December 5, 2011
We’ve published lots of articles about download managers here at MakeUseOf. FlashGet, Free Download Manager, and Download Accelerator plus are some of the favorites among Windows users. DownThemAll is usually the pick when we’re going for a mass downloader compatible with our favorite browser. One that we’ve yet to feature is JDownloader. Some would say that it’s for the more advanced user.
October 13, 2011
RAR files are smaller, easier to split and easier to recover than ZIP files. These three features mean RAR files are better than ZIP, even though ZIP files are far more common. If you use the Internet often then, in all likelihood, you’ve more than once downloaded a ZIP file. A ZIP is basically a compressed folder you can download as a single file.
December 29, 2010
Unlike Windows, installing software in Linux has the potential to be slightly more complicated. Unless your chosen software is already in package form or resides in a repository and can be installed with a simple line of text, the chances are you’re going to need to compile and install from a .TAR.GZ or .TAR.BZ2 file. [...]
December 27, 2010
You’ve probably downloaded an image file before, and there’s a good chance it used the popular .ISO file extension. These (usually quite large) files are essentially digital optical media, and all files contained within that media are wrapped up into the .ISO archive. Unlike Windows, Linux has built-in support for mounting and manipulating image files. [...]
October 8, 2010
If you’re like me, you usually try to grab images from video files by simply hitting the pause button and then using the ALT-Printscreen shortcut to copy-and-paste the image to my image editor. That works fine, but it isn’t exactly a precise science. People who are talking or moving in a video clip look fine as [...]
November 22, 2009
The other day I downloaded a .RAR file. I saw them here and there but to my surprise never extracted one in the past. I really needed the app which I found in Mark’s article here to take a screenshot of my cell phone for another article. So I then did a little digging around [...]
October 14, 2009
So you have some important data all caught up in a PDF file. A PDF is a document that has been committed to its format and most likely cannot be opened for editing or copying unless the author has allowed that. How do you convert that PDF to text? You could print it and try [...]
June 2, 2009
Whether you’re tight on space, or need to send an enormous quantity of files, archiving software is the way to go. These days, not using an archiving suite is almost unthinkable, and it’s one of the first things you should download when you reinstall your operation system. But which software is the way to go? [...]
April 19, 2009
For quite some time now there haven’t been many free apps that could be said to rival or go up against the giant file zipping and compressing giant, WinZip. This is determined in the apps ability to compress or decompress files with substantial power and extraction speeds. We believe we’ve found a completely free file [...]
August 22, 2007
Today’s recommended tool is one which I have been using for only a week but I am already hooked because it is a tool which I have been looking for for a long time and it works extremely well. I was convinced for a long time that such a tool was out there somewhere and [...]
