How to listen online, legally free, music: Pandora.com July 19, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Free Music, Freeware Reviews, GNU/Linux, Linux, Mac OS X, Multiplatform software, Music, News, Noticias, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, free music in your blog, music player, musica, on-line music, on-line radio, windows.Tags: artist, favorites, Free Music, free music in your blog, Freeware, internet radio, listen free, Music, online freeware, radio services, radio stations, song
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Today, in our Freeware Page we posted a review about Pandora.com: an online free website which offers free music listening based on your preferences. Once on Pandora.com you can decide to try it or to register for free (just an email and a new Pandora password are required). After this you can start creating new radio stations based on your favorite artists. In just few clicks, you can even listen your Pandora stations directly on your Blackberry, iPhone, PalmPre or Windows Mobile device. Using the QuickMix feature you can melt different stations in just an unique selection to share (if you want) with your friends. Pandora is legal and free but sometimes (not very often for my experience) some commercial ads are broadcasted. Anyway, in a couple of hours I was able to refine my new station options & variety and till now I am really satisfied by this service. Recommended!
Mojopack 2.0: a software to create a portable Windows XP VS Damn Small Linux June 21, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, Windows freeware, XP, windows.Tags: Damn Small Linux, embedded, Freeware, Linux, MojoPac, portable OS, portable software, windows
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Today, in our Freeware Page, we have posted a brief review about Mojopack a free (for 90 days, sic!) software which allows to bring your personal OS (with all the configurations) practically everywhere with you. To use Mojopac you need a working Windows XP OS, an USB portable disk or key and the Mojopac software. After the download, you can install it on your USB key in just few minutes. Mojopac works sufficiently silky on USB 2 connections but if you have time and are very patient you can use it with USB 1.1 ports. Last but not least, be sure to have administrator access privileges but some new versions, able to solve this problem, are in the plans. On the other hand we want to focus your attention on Damn Small Linux which is 100% free and can be intalled on CD, DVD, USB devices or simply embedded on your Windows XP computer. After some tests we really preferred this Linux solution because is completely free and very intuitive to use after just a couple of hours. Recommended!
How to share notes and images using thepiratebay.org satellite websites: PasteBay and bayimg April 13, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, Freeware Reviews, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, MAC OS, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, apple, free software, freeware blog, freeware tip, freeware tips, windows.Tags: free, free hosting, free software, Free uncensored text hosting, Freeware, hosting, image, image backup, image hosting, notes, online, online feature, photo, photo collection, photo manager, text, text editor, text hosting, text notes
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Today, in our Freeware Page, we added a brief review about two, multiplatform free services offered by th piratebay.org. The first one is PasteBay which allows you to quickly create, save and protect (in a basic way) your own notes when browsing on internet. PasteBay is very intuitive, quick to use and effective. The only “trouble” could be the simple http connection (instead of https) and the password you choose that could be weak if you do not choose it in a proper way. The second online service offered by thepiratebay.org is bayimg which allows you to store images for your websites in 140 different formats. Each image could be uploaded till 100MB so it is possible to save online also high resolution images. We have spent five days testing the features offered by these two websites and we have really not found any problem or bug. Recommended!
How to synchronize Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar with your PCs: the cross-platform Google Gears March 15, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, Freeware Reviews, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Mac OS X, OS X, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, cross-platform, freeware blog, freeware tip, freeware tips, windows.Tags: Freeware, Calendar, Gmail, email, Google, Gears, Google Docs, synchronize, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Google Gears, cross-platform freeware
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This week, on our Freeware Page , we have posted a brief review about Google Gears which allows you to keep, for example, your Gmail and Google Docs perfectly safe and synchronized with your computer. Google Gears does not add any new features if you think about what Thunderbird or Sunbird (now also known as Lightning) offer. On the other hand, Google Gears is very useful if we think it is very easy to setup and allows you to directly manage offline your email, documents and calendar without using other email applications. In the post we fastly show how to install Gears on your browser and how to start to use it. When you activate Google Gears a pop-up windows will remind you that this particular feature is totally experimental and you use it on your own risk but for our personal experience Google Gears works very well, in particular we really appreciated its Flaky option which allows you to synchronize your datas without “burning” too much band. When you are on a public PC you can also click on – load with offline disabled – button (on the below right corner) soon after the login window. Interesting!!
How to easily check HD health using a cross platform software: GSmartControl 0.8.3 February 8, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, Freeware Reviews, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Mac, Mac OS X, Multiplatform software, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, cross-platform, free software, free software download, freeware blog, freeware tip, freeware tips, hardware, multiplatform freeware, windows.Tags: cross-platform, disco duro, Freeware, GSmartControl, hard disk, hardware, HD crash, HD failure, HD problem, Linux, OS X, SMART, Software, windows
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GSmartControl is a multiplatform (Windows, OS X, Linux) freeware drive health inspection tool which is very useful in all that case when you think something is not working perfectly on your HD. Today, in our Linux Page (in Spanish) we have posted a brief comment about this software which basically is the graphical user interface for smartct. The program is very intuitive and easy to use; it automatically detects all your internal HDs (with some external USB disks we had some problems because they were detected as unknown) and let you decide if you want to activate the SMART feature. This particular feature let you “predict certain kinds of failures with certain chance of success” so you have a better chance to avoid HD crashes and all the consequent data loss. If you prefer, clicking on the “Enable Auto Offline Data Collection” the HDs will be tested every four hours without impacting your CPU performance. I would like to focus your attention that GSmartControl is very well developed and it is possible to download many “personalized” versions for all the main Linux distributions, OS X and Windows. Last but not least, do not forget that SMART could predict some HD crashes but it is not 100% safe; for this reason we strongly recommend you to backup your PCs, at least every week!
Google Chrome: how to neutralize the unique ID tracker and partially preserve your privacy December 20, 2008
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Privacy, Seguridad, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, browser, security, windows.Tags: Chrome Privacy Guard, CPG, Freeware, Freeware Reviews, Google, Google Chrome, ID tracker, pryvacy, statistical data, UnChrome, windows
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Today, in our Freeware Page we added a post about two useful freeware which are able to remove the ID tracker contained in this new browser. Using them you will able to defend your privacy a little more effectively your navigation when using Google applications. The first is Chrome Privacy Guard (CPG), a useful tool, whose icon you will click on to activate Google Chrome. When using CPG you have to remember not to run directly the Google Chrome icon. Moreover, this software contains also a command which allows you to disable the CPG option inside Google Chrome, so your browser will send again statistical data to Google. The second one is UnChrome, an Abelssoft creation which definitively remove the unique ID contained in Google Chrome. Last but not least, I want to focus your attention on the fact that these two freeware run only in Windows PCs but we hope that a MAC and Linux version will be released in the next months. Useful!!
NoteCase: a simple multiplatform (Linux, Windows, OS X) freeware to preserve the privacy of your notes! November 9, 2008
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, Freeware Reviews, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Linux OS, Linux Tips, Mac OS X, Privacy, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, Ubuntu 8.04, free software, free software download, freeware blog, freeware tip, freeware tips, windows.Tags: .gjots2, .MM, .xml, encrypted document, Freeware, hierarchical note manager, html, Linux, Mac OS X, multiplatform, note, notes, Privacy, text notes, txt, Ubuntu, windows
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Today in our Freeware Page we added a brief post about NoteCase a powerful note editor for Linux. In our tests we installed NoteCase on a Ubuntu 8.04 with positive results. This free software allows you to write complex notes dividing them between “nodes” and, if you need, it is also possible to easily create child notes at each level. Moreover, using NoteCase you can insert images and links to your text. Using NoteCase, for complex projects, you can decide to insert tag in each node and find them in just few clicks with the “Find” feature. Last, but not least, when you save your notes, you can decide to save them into an encrypted file. In few wordsNoteCase is one of the best freeware to manage notes using different OS without risks. Recommended!
Three interesting extensions to enjoy a real Web 2.0 experience with OpenOffice 3.0 November 2, 2008
Posted by galigio in Computadoras, Computers & Internet, Favorites - Freeware, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, Freeware Reviews, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Linux Tips, Noticias, Office, Oficina, OpenOffice.org, Software News, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, add-on, extension, free software, free software download, freeware blog, freeware tip, freeware tips, openoffice, windows.Tags: download, extensions, Freeware, Google Documents, import PDF, Linux, Mac OS X, minimizer, Open Office, openoffice, OpenOffice extension, OS X, pdf, pdf editor, PowerPoint, presentation, text editor, upload, windows, Zoho
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After more or less a month from its release, the new OpenOffice 3.0 is receiving tons of positive comments. Anyway, this week, in our Freeware page, we have posted some brief notes abut three different extensions which are able to improve your effectivenss in office routines. First of all we have ooo2gd a simple menu bar which allows you to directly upload or download all kind of documents from Google Documents and Zoho. The second one is the Sun PDF Import Extension which has been created to allow minimal but useful changes to PDF documents. After few minutes we were able to make some interesting changes to a complex PDF documents with just a couple of clicks and export the result “into a hybrid PDF file, which is a PDF with the embedded source file asODF “. Last but not least we tested Sun Presentation Minimizer: an effective extensions which cuts the size of presentations reducing, for example, the image sizes. Using Sun Presentation Minimizer you will be able to simply and freely decide what kind of changes you want to make to your multimedia files contained in the presentations. To conclude it is necessary to focus your attention on the feature that also allows Sun Presentation Minimizer to work on Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. In few words we think that these extensions are guaranteed to be 100% satisfactory!!
Symbaloo: a new interesting web portal to improve your time efficiency in internet! August 17, 2008
Posted by galigio in Computadoras, Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, Freeware Reviews, GNU/Linux, Linux, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, apple, freeware blog, freeware tip, freeware tips, web portal, windows.Tags: Freeware, web 2.0, Calendar, starting point, Symbaloo, online, online feature, online email, online calendar, Freeware Reviews, freeware blog, freeware tip, Online Bookmark Manager, online task, web portal, web po
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This week in our Freeware Page we posted a review about Symbaloo: a new interactive web portal which allows you to directly manage many everyday tasks directly on the web. As soon as you register yourself on Symbaloo you are able to freely modify your personalized Symbaloo, adding new features or deleting the default ones. Symbaloo is an interactive grid with 60 different squares (each of them hosts a different feature) and a central rectangle where some of your features can directly be visualized. Symbaloo is very flexible and allows you to deeply personalized itself. During our test we did not find any bugs and we were able to insert the 95% of the the features we planned to create there. Moreover, clicking on the plus (+) button on the upper left corner you can create a Symbaloo news page or share a new Symbaloo public page with your friends. Just to know, Symbaloo is available in The Netherlands, Spain, France, the UK and the US in beta. To sum up, it is possible to affirm that at the end of a three days test we do think that Symbaloo can really contribute to reduce time wasted on routine internet tasks. Something to try!
CDBurnerXP: how to burn your CD/DVD/HD-DVD or Blu-Ray just using a freeware! June 1, 2008
Posted by galigio in Computadoras, Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, Freeware Reviews, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, freeware blog, freeware tip, freeware tips, windows.Tags: backup, Blu-ray burner, Burner, CD burner, DVD burner, Freeware, HD-DVD Burner, Technology, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, windows
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This week, in our Freeware Page, we have posted a review about CDBurnerXP which, in our opinion is the best freeware in its category and contains more effective features than some -commercial- competitors. CDBurnerXP is a powerful freeware which allows you to burn CD, DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray in a very intuitive mode and faster than using other proprietary software as, for example, Roxio CD Creator. During our tests CDBurnerXP was very stable and easy to use. Using CDBurnerXP we were able to create backup copies of our DVDs in just few minutes. Another interesting features is the possibility to burn or create ISO and to convert bin/nrg formats to a more usable ISO version. Last but not least CDBurnerXP works on Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server and Vista. Highly recommended!!!
