How to Download Free Adobe pdf Books from Amazon

August 31, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

How to Download Free Adobe pdf Books from Amazon

By using amazon’s filter, we’re able to perform simple task that extracts a huge list of free digital books made available for free by amazon. Unlike the hard copy, these ebooks does not come with illustration, just text. Download Free Books from Amazon

How to Download Free Adobe pdf Books from Amazon

The only free ebook with 240 pages of colour images is the Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World. The hardcopy in Amazon is selling for $33 but the soft copy is free, but the link is not prominent. Follow the instruction below, you’ll get your free ebook from Amazon.

How to Download Free Adobe pdf Books from Amazon

Do you know the concept behind amazon’s logo? The yellow arrow symbolizes a smile on their customer face for their good service and it has everything from A to Z as shown by the direction of the arrow.

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Google Book Downloader - Download Books From Google Books

August 18, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · 19 Comments 

Google Book Downloader - Download Books From Google Books

Stumbled upon this web application, it amazed me with its ability to extract and list down every single page from Google Books. I can’t be certain if this is considered illegal, but I don’t see any difference between viewing it from my browser and viewing it from an image manager.

As the name implies, Google Book Downloader does exactly what it says, it will give you a list of url of the images, what you need next is a download manager such as Download Accelerator Plus or Flashget.

Downloading the images appears to be breeze free, it was not until half way through the process Google Books decided to cut me off, possibility they system detects an ongoing unusual activity or mass bandwidth consumption that does not justify a normal reading behavior. Superman?

Is it illegal? Well, I’m won’t be too concern about that, the million dollar question is, is it worth the trouble? Just have a look at the screen shot below.

It’s like downloading a broken mp3 where it skips a beat or two every 20 seconds. Nothing is more annoying that missing pages in a book, but then again, these missing pages does not apply across the board. Having said that, do you happen to know that copyright laws are meant to last for 50 years only? This means a huge number of books that falls within this copyright free category are copyright free, good old books such as Oliver Twist and many more.

While you’re busy exploring Google Books, why not treat yourself to some free magazines?

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Stop Notebook Thief, Free Software Tracks and Recover Stolen Laptop

August 16, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials, Software · Comment 

Stop Notebook Thief, Free Software Tracks and Recover Stolen Laptop

Learn how to trace and recover your stolen laptop with Adeona and LocatePC, both of these software are free and has a built in function that email or reveal the thief’s IP address when he or she decided to log online. Now, to retrieve the thief IP address is fairly simple and straight forward, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to perform simple task like this.

Please note that the recovery of your laptop depends on certain situation such as:

  • Requires the thief to log online using your laptop with the software installed
  • If the thief decided to reformat the laptop, recovery process might not work.
  • Installation of software prior being stolen.
  • Unlike other paid recovery software, this is a DIY (Do it yourself) software, meaning to say you’ll have to retrieve the IP address without the assistant of a third party.
  • Since this is a free software, there is no guarantee of success.

Adeona

Adeona is an open source free software developed by a group of students/researchers in Washington, basically the software does what it says, to track the laptop thief by sending the IP address of the thief and a captured image of the thief with your webcam (mac only, why not PC?). Adeona has three main properties:

  • Private: Adeona uses state-of-the-art cryptographic mechanisms to ensure that the owner is the only party that can use the system to reveal the locations visited by a device.
  • Reliable: Adeona uses a community-based remote storage facility, ensuring retrievability of recent location updates.
  • Open source and free: Adeona’s software is licensed under GPLv2. While your locations are secret, the tracking system’s design is not.

The only drawback is the lack of central system for monitoring the laptop. In order to be able to track your laptop and the IP address, the thief has to log in to the World Wide Web while you run the recovery tool, what are the odds of you and the thief logging online simultaneously?

Step by Step installation guide and recovery process for Adeona

LocatePC

LocatePC is free software and it runs unobtrusively on your computer, unlike Adeona, LocatePC does not display any icons or popups prominently, this is to avoid any suspicious that might prevent the thief from logging online.

As soon as the thief connects to the internet a secret email is sent to you containing the details that you need to track your hardware.

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Based on my experience, LocatePC is the better choice; it runs on stealth mode, and emails you the relevant information directly to your designated email address. Unlike Adeona, Locate PC requires some degree of knowledge in computer and the Internet. The only drawback is the lack of Web cam snapshot of the thief.

Since both software is compatible with each other, my advice is, install both in to your laptop.

Laptop Alarm

Laptop Alarm is not a recovery tool, more like a prevention tool. As the name implies, the alarm bell will goes off if:

  • When someone unplugs your A/C adapter,
  • When someone shuts down or logs off your laptop, or
  • When someone unplugs your USB mouse.

More about Laptop Alarm.

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