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Enjoy cooking? Download dozens of great cookbooks from Amazon for free!

Posted on February 23, 2020

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

If you enjoy cooking, chances are you also enjoy collecting cookbooks. And as you well know, growing your cookbook collection can be rather expensive.

But thanks to our good friends at Amazon, adding great cookbooks to your personal collection doesn’t have to cost you a cent!

The secret? You can download dozens of great cookbooks directly from Amazon, for free!

Yes, it’s true, and there’s absolutely no catch. In fact, you don’t even have to own a Kindle eReader in order to use your free Kindle cookbooks!

All you need is to have the free Kindle Reading App installed on your computer or mobile device. [Read more…]

Oldergeeks – An awesome free downloads site with clean (no add-on) downloads and no misleading ads

Posted on February 5, 2020

Regular readers of this blog know how much I enjoy recommending the great free software tools that I use every day on my own computers and mobile devices.

One of the most amazing things about the Internet age is how we can download useful programs and apps to complete most any task we can imagine at absolutely no cost whatsoever.

I like to call it the era of ubiquitous freebies!

But the above being said, free downloads can often have a dark side…

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Why I recommend replacing Notepad with Notepad++

Posted on January 4, 2020

The Windows Notepad utility is one of the handiest little programs there is, but it comes with a number of frustrating limitations.

But even with those limitations I found myself using it several times a day simply because it’s so convenient.

But no more. I long ago switched to a wonderful free Notepad replacement app called Notepad++.

Notepad++ does everything the standard Windows Notepad does, only better. I won’t list all the great features here, but there are three features that really made it worth the switch for me: [Read more…]

Discover tons of technical info about your Android device with CPU-Z

Posted on January 3, 2020

A while back I told you about a great free program called Speccy that lists pretty much every technical detail there is about your PC.

If you have even a passing interest in what hardware and software is inside your computer’s case, you need to download Speccy today.

If you have that same curiosity about what’s inside your Android phone or tablet, a wonderful free app called CPU-Z will tell you. [Read more…]

How to use ‘Ultimate Windows Tweaker’ to quickly lock down ALL of Windows 10’s privacy settings

Posted on December 28, 2019

As you probably know by now, Windows 10 is a nightmare when it comes to privacy.

To be blunt, if you accept all of Windows 10’s default privacy settings you won’t have much privacy at all while you’re using your PC.

There are almost two dozen important privacy settings that need to be changed in order to lock down your privacy as much as possible, but unfortunately they’re scattered all over the place throughout your Windows 10 installation.

That makes it very difficult and time-consuming to make all those tweaks, and the task can be virtually impossible if you don’t know where to find all of them!

Luckily, an awesome free tool called Ultimate Windows Tweaker makes it very easy to change ALL of Windows 10’s important privacy settings at one time.

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