

Free Winzip Alternative

No complaints whatsoever, in fact, I like this better than than

Winzip (which once upon a had a free version). Easy to use.

JRuler

Virtual Rule For PC Screen

NOTE: The JR Directory Printer Utility is

worth trying out - on same link above)

ProcessQuickLink

Sometimes Crucial

Find what processes are running on your PC --- too many can hog system

memory and slow things down to a crawl. Some are downright malicious.

Press a green button and you're taken to an online definition with advice.

Virtual Magnifying Glass

Nuff Sed

Lots of adjustable parameters

to suit all needs and uses.

Adblock

Crucial

Try it and never look back. Your online world turns into a quiet country stroll as contrasted with a manic Las Vagas.It also helps your computer memory to provide a much better response time.

OpenOffice

Excellent

MsOffice is not cheap for either home or business versions. OpenOffice is FREE and possibly more comprehensive. Also, OpenOffice is COMPATIBLE with MsOffice! It's a no-brainer really, at least for those of us who are thrifty. Having said this, I am fond of

my trusty old MsOffice 2000 Business Version (which fell off a truck a long time ago).

Internote

This has to be totally useful to anyone running Firefox.

I use light yellow mostly as it's so cheery to read.

Photobucket Uploader

Damn Useful

This Photobucket Firefox addon allows you to right-click on images that appear on any web page and upload them directly to your Photobucket account. It also makes interacting with your Photobucket account a lot quicker and easier.

NOTE: Facebook users. . .

From the pop-up screen (when you clik a pic - black surround) you can ENLARGE the image. If you then send your pic to Photobucket using this Firefox add-on ('Photobucket Uploader 1.3.3' - see link below) it seems you will get a larger pic in your album than is normally allowable case. Apart from this handyness, Add-on is totally recommended.

Video DownloadHelper

Probably the BEST

For downloading DownloadHelper is a Firefox extension tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.

Foxit

The Best PDF Reader – Over 130 Million Users.

Hard to believe it's FREE and allows so much to be done. A must for anyone who remotely has a use for a PDF reader. Beats the free version of Adobe hands down.

Video DownloadHelper Companion App

Some operations required by Video DownloadHelper cannot be performed form within the browser. In order to be able to still to the job, the add-on relies on an external application that is called transparently. We call it the Companion Application.

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CintaNotes

Becomes so useful you want to upgrade!

CintaNotes lets you quickly save and tag any useful information

that you come across or just need to jot down.

FastestFox

Totally handy quick define tool and more. . .

FastestFox (formerly SmarterFox) is one of the more powerful add-ons to enhance Firefox browsing. It displays a clean-looking bubble filled with customizable search engine shortcuts when you highlight a word or phrase.

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AVG Anti-Virus

Probably the very best one of them all. . .

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Very good at sorting out probs!

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware’s industry-leading scanner detects and removes worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware, and other dangerous malware from your home PC.

Process Explorer

A bit overabundant but thorough.

Process Explorer is a helpful utility program that details your computer's running processes in a more visual representation than the standard Windows Task Manager.

CutePDF Writer

installs itself as a "printer subsystem".

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer is the free version of commercial PDF converter software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to convertto professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!

7 Sticky Notes

Oh, this is a great one!

7 Sticky Notes is a cool 100% free desktop notes software that creates Sticky Notes directly at the Desktop of your computer to help you organizing your everyday tasks and to-do lists.

Flash Video Downloader

Download Flash and Video is a great download helper tool that lets you download Flash games and Flash videos (YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion, Google Videos and more) with a single click.

Grammarly

Our free grammar checker instantly eliminates grammatical errors and enhances your writing. Grammarly is trusted by millions every day.

PotPlayer

Highly recommended indeed!

PotPlayer is a multimedia software player developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system by South Korean Internet company Kakao.

MORE ON THEIR WAY . . .

Get the OneNote app for free on your tablet, phone, and computer, so you can capture your ideas and to-do lists in one place wherever you are.

MORE ON THEIR WAY . . .

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