At last – this is great (if it works) November 7, 2009
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I’ll start off by saying I’ve not tried this yet but …
If you are upgrading to Windows 7 and want to install all your favourite apps it can take ages.
Go to this website, say what you want and let it get on with it – WOW. It also acts as a great reminder of some top applications that are out there for free
Simple and great November 7, 2009
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So easy – just does 1 thing but does it so well. Compare the size of really small things
(drag the slider under the picture)
More great free software October 18, 2009
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I don’t know if you’ve come across Aviary yet but they have a range of web based applications that are just great.
I realise that there are a lot of web2 apps out there now but I find Aviary to be really quick and intuitive – and best of all stable.
The new addition is a music sequencer – a really simple and effective ‘Garage Band’ equivalent. Like all web2 apps it takes a little wile to load first time but but restarting the app once you’ve downloaded it is quick and easy.
I loved it.
Geepers October 13, 2009
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So you draw on screen a doodle of what you want say… a car on a street, label it and click GO … the software goes off and searches the web for suitable images then does a composite and comes back with a fully rendered photo.
This is so good it must be a haox …. mustn’t it?
More free software September 22, 2009
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You might have heard of Ashampoo, they sell a wide range of software at budget prices.
I use some of their tools for CD burning, file conversion (video and audion converters) and system tools (tune up utilities). they all seem reliable and effective.
They are now offering an ‘Educational Bundle’ free to schools. I suspect that the email address you use will get a lot of reminders to upgrade or other ‘offers’ but if you can put up with that then why not?
I’m not sure if it includes ‘free to students’.
Products include:
- Ashampoo® Office 2006 (Star office I think)
- Ashampoo® Presentations 2008 (powerpoint compatible)
- Ashampoo® Burning Studio 2010 (CD/DVD authoring – works well)
- Ashampoo® Photo Commander 6 (I prefer Google Picasa)
- Ashampoo® Photo Optimizer 2 (some nice tools but Picasa has these)
- Ashampoo® Magical Snap 2 (camtasia type tool)
- Ashampoo® WinOptimizer 5 (system utilities – nice for standalone PCd)
Google Operating System July 8, 2009
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Today Google have launched their own operating system. Lightweight and probably ideal for Netbooks.
Those of you into this sort of stuff will realise the massive implications I guess – should be big on the News later today.
Computer Science for Fun May 1, 2009
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Love ‘computers’ – hate all the boring bits ….
I’ve not delved deeply yet but the ‘first brush’ is very encouraging. This sites offers a magazine but also many routes through the content – a feature I particularly welcome.
I stumbled on this page where you could design your own noughts and crosses AI using a logo like language “Go Top Centre”. A great ‘filler’
Great conversion April 19, 2009
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I’m sure that most readers will be aware of the totally excellent ZamZar website – the website that offers free online file conversion. Well today it has a new addition to the convertion options that might be really handy.
Zamzar has recently added text to speech conversion to its massive list of file conversion capabilities.
Here’s how it works. Just upload a Word, PDF, TXT, Wordperfect, Works, or OpenDocument Text doc to Zamzar and select MP3 as the output format. Enter your email address and after a few moments Zamzar will send you a link to an MP3 file with a digitized voice doing a passable but somewhat awkward reading of the text you uploaded.
Windows 7 release April 19, 2009
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It seems that the latest version of Windows (Windows 7) will have it’s first release client on May the 5th.
A Microsoft partner page is offering the first release client to users of Technet and the Microsoft Development Network (MSDN).
Release clients are still ‘pre-release’ but Windows 7 is highly anticipated and looks set to become the OS of choice for many, I would expect many school to bypass Vista all together and move straight to Windows 7.
Article (courtesy of “The Download Squad”)
