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Create your own ebooks for free with Papyrus

Posted on December 23, 2013

Have you ever wanted to create an ebook to sell or just give away to your friends? Most of us have, and there’s a great web tool called Papyrus that will help you do it for free!

Papyrus is a one-stop web shop that lets you do everything from edit and/or import the text and images for your ebook to create beautiful “covers”. They even assist you in selling your completed ebooks! You can easily create beautiful ebooks in kindle, pdf, and epub formats, which pretty much covers 95% of the ebook formats in use today. [Read more…]

WinAero WEI Tool replaces the Windows Experience Index that was removed in Windows 8.1

Posted on December 18, 2013

Prior to Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows included a handy tool that computed something called the Windows Experience Index, a rudimentary calculation of the relative speeds of a particular PC’s various hardware components.

While the WEI wasn’t perfect, it was in fact quite useful. And it was also 100% free. [Read more…]

How to block images from being displayed automatically in your Gmail messages

Posted on December 16, 2013

gmail As many of you may have already noticed, Google recently changed the way Gmail displays images that are attached to the emails in your inbox.

In the past, the email would contain a short notification that the message contains an attachment, along with a link to click to display it. But now images are displayed by default, whether you want to see them or not.

There are several scenarios in which you might not want the messages in your emails to be displayed by default: [Read more…]

Why wait for USB 3.1 when you can buy a reversible USB cable today?

Posted on December 9, 2013

The other day I wrote a post in which I discussed how the upcoming USB 3.1 specification is going to call for USB cables that will plug into the socket either way without having to worry about “which way is up”. In my opinion, that will be a huge step forward.

Well, an alert reader sent me an email this morning letting me know that Tripp-Lite already sells a line of reversible USB 2.0 cables that you can buy right now – and they’re surprisingly inexpensive! [Read more…]

Make Ubuntu Linux work the way you want it to with Ubuntu Tweak

Posted on December 4, 2013

If you have recently taken the plunge and replaced Microsoft Windows with Linux, you are probably marveling at the increase in your computer’s speed and appreciating the fact that you don’t have to run an anti-virus program. For sure, Linux offers plenty of advantages over Windows.

One advantage it has never offered however is a simple way to tweak your Linux installation to your liking. You can easily use Google to find command line tweaks for most anything that you can think of, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a GUI system tweaker that uses the mouse instead of the keyboard and command line?

Well, if you’re running the “Ubuntu” flavor of Linux you can now download a very good one, for free. [Read more…]