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250+ Places for Free Books Online
Friday, March 26th, 2010 | Author: admin

This is a listing of 260 sites that legally offer free books (eBooks) for download or for online viewing.

Alphabetical Listing

1RomanceEBooks offers 27 free books from their romance collection for download in a variety of formats.  These are not public domain offerings, but some of their usual offerings made available for free.

2020k Large collection, divided into categories and sub-categories for download in a variety of formats.  Note: Many of the links to the Internet Archive from this site are not working.

AdaIC.org has several free books on Ada as well as textbooks and tutorials on Ada.

Alive and Free – Links to free ebooks of living authors

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Split or Merge Your PDF files
Monday, January 25th, 2010 | Author: admin

The popularity of the PDF files is undeniable. It allows you to insert pictures, drawings, you can scan books or other materials and save them as PDF and it can also contain customized display settings, including page display layout and zoom level.

We already know that quality comes expensive and all these features come with a price that often translates in the size of the output file and the loading time of the entire document. So if you want to merge multiple PDF files into a bigger one or split a very large one in individual pages or page ranges, there is a simple solution designed to do just that.

pdf-split

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10 free Microsoft programs worth checking out
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | Author: admin

If you know where to look, you can find a variety of useful applications – free from Microsoft. Greg Shultz introduces a few of his favorites.

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard someone say, “For all the money I’ve spent on Microsoft products, they should be giving me free software by now,” I’d be rich! Well, unfortunately, that’s not going to happen. But Microsoft does have a lot of Windows software that is free for the taking. We’re all familiar with the free Windows Live offerings, but that’s not all there is. Microsoft has a lot of free software just waiting for you to find it. You just have to know where to look. Here are 10 free programs to get you started.

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10 Windows features I would like to see in Linux
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | Author: admin

Jack Wallen recently looked at how certain Linux features might improve Windows. Now he lists some things about Windows that could improve Linux.

I recently shared my list of 10 Linux features I think should be included in Windows. Today, I’m going to challenge myself by finding 10 features in the Windows operating system that I would like to see make their way to Linux. I am not going to play the typical fanboy and make a joke of this by saying there is nothing in the Windows operating system that would be welcome in the other camp. We all know there are plenty of outstanding features in the Windows operating system. But I might stretch the nature of the word “features” to include a few items that are less inherent in the OS and more about the community or business model.

So with that said, let’s dive into this ocean and see what we catch.

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