SW: Flash Card Training Tools

I was looking for an offline Windows 10 compatible Flash Card Builder, Editor, User (FREE)  program.

 To help me with learning the massive Plant Biology, Herbal, Materia Medica, Botanical Medicine vocabularies.

And I found a very nice one I believe. You can, of course, build your own card decks with Text, Images, Audio, and video clips stored on your memory devices device. But you can also upload them to share and download other decks people have shared.

Under the search term 'Plants' I found several decks and downloaded them. I will use one of the deck's layout for myself, as it is very well structured for plant data, reference, etc.

If you have a program, you like please shae it and why, in the comments.

TDK

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Ref. https://apps.ankiweb.net/

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About Anki

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.

Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless.
For example:

• Learning a language
• Studying for medical and law exams
• Memorizing people's names and faces
• Brushing up on geography
• Mastering long poems
• Even practicing guitar chords!

Features

Synchronization
Use the free AnkiWeb synchronization service to keep your cards in sync across multiple devices.

Flexibility
From card layout to review timing, Anki has a wealth of options for you to customize.

Media-Rich
Embed audio clips, images, videos and scientific markup on your cards, with precise control over how it's shown.

Optimized
Anki will handle decks of 100,000+ cards with no problems.

Fully Extensible
There are a large number of add-ons available.

Open Source
Because the code and storage format is open, your important data is safe.

SW: PC based Free Photo Management Software.

I needed a simple Photo Management software tool to work with my Botanical Medicine free course that has a 500 Mb File with subdirectory files for each plant's images. So I can easily find plant pictures and view them or create gallies etc. I wanted to keep the program in the same master directory as all the course material downloads and separated from any other image files on the PC. So I am using the Portable version of the software. I hope to be able to move this whole project out to a USB memory stick for use anywhere.

 This is the one I am trying. It is working out just fine for this application, love it.
TDK

FastStone Image Viewer is a program to view images for Microsoft Windows. It includes a file manager and database. It is considered to be the best free photo management software in its class. FastStone Image Viewer is also free for domestic use.

Supported Platforms:

• Windows

Website: FastStone

Overall Rating75

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Pros+

• Easy to use
• Provides much information about each shot
• Auto photo setup
• Possibility to organize your photos quickly

Cons-

• No cloud storage

This is a useful photo organizer Windows tool, equipped with photo editing and management features. FastStone comes with many photo editing tools for basic manipulation and fine-tuning, and also supports tagging, EXIF data viewing, and other sorting options. Although FastStone does not have the feature to upload pictures to social media and cloud storage, it offers excellent image viewing, editing functions, and organizational tools. Thus, it is a good choice if you store your photo collection on one PC.

SW: A Directory Tree Files List Maker.

Faced with a couple of gigabytes worth of a  broad subject specific .rar directories and subdirectories of PDFs and Text files that I needed an easy book like index to make use of.

What oh what to do, this could take weeks opening them, copying titles by hand.

Well google and free software, I believe have come to my rescue.

I will add updates as I use this tool for my new Botanical Medicine study group.
TDK.

Directory Tree List Maker
FREE Olivier Sangala Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista (Windows 10)

>>From Olivier Sangala:

Directory Tree List Maker is a software that will be able to output as a text file the list of all files from a selected directory. This software uses a recursive method to display contents of all sub directories. All information about each file and directory is generated: size in bytes, date/time marker (creation, last access, last write), and attributes. Many options help to customize output: selectable columns, path depth, name length, file content display File and directory ACL exceptions (access control list) are supported. Version 1.1 includes options such as selectable columns, path depth, name length, file content display, supported file and directory ACL exceptions (access control list).<<


Link:
https://download.cnet.com/Directory-Tree-List-Maker/3000-2248_4-10575804.html

SW: Compressing and decompressing Files and Directory Trees.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay 

If you need a good Window's OS,  free Software application for files directory trees Compression and decompression.

7-Zip fills the bill very well.


https://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip is free software with open source. The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License. Also there is unRAR license restriction for some parts of the code. Read 7-Zip License information.

You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

The main features of 7-Zip

• High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
  • Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 87 languages

7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT.

p7zip - the port of the command line version of 7-Zip to Linux/Posix.

WWW: Search Engines

This one gives hard to find results:
http://go.speedbit.com/

The Russian one will give better results with less ads.
https://yandex.com

Duckduckgo.com claims to not track you.

You've stumbled upon the largest privately run online repository of declassified government documents anywhere in the world. With more than 1.4 MILLION pages of documents to read, on nearly every government secret imaginable, The Black Vault is known worldwide for getting down to the truth... and nothing but.

Every document in this archive was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Begun in 1996, at the age of 15, John Greenewald, Jr., began hammering the U.S. Government with FOIA requests to obtain information. The Black Vault is the result of that near 2 decade effort.

http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/#
unclassified Docs.

WWW: #Torch a #Search #Engine with #BitTorrent

TORCH:   Search Engine

NOTE THIS BROWER IS NOT TOR SAFE:

https://xmh57jrzrnw6insl.onion.to/

Torch is based on the Chromium source code. Torch's most recent version,
39.0.0.9626,

uses Chromium version 40, making it compatible with all add-ons and extensions
 available in the Chrome store. On June 18, 2013, Torch announced that it had
 surpassed 10 million 

active users.

The built-in BitTorrent client allows users to download torrent files. Users can directly
 share sites, videos, audio and search results with their Facebook and Twitter accounts.

The built-in BitTorrent client allows users to download torrent files. Users can directly
 share sites, videos, audio and search results with their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_(browser)

WWW: #DarkNET #DeepWeb #TOR

Lets, talk about the Dark-Net:
You will need the TOR Browser:

TOR, The Onion Router
Want Tor to really work?

1. Use Tor Browser

1. Don't torrent over Tor

1. Don't enable or install browser plugins

1. Use HTTPS versions of websites

1. Don't open documents downloaded through Tor while online

1. Use bridges and/or find company

TOR The Onion Router:
While you can use GPG to secure the contents of your email, a state-level adversary with extensive taps on the big intercontinental submarine cables will still be able to see that you are emailing this other person. If someone from a government or military IP address range started sending encrypted mail to known investigative journalists (or other potential enemies of the state), there's a very strong risk there – even if the security forces can't read the contents of the messages.
Also visible for your ISP to see – and therefore also freely visible to the state via their ability to twist your ISP's arm in secret – is your web browsing, instant messaging, and anything else you're doing.
The most robust way to anonymise your internet use is to use Tor (The Onion Router), which does a very robust job of evading that sort of surveillance.

What is Tor? "The Onion Router"

Why Anonymity Matters

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.

https://www.torproject.org/

https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

Do you want TOR to Work:

You need to change some of your habits, as some things won't work exactly as you are used to.

1. Tor does not protect all of your computer's Internet traffic when you run it. Tor only protects your applications that are properly configured to send their Internet traffic through Tor. To avoid problems with Tor configuration, we strongly recommend you use the Tor Browser. It is pre-configured to protect your privacy and anonymity on the web as long as you're browsing with Tor Browser itself. Almost any other web browser configuration is likely to be unsafe to use with Tor.

1. Torrent file-sharing applications have been observed to ignore proxy settings and make direct connections even when they are told to use Tor. Even if your torrent application connects only through Tor, you will often send out your real IP address in the tracker GET request, because that's how torrents work. Not only do you deanonymize your torrent traffic and your other simultaneous Tor web traffic this way, you also slow down the entire Tor network for everyone else.

1. Tor Browser will block browser plugins such as Flash, RealPlayer, Quicktime, and others: they can be manipulated into revealing your IP address. Similarly, we do not recommend installing additional addons or plugins into Tor Browser, as these may bypass Tor or otherwise harm your anonymity and privacy.

1. Tor will encrypt your traffic to and within the Tor network, but the encryption of your traffic to the final destination website depends upon on that website. To help ensure private encryption to websites, Tor Browser includes HTTPS Everywhere to force the use of HTTPS encryption with major websites that support it. However, you should still watch the browser URL bar to ensure that websites you provide sensitive information to display a blue or green URL bar button, include https:// in the URL, and display the proper expected name for the website. Also see EFF's interactive page explaining how Tor and HTTPS relate.

1. Tor Browser will warn you before automatically opening documents that are handled by external applications. DO NOT IGNORE THIS WARNING. You should be very careful when downloading documents via Tor (especially DOC and PDF files, unless you use the PDF viewer that's built into Tor Browser) as these documents can contain Internet resources that will be downloaded outside of Tor by the application that opens them. This will reveal your non-Tor IP address. If you must work with DOC and/or PDF files, we strongly recommend either using a disconnected computer, downloading the free VirtualBoxand  using it with a virtual machine image with networking disabled, or using Tails. Under no circumstances is it safe to use BitTorrent and Tor together, however.

1. Tor tries to prevent attackers from learning what destination websites you connect to. However, by default, it does not prevent somebody watching your Internet traffic from learning that you're using Tor. If this matters to you, you can reduce this risk by configuring Tor to use a Tor bridge relay rather than connecting directly to the public Tor network. Ultimately the best protection is a social approach: the more Tor users there are near you and the more diverse their interests, the less dangerous it will be that you are one of them. Convince other people to use Tor, too!

Be smart and learn more. Understand what Tor does and does not offer. This list of pitfalls isn't complete, and we need your help identifying and documenting all the issues.

MORE LINKS:

How To Access The Deep Web or DarkNet – A Beginner’s Guide

http://cryptorials.io/how-to-access-the-deep-web-or-darknet-a-beginners-guide/

The Darknet: a Fraudster's Paradise

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201703131051535121-darknet-cyber-crime/