Category: Windows
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Blender
Blender is free and open-source software that allows you to create a wide range of 2D and 3D content. You can create 3D models, water simulations, animation, rendering, particles, and other computer simulations, non-linear video editing, and creating interactive 3D applications. You also get a lot of free help from the online community, as well…
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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (Document Cloud)
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (Document Cloud) is used to view PDF (Portable Document Format) files and by using some free tools you can: More tools can be used by subscription, namely: For more details, you can access https://helpx.adobe.com/reader.html or read the Acrobat DC manual (PDF) You can find the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader…
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Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Community
Visual Studio Code is a code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and if you want to increase its power, you need to install some extensions according to your projects. The best way to start using and understanding the Visual Studio Code is to follow the Introductory Videos such as: and the…
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Java SE (Standard Edition) – Runtime Environment (JRE) and Development Kit (JDK)
Another important program you should have after you already installed the operating system is Java SE (Standard Edition) Runtime Environment (JRE) because many software applications written in Java need to run with it, starting with online games, chatting, viewing 3D images, etc. The programming language was developed by the SUN Microsystems company in 1991 and…
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How to create bootable USB drives with Rufus
Rufus is a free and open-source software (FOSS) portable application for Microsoft Windows that can be used to: When each time a new operating system is released, it’s uploaded as an ISO disk image, a file that stores all the content and structure of an entire disk. Take for example the latest version of Windows…
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Notepad++
Notepad++ is a more complex text editor compared to the classic Notepad for Microsoft Windows, you can edit with him in several programming languages including HTML (HyperText Markup Language). During installation, it is recommended to install all plugins, among them we find a converter that converts ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) into HEX,…
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Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free email application that gives users the possibility to manage e-mail accounts like POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). Can access the accounts already created from Yahoo, Outlook, Lycos, Gmail, Mail, and Libero. The account settings are not so difficult, all you need is the…
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7-Zip file archiver
Many of us received compressed files and we wonder with what software those files can be open for decompression and if that software is free. 7-Zip is a program that can access some of the following file formats RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, LZH, LZA, ARJ, ISO as well as its own format 7z specific to this software. It has a pretty…
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XAMPP – web server solution stack package
Used for educational purposes or to help you if you don’t have access to a server and want to test some web pages created before uploading them to the server, with XAMPP you can create a local web server by yourself. This is a solution stack package running with Apache a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)…
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Microsoft Office vs. LibreOffice
It’s not something new for us, we all know what is a word processor (Word), spreadsheet (Excel), e-mail client (Outlook), or office software for graphical presentations (PowerPoint), those are all part of the Microsoft Office package. There is a variety of packages and those are: Office for home and Office for business (see comparative table)…