Unchecky Prevents Software Installers from Installing Third Party Bundled Offers

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Unchecky Prevents Software Installers from Installing Third Party Bundled Offers

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Free software developers cannot make money by selling their products directly, but there is always an opportunity to earn revenue by teaming up with another party. For a fee, the developer will include a third party software in the installer of their free software so that the included third party software automatically installs on the system when the free software is installed. A common example of unwanted third party software are toolbars and trial software.

The practice is no longer limited to petty developers, as even legitimate software companies and previously reputed organizations like Download.com and Sourceforge have started indulging in it.

Experienced users can avoid falling into the trap by opting for custom installation, if it's provided, and carefully reading the text on each screen during the installation of the software. At some point, usually near the very beginning and just next to the license agreement screen, the installer will offer an option to decline the bundled offer.

Inexperienced users, on the other hand, will swiftly go through these options in an effort to hurry and end up installing software they don't need, or unwittingly changing their browser's default search provider and homepage.

A new free software called Unchecky claims to protect users from unwanted third party software installation by automatically unchecking unrelated offers such as potentially unwanted programs, offers to change your homepage or your search engine. Unchecky achieves this by forcing the installer to switch to custom installation mode, if available, and automatically opting out of bundled offers. Additionally, Unchecky warns the user when they accept a potentially unwanted offer.

Unchecky's author warns that the software might not support all installers especially those which are not released yet. The program runs as a service and can be enabled or disabled by running the installed executable. It's worth noting that Unchecky updates automatically, so you don't have to worry about running the latest version.

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The Big Fat List of Documentaries

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The Big Fat List of Documentaries

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Thousands of documentaries have been produced till date. A simple search for "documentaries" on Google brings hundreds of great results, among which are websites dedicated to documentaries such as Topdocumentary Films, Documentary Storm, Free Documentaries and Documentary Heaven that allow you to search and watch documentaries for free. Even more documentaries are available for viewing on YouTube, Netflix and elsewhere. But how do you find them?

DocuWiki is Internet's biggest resource for documentary lovers. The website serves as an index of documentary films and series on the Edonkey Network, originating from many broadcasters including the BBC, PBS a nd more. The website lists nearly every documentary that has been produced, and sorted by subject, publisher, year of release, narrator, language etc. Each documentary is accompanied by a brief description of its content, posters and screenshots from the video. Because DocuWiki also provides links to download these documentaries via the file sharing network, some may view the website as endorsing piracy. Regardless, it's still the best and the most resourceful encyclopedia of documentaries on the Internet today. The dedication and research that went into building the collection is unparalleled.

DocuWiki consist information about more than 6,000 documentaries. They are classified into 11 categories - Arts, Biography, Culture, Health-Medical, History, Nature, Science, Sociopolitical, Technology, Travel and War – each further classified into numerous sub-categories.

You can also browse for documentaries by name of the publisher, and the title of the show. For instance, BBC and PBS produces excellent documentaries under shows such as BBC Horizon and PBS Nova that are worth watching. If you have your favorite narrator, for instance, David Attenborough, you can find all documentaries that are narrated by him.

Once you have discovered a new documentary that you want to watch, search for the title of the documentary on any search engine and you will almost always find these shows streaming online on YouTube or on the publisher's website.

Don't know where to begin? Here is a list of some the best documentaries you can't afford to miss.

Physics

• Absolute Zero - BBC (series, 2 episodes)
• Light Fantastic - BBC (series, 4 episodes)
• Atom - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Time - BBC (series, 4 episodes)
• Invisible Worlds - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Shock and Awe - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Everything and Nothing - BBC (series, 2 episodes)
• Order and Disorder - BBC (series, 2 episodes)
• The Fabric of the Cosmos - PBS (series, 4 episodes)
• Elegant Universe - PBS NOVA (se ries, 3 episodes)
• The Secret Life of Chaos - BBC
• The Big Bang Machine - BBC
• Feynman: Fun to Imagine - BBC
• The Six Billion Dollar Experiment - BBC Horizon
• Do You Know What Time it is? - BBC Horizon
• How Long is a Piece of String? - BBC Horizon
• What is Reality? - BBC Horizon
• What is One Degree? - BBC Horizon
• To Infinity and Beyond - BBC Horizon
• What Happened Before the Big Bang - BBC Horizon
• What on Earth is wrong with Gravity - BBC Horizon
• Is Everything we Know about the Universe Wrong? - BBC Horizon
• The End of God - BBC Horizon
• Parallel Universes - BBC Horizon
• Molecules with Sunglasses - BBC Horizon
• Nanotopia - BBC Horizon

Biology

• The Shape of Life - PBS NOVA (series, 8 episodes)
• Evolution - PBS NOVA (series, 7 episodes)
• How to Grow a Planet - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Becoming Human - PBS NOVA (series, 3 episodes)
• The Origins of Us - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Inside the Human Body (series, 4 episodes)
• Into the Mind - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Superhuman - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Brain Story - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• The Brain: A Secret History - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Human Sensens - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• How to Build a Human - BBC (series, 4 episodes)
• First Life - BBC (series, 2 episodes)
• Wonders of Life - BBC (series, 5 episodes)
• The Secrets of the Mind - PBS NOVA
• The Ghost in Your Genes - BBC Horizon
• Fix Me - BBC Horizon
• How Does Your Memory Work - BBC Horizon
• Mad but Glad - BBC Horizon
• Don't Grow Old - BBC Horizon
• Are We Still Evolving? - BBC Horizo n
• The Secret You - BBC Horizon
• The Secret Life of your Body Clock - BBC Horizon

Geology

• Time Machine - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Earth, the Power of the Planet - BBC (series, 5 episodes)
• Journeys from the Center of the Earth - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Earth Story - BBC (series, 8 episodes)
• Journeys into the Ring of Fire (series, 4 episodes)
• The Beauty of Maps - BBC (series, 4 episodes)
• How the Earth Was Made - History Channel (series, 2 seasons)
• Cloudspotting - BBC
• Snowball Earth - BBC Horizon
• The Core - BBC Horizon
• IMAX - Journey to Amazing Caves (docu-film)

Astronomy

• The Planets - BBC (series, 8 episodes)
• Stephen Hawking's Universe - Discovery (series, 6 episodes)
• Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking - Discovery (series, 3 episodes)
• How the Universe Works - Discovery (series, 8 episodes)
• The Universe - History Channel (series, 5 seasons)
• Known Universe - NGC (series, 6 episodes)
• Wonders of the Solar System - BBC (series, 5 episodes)
• Wonders of the Universe - BBC (series, 4 episodes)
• Space - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• The Search For Life: The Drake Equation - BBC
• Titan A Place Like Home - BBC Horizon
• Bye Bye Planet Pluto - BBC Horizon
• The Death Star - BBC Horizon
• The Hawking Paradox - BBC Horizon
• Titan, A Place Like Home? - BBC Horizon
• Supermassive Blackholes - BBC Horizon
• Seeing Stars - BBC Horizon
• Death Of The Universe - NGC
• Origins - PBS Nova (series, 4 episodes)
• Welcome To Mars - PBS Nova
• Voyage To The Mystery Moon - PBS Nova
• Journey to the Edge of the Universe - NGC (docu-film)
• IMAX - Space Station (docu-film)
• IMAX - Hubble (docu-film)

Nature

• Private Life of Plants - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Life in the Undergrowth - BBC (series, 5 episodes)
• Nature's Great Events - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Frozen Planet - BBC (series, 7 episodes)
• The Blue Planet - BBC (series, 8 episodes)
• Planet Earth - BBC (series, 11 episodes)
• Human Planet - BBC (series, 8 episodes)
• EarthFlight - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Great Barrier Reef - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Madagascar - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Galápagos - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Yellowstone - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Wild China - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Wild Pacific - BBC (series, 5 episodes)
• Ganges - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Africa - BBC (series, 6 episo des)
• Life - BBC (series, 10 episodes)
• Life on Earth - BBC (series, 13 episodes)
• The Living Planet - BBC (series, 12 episodes)
• The Trials of Life - BBC (series, 12 episodes)
• Life in the Freezer - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• The Life of Birds - BBC (series, 10 episodes)
• The Life of Mammals - BBC (series, 10 episodes)
• Life in Cold Blood - BBC (series, 5 episodes)
• Wild Sex - NGC (series, 6 episodes)
• March of the Penguins (docu-film)

Mixed

• The Ascent of Man - BBC (series, 10 episodes)
• Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - PBS (series, 14 episodes)
• The Day the Universe Changed - BBC (series, 10 episodes)
• The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• The Human Animal - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• The Incredible Human Journey - BBC (series, 5 episodes )
• How Earth Made Us - BBC (series, 5 episodes)
• Chemistry, a Volatile History - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• The Story of Maths - BBC (series, 4 episodes)
• The Code - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Visions of the Future - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Connections - BBC (series, 3 seasons)
• Swarm - BBC (series, 2 episodes)
• Dara Ó Briain's Science Club - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Brave New World - Channel 4 (series, 5 episodes)
• Through the Wormhole - Discovery (series, 4 seasons)
• Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible - Discovery (series, 2 seasons)
• NatureTech (series, 3 episodes)
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (Richard Feynman)
• Explosions, How we Shook the World - BBC
• Afterlife: The Strange Science of Decay - BBC
• The Voice - BBC
• The Satellite Story - BBC
• Th e Story of One - BBC
• Do You See What I See? - BBC Horizon
• The Lost World of Lake Vostok - BBC Horizon
• Human v2.0 - BBC Horizon
• Moon for Sale - BBC Horizon
• Alien Planet - Discovery (docu-film)
• Home (docu-film)

War

• The World at War - (series, 26 episodes)
• Weird Weapons - History Channel (series, 2 episodes)
• Atlantic convoys - War at Sea (series, 4 episodes)
• Apocalypse: The Second World War (series, 6 episodes)
• Last Voices of WWI - History Channel (series, 6 episodes)
• Hitler's Warriors (series, 6 episodes)
• Fog of War (docu-film)
• Nuit et brouillard - Night and Fog (docu-short)
• Hearts and Minds (docu-film)
• Restrepo (docu-film)
• Armadillo (docu-film)
• Trinity and Beyond (docu-film)

Prehistory & earlier

• Walkin g with Sea Monsters - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Walking with Monsters - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Walking with Dinosaurs - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Walking with Beasts - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Walking with Cavemen - BBC (series, 4 episodes)
• The Mystery Of The Jurassic - BBC Horizon
• Stone Age Columbus - BBC Horizon
• The Day The Earth Almost Died - BBC Horizon.

Politics & Economics

• Commanding Heights - PBS NOVA (series, 3 episodes)
• The Ascent of Money - (series, 6 episodes)
• How Britain Made the Modern World - (series, 6 episodes)
• In Europa (series, 30 episodes)
• The Love of Money - BBC
• Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky (docu-film)
• Rebel with a Pause - Noam Chomsky (docu-film)
• The Shock doctrine - Naomi Klein (docu-film)
• Promises (docu-film)
• In side Job (docu-film)
• Chavez: Inside the Coup (docu-film)
• The two Escobars (docu-film)
• Taxi to the dark side (docu-film)
• Taking liberties (docu-film)
• The war on democracy (docu-film)
• Gasland (docu-film)
• Crude (docu-film)
• Globalization is Good (docu-film)
• The Corporation (docu-film)
• Wal-mart: the High Cost of Low Price (docu-film)
• Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room (docu-film)

Mixed subject

• The Virtual Revolution - BBC (series, 4 episodes)
• Civilization - BBC (series, 13 episodes)
• Science and Islam - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• Fry's Planet Word - BBC (series, 6 episodes)
• Human, All Too Human - BBC (series, 3 episodes)
• The NASA Missions : When We Left Earth - Discovery (series, 6 episodes)
• Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends - (series, 3 seasons)
• When Louis Met... - (series, 2 seasons)
• Up - (series, 7 docu-films)
• The Boy With the Incredible Brain
• The Century of the Self (series, 4 episodes)
• Woodstock (docu-film)
• Grizzly Man (docu-film)
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (docu-film)
• Defamation (docu-film)
• Transcendent Man (docu-film)
• We Live in Public (docu-film)
• Friends of Kim (docu-film)
• Lake of Fire (docu-film)
• Into Eternity (docu-film)
• The Machine That Made Us - BBC
• James May On The Moon - BBC
• Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstacy - BBC Horizon
• A War On Science: Intelligent Design - BBC Horizon
• All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace - BBC (series, 3 episodes)

Special cases

• Koyaanisqatsi (docu-film)
• Powaqqatsi (docu-film)
< li>Naqoyqatsi (docu-film)
• Chronos (docu-film)
• Baraka (docu-film)
• Samsara (docu-film)
• 51 Birch Street (docu-film)
• Our Daily Bread (docu-film)
• Rivers and Tides (docu-film)
• Dark Side of the Moon (docu-film, don't research it (spoilers!) just watch!)

Big thanks to the Redditor for compiling the list

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Call for Products: Be Showcased in our next 3D Mystery Metal Material Launch

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Call for Products: Be Showcased in our next 3D Mystery Metal Material Launch

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Have you ever wondered how we choose the products that are selected for showcase in our new materials launch? Have you ever wondered how you can be featured? Enter our weekend contest and your model could find it’s way to the home page in a material no one has ever seen before!

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Video: 90 Seconds of 3D Printed Gold Plated Brass

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Video: 90 Seconds of 3D Printed Gold Plated Brass

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Last week we announced the latest addition to our material offerings here at Shapeways, Gold Plated Brass!

On this episode of Shapeways Live, I interview Gabe, one of our materials geniuses here at HQ's in NYC. He shares his insights on the process and the perks of using this golden new member of the Shapeways material family.

Let us know what you're looking forward to making in this new material in the comments! 

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Just How Green Is Earth, Really?

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Just How Green Is Earth, Really?

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In the most literal sense of the word.

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These images were taken by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, a satellite run jointly, as the name suggests, by NASA and the NOAA. In these shots, the satellite is using a Visible-Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite, or VIIRS, to see the difference between vegetation-rich and arid land. It bounces beams off Earth and detects changes in its reflection, allowing it to see vegetation, since vegetation reflects infrared and near-infrared light in a different way than other materials. But it's even more useful than that; VIIRS is used to monitor not just the existence of vegetation, but how it changes and expands and contracts over time.

Check out the gallery above to see just how green va rious parts of the globe are.

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How To Get Rich In Your Country Of Choice [Infographic]

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How To Get Rich In Your Country Of Choice [Infographic]

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It's easy! Just inherit gobs of cash.

How do the rich get rich? The answer depends on geography.

This infographic, designed by studio BoldFace and published by Independent Newspapers, breaks down, for various regions, how the rich earned their dough. In the United States, it's a landslide: 67 percent of wealthy survey respondents said they made it big by "savings through earnings." In the Middle East, meanwhile, "inheritance" is just barely the most popular way of striking it rich, with 49 percent of respondents saying they got their dough passed on to them. Since the graphic was published in Irish newspapers, there's also of ton of data on how Ireland's rich accumulated their wealth.

The infographic still leaves a couple que stions open. How is "wealthy" being defined here? And what can we attribute to the differences: culture, laws, or something else? Either way, go ahead and use this as your field guide to your very own cash-filled swimming pool.

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The Private Yacht of Kitchen Sinks Has Room For Weeks of Dirty Dishes

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The Private Yacht of Kitchen Sinks Has Room For Weeks of Dirty Dishes

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If you can't help but stare in awe whenever you get the chance to peek inside a professional kitchen at a restaurant, you'll be ecstatic to hear that KWC's Waterstation is actually designed for home use. Albeit a home with a very big kitchen and enough disposable income to afford a $15,000 sink, but it's nice to know such luxury exists for when you make it big.

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Robotic Kite Power Could Turn The Sky Into A Wind Farm

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Robotic Kite Power Could Turn The Sky Into A Wind Farm

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Google's acquisition of a kite power generator manufacturer suggests a strong future for the technology.

Google has acquired a Bay Area technology company that generates power through wind turbines attached to robotic kites. The news comes just a couple weeks after the company, Makani Power, completed the first fully autonomous flight of a kite power system.

How flying generators work: the kite flies in a circle, off nothing more than lift and wind, and uses that motion to push air over its propellers, which in turn generate electricity. The energy is then transmitted down a tether attached to a landing station, dubbed the "spar buoy< /a>." Makani claims that the system generates more energy than conventional turbines and costs less to build.

Why is Google interested? Google uses a tremendous amount of electricity, and has copped to being a little embarrased by how much fossil fuel it uses. Google actively seeks out renewable energy, and has invested in wind farms before. Efficient, futuristic renewable energy harvested by flying robots? Ideal.

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Coaches are highest paid public employees

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Coaches are highest paid public employees

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Deadspin made a straightforward map that shows the highest paid public employee in each state.

Based on data drawn from media reports and state salary databases, the ranks of the highest-paid active public employees include 27 football coaches, 13 basketball coaches, one hockey coach, and 10 dorks who aren't even in charge of a team.

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Water-Activated LED Wall: Sounds Dangerous, Looks Beautiful

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Water-Activated LED Wall: Sounds Dangerous, Looks Beautiful

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Water and electricity: historically, not a great combo! But Antonin Fourneau, a French artist and engineer, combines both to remarkable ends in his installation, Water Light Graffiti, which landed in New York this week.

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