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2017-11 Cool Uses for Live CDs
Live CDs are perhaps the most useful tool in any geek’s toolkit, but how much can live CDs help you with? Live CDs are perhaps the most useful tool in any geek’s toolkit. This live CD how-to guide outlines many uses live CDs or DVDs can offer, from data recovery to enhancing privacy. What is a Live CD? Your computer won’t boot. "Crap," you say to yourself out loud, "I really need to finish that paper. Today." Your computer doesn’t respond to your mutterings, however. Happily displaying its error message,...
Posted on November 17th, 2017
2017-11 Why Enable Quality of Service Settings on Your Router
Quality of service is a router feature that helps you gain control over how your bandwidth is divided between devices and apps. When your network is congested with too much internet traffic, quality of service prioritizes certain kinds of traffic over others. Let’s say you have an internet connection that’s capable of 10Mbps. You’re doing two things with your internet: watching Netflix and downloading a huge file. Let’s say Netflix is streaming at 6Mbps while the download is always going as fast as it ca...
Posted on November 16th, 2017
2017-11 Awesome HTML5 Templates
HTML5 is the latest and greatest version of the language that powers the internet. Even if you know all of the basics, building a site from scratch takes a long time. Why not use a template instead? There are lots of free HTML5 templates out there, and choosing one can be difficult. We’ve scoured the internet to bring you a variety of cool templates that you can use for business, personal, portfolio, and all kinds of other sites. Just pick one and get started! 1. Basic HTML5 Page Template If you want a b...
Posted on November 15th, 2017
2017-11 Best Free Online File Converters for All Your Formatting Needs
Have you ever received a file or created one of your own that needed to be in a different format? Whether it’s from PDF to DOC, JPG to BMP, or MP3 to WAV, documents, images, audio and video files can be converted easier than you think. Each of these free online services is ideal because they provide various types of file conversions in one spot. So, you do not have to bookmark several sites to cover the most common kinds of conversions or those you need most often. Just pick the one you like best from th...
Posted on November 14th, 2017
2017-11 Is a Free PDF Editor Good Enough?
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is the brand’s newest PDF editor. Advertised as an all-encompassing solution, it seems great for heavy-duty PDF users. But it also costs $14.99/month after a free, week-long trial. If you’re an equally cost-conscious and tech-savvy person, you may be wondering about free alternatives. A Free Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Alternative One Adobe alternative that I’ve used in the past is PDFescape. For this post, I’m going to compare PDFescape to Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, just...
Posted on November 10th, 2017
2017-11 Google Drive vs. OneDrive: Where to Back Up Your Windows Files
So you’ve read our warnings on what can happen if you don’t back up your files and decided that you don’t want to suffer the same fate? Great! If not, then I highly recommend reading our article on why you should keep regular backups. At this point, your next two questions will be what to back up and where to back up. We already answered the first when we covered which files to back up and which to ignore. This article will partly cover the latter question. One convenient place to store backups is on a c...
Posted on November 8th, 2017
2017-11 Top Free Antivirus Apps Without Nag Screens and Bloatware
Most computer users know that they need an antivirus to protect their machines from the many threats of the modern web. While there are plenty of free antivirus programs, many of them stay free by constantly bugging you to upgrade to the paid version or installing some unnecessary browser extension. If you’re installing an antivirus for a novice computer user, you don’t want them confused by all kinds of nagging popups. Even advanced users get tired of these. To this end, we’ve picked out some free antiv...
Posted on November 7th, 2017
2017-11 Best Programming Languages
Whether you’re completely new to programming or looking to jump into a new kind of programming you’ve never touched, one of the most important questions to ask is: "Which programming language is right for me?" These days, you have so many languages to choose from, it can be quite overwhelming to pick one when you don’t have much experience. In this article, we’ll cover the best modern programming languages for web, mobile, desktop, game, embedded, and utility development. Treat this as an overview and a ...
Posted on November 6th, 2017