Free Fast Windows Word-compatible Word Processor – Jarte

jarte-logo Here’s an interesting idea,  a word processor in a word processor.  Let me explain, Jarte, from Carolina Road Software, uses the Windows WordPad freebie that’s included in all versions of Windows since Windows 95 as the guts engine for a more advanced word processor.  With Jarte, WordPad becomes a lightweight easy-to-use freeware Windows word processor that can read and edit Microsoft Word documents rather than a long-in-the-tooth free app. Jarte is designed on their website as being for “students, writers, small business people, and home users”. Their feature list:
  • Tabbed document windows for easy access to your open documents
  • Larger buttons for the most commonly used functions
  • Instant dictionary and thesaurus word lookup (integrates with free WordWeb)
  • Spell check and text search tools that do not park themselves on top of the text you are trying to edit
  • Single click bookmarking that make bookmarks both useful and usable
  • Instant access to the documents and folders you designate as your favorites
  • Instant access to the fonts you designate as your favorites
  • Use of the mouse scroll wheel button to copy and paste text
This is a light word processor that I would consider for day-to-day writing tasks.   It would also be great for a laptop. Download Jarte [via lifehacker] jarte-screen

Making Picasa and Flickr Play Nice Together – [How To]

picasa-logoPicasa is a great free Windows Photo Organizer and Flickr is a great online media hosting and social web site.  Maybe since Picasa is a Google product and Flickr is a Yahoo! product, it’s not always intuitive as to how to make them work together. Ideally you would store all you digital pictures on your Windows computer in Picasa and then be able to automatically upload them to your Flickr account.  Out of the box this process takes several steps. If you’d like to make this workflow painless you need to do about five minutes of installing and configuring and then your uploading will be a breeze. flickr-logo We’ll assume you’ve already downloaded Picasa, if not, get the version 3 beta, it’s great.  Got an account on Flickr? No, go to Flickr.com and sign up with your Yahoo! username and password. Next download and install FlickrUploadr.  This is an official Flickr application that let’s you upload and configure bulk digital images from your PC.  Get it here. Okay, now the last step.  Download a little piece of “glue” called “picasa2flickr”, sounds right, doesn’t it?  Download and click on this magic piece of glue will install a new button in the control panel at the bottom of your Picasa screen called “send to Flickr”. sendtoflickrbuttonSo this is the way the magic will happen, you will choose the picture/s in Picasa that you want to upload to Flickr by selecting the picture/s, then press “Send to Flickr” which activates FlickrUploadr which will give you the opportunity to add titles, descriptions and keywords to you picture.  You’ll press “Upload Pictures” and when the pictures have been uploaded to Flickr, you’ll be given one more  chance to see and manipulate them online before they appear in your Flickr account. See the entire sequence after the jump [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="In Picasa on the PC"]picasa-screen[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="71" caption="Press Send to Flickr Button"]sendtoflickrbutton[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Flickr Uploadr Screen"]flickruploadr_screen[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="317" caption="Your Pictures are on Flickr"]upload_complete[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="417" caption="This screen is optional, only if you want to further manipulate titles"]on flickr[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="311" caption="On Flickr - Total time 24 secs"]flickr-final[/caption]
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Visualize What Happened to All Your Disk Space

jam-logo Remember when you bought that new PC and you looked at the size of the disk drive and said "How could I ever need more than 250 gigabytes?" Then you started to load programs. Then you started to add your digital pictures. Then you started to rip your CDs and store the MP3s in iTunes. Then you started to shoot video and play with it on your computer. Now you’re down to 5 GB and you’re wondering where all that free space went. treesize-logo Jam Software has created a handy and simple free Windows utility, TreeSize Free, to show you visually where all your disk storage has gone. I like this quote from their site “Every hard disk is too small if you just wait long enough.” Download it, install it and run it to see a visualization by folder of what’s occupying your hard disk and then start deleting.  Trust me, there’s a lot out there you don’t need.  TreeSize Free can also be started by just right-clicking in Windows Explorer on the folder you want to investigate. Download TreeSize Free [via lifehacker] treesize-screen

Would you like to clean up the junk on your computer?

 revo-logoPC's collect junk and junk slows down PCs.  The day you buy your new Windows PC is the day that PC will be the fastest.  Some of it comes from installing programs that you try once and never use again.  Some comes from the applications that you buy or download that set unnecessary programs to be run on startup. 

We’ve written about the problem before suggesting PC-DecrapifierRevo Uninstaller is another good possibility for a free cleanup of your Windows machine.  Besides taking care of uninstalling programs you never no longer want it also gives you access to your PCs system tools and can help you clean out unwanted programs that execute during startup. 

Some programs scatter elements all over your computer making them difficult to uninstall.  Revo Uninstaller searches your computer for all traces of the application so it can be completely uninstalled.

Here is the Revo list of the tools and utilities included in Revo Uninstaller (please excuse their exclamation points!):

Auto Start Manager - Stop programs that start automatically on Windows startup; speed up loading of Windows!
Windows Tools Manager - Handy and useful tools bundled with every version of Windows; easily find useful system tools and options!
Junk Files Cleaner - Find and remove unnecessary files from your computer; free up disk space and delete files you do not need!
Browsers History Cleaner - Erase web browser history, visited pages history and temporary internet files of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera web browsers; free up a lot of disk space by deleting temporary internet files like temporary saved videos, temporary flash files, temporary pictures etc!
Office History Cleaner - Remove the history of most recently used files in MS Office; remove your tracks by deleting the list of last opened MS Office documents!
Windows History Cleaner - Remove the history of recently opened files, delete temporary files, remove usage tracks and other history items that are saved by Windows; remove your tracks saved by Windows for a lot of operations!
Unrecoverable Delete Tool - Erase files and folders forever; be sure that nobody could recover your files and folders after deleting!
Evidence Remover - Make sure already deleted files, folders and other data are unrecoverable; securely erase your data!

Download Revo Uninstaller [via webworkerdaily]

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Get an Amazingly Fast Windows Image Viewer

faststone_logo Working forever, as it seems, in tech marketing, I feel like I've spent my career (an exaggeration) looking at image files like jpegs, sorting them, looking at them again -- just trying to find the right image for the story I was trying to tell. I've used tons (an exaggeration) of Windows image viewers. I'm always on the lookout for new viewers, here's one and I like very much.  FastStone MaxView really is one of the fastest Windows Image Viewers I've ever used and fast is important when you're flipping through large clip art collections or all of your digital pictures. MaxViewer is free for non-commercial use -- $19.95 for commercial use. MaxViewer has more to recommend it besides just fast viewing.  Here's a partial Feature List from the FastStone site:
  • Full screen viewer with Select - Zoom support
  • Clear and customizable magnifier
  • View detailed image information including EXIF metadata
  • Slideshow with 150+ transitional effects and MP3/WAV/MIDI/WMA background music support
  • Lossless JPEG rotation and crop
  • Internal editor that adds texts, arrowed-lines, highlights to images
  • Undo, Redo and Mouse Wheel support
  • Common image formats support, including loading of JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, BMP, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, CUR, TGA and saving to JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TGA
  • Digital camera RAW formats support, including CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG
Download FastStone MaxView [via lifehacker] maxview-screen
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