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The gHacks blog has a post about the 5 Things Linux does better than Windows. Reading it got me thinking about a situation I had recently. I had close to 40 thousand text files, and I needed a list of all unique files. I wouldn’t even know how to attach that problem in Windows. With [...]

VLC Media Player version 0.9.9 has been released. It is mainly a bug-fix release. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform media play. It supports a large number of multimedia formats, and it can stream sound and video between computers. VLC is one of my favorite media players. I especially like how it can [...]

Cooliris is a new and different way of browsing photos on the web. Instead of seeing the usual lattice of thumbnail photos, Cooliris gives you a 3D wall of photos that you move along to see more and more photos. You can zoom in on a photo to see a full screen version of it. [...]

TrueCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. It provides transparent on-the-fly encryption. You can create and mount encrypted drives — either as separate files or entire partitions. TrueCrypt uses AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish encryption. TrueCrypt has the ability to create encrypted volumes inside one another. Since a [...]

Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery 3.0 [via gHacks blog post Photo Recovery Software] can recover images from a memory card. If you have ever accidentally deleted photos from a card or formatted the card, you know how valuable such a program is. Or it can help you out if your memory card is corrupt because [...]

A digital camera’s sensor has a more limited dynamic range than the human eye. This means that if you expose a photo for the bright areas, the camera may not “see” details in the dark area that your eye can see. Likewise, if you expose a photo for the shadows, the camera may not “see” [...]

Version 3.0 of the free, multi-platform, multi-language office package OpenOffice.org has been released. The release has been long awaited. The OpenOffice.org website is so busy that only a bare minimum download page is available due to overloaded servers. I have been using previous versions of OpenOffice.org for a while, and I look forward to trying [...]

ooVo is a free video chat application for Windows and Mac. It allows you to have online video meetings with up to five people — unlike Skype, where you are limited to two participants in video meetings. The Windows version of ooVoo has some nice features. My favorite is that it allows you to have [...]

It is often necessary to log on to a remote computer. On Linux/Unix systems, this has been the norm for a long time, but with the advent of always-on home internet connections and internet connections available everywhere, it has become more common to connect remotely to PCs. For example, you may be at away from [...]

The Elite weblog has a tutorial on Photoshop — specifically how to master Photoshop in just one week. It is the first of three parts. It looks very good, so if you are looking at trying Photoshop, this may be a good place to start. Read more at Elite [via Lifehacker].