articles about free software
Back in the day, many moons ago when visiting the world wide web was a pleasant experience, Ian “Gizmo” Richards was the freeware guru. They were exciting times, when new and innovative freeware abounded, and Gizmo was at the forefront of the freeware revolution. His […]
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Audacity is a widely used free and open-source digital audio recording and editing software that has attracted a large and faithful following over two decades. However, following Audacity’s acquisition in May this year by Russian-based company MuseGroup, the software has been steeped in controversy. The
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I have been using a couple of the Wise applications for some time. Wise Disk Cleaner runs automatically daily cleaning out stuff on my drive. Today I noticed a link to a new utility as Disk Cleaner was running. It is called Checkit and it
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Here is a video from our DCT YouTube Channel archive which explains how to use the excellent FastStone Image Viewer Freeware. The problem with resurrecting this type of archived material is that the information is often out-of-date. However, even though this video was created in
FastStone Image Viewer – A Mini Tour Read More »
Cairo Desktop is a free shell environment for Windows that changes the way in which the desktop and associated user interface displays and behaves. I tested out Cairo Desktop on my Windows 10 and was very impressed. The download is a mere 2.28MB executable but
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Flash is dead — RIP. But it still might work on older systems with older browsers with flash enabled. If you have a bunch of flash files on your system, they end in the .swf extension, then you can still play them by downloading Adobe’s
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Updating VLC is usually not an issue if, like me, you have it set to automatic. I had version 3.0.12 Vetinari and every time it tried to update, I would get an error message that at first I completely ignored. The message kept popping up
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I wrote about downloading videos with youtube-dl-gui before. That article contains important information you will need to use this software. You should read it before continuing with this one. This program has a converter and merger components included so I decided to give them a
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When we take a picture with our cell phone or digital camera the date and time the event occurred is part of the image along with details about the camera and the location of where the picture was taken. Pictures taken with my cell phone
How To Change Picture And File Attributes Read More »
I wrote in my last article about using VLC to download Youtube videos. A commenter, thanks to Daniel, suggested a program called youtube-dl. It is a command-line program and I really wasn’t interested until I found out there was a graphical interface you can download.
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I learned a new way to download YouTube videos by just using VLC. Decided to try it. Here are my end results. This requires VLC media player from: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ So first go to YouTube to get your video link. I’m going to be using the
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PortableApps is a platform for installing portable applications on a flash drive that you can take with you anywhere. Everything offered by PortableApps is free and safe, from the platform itself to the many portable applications available. Of course, you don’t necessarily need to be
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Proton Technologies is a Swiss company that specializes in providing ultra-private/secure services. The company first came to notice for its secure email service known as ProtonMail which was released publicly as a beta in May 2014. ProtonVPN followed three years later and in January 2020
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PrivaZer is a superior junk file cleaner and privacy tool that will not only declutter your system and free up space on your hard drive but also enhance privacy via a process of secure deletion. Anyone who is a regular reader of my articles will
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