When you use a computer in a cyber doubtful coffee, which says to you that they did not install a recorder of striking to recover your passwords and other codes of credit card?

To avoid the nasty surprise, it is enough for you to a key USB with the utility Neo' S SafeKeys. It is a free portable application which presents a graphic keyboard to you where you type the keys with the mouse. Once the seized password, select and simply make it slip it into the field wished to counter the recorders of striking. Simple and effective!

Neo' S SafeKeys will take only 40ko on your key, it turns under Windows and it is available on NeoBlog.

Throughout this year of blogging, I presented various software to you which makes it possible to be better organized, to improve his productivity and to solve small daily worries related to Windows.

I generally tried to focus me on the most useful software based on my daily use of Windows. But nevertheless the desires change, and to measurement of the experiment, one realizes that certain software does not offer the hoped added-value or can be replaced by others, more effective.

I thus decided to offer to you today an assessment concerning all the software that I presented to you during this year, and even in preview certain software of which I did not speak yet but which is worth the turning. For each software, you will find a short description and a comment on the personal use that I make some.

In order to help you to determine the most interesting software, I carefully sorted this list according to the frequency of employment, which is a good indicator of the utility of the software.

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To translate a word in a foreign language, it is often practical to use the dictionaries on line. And that can be sufficient for an occasional use.

On the other hand, for a use a little more intensive, it can be good to install dictionaries locally on its machine. It is what the freeware StarDict proposes, a reference on the matter. Conceived by Hu Zheng, this program will even enable you to initiate yourselves with the Asian languages if the heart you of known as.

Here small a apper�u of the software

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At the daily newspaper, it often sometimes happens to type several times the same thing: a signature of email, an personal address, a complimentary close, an identification number to extension, etc

To save this wasted time, the Texter software proposes to you to memorize these ends of text and you them to arise when you need some by typing the corresponding abbreviation simply.

This article will make you discover the power of this small free software
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There exists a great number of commercial software to create diagrams, but the choice becomes more restricted when one seeks a free software and effective.

One often quotes Dia, to replace the commercial software Microsoft Visio, but its catch in hand remains not very intuitive.

A good solution is then to take the advice of the blog OSAlt, which indexes the alternatives to the commercial software, and to turn to OpenOffice Draw. This software belongs to the office automation continuation OpenOffice very known of the world of the free software.

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After as well of evolutions of Windows, one can be astonished as the clipboard remained also basic.

It is always impossible to keep the history of copying to stick, whereas separately sold applications (MS Office and ms Visual Studio) allow it.

A multiple clipboard is very useful to however save time when you must for example copy fields between two windows.

This is why I propose to you today to adopt a small free portable application which will repair this lack: Ditto

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The comparators of text are well-known programmers. They are often integrated in an environment of development and make it possible to manage the versions of the code of the software in the course of programming.

In a more familiar register, you have also the follow-up of the modifications of Word (available in Outil > Suivi modifications) which makes it possible to manage the successive versions of a file .doc.

However, certain editors of document are deprived of tool of comparison. I will quote in particular Excel.

A solution of breakdown service can then be to use a software comparator of text.

It that intervenes the WinMerge utility, which cumulates the good points since it is in particular free, portable and is translated there into French.

I used it recently to compare two lists under Excel:

This has me permi to avoid comparing these lists with the hand and saving a few hours.

If you are interested, here where to find it:

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I benefit from this article to launch a small challenge to the readers: if you know a free software specialized to compare two Excel file, I propose to you to share your lucky find, and I will especially publish an article for the occasion with a bond towards your site if you have one of them.

On this, I await your reaction in the comments

UPDATE: I learned thanks to this excellent article: To combine/synchronize Excel sheets which there exists a plugin for WinMerge which makes it possible to compare 2 Excel files directly. I will try it to see

If there is a thing which aggravates me, it is to have to again arrange all my icons after having changed the resolution of my screen.

It is now past since I found an application portable free very practical which makes it possible to safeguard and restore the position of the icons on the desk of Windows: DIManager X

I prepared you small a tutoriel to start to use it

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Caution: the last version of FastStone Capture (5.5) became paying!
Per hour when I write these lines, one can still download free version 5.3 here or there (for the portable version).

FastStone Capture is a very effective software to take captures of screen. It is even a happiness to have it under the hand when captures of screen are very often used.

In homage to this software which render services so much, here a small presentation of its functionalities

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Here a tool of which I am useful myself very regularly and who avoids me drawing me the hair. And I share the easy way with you public! It is a computer: TabbyCalc. Nothing extraordinary until there. But will know that it gains high the hand the competition against the d�suette computer of Windows.

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The keyboard was always more effective than the mouse, it is well-known.

Also, that would you say to launch all your preferred software to the keyboard?
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To manage the daily budget, much stick to the book of the expenditure. However one can draw advantage to use a software to replace it.

The interests are multiple: legibility, savings in paper, statistics, and especially
effectiveness!

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