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May 4, 2021 15:36 EDT with 0 comments Thunderbird is a free, open-source, cross-platform application for managing email and news feeds. It is a local (rather than a web-based) email application that is powerful yet easy-to-use. Thunderbird is developed, tested, translated and supported by the folks at Mozilla Corporation and by a group of dedicated volunteers. Thunderbird gives you control and ownership over your email. There are lots of add-ons available for Thunder...

May 4, 2021 14:34 EDT with 0 comments Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution, the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install. Upon completion, you should have a ready to run bootable USB Flash Drive with your select operating system installed. Other features include; Persi...

Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies) All Bittorrent extensions Remote control through a Web user interface Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents Torrents queueing and prioritizing UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support) Torrent creation tool Bandwidth scheduler IPv6 compliant qBittorrent 4.3.5 changelog: ...

WatersTechnology.com Waters Wrap: Buzzwords and the hype machine (And editorial judgment) Anthony previews some of the major trend topics that WatersTechnology will look to cover over the next eight months. Print this page   As I write this, I’m sitting on a train coming back from Raleigh, North Carolina. Once I publish this column, I’ll officially start the second leg of a two-week vacation. To say that I’m disconnected from the world of fintech would be an...

Mon, May 3rd 2021 10:47am — Mike Masnick A couple years we wrote about What3Words, and noted that it was a clever system that created an easy way to allow people to better share exact locations in an easily communicated manner (every bit of the globe can be described with just 3 words -- so something like best.tech.blog is a tiny plot near Hanover, Ontario). While part of this just feels like fun, a key part of the companys marketing message is that the system is useful in emergency situation...

Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor. Record your screen, edit and save as a Gif or video.

May 1, 2021 03:26 EDT with 0 comments Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: Jabber/XMPP, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins. Pidgin supports many feat...

Vows to make safe C++-alike a mainstream language of choice as hundreds of devs wield it Katyanna Quach Fri 30 Apr 2021 // 06:23 UTC Share Copy Video Facebook is joining the Rust Foundation at its highest member level – and vowed to help make Rust "a mainstream language of choice for systems programming and beyond.” Rust was conceived at Mozilla Research in 2010 by Graydon Hoare as a C/C++-like programming language with a focus on safety and speed. We like to say Goo...

Apr 30, 2021 14:58 EDT with 0 comments  Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and read your e-books with the included viewer. It acts as an e-library and also allows for format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer. Calibr...

Apr 30, 2021 15:20 EDT with 0 comments Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need! Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance its about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for man...