Today I will continue with the start of the 16th year of "Double Click" by providing more of last year’s links. If you missed it last week and would like to catch up use the following link to start at the beginning: rd.dblclx.com/p1-2016. If the site addresses are too long for print, as the previous one, I have shortened them using the "bit.ly" app. The links are preceded by "rd.dblclx.com" followed by various letters and numbers. Copy them, then paste them in your browser’s address bar to visit the sites. By visiting DoubleClicks.info you can click the links and go directly to the sites.
Let us begin in order of appearance.
- Leoh Chrome Extension, leoh.io – a good looking new tab page for your Chrome browser (only), pictures, time, weather, links, etc. with a new picture every time you open a new tab in the browser.
- Google Maps (maps.google.com) and My Activity on Google (myactivity.google.com) both by Google, both of these are excellent apps. If you have an Android phone or log into a Chrome browser, they will not do much. But if you do, check My Activity and see what they have on you.
- Google Opinion, rd.dblclx.com/GoogleOpinions – make a little pocket money that you can spend at the Google Play store by answering questions.
- Open Live Writer, OpenLiveWriter.org – an excellent replacement for the defunct Windows Live Writer (for writing in your WordPress sites), maintained by the same developers.
- DoubleClicks.info – you know this is my site, come on out and explorer (shameless ad).
- Unlocker, rd.dblclx.com/unlocker192 – unlocks and allows you to delete those stubborn files that are supposedly in use by another application.
- Google Duo, play.google.com – found in the Play Store is a decent, newer app that is a communication app by you-know-who.
- Facebook Messenger, found directly from your phones FB app or your phone’s store. A much better communication app that Google Duo and I am not even a fan of FB but I am of this app.
- Ninite.com – a site you should use when you set up your new computer which allows you to get many of the free programs you may want in install and more.
- Google.com/Chrome and FireFox.com – my two favorite browsers in order of preference.
- Libre Office, libreoffice.org – a free Office Suite which is just about as good as Microsoft Office but free.
- CCLeaner and Defraggler, piriform.com – two great utilities for your Windows computer and others at the site.
- Malwarbytes, malwarebytes.com – the malware fighter no computer should be without.
- VLC, videolan.org – the best video and audio player out there which is far superior to your computer’s default player.
- Dropbox, rd.dblclx.com/use-Dropbox – in my opinion this is currently the best cloud file storage out there.
- Thunderbird, rd.dblclx.com/1ejd3ax – a great free mail application which I prefer over MS Outlook which you will have to pay for.
Last year contained a lot of places to check online so next week we will have a final look at the last of them. See you then!
