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Jessica Cam Wong

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About Jessica Cam Wong

Jessica is interested in anything that enhances personal productivity and that is open-source.

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Browser Linux - An Extremely Lightweight & Fast OS For Older x86 Computers [Linux]

Unless you’re a web developer or programmer, you most likely don’t really need a whole lot of applications aside from a web browser, perhaps a media player, file manager/viewer and text editor. You can think of using a lightweight operating system. Browser Linux is a fast-booting operating system, derived from Puppy Linux, making it a wise choice for any computer, particularly older machines.

5 Uses for the Evernote Desktop Clients [Windows and Mac]

A couple of years ago, we had a post on the myriad uses for Evernote, which could well be an all-in-one second brain. With the advent of improvements on the desktop clients, there have been inevitably many more uses today. Thus, here are a few more tips on using the desktop clients for Evernote.

6 Free Full-Length Hollywood Films You Can Watch on YouTube Movies [US Only]

Nowadays, there are plenty of movies you can rent or catch on YouTube Movies. Finding freebies on YouTube Movies isn’t hard, but finding good and recent ones may take a bit of time. Here’s a list of 6 Hollywood films which have received generally favorable reviews and are fairly recent.

Check Out These 2 Smart Calendar Apps With Task Integration

After trying so many organization systems, I noticed that I yearned for specific features in a not-too-complicated system, like for example, integration between a calendar app and the task app in question. In my search for alternative calendar/task list applications, I’ve found two, Coolendar and 1Calendar, that seem to focus a bit more on this integration.

Top 8 Websites To Find The Most Priceless & Viral Images

The Internet is full of entertainment, but if you're looking for more amusing 'lol' images or other priceless goodies, be ready to unleash your inner procrastinator and check out the following list of websites. They’re bound to entertain you with tons of hilarious pictures for at least a couple of hours.

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3 PDF Document Management Tools for Organizing Your Research

The web has seen its fair share of research-friendly tools grow over the past years. Let's discuss some tools that help you keep your PDF article library neat and catalogued for use when you have to compose your research paper. So read on to find out which services stand out in this category.

14+ YouTube Playlists To Watch & Learn Computer Programming Quickly

With the advent and growth of YouTube and plenty of other high-quality video-sharing websites and tools like flashcard software, learning new things visually by yourself has never been easier. Since it never hurts to learn something new, especially a skill set like programming in different languages, we will go over some of the best channels that will introduce you to the world of programming.

3 Tips to Help You Create Photo Collages the Easy Way

Creating collages can be a bit time-consuming if you do it yourself in MS Paint or Photoshop. If you don’t feel exactly creative, your work may not even bring you the results you want. I know I’ve been there. I might spend a few hours trying to create collages, without any fancy effects, just lining up images in rows and columns, and the whole thing just doesn’t look as glorious as I imagine it to be.

4 Ways to Quickly Identify Your Favorite Web Page Fonts

We have gone over some elegant looking free fonts here ready to be used in any of your projects, but many new fonts are born every so often thanks to talented artists. You can spot them in new web app logos, magazines, food packages, etc. How do you find out what font these texts are so you can use them? Here are a few services that can help you identify the particular font you’re looking at.

7 Best "New" Web Browsers With a Chance Against Chrome and Firefox

Many people swear by either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, but there are a myriad of other web browsers that are definitely worth a look. Truly, neither Chrome nor Firefox are perfect. A lot of the following browsers ship with addons that you would otherwise have to obtain yourself, so they may make for a fresh breath of air.

Top 4 RSS Music Feeds to Get New Tunes Every Day

Music discovery websites seem to have exploded in popularity lately. There are music discovery social networks, desktop applications (for Linux, see this post) and even online music stations. You can actually even resort to using YouTube and iTunes’ iMix features to discover new songs. There are, indeed, many free ways to discover new music easily.

6 Charities That You Can Just Text To Donate

Back in early 2010, when Haiti was devastated by a massive earthquake, text-to-donate campaigns helped raise the amazing amount of $10 million pretty quickly. Though that campaign is no longer active (you can still mail cash donations), other donation-by-SMS campaigns now exist to provide disaster relief to Japan and the tsunami-hit Pacific. There are many additional non-profit organizations that make use of these text-to-donate campaigns.

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