Internet Riot » Microsoft http://www.internetriot.com A video blog on websites you need to know Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 AlternativeTo.net – How to find the best free alternatives to popular programs http://www.internetriot.com/453/alternativeto-net-how-to-find-the-best-free-alternatives-to-popular-programs/ http://www.internetriot.com/453/alternativeto-net-how-to-find-the-best-free-alternatives-to-popular-programs/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:43:29 +0000 Anthony http://www.internetriot.com/?p=453 alternativeto.net

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http://www.alternativeto.net

What is AlternativeTo?

AlternativeTo will help you find alternative software applications and websites to some of the most popular ones you may already know.  The best thing is, you can use AlternativeTo to find popular free replacements for programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office!  Next time you’re looking for software options, use AlternativeTo to see what other programs are similar and popular.

What you may not know about AlternativeTo

You can quickly login with your Facebook account and start sharing your favorite program.  Not only that, you can search for keywords related to the type of program you’re looking for and see which ones are most popular.

Here’s a short video on AlternativeTo.net:

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http://www.bing.com

What is Bing?

Bing is Microsoft’s new search engine.  Bing is an intuitive search engine that tries to assist you in better searching.  It does this by offering suggestive terms and providing you content preview of your search results to help you refine your search of content on the internet.

What you may not know about Bing

Bing has multiple search features to not only search for articles and news related content.  Bing features an extensive search for multimedia such as images and video.  Bing has a collection of search refining tools for images and video.  For instance, you can search images and filter out images of people only by head shots.  Or hover your mouse over video results to see a preview of the video.  Bing is putting up a strong effort towards Google and their domination of finding content for users on the internet.

Here’s a quick video on Bing:

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http://www.slideshare.net

What is Slideshare?

Slideshare allows its users to upload, share and collaborate on powerpoint presentations and Microsoft Word documents.  Many times speakers at differente events and seminars put up their presentations on Slideshare to share with its viewers.  This means you can search thousands upon thousands of powerpoint presentations from many popular events and seminars held worldwide.

What you may not know about Slideshare

Not only can you find powerpoint slides and Word documents, you can favorite and tag them to quickly create your own library of presentations.  Furthermore, on the right side of the presentation is the option to view related presentations to further your learning.  So stop using Google and Wikipedia as your only news source and start being more intuitive on your content learning.  Download powerpoint presentations on your topics and continue to broaden your knowledge presented by others.

Here’s a quick video on Slideshare:

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