As you discover 'unlimited' amount of good free stuff on the internet, two things become increasingly important: 1. the ability to search it fast and effectively, and 2. the ability to filter and differentiate what is 'really good' from what is average (as the problem is not of 'scarcity' anymore, but that of 'plenty and over-choice'). Its the latter where I am attempting to provide you 'expert' advice on what i 've learnt through 'a lot of experience, talent, time, and effort':). There are bigger experts around, but the list below will easily take your level to 'above-average' to begin with...
USEFUL SITES
Online storage & sharing of large files + Downloading free ebooks:
www.mediafire.com
www.4shared.com
www.scribd.com
www.esnips.com
Search rapidshare ebooks/other files: www.filecrop.com
Free Hindi Song download http://songs.pk
USEFUL SOFTWARE
Desktop search: Yahoo desktop search File name search: Everything
Application launcher: Find and Run Robot
Pdf Tools: Pdf Exchange Viewer (Reader allowing highlight commenting in free 'portable' version), Dopdf (to convert any printable document to pdf), Pdf Split and Merge (to combine or split pdf document pages)
Browser: Firefox (for its awesome address bar, bookmark and history managers, tab features, and wonderful extensions)
Portable 'mini' software from www.nirsoft.net (e.g. My Uninstaller, Outlook Attachview)
Firefox extensions
DownloadHelper (to download Youtube type of videos)
Download them all (Download manager)
Google enhancer
Page Title Eraser
OTHERS
Email: Gmail (due to innovative, marvellous and 'revolutionary' 'lab' features), Outlook
Software with high impact: MS Office (especially Excel and word)
Internet search: Google incl News, blog search (what else:), Bing
Hard drive space usage analysis: WinDirStat, Xinorbis
So what's your software or site that you consider extremely useful, you have already tried and tested and it really works:)
Sep 7, 2009
Preview of Office 2010
A preview of Office 2010 released in July 2009 and final version is expected in 1st half of 2010. The interesting features/changes expected include:
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- A web-based lighter 'subset' version also to accompany the desktop-based full version aimed at competing with google docs
- Ribbon to be introduced in all office applications
- Office button on top left to be redesigned
- Outlook to have good features including gmail like conversations
- Paste preview will allow live preview before pasting
- In Word, search feature to allow you search charts, tables, footnotes and other content
- PowerPoint to have some nifty video editing features
- And then there's Excel, where i would be most interested...:) Excel to have "Sparklines" - small cell-sized charts next to data to get a quick visual representation
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