Profile: Linda Martin-Peoples


Linda Martin-Peoples authors 'Cool Online Tools' blog for those of us who are short on technical skills...and even shorter on patience.

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  • Aggregate your Favorite Websites on One Page

    February 27, 2008

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    I really like for the sites and tools I use frequently to be kept together in one place, and not just as shortcuts on my desktop or in my Favorites (who’d ever find anything there?) Two very useful and time-saving web services I use for this purpose are Only2Clicks, which was profiled on MakeUseOf before, [...]


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  • Access Blocked Websites using Proxy Servers

    January 20, 2008

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    There may be times when you might want to use an anonymous free prfoxy server so you can safely surf the net without your information being available to hackers, spammers and scammers…. or anyone else, for that matter! Web proxies are used for hiding your IP address and by-passing work, school or other web filters. [...]


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  • 4 File Shredders to Make Deleted Data Unrecoverable

    January 2, 2008

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    Chances are, your PC contains entirely too much personal information about you … passwords, banking information, credit card numbers, address books, social security number, personal emails, and maybe even a few things that you wouldn’t want announced on the evening news. And you may think that just by hitting your “delete” button, all is “lost”. [...]


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  • Feelin’ a Little Cocky? Grade Your Website!

    December 7, 2007

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    Have a Website? Blog? Webpage? Want to know exactly where you stand in relation to all the other websites? Wondering how much you website is worth? Take a deep breath, go directly to the links below and have it GRADED! Website Grader – Free seo is a tool that measures the marketing effectiveness and popularity [...]


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  • Giveaway of the Day… Free Software and Games EVERY Day!

    November 30, 2007

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    Just a short post today to let you know about a really cool site that we should all probably be watching. “Giveaway of the Day” literally gives away a real, fully-licensed software download every single day. Some are really cool…some are “not-so” (to me, anyway…but hey…that’s why they’ve got chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, right?) For [...]


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  • GIVEAWAY: Ahhh…”must-have” FREE Software Downloads!

    November 27, 2007

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    There really MUST be a Santa Claus after all! Right here at the Holidays, from the “free, actually-USEFUL software downloads” front comes: Ready? (Drumroll, please…) Your absolutely FR*EE…no strings attached downloads (full licenses…not “trials”) from ‘TechSmith‘ of: Camtasia3 (Reg. price: $299) and SnagIt7 (Reg. price: $29). What’s the catch? None, really. You will be offered [...]


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