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Dumping Windows and installing Linux Mint, in just 10 minutes | ZDNet
Dump Windows completely and install only Linux Mint. The entire process took 10 minutes. Here are the details.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Dumping Windows and installing Linux Mint, in just 10 minutes | ZDNet )How To Rename Cortana
Dave’s Computer Tips has a post on Windows 10’s Cortana: Hey, Cortana! I don’t know about you, but I cringe every time I hear someone yell out, Hey!” Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but it sounds rude to my ears. I know you’re going to laugh at this silly old…
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on How To Rename Cortana )Get Microsoft Visual Studio For Free
Gizmo’s Freeware posts: A couple of years ago, Microsoft made a major announcement about the future of Visual Studio, the software that most serious software developers use for creating Windows programs. Instead of charging around $1000 for Visual Studio, it would be available for free for non-commercial use.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Get Microsoft Visual Studio For Free )Microsoft OneNote add-ins and tools
PCWorld has a post: OneNote becomes even more powerful at organizing your life when it’s connected to the right add-ins and services. Save everything from meeting notes to recipes and even emails to your digital notebook.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Microsoft OneNote add-ins and tools )Scan Documents on Your Phone with CamScanner for Android
MakeUseOf has a recommendation: You can use this handy app to scan any document straight from your phone.
Links for Android, iOS, and Windows phones apps. Free and pay versions.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Scan Documents on Your Phone with CamScanner for Android )Kiwi for Gmail lets Windows users break free of the browser
ZDNet has a post for Gmail users: Hundreds of millions of people use Google’s Gmail and are frustrated daily by the experience. With the release of the Windows version of Kiwi for Gmail, you can finally get the full Gmail (and G Suite) experience in an app.
At the end of the 30-day trial you can drop back to the free Lite version, with support for a single account and no integration with Google Apps, or pay $9.99 for a one-year subscription that unlocks all the features.
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7 Free Windows Apps for Exploring Your Creative Side
MakeUseOf has a post: If you are just starting to explore your creative side and want to experiment with a free Windows app, then we have the ones for you.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on 7 Free Windows Apps for Exploring Your Creative Side )All the Cloud Storage Services That Offer Free Storage
HowToGeek has a post: Cloud storage is the dream of the post-PC, mobile-focused tech world…but we’re not quite there yet. There’s a limit to what you can get for free, especially if you go with one of the major services. Here’s an exhaustive list of all the cloud storage and photo services we could find across the web that have at least some free storage options. Use them all at once to save a million Steam games, or just find the best one with the biggest bucket for your most important files.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on All the Cloud Storage Services That Offer Free Storage )Free eBooks And Audiobooks To Read Online Or Download
Gizmo’s Freeware has a Free eBooks and Audiobooks Index by genre:
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Free eBooks And Audiobooks To Read Online Or Download )Adobe Scan app creates searchable, editable PDFs for free
CNet has a post: Available for iOS and Android, the app offers all the extras of other scanning apps minus the limitations and fees.
“Adobe’s including optical character recognition (OCR) for free.” So now you can edit, search, and copy from what you scan. Very useful!
Source: Adobe Scan app creates searchable, editable PDFs for free – CNET
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Adobe Scan app creates searchable, editable PDFs for free )How to Fill Out PDF Forms Using Google Drive
MakeUseOf has a post: While there are many ways to fill PDF forms, one of the simplest and most convenient ways is to fill PDF forms using nothing more than Google Drive.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on How to Fill Out PDF Forms Using Google Drive )Desmos | Beautiful, Free Math
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“Desmos, a San Francisco-based company that offers a free online version of TI’s graphing calculator. Users across 146 countries, most of them teachers or students, are currently logging 300,000 hours a day on the platform—and today, Desmos announced a major partnership with testing consortium Smarter Balanced, which administers academic exams in 15 US states.”
You can substitute this for buying a TI-84 whatever, for FREE!
Work online on your desktop/laptop/pad or download the app for Android or iOS to your phone.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Desmos | Beautiful, Free Math )Make Your Windows Desktop Spectacular With a Custom Rainmeter Theme
Rainmeter can help you create a truly spectacular desktop with just a few clicks. We’ll show how you.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Make Your Windows Desktop Spectacular With a Custom Rainmeter Theme )How to Customize Google Calendar’s Notifications on the Web
Google Calendar is undoubtedly a powerful tool for managing everything from appointments to schedules to reminders (and everything in between). As good as it is by default, there are things you can do to make its notification system even better.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on How to Customize Google Calendar’s Notifications on the Web )Pixton | Comics | Make a Comic or Storyboard
The world’s most popular and easy to use comic and storyboard creator.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Pixton | Comics | Make a Comic or Storyboard )AutoDraw
Gizmo’s Freeware has a post on AutoDraw: Start drawing something and, as you do so, a list of suggested items appears on the top menu bar. The more you draw, the more the list of suggestions is refined. Click on one of them, and your scrawl is replaced by a much better version.
Fast drawing for everyone. AutoDraw pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help you draw stuff fast.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on AutoDraw )Control Alt Achieve: Hipster Google – 21 Google Tools You Probably Never Heard Of
21 lesser known Google tools and how they can be used for teaching and learning. These have some really useful tools!
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MakeUseOf has a post: You’ll be surprised how often you are wrong. Challenge yourself, and figure out what you are wrong about and what you are right about. Here are a few sites to help.
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