ProXPN and Introduction to VPN

ProXPN is the easiest to use free VPN. Quickly secure your Internet connection and unblock any website. Our VPN works with Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android, and more. ProXPN is free to use forever but it limit your speed through the VPN to 300kbp. If you login to a lot of open wifi it is a must….

New Features in Google Docs

Google is always innovating and they are still bring out new features in old products Voice Typing With Voice Typing you can now dictate directly to Google Docs just like you have your own stenographer. When you have a Google Doc open go to “Tool, Voice typing” click the “microphone icon” and start speaking. New Templates Google…

Best Software for Linux

Frequently the free programs that are available for Windows are not are not for Linux. Thankfully on the Linux platform there are a myriad of good choices. Of course Firefox, Google Chrome, Teamviewer, Skype, Pidgin, Thunderbird, VLC, Audacity, 7-Zip, GIMP and LibreOffice are all available on Linux. These are my choices of other programs for Linux……

uBlock Origin, Best Ad Blocker

uBlock Origin is an effective ad-blocker for your Firefox, Chrome, Opera Safari web-browsers that is effective and easy to use. uBlock Origin is effective in blocking unwanted ad content and worst of all malware without any configuration of any kind but it can easily be configured to allow or disallow as much of the content you want…

Best Free Software For Windows

In this post I have chosen some of my favorite software. All of it free of course! Much of this software is similar if not better than the commercial software you may be using. This software maybe open-source or not but it is all free to use. Mush of this software have versions for “Windows”,…

Lynda training free with library card!

You can use Lynda.com for free if you have a Louisville Free Public Library card. Lynda.com is an online education company offering thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills. Founded in 1995 by Bruce Heavin, Lynda Weinman, the company produces video tutorials taught by industry experts. I have been a paying Lynda.com user…

What’s is Windows 10 and who gets it?

Windows 10 is the free upgrade from Microsoft for anyone running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. If you have 7 or 8.1 and have reserved your upgrade you may have already received the files to install the it through Windows Update. There are some great new feature with this upgrade and you should consider doing…

Clean Install Windows 10

To upgrade your PC to Windows 10 is very easy especially if you’ve gotten the upgrade symbol in your system tray. The first step is to backup your data and create some restore disks. Next click on that symbol in the system tray and follow the prompts to the upgrade. Do not try the advanced install option! This will…

What’s Linux Mint?

Linux Mint is a Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu. Mint provides full out-of-the-box multimedia support by including some proprietary software such as Adobe Flash. Mint was started by a couple of guys who though Ubuntu (the old Gnome desktop version) was great but they thought they should add some proprietary software by default. They…

What is a Linux distribution?

A Linux distribution (often called a distro for short) is an operating system made as a software collection based on the Linux kernel. All distros have the kernel, a packet manager like APT on Debian based systems and RPM on Red Hat based systems. Distros also have a default desktop environment like Unity for Ubuntu and…