This week I will continue with the second half of the links we talked about last year at DoubleClicks.info.
Remember, if the site addresses are too long to type I have shortened them with bit.ly. Here they are in their order of appearance with short descriptions of each.
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Dropbox – bit.ly/aszzao. A very good cloud storage app. Use the supplied link to sign up and get more space.
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Kill Disk – killdisk.com. This application will totally wipe your drive clean so that it is almost impossible to retrieve deleted data.
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Nexus 7 2013 – bit.ly/1esugJz. My current favorite Android tablet.
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Hulu.com and Hulu.com/plus. The very popular free and paid TV movie streaming apps.
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Google Music – play.google.com/music. Google’s free/paid (depending on what you want) music streaming plus you can upload your own music to it and listen anywhere you have internet connectivity.
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BGCall – www.vieas.com/en. A wallpaper changer which was less than adequate at the time I wrote about it.
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Google Keep – google.com/keep. A very good note taking app where you can add pictures, lists, texts and be alerted by them using the time or location of your mobile device. I just hope Google does keep this one.
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Recuva – piriform.com/recuva. Did you accidentally empty the Recycle Bin and need a file back? If so try this app which is one of the better ones for recovering deleted files.
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Facebook.com and Twitter.com. Two popular social web sites.
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PayPal.com. A safe place to pay for online purchases.
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Device Manager – Android.com/devicemanager. How to locate, send an alert or wipe your data from your Android device(s).
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Ubuntu – ubuntu.com. Operating system which operates as well as Windows; however, this one is free.
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Join Me – join.me. A free application for individuals, which will allow you to log onto someone else’s computer, while they are there. Great to use for helping and training.
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Should I Remove It – shouldiremoveit.com. A free app that will locate and remove unwanted programs including adware, toolbars, bloat-ware, crap-ware and other junk.
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AniPet Aquarium – bit.ly/anifree. A nice live wallpaper for Android devices. Also similar for Windows and OSX is Serene Screen at serenescreen.com.
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Glympse – glympse.com and Waze.com. A good and much better GPS navigation app for your mobile devices.
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Chrome – google.com/chrome, Firefox – firefox.com, Internet Explorer – search at Microsoft.com, Opera – opera.com and Safari – apple.com/safari. The five most popular web browsers.
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OpenOffice (openoffice.org) and LibreOffice (libreoffice.org) are two similar but excellent free replacements for Microsoft Office.
I look forward to continuing the discussions about software, computers, the internet and all sorts of technology this year. I hope that you, your families and friends have a great 2013 and continue to join me in the newspaper, on the radio and on the web!
