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Windows Terminal in Windows 10, Why to use like a Geek?

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 by Kein Jeff
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Windows Terminal is an all-new separate application designed by Microsoft. It comes with powerful and productive features designed for Windows user. In this article, we will talk more about Windows Terminal in details, catch us after the jump! Why Windows …

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7 Best Image Viewer for Windows 10 – Useful Alternatives Inside

June 13, 2020June 2, 2020 by Stefan
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There are times when we want to tweak images/photos on Windows 10 PC or laptop, but the built-in viewer is not good enough or doesn’t offer many options to tweak/edit pictures. This is when we start to think about default …

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‘Raven’ is a Minimalist & a Distraction-free Text Editor for Novelists

May 29, 2020December 12, 2015 by Gayan
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Raven is an excellent distraction-free text editor that’s specifically designed for novelists. That said, for less imaginative people like me 🙂 , mainly due to its simplicity and beautiful typography, I find it to be a great distraction-free text editor as …

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View HDD’s Health Status on Windows 8 & 7 with ‘HDDExpert’ (portable)

May 29, 2020October 7, 2013 by Gayan
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‘HDDExpert’ is a software utility that lets Windows users to view the ‘S.M.A.R.T’ readings (and thus its current state of ‘Health’) of their Hard Disk Drives, with ease. It is portable, but a separate installer is also available for those …

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‘TalkText’: Simple, Text to Speech Synthesizer Software for Windows 7 & 8

May 29, 2020June 18, 2013 by Gayan
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‘TalkText’ is a minimalist text to speech utility that makes use of the built in TTS voices that come with Windows 7 & 8. They may not ‘sound’ that great when compared with some premium text to speech engines out …

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‘WaveShop’ is a Free Audio Editor for Windows (Portable)

May 29, 2020April 13, 2013 by Gayan
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‘WaveShop’ is a free & open-source audio editor for the Windows operating system. It’s also a ‘bit-perfect’ audio editor & thus, the audio that is loaded into ‘WaveShop’ will be the same that’s rendered to the sound output device, without …

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‘PotPlayer’ is a ‘DXVA’ Enabled, Efficient Media Player for Windows (8, 7, Vista, XP)

May 29, 2020April 1, 2013 by Gayan
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For years, ‘KMPlayer’ has been my favorite media player under MS Windows. It can play almost any audio/video codec, has a beautiful UI, comes with a huge number of options, completely free, one couldn’t ask for more :D. I’ve also …

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‘Aard’ is a Useful Offline Dictionary (Ubuntu, Windows & Mac OS X)

May 29, 2020February 17, 2013 by Gayan
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‘Aard’ is a simple and easy to use offline dictionary that runs on Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OS X. And unlike many other offline dictionaries, no matter what operating system that you use, ‘Aard’ is extremely easy to setup too. …

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‘Tuniac’ is a Lightweight Music Manager for Windows

May 29, 2020February 1, 2013 by Gayan
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‘Tuniac’ is a simple and a memory friendly music manager for Windows. It supports a lot of audio formats (not only audio files, you can even add video files into its window and will still play the audio track!) has …

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‘baretorrent’ is a Portable BitTorret Client (Windows, Ubuntu & OS X)

May 29, 2020January 22, 2013 by Gayan
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‘baretorrent’ is an open-source, completely free, bittorrent client that runs on Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OS X. It has a simple looking and a slightly different interface (as it displays the advanced details of torrents to the right) when comparing …

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Accelerate Your Downloads in Windows 8 with ‘EagleGet’

May 29, 2020January 18, 2013 by Gayan
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‘EagleGet’ is a new download accelerator for the Windows platform, and the best thing about it is that it is completely free to use!. It is currently in beta stage and I have only tested it in Windows 8, but …

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‘MVC’ Lets You Convert Videos into Mobile Device Friendly Formats

May 29, 2020January 2, 2013 by Gayan
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Lot of mobile devices do not support playing more than a handful of multimedia formats (‘carefully chosen’ by the manufactures), though most of the time, their hardware are quite capable of doing so. One good example would be Apple products …

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