A great place online for all your tools and utilities needs
If you are a person who has to provide IT support to your friends and family, then I have found just the thing for you, but before that, answer this question – how many times have you asked a family member to go download AVG and have them come back to you asking where to download it from? Yes, I though so. Well the person who has put together this site (hang on, I will reveal the name in a second) has had an even worse experience. His family member accidentally downloaded spyware when he asked her to AVG from FileHippo.
So, he decided that he had had enough, and he put together a site where he will start storing all utilities that you would ever need, so that he can provide safe links to his family and friends for downloading software. And he made it public so that others can benefit from this store as well. Allow me to introduce MSunderground – an add free repository of useful tools and utilities (and here’s the link to the incident with his family member).
This is the “promise” of the site: We want to provide the easiest means possible for people to get the software they need. Without ads, flashy banners, and built in adware.
And he intends to be free forever for this service. But if it becomes popular, all these files have to be stored somewhere, and all the bandwidth has to be paid for, and so he has a link where if you like, you can donate to the cause. I hope many people donate to him so that he can meet the cost of hosting and bandwidth for this great site.
And I wish that this site becomes larger than all those stupid money-grubbing download sites.
Their lab is conducting experiments on identifying mosquitoes flying through the air and then guiding a laser through a computer to hit the mosquito and burn it to oblivion. They are backing up this research with a lot of other information on mosquitoes.
Today’s links are really varied in terms of their subject topics. A lot has been happening around the Internet and I haven’t got a chance to blog too much in the past few days. Here are some of the more interesting amongst the ones I visited lately:
From today, I am going to start a series of postings called “Interesting Links”. I go through a lot of web sites on the Internet on a typical day and cannot write about all of them. So, for those that I cannot write about, I will start putting the links with short introductions as soon as I have 5-10 links collected.