Software for Starving Students is a FREE downloadable collection of programs, put together with students in mind (but anybody can use it).
Everything is all on one a single disk. There are both Mac OSX and Windows versions available.
If you ever wanted an easy way to gather and install some the best free software available, this would be it.
Included applications:
http://softwarefor.org/I have been looking for a bunch of old photos that have been lost in my house for about 2 years. I have looked everywhere for them, hoping they weren't lost forever. Most of these were taken when I was a teen.
My husband was the one who finally found them, under the bed with his baseball cards, of all places.
I decided to scan and share a few with you today.
This is me (age 20), holding my daughter when she was about a month old.
Me (age 16) and LuLu
Me, age 16.
Lil, me (age 16), and Tom.
This is me (age 16) and Dianne, on Tom's motorcycle, in Tom's garage. We were supposed to be doing the thumbs like the Fonz, but just as the picture was being taken, Tom moved the back of the bike and scared the crap out of both of us.
In my room, sitting on my bed.
from left to right: Liz, LuLu, and Dianne.
Me in back. (age 16)
Standing in front of my house in all the snow.
Age 19
Another from same day/location.
The illusion of having photographed 'falling snow' is a bit odd, since there was no snow actually falling. Some weird photography mishap that I had no idea about till the photos were developed.
My daughter (age 4) and me (age 24).
This was taken at Great Adventure.
We are sitting in King Kong's hand.
Sexy witch
Halloween, at Mary's house.
Age 16
My guess would be either age 18 or 19.
I am really not sure, but judging from the length of my hair, it was probably 19.
Christmas, at Debbie's house.
Age 18
Debbie always seemed to give me purses for Christmas, for some reason.
My 19th birthday, with cake on my nose.
Halloween
Last minute throw together costume.
Age 18
Me (age 18) and my husband (age 28).
New Year's at Bob & Linda's house.
Age 18
I looked really awful...
just finished cooking my first big Thanksgiving dinner.
The cake I baked for my daughter's 3rd birthday.
My daughter
Age 2
Fourth of July
Christmas at Mary's house.
Age 18
Me, at Liz's house.
Age 15
I just woke up.
This is a Windows Update patch you have to watch out for and be careful.
It is microcode for the BIOS of certain affected systems.
Only systems with the following CPU's need this:
The problem with this patch is that it is installing itself on systems not affected and causing problems.
If you have your Windows Update settings set to automatically download and install patches, you might want to change this to downloading, but asking before installing.
When a new update downloads and you are asked, do not select the typical or express install. Choose the advanced option and check for this patch in the list.
If you don't have one of the affected CPU's, unselect this patch and do not install it.
You will have to do this every time, so keep the patch number handy so you'll remember the name of it.
I know of at least 1 person that ended up with this patch that didn't need it.
For one guy with an older P4 CPU, it messed up his router causing him to have a problem with it disconnecting every few hours.
Another guy...I haven't heard from him since he rebooted after an update tonight(he has an AMD64 CPU). I suspect he ended up with this patch and it may have caused problems, but I can't be sure at this time.
So please be careful with this one. Don't install it if you don't need it.
But if you do have one of the CPU's affected, please install it...you do need it, even if you are not currently having problems. There is a flaw in the listed processors that creates an exploitable vulnerability and your BIOS needs this patch to correctly deal with it and protect you.
The alternative to installing this patch on affected systems is to install a BIOS update from your motherboard manufacturer. Not all manufacturers have released a BIOS update to address the issue, and some require your system to have a floppy drive to install it. It is just easier to use the update from Microsoft for affected systems.
I am feeling a little stunned today.
I found out that an article in the July issue of the American Bar Association Journal, recommends one of my software applications, Instant Boss.
This is the magazine read by half of all lawyers in America. And this isn't in some small article buried somewhere in the back of the magazine that nobody is going to read. This is in their cover story...the main article.
It made #31 on their top 101 productivity tips & tricks list:
31 If you have trouble staying focused, you can make Instant Boss your digital taskmaster. You can set it to time your tasks and your breaks from those tasks, allowing it to nag you on a schedule of your choosing.
This was totally unexpected.
Now I will have to go out and find a copy, and buy it. :-D
The only criticism I really have with the article, is that the online version doesn't contain any links to the sites of most of the software mentioned. I am hoping there was a page at the end of the print edition article that contained the URL's.
Of course now I'll have to get busy working on the next version of Instant Boss, including in it all those great ideas that I have been collecting for the last year.
