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NTFS Link Windows Shell Extension
NTFS Link is a Windows Shell Extension that provides the functionality to create hard links and junctions on hard drives formatted with the NTFS file system. Hard Links basically make it possible to...
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Stellar PDF Creation with Scribus
Professional PDF documents can make or break a marketing campaign, or advertising promotion, or even seal the deal with a client. For most people this job is done with either QuarkXPress or Adobe...
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Create Interactive Classroom Pages with CourseForum
If you are a teacher or have any need for a classroom-based Wiki project, I have the perfect solution for you. I discovered CourseForum a few years back when I was looking for a web-based software that...
View Article5 essential tools to learn a language
gHacks has a diverse range of editors, living in, amongst other places, the UK, Germany and Hungary. All write in the medium of English, but learning a foreign language is no easy task.I am currently...
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Submagic Is An All In One Subtitle Editor
Submagic is a computer software program for the Windows operating system that can be used to edit subtitles. Edit this regard means to create, edit, convert, synchronize or translate subtitles. The...
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TED Talks Translations
TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, started out in 1984 and has since then widened the focus even further and is today seen as a global community of thinkers and visionaries...
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Computer Keyboard Typing Course
If you are a computer user who uses a two-finger typing technique you may want to invest some time in a typing course to improve your words per minute count when typing. Several free computer typing...
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Visual Thesaurus VocabGrabber
VocabGrabber is an interesting online service provided by Visual Thesaurus. The online tool can be used to analyze text that can consist of up to 200000 characters. All that needs to be done is to copy...
View ArticleThe Open Courseware Movement Offers Free Education Online
Not everyone takes a college class just for the credit toward their degree, there are actually a lot of people who love taking classes just to learn something new, because they are bored, or because...
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Google Translator Toolkit
Google Translate is a web service offered by Google that allows users to get instant machine translations of texts that they paste in the web interface or of websites that they supply the link of....
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Test your students with iTest
Educational institutions would be remiss if they neglected open source tools. There are so many available, you can cover nearly all of your needs. Recently I covered iTalc (see my article "Instruct...
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Academic Earth Offers Free Educational Videos
Look it up on the Internet. That's what most tech-savvy people do if they encounter a problem or run into difficulties. The Internet is a vast resource of knowledge but that knowledge is usually...
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Improve Vocabulary With Vocabulary.Net Builder
I disliked learning vocabularies back in my school days, especially Latin since there was no application for that language in real life, which meant that the learning concentrated on grammar and...
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Create Automatic Page Summaries With WikiSeer Keynotes
Sometimes web pages offer that many information on a specific topic, that it would take half an hour or more to read through all the available textual information. That's fine if you got the time for...
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gHacks and Windows7News at Microsoft UK, Part 1
Those of you who follow me here or somewhere like Twitter might know that I was invited to Microsoft yesterday for meetings. Apparently my name had been coming up in conversation and several people...
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The Khan Academy, Free Educational Videos
The Internet is full of free educational videos. Some good, many bad. Whether a video is considered good or bad usually comes down to the individual viewer, or student. If you are a professor at MIT...
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Codeblocks: free cross platform C++ IDE
So I finally made the decision to learn a new programming language. I started my career as a programmer back when I got my first C-64. After lots of gaming I decided it was time to create my own...
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Duolingo: Learn languages playfully with this Android app
I'm interested in languages and want to learn quite a few in the coming years including Spanish and Russian among others. I do not really have the time to visit language courses regularly at the moment...
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Anki Aniki: Learn all Kanji for the Japanese Language Proficience Test (JLPT)
It can be quite difficult to learn Japanese if you are only used to languages that make use of the Latin alphabet. While there is Romaji, a romanization of Japanese that does away with logographic...
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Can Memrise help you learn the basics of a language?
I like languages, and one of the things that help me a lot when I'm learning a new language is to use applications or web services. Memrise is such a service that is available on the Internet and as an...
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Free Language Courses
Free public domain language courses developed by the United States Government? To good to be true? The Foreign Service Institute created a website offering eleven different language courses for free....
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ShowMeDo Free Video Tutorial Website
ShowMeDo is a relatively new website that is about videos by the people, for the people as they put it. Not the normal type of videos that you find on sites like YouTube but videos that teach you...
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Educational Math Game Math Ninja
I was always a math freak in school and preferred math over most other classes such as English or Geography. I was especially proud of my mental arithmetic skills at that time and I can say that I'm...
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TeacherTube learn while watching videos
Specialized YouTube clones are appearing left and right these days. Some have little to offer that goes beyond showcasing a collection of videos, while some offer videos targeting a niche and users...
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Fresh Up your Algebra Skills
I wish there were websites like Algebasics when I was in school, as they would have been really helpful and supportive. Algebasics explains all things Algebra in a clean and understandable way. The...
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Google Reader integrates with Google Talk
To me it really seems like Google is integrating everything they have. In the end they will just have one app, named GOOGLE and it will do everything from sending emails, sharing photos, making the...
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Learn to type faster
I never understood why there were not more online applications that helped you type faster. Keybr is such an online application that helps you become more productive by training you to type faster. It...
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Google Code University
Google Code University is an excellent resource for Computer Science students and programmers in general. All videos and Powerpoint presentations published at the University are released under Creative...
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Vocabulary Trainer
If you are in school you have to learn vocabulary all the time. First in your native language and later on in other languages. A vocabulary trainer aids the pupil in learning those words. A simply...
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Quizlet Sometimes it is fun to learn online
Learning can be fun. I would not have believed that sentence when I was young and had to go to school but nowadays I have to admit that it can indeed be fun. The Internet helped a lot because it...
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Another round-up for English (not only) learning freaks
Hardly anybody does without English nowadays, especially when dealing with tech stuff, and it's therefore quite a good idea to at least keep it up or possibly even elevate your current language skills...
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You’d be Stupid Not To…
Adobe Reader is the *worst example of software bloat I’ve ever had the bad experience of using. In fact I have not idea why I did use it for so long.Adobe comes bundled with Windows and it includes the...
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Computer Trainer
Stanford School of Engineering started their Stanford Engineering Everywhere program which provides access to computer science courses on a newly created website. This is not only useful to computer...
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Speakaboo Stories For Children
Every now and then I encounter a website that does not really fit into any category here at Ghacks but is worth promoting. Speakaboo is one of those websites. It is a website for children and parents...
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Launch Software Automatically With Xecutor
We all know about the autostart mechanism of the Windows operating system (and others) that will automatically start applications and processes that are listed in one of the many different autostart...
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Print Management Software
Remote Queue Manager Personal is a multi-lingual print management software for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista that can be used to manage local and remote print jobs. The...
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Windows Vista Taskbar Resize
Windows 7 changes the appearance of the taskbar quite drastically. One of the new visual changes to taskbar items is the height of each item. While it is possible to change the height of the Windows...
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Mind Mapping Software Xmind
Xmind is a multi-lingual and portable Open Source mind mapping software for various operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh. The mind mapping software comes with an...
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