As if hard drive failures or virus attacks are not devastating enough on their own, these electronic catastrophes often corrupt valuable files, rendering them useless, and leaving us at the mercy of expensive software which might or might not recover data from the files.

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Recover Text from Corrupt MS Office Files

If you have a list of file names in a directory you want to copy to a spreadsheet or text document, normally you would copy and paste each name individually. However, you can easily copy all file names to a text document for free using the command prompt in Windows. No need to download other software.

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Copy File Names from Windows Explorer to a Text List

Finding new, wacky ways to impress friends with photos and other images is a popular use of our favorite social networking sites. While new ideas appear every day, most image enhancing Web sites are one-trick only, leaving them easily forgotten after a user uploads an image or two.

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Add Special Effects to Images

Google Docs is one of the most popular ways to share and collaborate with others on documents.

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Use Google Cloud Connect to Share and Backup Microsoft Office Files

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a free program that does most, if not all, of the things that can be done using Photoshop, which is great. The down side though is that a lot of people find GIMP a little difficult to use, which is too bad, because once you get used to how things work, GIMP is well worth the time invested.

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How to Resize Images using GIMP