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1 Package manager
2 *nix environment on Windows
3.1 Web browsers
3.3 Instant Messaging (IM) clients
3.4 Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients
3.4.1 Graphical User Interface (GUI)
3.4.2 Terminal/Command prompt
3.4.3 Support by browsers and mail clients
3.5 Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) clients
4 File compression utilities
5 File sharing
5.1 BitTorrent clients
5.2 FTP clients
5.3 Direct Connect
6.1 Disk cleaners
6.2 Disk defragmenters
6.3 File recovery tools
6.4 File syncing tools
6.5 System information tools
7 Multimedia
7.1 Video players
7.1.1 Media center and HTPC
7.2 Media converters and rippers
7.3 Audio players
7.4 Audio editors
7.5 Image viewers
7.6 Image editors
7.7 Video editors
7.8 3D modeling
8 Office
8.1 Document readers
8.2 Word processors
9 Coding
9.1 Text editors
9.2 Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
10 Security
10.1 Antivirus
10.1.1 Malware removal
10.2 Sandbox
10.3 Software firewalls
10.4 Password managers
11 Emulation and compatibility
11.1 Virtual CD/DVD drive
11.2 Virtual machine
11.3 Virtual desktop manager
11.4 PC-98 simulators
12 Unclassified software
12.1 Hex editor
12.2 Comic and manga viewer
12.3 Screen capture
12.4 Software installation
12.5 Screensavers
This page is for good quality software on Windows, based on the contributions of /g/ users. This page is not for solidifying preferences or ideology; it is considered to be "value-free" and thus permitting of both reference to open source software and closed source software, for-profit and non-for-profit. This is not your soapbox, your ballot box, or pulpit. Stay constructive and avoid politics and arguments.
You can (and should) install a package manager. It gives you the benefit of being able to download and install a lot of popular software via a single command on the command line, instead of having to navigate to a website, download it and run it. Take a look at Chocolatey NuGet and NPackd for more info. This is an advantage that OSX and Linux users have been enjoying for years, and now you should too.
For an all-at-once installation to install all of your selected favourite software in one go (useful on a fresh install of Windows), check out Ninite.
*nix environment on Windows
If you're feeling a bit limited or alienated with Windows' command line tools, you can set up a native *nix environment on Windows.
Cygwin is a good choice to "Get that Linux feeling - on Windows." It is basically the Wine of Windows, but without recreating system libraries and such. GOW is considered an improvement on it.
GOW is GNU on Windows. It's like a much lighter Cygwin, it comes with a terminal option in Windows explorer, and also comes with over Linux 100+ binaries natively compiled for Windows.
MinGW is another minimalist set of *nix binaries natively compiled for Windows.
Msysgit is not as big of a *nix environment as the others. It is the native Windows build of git, which also provides a shell with simple *nix utilities with cp, mv, rm, etc. and other basic coreutils you might need. Read the page for details.
Before being v&, weeaboo nonces often use communications software to exchange nude images with police officers posing as kawaii lolis.
See also: Web browsers
Firefox is free software developed by Mozilla. It is highly extensible via addons and included as the default browser in many Linux distributions. It is often criticized on /g/ and /tech/ as "SJWfox" because of some Mozilla developers outspoken campaigns on social and political issues.
Chromium builds are based off the underlying code of Chrome. While nearly identical to Google's browser, they lack proprietary components like automatic updating and flash player.
Opera is a proprietary web browser that has pioneered open web standards for over two decades. It is notable for being the first web browser to sport a tabbed interface. It is developed and maintained by Opera Software.
QupZilla is a FOSS web browser, built on the Qt and QtWebEngine (based on Chromium's rendering engine) frameworks. It supports extensions, ships out of the box with AdBlock, Mouse Gestures, GreaseMonkey, Speed Dial, Click2Flash, and more. It provides seamless integration with most desktop environments, and has several other distinguishing features. QupZilla is licensed under GPLv3.
Tor Browser (formerly known as Tor Browser Bundle) is a package of a modified Firefox extended support release, NoScript, HTTPS-Everywhere, Tor, TorButton and TorLauncher. It automatically routes traffic through the Tor network and deletes history and cookies when closed.
Pale Moon
Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox under a proprietary open source license. It has a familiar UI without the "Australis" redesign, but at expense looses compatibility with newer Firefox addons. Pale Moon tends to be behind on security updates, so use with caution.
SeaMonkey is a continuation of the Mozilla suite. Unlike most modern web browsers, it is an Internet suite, complete with bundled programs for email, IRC, and web design. It is compatible with most Firefox add-ons.
Midori is a fast, lightweight, LGPL licensed browser using the WebKit rendering engine. It is the default browser in Elementary OS, Raspbian and Trisquel Mini.
K-Meleon is a FOSS web browser for Windows. It uses the Gecko rendering engine just like Firefox, but sports a native Windows UI. It is absurdly configurable.
Otter Browser is a FOSS web browser that aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.
Desktop email clients provide off-line email storage and additional features over most web-mail clients.
Thunderbird is a free and open source email client based upon the Gecko rendering engine. Like its sibling Firefox, it offers the user extensive customization options via third-party add-ons.
Opera Mail
Opera Mail was formerly a component of the Opera browser, but now a separate free product. This is based on Opera 12.6 and still uses the Presto rendering engine. Getting started. It doesn't have IRC and XMPP for whatever reason.
Opera Mail is bundled in Opera 12.16 and several prior versions.
Instant Messaging (IM) clients
Pidgin, formerly known as GAIM, is a free and open source instant messaging client developed in C. It is based upon Libpurple and offers support for the AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MXit, MySpaceIM, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, and Zephyr chat networks out of the box. Partial or complete support for additional networks like Xfire is offered through third-party plug-ins like Gfire. It can support OTR with a plugin. Beware it stores passwords in plain text.
RetroShare is an open source decentralized communication platform. It provides secure chat, photo and video sharing using OpenPGP to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication.
Ricochet IM is and end-to-end encrypted instant messages which uses Tor hidden services.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
HexChat
HexChat is a popular replacement for the XChat IRC client, a client which offered a free binary for Linux but charges money for the Windows version. HexChat is a continuation of XChat and makes both its source code and binaries available to users of all platforms it's created for. Like its parent software, HexChat is licensed under the GNU GPL. It includes all the basic features one would need, and can be ideal both for new users and IRC veterans.
Smuxi
Smuxi is another crossplatform IRC client and uses the GTK. It has some scripting capability and looks about the same on all systems. It doesn't have many features but it does those that it has well.
ChatZilla
ChatZilla is an IRC client addon for Firefox. Great for people who want basic IRC features without having to install an additional application.
Terminal/Command prompt
Irssi
Irssi is the father of rice clients and easily accessible for all systems. The author of the Metacity window manager for Linux describes his software as follows: "Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios." Irssi is the terminal IRC client equivalent of that sentiment. Irssi is extensible through plugins.
Weechat
Weechat is Irssi with more rice, scripting languages, ideal defaults and development. It is rising in popularity as a preferred client on /g/. Weechat also includes plugin functionality.
Support by browsers and mail clients
Thunderbird has support for IRC and other IM services.
Opera had similar chat support which was dropped in 10.10.
As mentioned above, Firefox can support IRC through an addon.
Chrome can also support IRC through extensions, although some of them are actually websites; 'CIRC' and 'Byrd IRC' appear to be native clients, but I have not tested them as you must be signed into Google in order to install them. They might be usable by loading their source. I'll test them eventually.
Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) clients
Mumble is free and open source audio chat software. It is superior in audio quality and latency by always being the first client to use latest technologies, such as the Opus audio codec.
TeamSpeak is non-free and widely used for gaming. It has lots of permissions/ACL tuning available. Servers must be often licensed to use without restrictions. Servers under the free license allow up to 32 clients. The client has a backdoor that allows TeamSpeak Systems GmbH. to blacklist any server and take full control.
Skype is botnet mode in full effect. No seriously. It is also closed source and susceptible to state snooping. Skype is not only bloated, buggy, and resource intensive, but the bloat and resource hogging only goes up with each major update. It is absolutely not recommended for privacy, and only recommended for normal non controversial conversations with your friends and family who won't settle for anything else.
Jitsi is a real Skype alternative using standards compliant FLOSS. It supports text encryption with OTR and audio/video encryption with ZRTP. The downside is it being bulky Java.
Google Voice runs in a web browser and requires a plugin for full functionality. There does not appear to be official desktop software for this. The botnet never felt so good. Free phone numbers, calling, texting, and integration into Gmail.
Ekiga
Ekiga is an open source SIP client. It is not entirely clear to what extent encryption is possible.
Tox is a decentralized open source alternative to Skype. It is in early alpha stage and almost has VOIP working.
File compression utilities
File compression software is widely used by various software distributors and archives to mitigate bandwidth and storage space requirements.
7zip Archiver
7zip is a free and open source file archiver developed in C++ by Igor Pavlov. Its primary feature is lossless compression in the 7z format, based upon the Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm. In addition to the handful of formats it is capable of creating new archives in, 7zip can retrieve files from archives in virtually any format that one is likely to encounter.
Easy 7-Zip is an alternative build of 7-zip which has some extra features like icons on the context menu, extra options in many dialogs and the ability to minimize to tray while extracting. It's licensed under the same license too.
PeaZip Archiver
The PAQ and LPAQ methods are capable of an impressive degree of lossless compression, but the time and system resources required are equally impressive.
PeaZip is a free and open source archiver developed in free Pascal by Giorgio Tani. It is notable for its native PEA format and its support of cutting-edge compression technologies like PAQ and LPAQ that are not supported by other popular archivers. Like 7zip, it is capable of retrieving files from virtually any archive that one might encounter.
WinRAR Archiver
Unless one has some specific purpose in mind, the use of WinRAR is not recommended.
WinRAR is a proprietary shareware archiver developed by the brothers Eugene and Alexander Roshal. Its once ubiquitous RAR format is still used almost universally by the Warez Scene, although it has falling out of favour with many other communities due to the growing popularity of 7z. Although it is only capable of creating new archives in the RAR and ZIP formats, WinRAR is capable of extracting files from archives created by many other compression tools.
BitTorrent clients
Halite is a FOSS, Windows-only BitTorrent client, based on the excellent libtorrent library developed by Arvid Norberg. The program also relies heavily on the Boost libraries. It is a fantastic replacement for the botnet client uTorrent, and shares many of the same features.
qBittorrent is a libtorrent-based free and open source BitTorrent client written in C++. According to its developers, the aim of the client is to provide a free software alternative to µTorrent.
Deluge is a libtorrent-based free and open source BitTorrent client written in Python. It is highly extensible via its plug-ins system. Deluge is notable for having originated the particular method of protocol encryption that is currently in use by every major BitTorrent client. It can be a bit of a resource hog on Windows compared to other clients.
Transmission-Qt
Transmission-Qt is a Windows port of the popular lightweight torrent client, Transmission, with support for blocklists.
μTorrent 2.2.1
μTorrent 2.2.1 is outdated and unmaintained. However, it is generally recommended as the only acceptable version of μTorrent for Windows. It stays true to μTorrent's original bloat-free philosophy, remains free of advertisements, and is accepted at nearly every private tracker.
Filezilla is a free and open source FTP, SFTP, and FTPS client written in C++. Sourceforge downloaders should be advised that the installer offered there potentially contains adware.
WinSCP or Windows Secure Copy is a free and open source FTP, SFTP, and SCP client written in C++.
EiskaltDC++
EiskaltDC++ is a cross-platform program that uses the Direct Connect and ADC protocols. It is compatible with DC++, FlylinkDC++, LinuxDC++ and other DC clients.
Disk cleaners
CCleaner is a proprietary freeware disk clean-up utility developed by Piriform. Its features at the time of this writing include automated deletion of unnecessary files, automated deletion of unnecessary registry entries, secure data erasure, program removal, system restore point management, start-up entry management, scheduled task management, context entry management, and web browser plug-in management. Avoid using the registry cleaner unless you know what you are doing; there is a low chance you might muck up your computer.
Revo Uninstaller
Wise Registry Cleaner is a great tool that cleans the registry. When combined with other software like Malwarebytes and Wise Disk Cleaner it can do a ton to help a slow computer be less slow.
Disk defragmenters
MyDefrag
MyDefrag is a proprietary freeware disk defragmenter based on the standard defragmentation API by Microsoft. It also optimises file locations.
Wise Disk Cleaner
WiseCleaner is great at removing a lot of unnecessary clutter on your install that tends to slow things down.
File recovery tools
See also: Data recovery
File syncing tools
FreeFileSync compares your files and folders with other files and folders from target locations, and adds or updates them accordingly
System information tools
HWMonitor
MPC-HC (Media Player Classic)
MPC-HC (main article: MPC-HC) is an extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows. It supports all common video and audio file formats available for playback. No adware, spyware or any bloat included. Features countless different renderers and shaders from the community.
KCP (Kawaii Codec Pack)
KCP is a codec pack that contains the latest DirectShow components, utilized to decode an array of media types. It's basically a fork of MPC-HC, instead of manually installing the recommended filters, this does it all for you.
MPV (MPV Plays Videos)
MPV is a fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer. It features ffmpeg playback, high quality scaling algorithms, OpenGL output and is completely open sourced.
bomi is a multimedia player formerly known as CMPlayer, which is aimed for easy usage but also provides various powerful features and convenience functions.
VLC (VideoLAN Client)
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Media center and HTPC
Kodi (former XBMC) is a free and open source GPL software media center featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It is highly customizable via skins and addons. There are even addons available for streaming from internet services like YouTube and Twitch.tv. It plays nearly every video and music format out of the box. The built in scrapers can pull data from sites like IMDB and thetvdb to allow sorting media by actor, genre, rating, etc. It can export this data to local files for offline use.
Plex is a fork of the former XBMC (now Kodi). It has separate front-end (player) and back-end (server) components. Plex Media Server, unlike the free frontend, is a combination of free and proprietary software, with the majority of the code being proprietary. It has many of the same features as Kodi, but focuses more on its web interface. It also excels at on the fly video transcoding to allow playback over slow connections.
Emby
Emby is another media server solution that is very much like Plex, however is FOSS. Unlike Plex, Emby stores user accounts locally, meaning that there is absolutely no external based authentication. Emby focuses on customization, giving users the ability to rice their server with custom CSS, creation of local user accounts, feature/parental access control, media metadata configuration and plugins. Many Kodi users use Emby as server side back end.
Media converters and rippers
Handbrake is a free and open source video transcoder with an easy to use GUI. It can rip and convert a variety of video formats, but can not break DVD or Blu-ray copyright protection.
MakeMKV
MakeMKV can convert video from proprietary (and usually encrypted) discs into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but not changing it in any way. It can instantly stream decrypt video without intermediate conversion and decrypt Blu-rays and protected DVDs.
MKVToolNix
MKVToolNix is a set of FOSS tools by Moritz Bunkus for working with Matroska files. It can mux, split and merge mkv files with no transcoding or loss of quality. It can also add or remove audio and subtitle tracks, change track order and edit metadata.
ProjectX can resync DVB (Digital TV broadcasts) ready for encoding.
Youtube-dl is a command line program for downloading videos from Youtube and similar sites.
Exact Audio Copy is a proprietary freeware CD ripper written by a German university student. It is preferred by what.cd and other audiophile communities because of its accuracy and ability to rip slightly damaged discs. It can output a detailed log file specifying the position any errors occurred. It also supports AccurateRip, cue sheet generation and ID3 tagging via freedb.
Foobar2000 (main page: Foobar2000) is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint, and native support for several popular audio formats. It supports ASIO output.
MusicBee
MusicBee is basically a souped version of Foobar2k. It supports everything that you want in an audio player plus more! The GUI is very different than most, but can be customized to your will. It supports ASIO output and provides some level of compatibility with WinAmp input plugins. It is free as in free beer.
MPD (Music Player Daemon)
MPD is a flexible, powerful daemon for playing music. While mpd doesn't directly play music to you, it provides a stream of it (locally or over the internet) to which you connect to with a client (as it's a server, not a music player). It is the mpd client that provides you with all the functionality you expect from a music player. The advantage here is that you can have multiple clients connected and listening to one instance of mpd, or you can stream over the internet. Some music players listed below will be mpd clients, which means that you may need to install mpd as well (if it doesn't come included) for them to work.
mpc is a minimalistic terminal MPD client.
Clementine is a great music player with many options and plugins available. It plays all the file types you might need.
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder. It has support for LADSPA, Nyquist, VST, Audio Unit effect and VAMP analysis plug-ins.
ImageGlass
ImageGlass is a small FOSS image viewer. It has support for 19 formats and plugins. However, it has few manipulation tools compared to similar software.
nomacs | Image Lounge
nomacs is a free and open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and PSD images. It can browse images in zip or MS Office files which can be extracted to a directory. It also has support for plugins and batch processing.
Honeyview
Honeyview is a very fast image viewer supporting various formats. It also supports viewing the images in compressed ZIP, RAR, or 7z files without extraction.
Irfanview is a very fast, small, compact and innovative freeware graphic viewer for Windows. It features an inbuilt editor along with many other extra tools that you may need or require.
XnView is freeware that allows you to view and convert graphic files. It features image manipulation tools, a batch renamer utility and support of over 400 image file extensions.
Raster art
GIMP is a very powerful image editor with many advanced features, a steep learning curve, and a wide array of plugins.
Krita is a user friendly program for sketching and painting, offering an end-to-end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch.
Paint.NET started as an MS Paint alternative. It now integrates plenty of features such as layers and effects.
Pinta is a relatively simple image editor with an interface inspired by Paint.NET.
InkScape is a vector graphic editor.
Shotcut is a free and open-source cross-platform video editing app for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Shotcut supports many video, audio, and image formats via FFmpeg and screen, webcam, and audio capture. It uses a timeline for non-linear video editing of multiple tracks that may be composed of various file formats.
Blender is a 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
The majority of configuration for this application is done manually by editing its configuration file.
SumatraPDF is a free and open source PDF, ePub, Mobi, XPS, DjVu, CHM, CBZ, and CBR reader. Unlike most competing products for Windows, it is extremely fast and lightweight, now with 64 bits binaries.
Evince
Evince is a free and open source PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI reader. While it is better known as a component of GNU/Linux's GNOME desktop environment, a Windows build is available.
Adobe Digital Editions is a god-tier book-reading application. It displays ePub, PDF and more. It is meant for reading books and does not serve well as a conventional document viewer for other purposes.
LibreOffice Writer is the word processor in the LibreOffice suite. After Oracle acquired OpenOffice, it asked community members to GTFO [1]. Since everyone despises Oracle, the developers all jumped ship as well [2] and started LibreOffice.
Using a command prompt text editor on Windows is a bad idea if the language you write in has accents because Windows' command prompt still uses an old code page (OEM) which is not compatible with UTF-8. This basically means ugly code and text that will show up differently depending on the OS and language.
Notepad++ is free software written in C++ for Windows. It is fast, efficient and customizable.
Sublime Text is a closed source, but sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
GVim is a graphical frontend for Vim. An extremely feature-rich programmer's text editor with extensive plugin support.
Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Eclipse is a feature-rich IDE with a major focus on its plugin system. Plugins are used for everything from language support (Java, C++, Python, C#, etc.) to adding additional features or aesthetics (Git integration, Vim keybindings, relative line numbers, CMake support, color schemes, etc.). It also has a reasonable set of built-in features. Some of the more notable of these include the plugin install/update tool, a highly configurable code formatter, and a customizable UI.
JetBrains' IDEs
IntelliJ IDEA is the flagship IDE from JetBrains, and the Community Edition is FOSS. They have several IDEs for different languages, including PyCharm Community Edition for Python, which is also FOSS.
Visual Studio is Microsoft's IDE for C, C++, C# and VB.NET. Express and Community versions are available for free. Full versions are usually free or discounted for MSDN members, students, etc.
For in-depth coverage of this topic, see our article on Security.
COMODO Antivirus is a module part of the proprietary, free Comodo Internet Security suite. There is a paid version called 'COMODO Internet Security Pro' but it is more designed for computer illiterates with services such as 'GeekBuddy' which is a remote-support service.
Malwarebytes is a proprietary antivirus program popular in various security communities as a backup scanner. It is offered both as freeware and commercial software. The free version of Malwarebytes allows the user to manually scan for and remove malware, but a license must be purchased if the user wishes to take advantage of its scheduled scanning and real-time protection features.
ClamWin Antivirus
ClamWin is an open-source antivirus developed in C++ that focuses on being lightweight and efficient. Please note that it does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
See: Malware removal
COMODO Sandbox
COMODO Sandbox is a module of the COMODO Firewall; part of the proprietary, free Comodo Internet Security suite. There is a paid version called 'COMODO Internet Security Pro' but it is more designed for computer illiterates with services such as 'GeekBuddy' which is a remote-support service.
Sandboxie is a proprietary shareware program for creating isolated virtual environments.
Software firewalls
Software firewalls should not be viewed as replacements for hardware firewalls. The proper configuration of modem and router firewalls remains vital to securing one's network no matter what software solutions are employed.
COMODO Firewall is part of the proprietary, free Comodo Internet Security suite. There is a paid version called 'COMODO Internet Security Pro' but it is more designed for computer illiterates with services such as 'GeekBuddy' which is a remote-support service. Do note that COMODO Firewall can potentially make you unable to access your VPN.
Tinywall is a lightweight wrapper for the Windows firewall, providing a lot of new features like tampering protection, blocklists, or temporary firewall rules.
KeePassX
KeePassX is a light interface and cross platform password manager published under the GNU GPL.
Emulation and compatibility
Virtual CD/DVD drive
WinCDEmu
VirtualBox is free and open source GPL software. It was first developed by Innotek GmbH, then bought by Sun Microsystems and now continually developed by Oracle.
VMWare (non-free)
Virtual desktop manager
VirtuaWin allows you to use multiple virtual desktops.
PC-98 simulators
PC-98 is a series of computers by NEC, which was a popular computing platform in Japan. There were many interesting games created for the PC-98. Your average PC-98 emulation user in 4chan is likely to be a first-generation Touhou Project player. For better reference and understanding it's recommended to see its page on Touhou Wiki and Wikipedia:NEC_PC-9801.
Since not every one is real OG enough to have one of these computers from when they were first produced or buy one off the internet, here's a list of a few emulators for the PC-98:
Anex86
Neko Project II
T98-NEXT
And here's some games other than 2hus.
Unclassified software
These recommendations will be classified soon.
Hex editor
XVI32
wxHexEditor
Comic and manga viewer
MComix
MComix is decent on Windows. It supports manga view and other nice features. It requires some GNOME stuff, but that's easy to provide (it may come with the installer). However, it has some shakiness and non-smooth transitions when dragging images that is not present on the Linux version.
CDisplayEX
CDisplayEX is a freeware comic book archive viewer that supports reading from CBZ/CBR/CB7/PDF/EPUB format with many features. It also provides native cover thumbnail in Windows Explorer, color filters, Leap Motion support and many more.
Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for recording and live streaming.
GifCam can record your desktop as a GIF.
LICEcap is free and open software to record your desktop as a GIF.
ShareX is free, open source and lightweight. It is a screenshot capture, screen recorder and file sharing tool.
Unchecky Helps make sure bloat shareware garbage does not end up in your computer when installing programs.
See: Screensavers
List of recommended OS X software
List of recommended GNU/Linux software
List of recommended Android software
Prism Break - Lists software for different platforms that respect your freedom (and points out those which do not). Maintained by the EFF.
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Weekly Update: What Do Artists Eat? Edition
What we were reading about this week, from artist breakfasts to a mysterious attack on Marina Abramović.
Our Weekly Update is here to bring you our favorite links from the past week: art and design news you might have missed, must-see stories, and the best new contests and calls for entry.
What do successful artists eat?
If you've ever wondered whether breakfast choices might play a role in determining your artistic ability, this roundup from Artsy will likely not answer any of your questions, but it's definitely entertaining. From Andy Warhol's legendary love of sweets to David Lynch's coffee obsession, this roundup offers a fascinating look at the private lives of artists.
Marina Abramović hit over head with painting; remains serene
At a book-signing event in Florence, the artist was attacked by a man wielding a self-made portrait of Abramović herself. She emerged unscathed and with her signature cool intact, and apparently chose to immediately met with her assailant to find out what motivated the violent gesture. Per Hyperallergic:
"'Why this hatred against me?' Abramović asked. 'What's the reason? Why this violence? I had not done anything. I had never met him before. He said: 'I had to do it for my art.' This was his answer.'
"The performance artist also made a distinction between her work and her attacker's actions. 'Violence against others doesn't make art. I was also a young artist who was not famous, but I have never hurt anyone. In my work I stage different situations and put my life at risk. But this is my decision and I set the conditions.'"
The emotional side of freelancing
Full-time freelance copywriter Kerry Needs talks the emotional burdens (and advantages) that come with a freelance career over on Medium. A good read if you're in need of a quick pep talk this Thursday: "When work dries up, you need to remind yourself why you started. Did you want to work for just one person, on a never-ending, boring business? Of course not! You like the variety freelancing brings because it means you get to work on lots of small projects. Sometimes these last six months, and sometimes they don't — that's a good thing."
Call for entry: Creative Review Photography Annual
Creative Review is seeking submissions for their annual showcase of the best in photography. Winners will have their work shared to an audience of over 2 million people; the Annual is open not just to photographers but also includes categories honoring the best use of photography in advertising and design. Entry is open until October 5.
Call for entry: Sony Alpha Female Creator-in-Residence
Sony is seeking five female photographers to take part in their upcoming residency program, which will award $25,000 plus $5,000 in new gear to the five selected women. The residency also comes with mentorship and networking perks to help you develop your career. Entry is open to residents of the United States and Canada. Submissions will close October 7.
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Today I'm happy to introduce you to a fellow Canadian food blogger that I like a lot, Dana from Killing Thyme blog. She's created this delicious Shrimp and Quinoa Salad with Chipotle Vinaigrette especially for you! I will let her introduce herself below. I also created a special recipe for her blog, click on the link at the bottom of this post.
Hi! I'm Dana of Killing Thyme, a pescetarian food blog, and I'm thrilled to be sharing my eats with you today here at eyecandypopper.com.
One of my favorite things about the food blog experience, aside from spending my days cooking, photographing, eating, and writing about food, is the relationships I've formed with fellow bloggers over the years. We teach one another, we inspire one another and, a lot of the time, we keep one another sane; we deter one another from throwing in our dish towels.
Needless to say, when Gabrielle, aka ECP and I started toying with the idea of collaborating and writing a guest post for one another's blog, I was pretty jazzed. After all, we're both passionate about sustainability and healthy choices; the collaboration made sense. She created a nom-worthy Maple Baked Pear and Walnut Breakfast with Granola Since for my blog and, since my main focus is the pescetarian diet, Gabrielle thought it would be a good idea to bring something fishy to Eyecandypopper — but not too fishy! I'm talkin' some juicy, easy-to-devour Alaska-caught shrimp.
Shrimp is the most consumed type of seafood in the US, so it's important to shop for it responsibly. Unfortunately unsustainable options are more common and more easily available than sustainable ones. Always look for "Best Choice" shrimp; the majority of "Best Choice" is caught in Alaska, but there are other good options — both wild and farmed. You can also look for "Sustainably Caught", "cCertified Sustainable Seafood" or "Good Catch" designations. Knowing where any of your seafood comes from, as well as the difference between good and bad fishing/farming methods, is critical. If you aren't sure, talk to your fishmonger.
This recipe brings a lot of great things together: sustainable shrimp and fresh little homegrown tomatoes from my garden; smoky heat and a slight sweetness; creamy avocado chunks and crunchy pepitas. Though this salad is new, I can easily call it my favorite. It makes for a great contribution to any gathering, it's a fabulous dinner side, and a nourishing light lunch.
If you're not big on shrimp, or can't source any sustainable varieties, you can skip them, making this a vegan salad.
Thanks for taking the time to welcome a new voice here at Eyecandypopper!
Don't forget to check out ECP's Maple Baked Pear and Walnut Breakfast with Granola recipe that she created especially for Killing Thyme.
A simple and fresh salad for everyone to enjoy for lunch or dinner!
In a medium saucepan, add vegetable broth, quinoa, garlic powder, cumin, coriander, and salt. Stir to give it a quick mix, and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until quinoa is tender and most of the liquid has been absorbed, approx. 15 to 20 minutes. Fluff with a fork. Set aside.
Place all of the ingredients for the dressing in a blender, and blend until cohesive. Taste, and adjust the seasoning and heat to your preference. Set aside.
Heat 1-2 tablespoons of cooking oil of your choice in a skillet. While that heats up, place shrimp in a bowl and toss with chili powder, lime zest, lime juice, and chili flakes until evenly coated. Once the oil is hot, carefully add the shrimp to the pan and cook for approximately 3-4 minutes or until opaque, turning once halfway through. Shrimp doesn't take long to cook, so be careful to not overcook it otherwise they will have a rubbery texture. Once ready, remove from heat and set aside.
Add the cooked quinoa to a large bowl along with the black beans, toasted pepitas, spinach, avocado, onion, tomatoes, and shrimp. Add half of the dressing, and toss to coat. Taste. If you feel it needs more dressing, add more to your taste.
Look for sustainably caught shrimps.
Looks delicious and I love me some chipotle!! For Canadians buying seafood in the BC region, always look for the 'Oceanwise' symbol for the most sustainable seafood.
On of my favourite things about blogging, too, is all the wonderful people I have met through blogging! I never would have expected it, but it's such a pleasant surprise!
P.S. I love that you are collaborating together because I love what you both do!
Thanks! 🙂 That's good that you're paying more attention to sustainability when it comes to seafood! Quality makes a big difference, and farmed shrimps are usually pretty gross. haha I found a brand that sells wild-caught shrimps with a sustainable program and on top of that they don't add any salt or phosphates! Winner!
Love the fishy (but not too fishy!0 😉 side of this collab, ladies! Sustainability is so important and it's great to see bloggers spearheading the issue. This salad looks just perfect! I love the the combination and freshness of the ingredients, and that chipotle vinaigrette sounds amazing. Beautiful work!


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Colton Haynes Lifestyle, Wiki, Net Worth, Income, Salary, House, Cars, Favorites, Affairs, Awards, Family, Facts & Biography
Colton haynes is an American actor and model. He then appeared in a photo shoot of Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch. Haynes began modeling in campaigns for Kira Plastinina, J.C. Penney and Ralph Lauren. In 2008, Haynes continued modeling in campaigns such as Verizon and appeared in many magazine editorials such as Teen Vogue and Arena. He is known for his role in Jackson Whittemore in MTV's supernatural drama series, Teen Wolf, and in the role of Roy Harper / Arsenal in the television series of CW superheroes, Arrow.
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Colton Lee Haynes
Actor, model
Anniversary / Date of birth
Colton Haynes was born on July 13, 1988 in Wichita, Kansas, United States.
He is currently 31 years old.
Sign of the sun
He is of English, Scottish, Scottish, Irish and Native American ancestry.
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Colton attended Navarre High School in Florida, Andale High School in Kansas and finally graduated from Samuel Clemens High School in Schertz, Texas.
Father – William Clayton Haynes
Mother – Dana Denise Mitchell (deceased as a result of cirrhosis in March 2018)
Brothers and sisters – Clinton Haynes (brother), Joshua Haynes (brother), Willow Haynes (sister)
Boyfriend / spouse
Colton Haynes dated –
Electra Avellan (2007-2008) – The Venezuelan actress Electra Avellan dated from 2007 to 2008 with Haynes. She is 2 years old.
Zachary Quinto (2009) – The two actors Colton and Zachary had a meeting in 2009.
Holland Roden (2011-2012) – After meeting on the set of Teen Wolf, the actress Holland began dating Colton in October 2011. The couple split up in May 2012.
Jeff Leatham (2017-2019) – In February 2017, Colton began dating the famous florist Jeff Leatham. On March 11, 2017, they got engaged. Finally, on October 27, 2017, the couple is married. In May 2018, just six months after the wedding, Colton filed for Jeff's divorce. Only two months after filing their divorce, in July 2018, they were seen together at LAX airport. After a few months of inactivity, they were preparing to divorce in December 2018.
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In feet – 5 feet 9 inches
In meters – 1.75 meters
In pounds – 152 lbs
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Measurements – 43-15-29
Chest – 43 inches or 109 cm
Arm / Biceps – 15 inches or 38 cm
Cut – 29 inches or 74 centimeters
He is wearing a shoe size 10 (US).
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Playing Jackson Whittemore in the MTV Teen Wolf from 2011 to 2012 for seasons 1 and 2.
Movie start
In 2007, he appeared as a coffee kid in the sci-fi action movie, Transformers. His role is not credited.
TV debut
In 2007, guest Colton starred in the TV CSI: Miami television series for his role in Brandon Fox in an episode titled Bang, Bang, Your Dette.
Brand approvals
As a model, Colton has advertised for Abercrombie & Fitch, Kira Plastinina, J.C. Penney, Ralph Lauren and Verizon.
Colton Haynes Favorites
His favorite things are unknown.
Colton Haynes net worth
Colton Haynes has a net worth estimated at $ 4 million dollars from 2019.
Some lesser known facts about Colton Haynes
Colton lost her virginity at 13.
He began his career as a model at the age of 15.
When he was at school in Texas, he was titled "Most Likely to Be Famous".
In 2007, he even appeared in the music video of I do not like My Chemical Romance. He also auditioned for the role of Edward Cullen in the supernatural novel "Twilight", which was later picked up by Robert Pattison.
In 2008, Haynes continued modeling in campaigns such as Verizon and appeared in many magazine editorials such as Teen Vogue and Arena.
In 2010, he landed a lead role in the ABC TV show The Gates in the role of Brett Crezski. He worked alongside Frank Grillo, Janina Gavankar and James Preston in the series for eleven episodes.
Haynes appeared in issue 6 of Hero magazine for its 2011 winter / spring 2012.
In 2013, he signed the recurring role of Roy Harper, a street gangster in the crime television series Arrow. In the second and third seasons of the series, he returned as the main character in Arsenal, a protégé of Arrow.
In 2014, Haynes returned to her modeling roots by participating in Abercrombie & Fitch's Making of a Star campaign.
In 2016, he starred in the television series The Grinder as Luke Grinder in The Restooling episodes of Dean Sanderson and Divergence.
In 2017, it was announced that Colton would play a lead role in the horror television series American Horror Story.
In November 2017, Haynes was nominated for Out100 Magazine for 2017 in recognition of her arrival, update and professional work.
In March 2019, Haynes spoke publicly about his experience with alcohol and drug addiction by saying, "In 10 years, maybe 25 days ago I did not drink. . I remember that when I started, it was a few glasses of wine and it went down in very dark times.
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Stephen Hillery Johnson was the son of Hillary E. & Ann (Thompson) Johnson. He was born in January of 1865 and died in 1909. On August 7, 1895 he married Rose Catherine Burch, the daughter of Christopher C. Burch. She was born in August of 1879 and was deceased by 1910. In 1900 Stephen Hillery is listed as living in Newtowne Manor.
Amy C. Johnson married Joseph Jenkins. She died on April 23, 1987.


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Nadine O'Regan: It's great to be back, but hospitality is suffering
On our mini-moon in Cork and Kerry we enjoyed heavenly hotels and restaurants, but some were under pressure, trying to maintain standards while training up inexperienced staff. All of them had to endure the sight of the great and the good in Dublin appearing to live by different rules
Nadine O'Regan
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Time is running out for restaurateurs: the summer will be over soon. Picture: Barry Murphy
The sky was blue. The sun shone brightly. We were on our mini-moon in Kerry and Cork last month and we just couldn't believe our luck. It was like we'd ordered the weather off a menu. Happy? I was so happy in my Instagram stories that I wouldn't have blamed anyone for unfollowing – if it's possible to troll people via sending them relentlessly good weather shots, then consider me guilty as charged....
Harvey's Point set to invest €1.2m in renovations this year
TMR Hotel Collection has already added 28 rooms and renovated the ballroom of the 'special' four-star Donegal hotel
Hospitality Killian Woods
At your service: Why restaurants are facing a battle to win back workers
The pandemic has forced restaurant and bar staff out of work and onto the PUP – but now that things are reopening, they are not returning. What can be done to save the sector?
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Amaris sold to London private equity firm Henderson Park
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Palatul Patriarhal din Veneția este sediul curiei diecezane a Patriarhiei Veneției. Este situat în Piața San Marco, alături de Bazilica San Marco, și are vedere la Piazzetta dei Leoncini.

Istoric
Inițial clădirea, împreună cu bazilica, făcea parte din complexul Palatului Ducal. Palatul, conectat la apartamentele dogilor printr-un pasaj ce trecea prin spatele absidei bazilicii, a fost construit în secolul al XVII-lea de către Monopola pentru a găzdui o nouă sală de banchete, destinată recepțiilor Signoriei și a Senatului din Veneția.

După desființarea Republicii Venețiene (1797) și transformarea Bazilicii San Marco în catedrală patriarhală (1807), această clădire a fost aleasă ca noul sediu al curiei. Lucrările de modernizare, inițiate în 1837 după proiectul lui Lorenzo Santi, au permis transferarea aici în 1840 a birourilor Curiei Patriarhale; lucrările au fost finalizate în 1870, odată cu inaugurarea noii fațade.

Vechiul palat patriarhal din Castello
Înainte de mutarea curiei în San Marco, Palatul Patriarhal se afla lângă catedrala San Pietro din Castello, cu vedere la campo-ul omonim. Abandonat în favoarea noului sediu, vechiul palat, odată sediul episcopului de Castello, a căzut curând în ruină.

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 Sito del Patriarcato di Venezia

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Jerome McGann, one of the founders of the field of digital humanities, will be the featured speaker for UB's second annual Robert Creeley Lecture on Poetry and Poetics on March 30.
The lecture will take place at 4 p.m. in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus.
McGann is John Stewart Bryan Professor in the University of Virginia's Department of English and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. The author of 24 books, he has revolutionized the way poetry is discussed, read, written, edited and taught.
McGann is a scholar who is always pushing, extending and breaking boundaries, according to Cristanne Miller, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of English, and Myung Mi Kim, the James H. McNulty Chair in the Department of English and director of the UB Poetics Program.
"We're trying every year to bring more than one kind of artistic expression into play to show ways how, not just Bob's work, but poetry generally enters a variety of artistic fields," Miller says.
A roundtable response to McGann's lecture, moderated by James Maynard, curator of the UB Poetry Collection, will follow on March 31 at 3 p.m. in the UB Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall, also on the North Campus.
All events surrounding the Creeley lecture are free and open to the public.
Creeley (1926-2005) was a former SUNY Distinguished Professor and author of more than 60 books of poetry and criticism. He served as Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetics at UB and was a faculty member for 37 years, beginning in 1966. He left UB in 2003 to become a Distinguished Professor at Brown University.
His legacy, however, remains as much about community as poetry, and his namesake lecture series is designed purposefully as an energizing public celebration of poetry, say Miller and Kim.
Creeley's footprint in Western New York remains profoundly visible today and can be seen in such local institutions as Just Buffalo Literary Center, founded by Debora Ott, a former student of Creeley who inspired her to establish the organization and take poetry into the community. Jonathan Welch, owner and founder of Talking Leaves, Buffalo's venerable independent bookstore, was an admirer of Creeley and lists him among the lures that attracted him to Western New York.
The roundtable discussion on the second day is open to anyone who wants to further explore issues raised by McGann's lecture. There will also be an opportunity for anyone to read a poem, either their own work or a personal favorite.
Miller and Kim say SUNY Press has agreed to publish a volume of successive Creeley lectures and their responses every other year.
Last year's Creeley Lecture coincided with the 25th anniversary of the UB Poetics Program. The coordinators collected remembrances of Robert Creeley, and Kim and Miller have edited a forthcoming stand-alone volume including that lecture, responses to it and essays developed from the conference. The volume, titled "Poetics and Precarity" (SUNY Press), is expected to appear in January 2018.


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Horstmeier Family scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1 [31151030051670]
Collection [MS-0166] Horstmeier Family scrapbook
The Horstmeier family resided in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the 1890s. The scrapbook (1855-1863) contains clippings of poems and prose removed from newspapers and most likely assembled during the Civil War period.
This collection is housed off-site and requires 48-hours' notice for retrieval. Contact Special Collections for more information.
This collection is open for use.
0.167 Cubic Feet (1 volume)
The Horstmeier family resided in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the 1890s. Albert Horstmeier was a portrait painter. In 1896, he wrote to Professor Basil Gildersleeve concerning a proposed commission to paint Gildersleeve's portrait. It is likely that Meta Ernestine Horstmeier, who attended summer sessions of the University (1921, 1922), was also a member of the Horstmeier family.
The scrapbook (1855-1863) which forms this collection is one bound volume. The volume itself is a copy of Commerce and Navigation, 1849-1850, in which clippings have been fastened over the published pages. Each page of the volume has been carefully covered with assorted clippings, and no indication of the preparer is given. The only personal comment within the scrapbook is a holographic annotation to a clipping which describes a soldier's death. The note places the incident at the home of Dr. William Taylor after the Battle of Gettysburg. It is not clear whether a member of the Horstmeier family assembled the scrapbook.
The scrapbook contains clippings of poems and prose removed from newspapers and most likely assembled during the Civil War period. No actual reporting of the progress of the war is given. However, there are stories and anecdotes associated with the emotions aroused by the conflict. Other articles deal with the more general topics of home life, patriotism, faith, and romance.
The scrapbook was given as a gift to The Johns Hopkins University in 1942 by Mrs. Albert Horstmeier and Miss Ella M.S. Horstmeier.
Finding aid prepared by Joan Grattan in June 1990.
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Do your employees seem lazy, moody or resistant to doing what the company needs them to do? Believe it or not, money is not a motivator for them. According to many studies conducted with thousands of people, money is about # 6 out of 10.
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Top 100 Print Advertising Agencies in London
Looking for a top print ad agency in London?
Print advertisements appear in a printed or hard copy format. For example, you may come across print ads in newspapers, magazines, or brochures.
The best print advertising has a clear message, is visual, and keeps everything simple. Some benefits of print advertising include cost effectiveness compared to large-scale out of home (OOH) advertisements; flexibility when it comes to having multiple print ad campaigns throughout the year; and reputation-building since these ads appear in the newspapers and magazines people browse regularly.
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List of the Best London Print Advertising Companies
BrandOpus
BrandOpus is a brand-led creative agency based in London with offices in New York, Chicago, and Melbourne, Australia. The agency, founded in 2007, is comprised of more than 60 experts who provide branding and package design services to companies in the consumer products & services, business services, financial services, and retail industries.
A frozen food products company has hired BrandOpus to provide branding services. They're homologating the client's social media, packaging, and advertising to achieve a solid and consistent visual identity.
''They can take over big projects and help you make your brand stand out and take it to the next level.''
M3 Agency
M3 Agency is an Albrighton, United Kingdom-based advertising company. The small firm was launched in 1999. Their team focuses on advertising, branding, marketing strategy, social media marketing, and more.
MG Motor UK
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M3 Agency leads social media marketing efforts for a business solutions company. They have supported building the client's social media accounts, such as LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.
"Our social media following has continued to grow, and we have seen an improvement in engagement."
ColorCreative
RevenueRush is a small web design agency founded in 2019. Their team specializes in web design, social media marketing, search engine optimization, advertising, and more. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
RevenueRush designed and developed a website for an investment company. They proposed the project cost and timeline and coalesced with the client for the site content.
"I felt like they were really invested in delivering what we needed, made sure we achieve the results that we want."
Five by Five
Five by Five is a creative marketing and advertising agency based in Southampton, United Kingdom. Founded in 1979, they have about 70 employees that specialize in product launches. Their services include conventional advertising, digital strategy, branding, content marketing, and traditional PR.
B&Q
A gaming company hired Five by Five in order to assist with strategy, content, marketing, and advertising.
"Perfect workflow. Matt and the team are readily available by phone and email."
ikon | Boutique Branding & Creative Agency
ikon | Boutique Branding Agency is a design and branding agency that was founded in 2009 and is located in London. They have two employees specializing in high-quality branding and digital design for a range of companies, from startups to global enterprises. Services include brand strategy, art direction, marketing and communications, web design, content, video production, and photography.
Oakley & F1
Basing their work off of thorough discovery sessions, ikon | Boutique Branding Agency spearheaded a brand refresh. Their final deliverables included a new logo and print designs.
"They have always delivered work on time, and the quality exceeded our expectations."
CNTR , an advertising company, was established in 2019. The firm offers advertising, branding, logo, packaging design, and more and has a midsize team. The firm is headquartered in New York, New York.
COUNTER CULTURE designed 3D assets and animated NFTs for a digital advertising agency. The vendor delivered the first round of visuals within a week and modified them based on the client's feedback.
"Their creative ability to design and execute original concepts that represented the Web3 game was impressive."
AM+A Marketing & Media Relations
AM+A Marketing & Media Relations is a PR company located in London, United Kingdom; Monzie, United Kingdom; London, United Kingdom and Rīga, Latvia. The small agency was established in 2010. Their services include public relations, advertising, content marketing, and corporate training.
AM+A Marketing & Media Relations creates PR stories and social media campaigns for a travel market platform. They generate content based on sustainable practices before communicating it to a target audience.
"They understand what must be done to be unique in this competitive market."
WECOMEET
Social media marketing company Wecomeet was established in 2019. The firm provides social media marketing, web design, graphic design, branding, and more and has a small team.
WECOMEET provided branding, product design, packaging, creative direction, and website design services for a contemporary puzzle company. Around five teammates worked directly with the client on this project.
"I was very happy with how they worked and their results."
Ride Shotgun
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Born + Raised is an advertising company. Their small team is located in Sheffield, United Kingdom and London, United Kingdom. Their services include advertising, marketing strategy, ux/ui design, branding, and more.
Jarvis Trends
Jarvis Trends is an advertising company launched in 2020. They are in Gurugram, India and have a small team. The agency offers advertising, branding, direct marketing, marketing strategy, and more.
Henry Harvin Education
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Sathi Kart
Jarvis Trends built, designed, and maintained a recycled paper manufacturer's web platform. Their goal was to go live with the first version within three months since the beginning of their partnership.
"They are always looking to optimize efforts and ensure that client objectives are being reached."
Zieasoft
Launched in 2021, Zieasoft is a. They are headquartered in London, United Kingdom and have a small team. Their services include.
A Freemason organization hired Zieasoft to help update their website's layout, security, and loading time. The team facilitated discovery meetings with the client and presented wireframes and branding ideas.
"We have a great relationship with Zieasoft and love the new ideas given to us to try out."
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Q: git push heroku master gives error ssh: connect to host heroku.com port 22: Connection refused I'm trying to run the heroku-django tutorial (using ubuntu 12.04) and it seems for some reason i cant push into heroku. here is what happens:
yeinhorn@ubuntu:~/hellodjango$ git init
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/yeinhorn/hellodjango/.git/
yeinhorn@ubuntu:~/hellodjango$ git add .
yeinhorn@ubuntu:~/hellodjango$ git commit -m "my first commit"
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
yeinhorn@ubuntu:~/hellodjango$ heroku create
Creating high-dusk-6308... done, stack is cedar
http://high-dusk-6308.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:high-dusk-6308.git
 !    New default stack: Cedar. To use Bamboo, run `heroku create -s bamboo`.
yeinhorn@ubuntu:~/hellodjango$ git remote -v
heroku  git@heroku.com:blazing-dusk-8587.git (fetch)
heroku  git@heroku.com:blazing-dusk-8587.git (push)
yeinhorn@ubuntu:~/hellodjango$ git push heroku master
ssh: connect to host heroku.com port 22: Connection refused
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
yeinhorn@ubuntu:~/hellodjango$ git push -f heroku
ssh: connect to host heroku.com port 22: Connection refused
fatal: The remote end hung

up unexpectedly
also when i run
$telnet heroku.com 22

i get
Trying 50.19.85.132...
Trying 50.19.85.154...
Trying 50.19.85.156...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

any ideas?

A: Based on this question and this question, I'd suggest you check that you don't have any firewall or port blocking software running (like PeerGaurdian) and that you're nto blocking Amazon/EC2 anywhere on your system.

A: Do following steps:1. check sshd service:
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa   # created ssh key
$ heroku keys:add   # upload ssh key
$ heroku keys  # lists keys

2. find a normal proxy node
$ ssh -vvv heroku.com  # debug ssh connection
$ vim ~/.ssh/config   # setup usefull proxy node
  Host heroku.com
  Hostname 107.21.95.3     # trans by ip
  PreferredAuthentications publickey
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  port 22

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Obama Drones Kill 2 Citizens; Where's the Law?
This article appeared on Cato.org on October 21, 2011.
"There remains," says Brisbane, "no clear accounting of the legal principles or the process the executive branch is applying to support secret killings by the CIA, which carries out strikes far from the battlefield — in this case against a native-born American. The CIA will not even acknowledge that the program exists" (The New York Times, Oct. 8).
The term, "collateral damage," is used when innocent civilian victims of our drones are wiped out in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Since we are forbidden to know what crimes this al-Qaida promoter was charged with, it may well be that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I add: Is this still America?
Of course, in the reign of Obama, "there is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and former officials said" (Reuters.com, Oct. 5). In a whisper?
We should be thankful that Obama officials have quietly put aside the arguments they made during the Bush years that any terrorist outside the Afghani battlefield was" (contrary to Bush-Cheney) "a criminal suspect who deserved his day in federal court (under the Fifth Amendment)." The tortures Yoo justified did not have judicial approval. He said they weren't necessary in the war on terror.
Years ago, I had a chance to debate Yoo during a panel discussion at Princeton University (The Woodrow Wilson School). His only response to me, with a smile: "I do enjoy reading Nat Hentoff on jazz." But jazz, professor, is the very essence of free, open expression.
Killer drones are being built and perfected in many countries in the world, and not only by our friends.


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Loneliness attacks us all at some time or another. Do you submerse yourself in it and let it choke your existence from you? Do you allow it to wash over you and bathe you to immerse fresh and renewed?
I stepped into the shower and was blindsided by a hidden loneliness that mingled with the water that washed over me.
My Dutch grandmother had left Amsterdam for South Africa as a young woman and had made a statement to me some twenty years ago. My husband, children and I were about to leave South Africa for America. She said that I will discover that I have no home. South Africa will no longer be home, nor will the United States ever truly be home either. I would live in a state of never being able to call any place my home.
Tears trickled down my cheeks, maybe it was a flood of them, or perhaps it was just the shower water. Anyhow, I leaned into the moment and loneliness gripped my soul. I felt the emptiness of being far from the girlfriends I loved. We always used to just pick up from where we left off, yet it was different now. SO much happens in between those phone calls or visits, that now we just touch on highlights. Distance has wedged between me the women I love, now spread across the world and this country. I long for those earlier days.
send gifts, laugh, cry and share life's details.
In an hour I'll be thankful beyond measure for her – right now, the quiet aloneness blurs the gift.
I think of my mother and the loneliness she felt and spoke of to me the last years of her life. I did empathize in those minutes of our long distance conversations, but then, life bustled on. Now I wish I could have been there, planned more together- time, sent more letters and packages in the mail. She could have been my best friend ever, and I hers. I didn't allow it, just had glimpses of it now and then. Now I'm lonely for her, long for her. Perhaps in the next few days and months, I'll translate the many children's stories she wrote and honor and enjoy with gratitude her memory, her gifts and appreciate her. Right now, I just ache. Hurt. Alone.
Quietly, as if a switch is flipped in my head, calm floods my soul. A still, gentle voice, that you can't hear but yet you do, whispers, "You have a friend that sticks closer than a sister (brother)". "I will never let you go". "I am always with you".
You see – I had just spent time in prayer, God's Word and meditation before stepping into the shower. I believe He opened my heart to see what was hidden there, work through it and then remove it. And – went a step deeper . . .
I have surgery tomorrow and quiet frankly I'm freaked out. I've always been healthy, no pills, no Doctors, no surgeries. Now this. Eye surgery. It's actually a miracle and after months of not seeing in one eye, I'll see perfectly for the first time ever in my life. But I'm clinging to the fear of it all. The what if? How could this happen to me? I'm scared. I feel alone.
The fact is, and I now see it – I' not alone. I'm thankful. Stronger. Calm. At peace.
DO you feel alone? Have you felt alone?
Please share below if you need to get it out or what you do when loneliness grips you. Your thoughts will encourage someone else.
Remember: You are not alone. Please connect.


We love Rehoboth Beach Delaware.
It's kid-friendly. The boardwalk has tons of rides, fattening foods and the restaurants are fantastic.
So here's how one restaurant dropped the ball and another won our hearts.
On a rainy afternoon, we were watching TV and a commercial came on for The Greene Turtle. I've always seen their T-shirts. And now they were on TV. Their ad said, "Kids Eat FREE!" The same thing is plastered all over their website.
I have two kids so what could be better? Right?
We went to the new restaurant, had our meal (which was average at best)… and then the check came… but we were charged for two kids meals.
So do I want to go there again. NO!
Now, on the other side of the coin… we visited an absolutely adorable little restaurant called HOBOS…. also in Rehoboth Beach. The owner is amazing. Not only does she say hello to all her guests…. but she also runs back into the kitchen to cook the meals. I don't know how she does it. She must have a twin!
And… here's the part that makes her restaurant better than the Greene Turtle (even though they have enough money to pay for fancy TV ads). When my son and daughter wanted the plain kids Quesadilla with chicken and cheese, the waitress (with goodness in her heart) recommended they split an adult Quesadilla instead. But when it was served, there was lots of "green stuff" in it. And we all know that kids don't like "green stuff". So we told the owner, Gretchen, what happened.
She completely understood and whisked the plates away so our kids could have the plain old kids Quesadilla as fast as possible.
She didn't try to charge us for the adult Quesadilla. She didn't argue. She didn't debate.
And here's the most interesting part. If you go to Gretchen's website at www.myhobos.com, you'll see that it's all about the food and the philosophy. But it really doesn't mention her character. I guess she figured that's just a basic ingredient all restaurants should have.
The truth is… her character and quick thinking to stand up for basic ideals such as "making the customer feel at home" and "making every meal enjoyable" are what will keep us coming back to visit her.
As you all know, I write slogans for businesses. Business owners pay MarketSmart lots of money to do so. And, while she doesn't realize it, her slogan is actually already written. And it's buried at the bottom of one of the pages on her website where it says… "Hobos, where you go when you're not home." She's exactly right! We DO want to go there when we're not home.
Nice job Gretchen! Boo and hiss to the Greene Turtle.


Pro Tools | DIY Or Academic Training? - Why Certifications And Qualifications In The Audio Industry May Still Matter.
DIY Or Academic Training? - Why Certifications And Qualifications In The Audio Industry May Still Matter.
There once was a time when music was a thing for entertainment, a hobby, a past time that existed independent of the shackles of modern commercial enterprise. A simpler, arguably better time, where people were recognised and judged by their talent and their ability to work, and perform rather than the framed piece of paper they had on the wall. Things now are different. With an expanding consumer base of pro-audio software users, music producers, mixing engineers and songwriters, the industry is becoming an increasingly difficult place to not only make a living in, but to stand out above the sea of content that is created on a daily basis. This has had an increasing effect on the earning capacity of new practitioner's entering the industry.
So now that money is more and more scarce, and audio hardware and software isn't getting any cheaper, we need to ask ourselves, what is the best way to spend the money we do have to improve our position? This brings me onto the crux of this article: Education.
Studying music at third and fourth level is an opportunity that is invaluable for mainly one thing: objectivity. Bringing your work to an institution that understands what you are trying to achieve and receiving ongoing guidance, tutoring and a forum for discussion and development of ideas is something that you basically don't get when you go it alone. When you go into the industry 'green', you are treated as a competitor straight away, and it is harder to learn the trade in a meaningful way when you are fighting to be seen as competent and relevant at the same time.
Educational facilities on the other hand have a moral and ethical obligation to put their students in the best position possible upon leaving their course. It is in an institutions best interest to create highly trained and competent producers / engineers, because their caliber will carry as an example of what can be achieved at that institution and may encourage others to study there. They are about nurturing students, not contending with them, because it benefits everyone involved.
The music industry is a machine of many parts. A machine exists for a particular purpose, to carry out a function using its various components in tandem. A well built machine only entertains wheels and cogs that are of importance, and doesn't have a facility to encompass anything above and beyond what is needs to carry out its duty. The only way to become a part of this machine is to replace a cog that either breaks or ceases to work, or to become a temporary replacement until the original component is fixed and returned to its place. Established music practitioners are the cogs of the machine. The keep everything moving and the only real way to fit a new practitioner in is to either establish your own machine, replace someone who has quit, retired or passed away or to prove yourself as a better worker than the previous person and replace them.
Studying a degree, diploma or part time course in music production, or even sitting the Avid, Logic, Ableton certificates will provide on some level, a certain caliber of knowledge that wouldn't be readily available to you unless you were in the right circles and were actively looking for it. You cannot pass a Pro Tools exam, for example, without knowing a lot about Pro Tools, given the pass mark is 90% or over. Simply taking the test will challenge you to go above and beyond your current level of knowledge and the reward is an industry specific accreditation in that program that actually matters, AND an improved knowledge of your workflow and processes. People think these accreditations are not important, but the reality is that it is an industry wise benchmark employers do use to gauge the basic competency level of people they interview for work. Above that, it is down to the interviewee and their personal experience to get over the line. Why wouldn't you give yourself a head start?
A simple and undeniable fact is that studying music, production and engineering will at some point offer you the opportunity to meet with seriously experienced professionals. I have met practitioners from some of the biggest companies in the industry, including Avid, Prism, Ableton, as well as experts in live sound, mastering, mixing, producing and post production that I might never come into contact with otherwise. I have the benefits of their knowledge BEFORE doing the work that may define me in the industry, and that is a major competitive advantage.
I have personally learned more profoundly enlightening things in two minute conversations with industry heads through educational connections, than in months and months of slogging it alone. If time truly equals money, then this is an absolute no-brainer. We cannot exist in isolation in the music industry, and networking on neutral ground is a sure-fire way to gain meaningful unbiased knowledge, impress the right people and hopefully get a recommendation that actually matters.
Lets face it, entering the music industry at 18, straight out of secondary school/high-school is not the ideal scenario. I was personally fortunate enough to attend a business school at third level prior to engaging in the pursuit of my academic music qualification, so my maturity levels were a lot higher when beginning my third level musical education. There is no way I would have survived if I had simply begun plodding along on my own straight out of school. The information I now have simply would not be known to me and I would be years behind at this point if I hadn't taken the plunge.
If anything, the space to mature, inform yourself and figure out what you really want to engage in the industry is the most valuable part of all. Space allows you to innovate at a higher level, and perhaps direct you towards opportunities in newly identified areas that you weren't otherwise aware of for when you finish.
Ultimately, the decision is in your hands. Despite this article, I am not particularly pro OR anti-qualification. Music degrees and audio production courses are in general not cheap. Someone could easily purchase a home studio set up and the necessary gear to work as a producer with the fees for a course, and be ready to begin work tomorrow. Your financial situation and personal circumstance should always be taken into consideration.
But as we all know, the gear is not what makes you what you are. All the gear in the world isn't going to make you immediately fantastic. Your knowledge and your willingness to learn and innovate yourself and with other like-minded individuals is the infinitely more valuable skill set. Doing a certificate or an exam just demonstrates your willingness to improve your knowledge and personal position. When you finish a meaningful course of training in production or engineering, you will also realise that you can now accomplish 10 times more, 10 times faster, on a tenth of the items you would have otherwise purchased in ignorance. Taking a course will make you take things seriously and it will help you realise if this is something you really are ready and willing to follow in a professional capacity.


A TRUE STORY EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW!
Thus unfolded the'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food–all of it colorless slop–was infested with worms.
So, refresh MY memory. Some women won't vote this year because – Why, exactly?
Read again what these women went through for you! We can't let all their suffering be for nothing.


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