Posted by Samer on November 12, 2011 in Ebooks, Excel / Spreadsheets, Free GiveAway, Office, Outlook, PDF, PowerPoint / presentations, Word Processing |
Users of MS Office 2010 take note: Microsoft Office 2010 Tips & Tricks is an ebook that offers insights on advanced MS Office functionality valued at $6.95, but offered for free through Wednesday Nov 16th 2011.
This ebook contains tips for Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook, and covers many of the features of Office 2010 that make it worthwhile to upgrade from previous versions, such as it’s built in translation engine, it’s ability to save straight into the cloud, text-to-speech functionality, sparklines in Excel, Excel data filtration using slicers, exporting PowerPoint presentations to video, broadcasting PowerPoint presentations over the web, etc.
[Edit: this offer is no longer available; for more free ebooks and magazines go here] Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on November 12, 2011 in File Management, HD Utils, System, Utilities |
Ever wished you could keep track of changes to a folder? This actually can be useful in many different circumstances, not just for a shared folder on a network but also on your own folders (esp. frequently used folders) in order to keep track of development and updates on your projects, etc.
There seems to have been a proliferation of folder tracking freeware recently; this time I present to you ‘Track Folder Changes’, a free folder changes tracking software that uses color-coding system to display file and folder changes visually. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on November 10, 2011 in Data Visualization, Excel / Spreadsheets, Office, Productivity & Applications | Tagged Data Visualization, Excel, Spreadsheets |
It is very easy to plot an XY Scatter chart in MS Excel, which is a graph displaying a group of data points that intersect across related variables (such as performance vs. time for example, or sales vs. profitability, etc). What is not easy, however, is adding individual labels to these data points, requiring users to actually go in and label each data point manually. If labeling a scatter chart is what you want then you need XY Chart Labeler, a free add-on for Excel that will use an Excel range to add labels to individual points in an XY scatterplot.
XY Chart Labeler works with Excel 2003, 2007 and 2010 on Windows or Mac. Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on November 8, 2011 in Android, Ebooks, PDF, PDF Readers, Platform | Tagged Android, App, Book, ebooks |
There are plenty of eBook readers out there, and even more than a few for mobile devices like Androids. That means, of course, that you have tons of options for which reader you choose to use. How, then, do you decide which one? The simple answer is to use Cool Reader.
Cool Reader(CR) is an entirely free App from a developer named Vadim Lopatin. There are tons of reasons why I think Cool Reader is the best way to go for a mobile eBook app, so let’s start with the basics. Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on November 8, 2011 in Games |
Have you ever played a game and thought to yourself, “I could make a better game than this in my sleep!” or, “This game’s plot and story are terrible! Who wrote this garbage?” If you have then you’re in luck, because you can actually create your very own adventure games with the Adventure Game Studio (AGS). Yes! You can now be responsible for your friends feeling hours of frustration over a puzzle, or you can be the one who brings hours of joy to them. It’s your choice, with AGS.
“But,” you cry out, “don’t you have to know a whole lot about coding and scripting and all that jazz to make a game?” Not with AGS! It’s set up with the beginning learner in mind and it does quite a good job at leading the user through the process from beginning to end. There is some scripting involved, but it’s very easy and simple, and the tutorial for AGS leads you through it almost painlessly. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on November 8, 2011 in How To, Icons, System, Utilities, Video, Video Utils | Tagged MKV |
Although the MKV video file format is becoming increasingly more popular, most Windows PC’s will not display thumbnails for MKV files by default, a small esthetic detail which can nonetheless potentially make this otherwise excellent video format less preferable in the eyes of many users.
If you would like a quick way to add thumbnails to MKV videos then read on. This article will outline a relatively easy way to do this using a combination of freeware tools (LAV Filters, which will add the necessary codec to your system, and a Windows extension called Icaros which will use the new filter to add thumbnails to Windows explorer). Note, however, that the process described here requires MS .NET Framework 4 be installed on your system. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on November 7, 2011 in Download Managers, Games, Internet |
With app stores becoming ever more popular, wouldn’t it be cool if there were a free software you could install that would download all freeware games? GameDownloader is that program.
GameDownloader is an open source quasi app-store/free game portal. The games on offer are mostly established, popular free games, many of which you have heard of; but it will invariably include some gems that you likely have not seen before. Continue reading ..
