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• A bunch of free RAM testing tools — most called “MemTest”

  Posted on February 27, 2023 at 02:45 CST by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.09 • 2023-02-27

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  While navigating our way down to Austin to visit our daughter over the years, we have learned one thing about Texas. It has too many highways, they are all still being built, and they are all named I-35.

  Well, the creators of RAM (random access memory) testing programs must live in Texas because they named most of them “MemTest”!

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.09.0, 2023-02-27).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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• Stick A Note — It’s life-changing! No, really … life-changing

  Posted on September 19, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 19.38 • 2022-09-19

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  Is this freeware maven seriously going to shove another sticky-note program down our throats? Yes. Yes, I am.

  I am, because this is quite different. This will change the way you live! It’s on a par with the printing press! The cotton gin! This telephone! Okay, fine, it’s at least equal to the invention of fried pies!

  Anand Gupta, a wonderful, professional developer from West Bengal, India, has created a freeware program called Stick A Note that is considerably different from any sticky-note program you have ever used. Stick A Note does not put virtual sticky notes onto your desktop. It puts them on the windows of individual programs.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.38.0, 2022-09-19).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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• Freeware Spotlight — Complete Internet Repair 8

  Posted on April 26, 2021 at 01:02 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  The tools on your flash drive save you time — and the time of your client.

  In my former life as an elementary school teacher, I was never opposed to kids using calculators to skip some of the basics and get right to more advanced math skills. Let’s face it, using a calculator to do the easy stuff so you can get a head start on figuring out how to get us to Alpha Centauri is not cheating. Punch in 7 times 8 a few thousand times, and you’re going to learn it.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.15.0 (2021-04-26).

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