Free ebook sites

Free ebook sites - download free PDFs the legal way

Did you know that there are plenty of quality books out there, that you can download for free in a legal way?

Here are some of the best free ebook download sites available:

• Free computer books is probably the best site to download software or computer programming related ebooks. It's probably the first site I would check when trying to learn a new programming language, or improving my computer skills in a very specific subject.
• PDF geni is a search engine specialized in finding free ebooks in PDF for download. It even offers search term suggestions and a glimpse at the hottest search terms.
• Project Gutenberg it's the good old initiative of turning every classic with expired copyright into a free downloadable ebook. So if you are looking for a classic book to download, check that page. And if you want a bunch of interesting suggestions, try the top 100 most downloaded ebooks.
• Google book search started somehow like Project Gutenberg, storing PDF versions of classic books. But now it has grown much bigger thanks to interesting agreements with book publishers. And now you can download plenty of quality ebooks, modern of classic, with no cost at all.

With Internet, knowledge has no barriers (and nope, I'm not talking about piracy). So go download some free quality ebooks and PDFs at those sites and increase your knowledge!

0 comments

Permalink

Posted by ESV

4Gb RAM XP

4Gb RAM in XP: how to increase maximum XP RAM limit

By default, Windows XP maximum RAM amount is 2Gb. This operative system won't use more memory even with more RAM memory available already installed on the motherboard of our PC.

But there are some tricks to avoid this XP RAM limit, and make Windows XP use even 3Gb and even 4Gb of RAM when running some applications.

How to use 3Gb: increase Windows XP RAM limit

Let's open the BOOT.INI file. It is possible that this file could remain as a hidden file in some Windows XP versions, even after enabling the Windows "display hidden files" option. But to open this file you just need to type C:\boot.ini in the address bar of the Windows XP File Explorer.

Then let's find the following line of code inside such Windows configuration file:

[operating systems]
multi disk rdisk(7)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

After /fastdetect let's type a blank space and then /3GB.

The resulting Windows configuration line would be as follows:

[operating systems]
multi disk rdisk(7)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /3GB

Reading 4 Gb RAM in Windows XP

To reach the Windows XP maximum RAM amount of 4Gb we have to add this configuration option to the previous Windows code: /PAE just before /3GB. The configuration file for the maximum RAM limit in XP would be as follows:

[operating systems]
multi disk rdisk(7)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /PAE /3GB

This enables the PAE mode and Windows XP would use 4Gb RAM, but only with software that supports this Windows PAE mode.

0 comments

Permalink

Posted by Dremin

Anti-malware tool list

List of anti-malware tools

Are you worried about spyware or malware installed on your PC? Here's a list of 5 useful anti malware tools.

My 3 weapons of choice for malware removal would be as follows:

• Spybot search and destroy is a free tool for Windows (compatible with all Windows versions from Windows 95) that will detect and remove malware applications.
• AdAware's free version provides spyware detection and removal features, suspicious file submission services and some resident system protection services.
• Hijack This provides advanced logs of running processes that will allow you to identify installed malware (or to ask an expert with highly detailed malware information).

Now you can keep your PC safe and clean of malware with these advanced free anti-malware tools.

0 comments

Permalink

Posted by ESV

YouTube hacks: URL tricks

YouTube Hacks: URL tricks

Did you know you could hack YouTube options using different URL parameters? It's a simple trick of writing query values in the video URL.

You can view and embed high quality videos, download YouTube videos, auto start playback from a part of the video, disable other YouTube related videos, and even bypass regional video restrictions!

Take a look at the whole YouTube hacks and URL tricks in the original post at makeuseof.com!

By the way, I wonder if this hack to bypass the regional restrictions would work for users in the United Kingdom as a trick to access high quality music videos, avoiding the UK YouTube music block.

Source: makeuseof.com YouTube URL tricks.

0 comments

Permalink

Posted by ESV

Fallout 3 crash fix

Fallout 3 crashes when loading interiors

If you have a multi-core CPU, like the Quad, and you experience a Fallout 3 crash when loading interiors (the PC version of Fallout 3, specially in closed spaces). It seems that this crash is caused by a bug in Fallout which doesn't adapt multi-threading well, and this PC game stops responding in small areas.

Fallout 3 crash fix

The fix for this Fallout 3 bug is very easy: just copy and paste and you are ready to go:

• Open the folder My documents / My Games / Fallout3
• Edit the file FALLOUT.ini.
• Inside FALLOUT.ini look for a group called [general].
• Inside the general group, after all the configuration parameters, just copy and paste the following 2 lines:

bUseThreadedAI=1
iNumHWThreads=2

Now close and save the Fallout 3 configuration file.

And that's it: you should have fixed the Fallout 3 crash when loading small closed interior areas. Well, Fallout 3 could stop responding sometimes, but these crashes won't be a frequent bug in Fallout.

Source

If you liked Fallout 3, you may like:

     

16 comments

Permalink

Posted by Dremin

Explorer webpage comparison

Real time webpage comparison in different Explorer Versions

With the recent release of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft has added some subtle changes about how the HTML web pages are rendered. So the new challenge is: how to upgrade web pages that work in the old IE 6 to work in the newer Explorer 7 and 8 versions?

Fortunately, Microsoft has released a new tool to help migrating websites optimized for Internet Explorer 6 to the new Explorer 7 and 8: Expression Web SuperPreview.

Super Preview allows real time webpage comparison of the HTML rendering using different Explorer versions. Both webpages are simultaneously displayed, overlapping the output of each Explorer window, so you can detect (and correct) even the most subtle difference of Internet Explorer!

0 comments

Permalink

Posted by ESV

Image inputs port list

List of image input ports sorted by image quality

Many people gets confused about which are the best image inputs to plug your gaming console to a High Definition (HD) TV. Even I was confused about the tv input ports not so long ago.

For all these people I'm listing all the TV image input formats sorted from the better input format to the worst (some of the input ports are of the same quality, but we need to list them).

HDMI > VGA > COMPONENTS > SCART > S-VIDEO > COMPOSITE > RHF

0 comments

Permalink

Posted by Dremin