The
Program Crate is being worked on and will provide links to good
free computer programs.
Free
Program of the week 1-27-07
Picasa
Find
the pictures you forgot you had.
Picasa
organizes your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images
on your computer and automatically sorting them by date.
Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa.
Want
to clean up messy folders and move pictures around on your computer’s
hard drive? Simply drag and drop pictures from one folder in Picasa
to another. Picasa will make the change permanent after double-checking
with you. Want to change a picture’s filename from 671056398a.jpg
to Lisa.jpg? In Picasa, it only takes seconds to re-name one picture
or a group of pictures.
Make an album.
Use
the "Albums" collection to tag your photos into quick
groupings inside Picasa. Viewing and sharing the pictures you grouped
under an album is easy – they make great slideshows and movies or
you can email them to friends.
Add a star rating.
Give
a gold star to any photo you love: it turns your favorites into
visual standouts at a glance. Picasa even has a star search that
reduces your entire photo collection to the best of the best in
less than a second.
Keep one picture in multiple albums.
Picasa
creates a new “instance” of each photo you label without taking
up more space on your computer, so you can put the same picture
into multiple albums.
Password-protect collections.
Have
photos you want to keep to yourself? You can add passwords to any
of your Picasa collections (this does not affect which pictures
you and others can see on your computer's hard drive).
Send
photos via email that are a joy to receive.
Take
the guesswork out of sending photos. Picasa automatically resizes
and attaches pictures to email messages at sizes your friends will
be able to open. Works with most email programs, including Google's
Gmail.
Put pictures on your own site, for free.
Picasa
Web Albums is the fast and easy way to put your photos on the web.
Just select the photos in Picasa that you want to share and click
to publish. In seconds, those photos are on your own web page, ready
to share with the people you know. Check out a few things you can
do with Picasa Web Albums.
If
you're looking to post multiple photos onto your blog, Picasa's
"BlogThis!" button does the hard work for you by automatically
transferring selected photos directly to Blogger.
Make beautiful slide shows.
With
Picasa, you can turn a group of photos into a presentation with
one click of the "Slideshow" button.
Free
Program of the week 1-21-07
BitTorrent.
Description
An easy way to download FREE Media
content. Like Music, TV shows, Movies. For
a list of Torrent sites check the Websites Crate.
A free
program is required to play the downloaded files.
DIVX
A free
Viewer for downloaded Torrent files.
Torrent
Clients.
Utorrent
A BitTorrent client. Recommended.
Azureus
A
BitTorrent client.
PC
Profile software.
CUP-Z
; CPU-Z
is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices
of your system.
Belarc
Adviser Builds a detailed profile of your installed software
and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status.
Browsers.
Firefox
An alternative
to Internet Explorer. Much more secure. A must install.
Opera
Browser An
alternative to Internet Explorer.
Music
Organizers / Players / Podcatchers.
iTunes
Music
Organizer,Player and Podcatcher.
Can be used without an iPod.
Juice
Podcatcher.
Yahoo
Musicmatch Music
Organizer,Player
Winamp
Music Player
Internet
Radio. Listen to free Internet radio
stations.
Pandora
Pandora is the music discovery service that helps you find new music
based on your old and current favorites. Create custom Internet
radio stations.
AOL
Music Listen
to free Internet radio at AOL Radio with over 200 online radio stations.
Yahoo
Music Visitors may create a personal Internet radio station
with Lauchcast and listen to music based on their own and other
listener's tastes.
Anti-Virus.
Only one Anti-Virus should be installed on a computer.
If you don't have one try AVG.
AVG
7.5 A
good free Anti-Virus.
House
Call A
free online virus scanner.
Anti-Spyware.
Different Anti-Spyware programs may be installed on
the same computer because any one program won't detect them all. I
recommend installing all of these.
(Note
a bad Virus- Spyware infection many times requires an operating
system reinstall.)
Microsoft
Defender
Spybot
Ad-Aware
Office
productivity suite.
Open
Office A
Free alternative to Microsoft Office.
Photo
Editing / Organization/ Viewing.
Picasa
from Google Find,
organize and share your photos.
IrfanView
Photo
Viewer.
Satellite
imagery, maps
Google
Earth A
3D interface to the planet
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