22
January
Store Music and Videos in Gmail
This weeks free application is called GDrive. It is accepted by Google and it allows you to access your extra Gmail space as if it were a hard drive on your computer.
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19
January
How To Create Facebook Widgets
This video will show you how to create Facebook Widgets using Microsoft’s Popfly application. This will require a Facebook account and a Windows Live account.
16
January
Backup Your Stuff For Free
This weeks freeware application is called “Syncback” by 2BrightSparks.com. It’s a Windows utility that you can use to back up your files or to synchronize them from one location to another. It’s very intuitive and has a lot of great customizable features. Download it here.
8
January
How To Unlock Programs
This will be the first of a new series. This series will just be short videos exploring cool freeware that can be very useful. So the first freeware program to make the list is called “Unlocker“. If you’ve ever gotten a “Cannot move or delete folder: Access is Denied” error when trying to move or delete a file, this program will allow you to see what process is using it so that you can unlock it from any processes and delete it.
4
January
How To Restore Deleted Files
This video tutorial shows you ways of restoring files four different ways. I do not claim this video to be the ultimate way to restore files. These are just suggestions. If you know of better methods, please leave a comment with the suggested method. Listed below are the programs needed.
- Restoration, CD Toolbox, PhotoRec, BartsPE (or Ubuntu)
9
December
Make your own music controlled lights
5
November
Free Inbound Calls
Receive free calls from anyone using GrandCentral and Gizmo. Gizmo is a free VOIP (Voice Over IP) computer phone program. GrandCentral allows you to create a phone number in any area code and you can set it so that when people call that number, it will forward the call to any number of phones, including your Gizmo phone.
11
October
Make A Bootable Flash Drive
This tutorial shows you how you can make a bootable flash drive using the Ubuntu linux ISO. All you need is a flash drive that is 1 gigabyte in size or larger.-www.pendrivelinux.com
26
September
Run Linux Inside Windows
This will show you how you can load and run Ubuntu Linux on Windows without even having to restart your computer. The links used in this tutorial are listed here:
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ – (172.9 MB)
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download – (697.9MB)
http://linux.wolphination.com/data/OS.zip – (23.2KB)
18
September
Make A Digital Picture Frame
This video will show you how you can make your own digital picture frame using a Mattel Juicebox (and MP3 kit) and a shadowbox that you can get at any craft store. All of the materials cost less than $30.