Category: Legal downloads
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uTorrent, optimal configuration
While I had a long love affair with BitComet as my prefered BitTorrent client, it happens that I currently prefer to use the lean and clean uTorrent software. It is a bit smaller (but it has a tendency to eat up memory if left serving files for a long time -it’s ok if you stick…
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Best shorts
Link love Those are the best links I found recently. I could not write a full post about them, but they are worth visiting: Box.net launches a web-based free word processor (via Download Squad) Histoface: How to hide an image in the histogram of another image Safer Code – Secure Coding In C \ C++…
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Free movies (many)
We all love when things come free to us. Here I found a treasure trove of movies that are free to download. Legally. Thanks to the Canadians of the National Film Board of Canada. They give us feature-length movies, documentaries, animated short movies. Everything, of the best quality, at the best price: Free.
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Replace MS-Word for free
I often advise downloading the free OpenOffice.org desktop suite to fully replace MS-Office (why should you pay for a Microsoft product that is leading you to spending more and more to get a suite that is more and more difficult and incompatible with time? Just dump Word and Excel for a better solution). But, a…
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Monty Python, free download on YouTube
For sure, YouTube has always been crouded with rip-offs of the Monty Python sketches. Unfortunately, these were both illegal and -in general- of poor quality. The guys from Monty Python decided that enough is enough, and there is now a Monty Python channel/group on YouTube where you can see excellent quality videos of their Monty…
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OpenOffice, a few ideas
Just in passing, here are a few ideas to help the users of OpenOffice.org, the best replacement for Microsoft Office: “Impress: Using Master Slides” explains how to use master slides in order to make a presentation look better and more homogeneous. “Mail merge in OpenOffice.org” : Doing mail merge from a desktop software suite like…