TED an acronym for Technology Entertainment and Design. It’s a non-profit organization formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading" and they do so by holding conferences and talks where they invite some of the world’s most fascinating thinkers to present their ideas. Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, educator Salman Khan, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners. Thousand TED talks are available for free viewing online, under a Creative Commons license, through TED.com and these were watched by more than 500 million viewers. Now if
Read MoreMicrosoft Safety Scanner is a free disposable virus scanner similar to Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool which can be used to scan a system for computer viruses and other forms of malware. This program was released on 15 April 2011, following the discontinuation of Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner. It is a standalone, easy-to-use scanner, packaged with the latest signatures, updated many times a day. While it is not a replacement for a full antimalware solution with real-time protection, it offers detection and cleaning using the same set of signatures and technology utilized by both Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront
Read MoreWe know how annoying it is when you start typing and all your words are in CAPs lock? After typing some text in a document you found that you typed too much text without noticing Caps Lock was on, you’re not alone sometimes this happens to everyone but make sure this doesn’t happen again for you, specially notebook users will have these type of problems as some keyboards and laptops have no activity indicators to know the user when any one of CAPs or NUM or Scroll Lock is turned on, CaPNotifier (Windows XP/Vista/7) is a freeware app that notifies
Read MoreAfter you transfer photos from your digital camera in your computer/laptop you know that images are larger in size because of the several mega pixels in the camera resolution, so in case you want to share these pictures, it is always good to compress or shrink them. Shrink O’Matic is a freeware app based on Adobe Air (need Adobe Air runtime installed on your system) which can resize and shrink images in batch mode with an easy to use interface which will automatically start the resize once you add the images. Just drag and drop the image or image folder and
Read MoreAt times you might need a tool which lets you transfer your installed programs from one Windows PC to another Windows PC. PickMeApp (free, Windows) is a portable tool that lets to capture and transfer installed programs and its settings from one Windows-based computer to another Windows computer. You can use it while upgrading from an earlier Windows version like Windows Vista or Windows XP to Windows 7, for repairing or backing up programs. - Transfer all your programs from one PC to another - Use PickMeApp to Backup and Restore your PC - Use PickMeApp as a software management tool - Run PickMeApp
Read MoreFlightAware (Android, iOS, BlackBerry, WP7) gives users live flight information on your mobile device. This app allows you to track the real-time flight status and tracking map of any commercial flight worldwide and general aviation (private, charter, etc). You can search by aircraft registration, route, airline, flight number, city pair, or airport code. Tracking data includes complete flight details and full-screen maps with NEXRAD radar overlay. You receive push notification flight alerts, view airport delays, see nearby flights (in the sky overhead). Track all airline flights - Flight Status - Gate/terminal information and changes - Delays - Cancellations - Find flight connections & status Track charter,
Read MoreAutoWinRarZip (Windows) is a utility designed for people who download a lot of archives and want them extracted automatically. By monitoring directories of your choosing for new files, AutoWinRarZip gets rid of the manual application launch and does it in the background without you noticing. You can specify directories for it to extract to and it supports most of the popular and lesser used formats. All you have to do: - chose the folder where archived files will be downloaded - chose the destination folder where decompressed/unarchived files will be AutoWinRarZip stays in you system tray, each time you download archives the program
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