Paint.net was suppose to be the replacement to Microsoft’s paint program. Too bad it didn’t happen, but good for us it is available free of charge!
This program has the most common functions people use of a typical photo/drawing program, and is relatively easy to use.
If you aren’t much of a computer or Internet user, this might come as news to you. Google, the biggest search engine on the planet, offers online office applications which gives you collaboration capabilities for word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. It even gives you the ability to create web forms which you can share for the purpose of taking surveys or polls.
All these are wrapped around a product called Google Docs.
If you ever wondered whatever happened to a high school or college friend, there are ways of tracking them down through the power of the Internet. There are several free people search services out there. These are some of them:
One of the worst things that can happen to you is to lose a flash drive. The one thing that can is even worst than that is if teh flash drive has confidential information.
Enter TrueCrypt!
TrueCrypt is an encryption product that will allow you to create a secure file which you can access like a drive (e.g. drive G:, M:, or whatever you choose it to be). In order to mount it like a drive you need to supply a passphrase–which you setup when you build a TrueCrypt file volume.
If you save the TrueCrypt file on a USB flash drive and access it like a drive, you can store your confidential files there.
If you ever lose this flash drive, no one can access the confidential data you have in the TrueCrypt file because they are encrypted. That solves your problem. The only thing you need to make sure you do now is make backups of your data so you can recover them should you lose your flash drive; and you won’t have to worry about others seeing your confidential files!
Here’s an interesting product–Servers Alive. It is a server monitoring solution with the following key features:
Note that it is free to try with full functionality and no expiration.
Servers Alive
If you happen to manage a network, and you can’t afford some of the most expensive network monitoring tools out there, check out The Dude. This program will map out your network and provide alerts so that you can ensure your system components are always up.
There aren’t too many occasions when you can get something of real significant value from Microsoft–i.e. something good for free.
On this posting, you will find that web hosting is something you can get from Microsoft with some real added value!
Check it officelive.com!
Ever heard of OpenOffice? Well, it is an open source office application suite from sun.com. It has all the essential functionality of Microsoft Office without the hefty $200 plus price tag. It is free! It has the following primary applications:
Check out the product reviews!
According to sun.com, it has the following key benefits:
Download it now!