utilities
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Seer Brings Mac-Like Preview Views To Windows
Windows: In OS X, you can select a file and press Space for a quick preview of it. You can’t do that in Windows — at least not without Seer, a free utility that gives you the same power. Tap the space bar to bring up an image, video or audio file in a quick…
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Usable Privacy Shows You What Privacy Policies Actually Mean, In Plain English
Privacy policies are notoriously dense and written in legalese — mostly to protect the company behind them — but Usable Privacy wants to distil them into something you can actually read and understand. Just give the service a URL, and if the privacy policy is available, it will break it down into segments and clean…
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NetSpot, The Free Wi-Fi Mapping And Troubleshooting App, Comes To Windows
Windows: NetSpot is an amazing OS X utility for mapping out Wi-Fi networks, finding spots of poor reception and troubleshooting how to fix them, and now it’s available for Windows. Best of all, it’s still completely free.
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Interact Simplifies Managing Group Contacts On iOS
iOS: Managing contacts on iOS is not a particularly pleasant experience, and organising any kind of group chat over email or text is a chore. Interact is a contacts manager that simplifies both of those things.