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Windows 10 Update Assistant is a tool that helps you force the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to your Windows 10 powered machine. I tested the Update Assistant on my Microsoft Surface Pro 3 so I could use the Microsoft OneDrive Files On-Demand feature.
In this article I will briefly describe the Windows 10 Update Assistant steps that will bring the Fall Creators Update to your machine.
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Paul Willen provided me with a demo of Microsoft Visual Studio Code, a free and open source code editor. Features and functions can be added via the extensions marketplace in Visual Studio Code.
As a non-developer I will try to do a brief comparison with Notepad++ , the code editor I used for editing php and css-files for this blog.
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In this article I will look at Visagesoft’s Expert PDF Reader, which is the free PDF viewer for Windows from this Greek software development company.
I was looking for a lightweight and fast PDF reader just like PDFtk Pro, an excellent PDF Toolkit that I’ve reviewed a little while ago.
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John Obeto, CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Logikworx, shared the PCWorld article: “How to use Process Explorer, Microsoft’s free, supercharged Task Manager alternative“.
Process Explorer is an application from the famous Windows Sysinternals suite, original developed by Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich from Winternals Software LP. [Read more…]
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FireShot is a clever, tool that helps you capture full webpage screenshots, combined with a follow-up action like save or e-mail. FireShot is available for all major web browsers Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and more.
In will briefly compare the FireShot Free and Pro version, have a look at the FireShot Mozilla Firefox add-on and discuss its structure. FireShot Desktop currently only available for 64 bit Firefox will be highlighted as well.
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Sjoerd Koolen, Productivity Adoption Consultant at Microsoft, demo-ed Lightshot to me and he uploaded a screenshot to the Lightshot prnt.sc (printscreen) servers and got its short link right away for easy sharing.
Personally I have been using WinSnap from NTWind Software for the past couple of years, because it provided me with more helpful features (and efficiency) than the default Windows Snipping Tool. I’ll do a quick comparison of Lightshot, WinSnap and the Windows Snipping Tool as well.