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Best Free Must Have Tools 1

In this article Iam going to list out the best freeware must have tools for your PC. Some of the listed software might be free only for non commercial purposes and some for only Home users, check the licenses.

1) Best Free Anti-Virus Software
AVG Anti Virus - Free basic protection from AVG for Home and non - commercial use.

Avira AntiVir Personal - Basic protection: Protects your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers.

2) Best Free Firewall
Kerio Firewall
Comodo

3) Best Free EMail Client
Thunderbird

4) Best Free HTML Editor
NVU

5) Best Free Image Viewer
IrfanView

6) Best Free Image Editor
GIMP

7) Best Free FTP Client
Filezilla

Best Free Calender
Sunbird

9) Best Free Office Suite
OpenOffice

10) Best Disk Defragmenter
JK Defrag

Best Free Must Have Tools 1

Types in .Net - Part 2

In a previous article “Types in .Net - Part 1“, we looked at Built In Value Types. In this part we will look at User Defined Value Types.

User Defined Value Types:
User Defined Value Types are called structs. ’struct’ is the keyword we use in C# to create them. You can define them just like a class as in:

public struct MyStruct
{
}

You cant inherit a struct. Structs are Value Types not reference types like classes ie they are created on the stack not on heap.

The other type of Value Type is enum. The following code shows how to define enum’s.


public enum MyEnum
{
Value1,
Value2,
Value3
}

Enum’s are actually Integers, but when you do a .ToString() on them you get the representation like “Value1″. Enums are useful when programming and when you have to force to pick up from a certain list of values.

You use enum as follows:

MyEnum myEnum = MyEnum.Value1;

In a later article we will take a look at Reference types, which would be the concluding article to this series.

Types in .Net - Part 2

Types in .Net - Part 1

There are primarily two types in .Net:
- Value types
- Reference types.

In this article we will be focusing on Value Types. All Numeric types, Boolean type, Character type etc.. are Value types. .Net framework 2.0 has more than 300 value types. We will be looking at only a few if them. The Numeric Types are used frequently so the C# language as well as VB.Net language provided aliases for them. The following is a partial list of the available Value types in .Net Framework 2.0.

- System.SByte
- System.Byte
- System.Int16
- System.Int32
- System.UInt32
- System.Int64
The above 6 Value types are used for Whole numbers.

- System.Single
- System.Double
- System.Decimal
The above 3 Value types are used for floating point numbers.

- System.Char
- System.Boolean

Value types have a implicit constructor so declaring them instantiates them, no need of using the ‘new’ keyword.

We will cover Nullable’s, User Defined Value Types and Enums in future articles.

Types in .Net - Part 1

Microsoft to make Subscription based Office

Microsoft plans to make Office subscription based, i.e you dont buy office instead you pay a monthly fee. Microsoft is also looking towards making Office free and support it by ads. I hope most people already know the free Office alternatives: Open Office. As well as Google docs though web based you still get a good functionality. If microsoft approves on making Office free. You would be seeing PC’s pre-installed with Office and you can use Office without worrying about expiring.

Microsoft to make Subscription based Office

7 Must Have Plugins For Wordpress Bloggers

Here is a list of 7 Must Have Plugins for Wordpress Bloggers.

1) Akismet - Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments”.

2) All in One SEO Pack - Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

# Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
# Generates META tags automatically

3) Google Site Maps - This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.

4) MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer - Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer.

5) SEO Slugs - Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO.

6) ShareThis - Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites.

7) RelatedPosts - This WordPress plugin provides multiple options to show the via tags related posts of a post. It contains a sidebar widget that is only visible when viewing a single post and displays a list of posts that are related with the current post via the tags. The number of related posts to display can be configured. The posts are sorted by the number of matching tags and then by the post date. It is also possible to insert the list of related post in a post via a placeholder. You can also embedd the list of related post in template files to add it to the bottom of each post page.

7 Must Have Plugins For Wordpress Bloggers