Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Best Freeware available

I planned to list my favorite freeware that can be used without any regrets later on. I've prepared a small list myself when I've come across these lists posted below which almost summarized mine and more and more...
So, instead I post the original lists by Bear Bottoms and  Bob's Freeware


Bear Bottoms
Anti KeyLogger  SpyShelter
Anti Malware Scanner  Superantispyware Portable
Anti Malware Scanner  Malwarebytes
AntiVirus + Firewall  Comodo Internet Security
Archiver  ZipGenius
Audio Editor  Free Audio Editor 2010
Audio Player  FooBar
Calendar  Google Calendar
Catalog  Data Crow
Clean Infections  Vipre
Clipboard  Ditto-cp
Copy Anything/Reminder  Quotepad  Bearpaw Demo
DeskTop Icons  Iconoid
DeskTop  Fences  Bearpaw Demo
Dictionary  WordWeb
DNS Servers  ClearCloudDNS
Downloader Hulu  StreamTransport  Bearpaw Insert Keyframe Objects
Downloader Streaming Video/Audio  TubeMaster++  Bearpaw Demo
DVD Burner  ImgBurn
DVD Recovery  UnstoppableCopier
DVD Ripper  WinX DVD Ripper
Email Client  Gmail
Encryption  TrueCrypt  Bearpaw Demo
File Cleaner  Ccleaner
File Eraser  Eraser
File Manager  FreeCommander
File Search  Everything
File Search  Index Your Files
File Synchronizer/clone  FreeFileSync
File Unlocker  Unlocker
Firewall  ComodoFirewallPro
FTP  FileZilla
Icon Editor  GreenfishIconEditor
Image Editor  Gimp  Bearpaw Tutorial
Image Editor  PhotoFiltre
Image Editor  IrFanView
Image Viewer  XnView
Image Viewer  Zoner Photo Studio
Installer  Ninite
Media Converter  Format Factory
Mouse Gesture  High Sign  Bearpaw Demo
Music Manager  jaangle
Onscreen Keyboard  SafeKeys
Office Suite  LibreOffice
Password and Form Filler  LastPass
PDF  PDF-XChange Viewer
Print Manager  iPrint
Process Manager  Process Lasso
Program Launcher  Keybreeze
Program Launcher  PStart
Radio  Tapin-radio
RSS Reader  FeedDemon
Screen Capture  Screenshot Captor
Screen Recorder  Screen2exe
Screen Ruler  ScreenRuler
Screen Sharing  Mikogo
Screen Tabbed Utility  Stick   Bearpaw Demo
Spell Checker  TinySpell
System Backup ISO  Macrium Reflect
Task Manager  SystemExplorer
Text Automation  Texter  Bearpaw Demo
Translator  Client for Google Translate  Bearpaw Demo
TV  Hulu Desktop
Uninstaller  RevoUninstaller
Video Editor  VirtualDub
Video Editor  Avidemux
Video Player/Recorder  VLC
Virtual CD/DVD  Virtual CloneDrive
Virtual Surfing  Sandboxie
Volume Controller  Volumouse
Web Browser  Google Chrome



Bob's Freeware

Category
Name, URL, Remarks 
X/10   Rating
Alarm/Clock/Reminder
9
Anti Spam, E-Mail
9
Anti Virus
8
Archive Manager
9
Audio Editor
8
Backup
9
Benchmark
8
CAD, 2D
9
CAD, 3D
9
CD-DVD Burning
8
CD Ripper
9
Cleanup Utility
8
Clipboard Manager
9
Converter
8
Desktop Publisher
-
Dictionary
9
Digital Camera Assistant
See "Graphics Viewer"
-
Disk, Defrag
9
Download Manager
9
DVD Decryption
9
DVD Ripper
9
E-Mail Client
8
File Manager, Power Tools
8
File Recovery
9
File Splitter
10
Firewall, Personal
8
Form Maker
9
FTP Client
8
FTP Server
8
FTP Shell
8
Graphics Editor
9
Graphics, Duplicate Finder
9
Graphics, Viewer
9
HTML Editor, WYSWYG
9
Instant Messenger
10
Launch Bar
9
Link Checker
10
Map Downloader, Photo, GPS
9
Monitor Resolution & Refresh
10
MP3 Player
9
Multimedia Player
8
Nap Client
7
Network Monitor
10
News Reader
8
NIST Client (Clock Adjustment)
10
Notes, Freeform
7
nVidia Tweaking
6
Office Suite
8
Paint Program
9
PDF Reader
9
Photo Gallery Creator
8
PIM
8
Registry Tools
8
Scanning - Copying
7
Screen Capture
8
Software Organizer
9
Spyware Eliminator
8
Spyware & Popup Tool
10
System Monitor
8
Temp Cleaner
8
Text Editor, Notepad Replacement
10
Thesaurus
10
Tray Helper
8
Vector Drawing
-
WAV Play-Audition
9
Web Browser, IE based
9
Windows Tweaking
-
Word Processor, Doc
8
Word Processor, Rich Text
9

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Graphene Just Won Two Guys the Nobel. So What the Hell Is It?

Graphene Just Won Two Guys the Nobel. So What the Hell Is It?This Tuesday, two professors won the Nobel prize for physics "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene." The Nobel is the Olympic gold of science. But what is graphene, and why did it earn these guys over a million bucks?
Some Nobels in physics are (relatively) straightforward. In 1935, James Chadwick discovered the neutron. A huge deal, of course, but something you can understand by 11th grade. But today's award—presented to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov—is for a two-dimensional material. A what? Not exactly high school stuff. So let's break it down.
Graphene is, put most simply, carbon atoms—the same stuff in your pencil—arranged in linked hexagons. (Fun fact: the pair started their work with graphene by peeling off layers of actual pencil lead with scotch tape). This doesn't sound like anything special, except for the fact that, as Geim himself explains, "Everything in our three-dimensional world has a width, length and height. That was what we thought, at least." Geim and Novoselov's work expands our understanding of materials thatdon't have any of these dimensional properties, because they are only one atom thick. They are lacking an entire dimension.
It's hard to imagine—but that's sort of the point. The duo's work is on the frontier of an entire class of stuff that we're only just now starting to be able to conceive of. Geim himself says he has no idea the extent to which a material such as graphene could be useful. But we do know that it is super cool. Despite (or rather, because of) its measly two-dimensionality, graphene is the strongest and thinnest substance in the known universe, can be stretched like rubber, and is impregnable by liquid or gas. It also conducts electricity, allowing it to (someday) beat the pants off the copper and silicon we use in, well, pretty much everything. Still unimpressed? A layer of graphene could hold up a truck atop a pencil. You don't look so great now, do you, neutron.
So what's next? "Optimists say we are entering a carbon age. Even pessimists argue only that the impact will be somewhat less," says Geim, who is, naturally, excited: "I hope that graphene and other two-dimensional crystals will change everyday life as plastics did for humanity." So we'll have to wait and see, but still—job well done, gents.


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