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How to Create Family Tree Diagrams on Mac and Windows

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Family Trees are diagrams that visualize the different generations of a family and the relations between family members. This makes it easy to quickly see your ancestors and family history across the generations. In this article I will review the diagramming software MyDraw - a powerful software that lets you create stunning Family Tree diagrams with ease, available for Windows, macOS and online .

Free Online Barcode Label Generator

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Today, barcodes are everywhere - in stores, magazines, brochures, web sites and forums, in the subway and so on. The rise of popularity of barcodes has lead to the creation of hundreds of barcode generator desktop applications and web services. It's pretty easy to find good free barcode generators, but if you need not only a barcode, but a barcode label with image, title and text as shown on the right, the task to find a good free application that can do the job becomes much harder. In this article I will review MegaBarcode - a free online barcode label generator that works on Linux, macOS and Windows.

How to Maximize Folding@Home Points Per Day (PPD)

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Folding@Home (folding at home) is a distributed computing program of Stanford University that lets you help finding cures for different diseases by performing complex calculations with your computer. After solving each problem, you earn points proportional to your contribution. The more points you earn, more helpful you are for medical research. In this article I'm going to show you how to maximize your folding at home points per day and make the most of your computer's hardware. Thus you will be more helpful to medical research and will increase the chance of finding cure for different diseases.

Best Diagram Software for Mac and Windows

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Drawing and visualizing diagrams is quickly becoming a requirement for more and more businesses and activities worldwide. Thus the need for a high quality, yet affordable diagram software arises. Many people are aware of Microsoft Visio, the industry leading diagramming solution by Microsoft. It is undoubtedly a high quality and feature-rich diagram software, but it's very expensive and is not available for the Mac. In this article I'm going to review MyDraw - a much more affordable, but still professional grade diagram software that works fine on both Mac and Windows.

Gym Member Management and Billing Software

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Gym, sports and health club owners have a lot of things to track and manage every day - members, visits, subscriptions, sales of products and services and many more. Some gym owners use an Excel sheet or even pen an paper to track this information, which often lead errors and loss of profits. The best solution is to use a gym management software. In this article I'm going to review one of the most easy to use gym member management and billing software products, so if you are looking for such software for your gym, sports or health club, read on.

Free Warehouse Management and Inventory Software

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Everyone who has worked in a warehouse or shop knows that it's not an easy task to keep track of all the products, deliveries, sales and payments, especially if you are doing it by hand or in Excel. At some point the need for a specialized warehouse and inventory management software arises. Fortunately, developers have taken care of this need and there are hundreds of warehouse and inventory management software products over the Internet. Generally, all of them can be divided into two categories: those that have every single feature you can think of, but they are a bit complex to use and may cost a fortune, and those that offer only the basic set of features a warehouse owner needs, but are easy to use and inexpensive or even free. If you are after the second type and you are looking for a free warehouse and inventory management software that is both easy to use and offers all the features you need to keep track of your warehouse inventory, payments and billing, then you've com...

The Most Useful Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

Microsoft Visual Studio is one of the best Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) available and as such it dramatically boosts the productivity of the programmers who use it. You can find many articles over the Internet that show you how to boost your productivity even more. One of the ways to do so is to take advantage of the keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio. Unfortunately, most of the articles present hundreds of Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts, which is impossible for one to remember. Do you wonder which ones of them are the most useful and worth remembering? If yes, read on...

Add "Open with Notepad" to Context Menu

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People often need to deal with various file types and fortunately Windows made it easy, we simply double click the file and it magically opens in its default editor/viewer. But what if the file is of a type our PC doesn't know? In this case Windows will open a list of known application and you will have to choose one to open your file with. But if you know this is some kind of text file, why not simply open with with Notepad without going through all these unnecessary steps? In this article I will show you how to do this easily and more specifically how to add an "Open with Notepad" option to the context menu for all files.