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Get the Windows Operating Systems & Applications free throughout your college with Microsoft Imagine

As Quoted in the Microsoft Imagine's website - "Microsoft Imagine connects students with the tools, resources, and experiences they need to elevate their skills for today's working world. Whether it's building a game, designing an app or launching a project, Microsoft Imagine helps students develop their ideas and boldly bring them to life." Microsoft provides Free Software and Operating Systems to certified schools and institutions to help the students with their skills and career. You head to the My School's Webstore  page to search and find your school and the software available for your school. Once you find your school and click on the link for your school's webstore, it'll redirect you to a separate page with all the tools, software and operating systems available for your school. The following is an example link  for the webstore of  Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). As you can see in the following image, the webstore provides var

Outlook Tasks: node based/ tree filtering

Microsoft Outlook is by far the best email service provider which provides lots of customizations for the user. One of such features is to view similar/related emails/tasks in groups. We can use Outlook tasks windows to create, assign and have a track of all the tasks that you need for a project. But if you're involved in too many projects or are the manager of too many projects, having a track & identifying all the different tasks based on different criteria can be difficult. To help with this, Outlook has a feature called  "Group by box" when your view is set to "list view".  Open Outlook task pane and change the view settings to your desired view. Then right-click on one of the columns headers to select an option "Group by box (1)". The drag and drop the desired column header(2) to sort the view 

Gmail: combine multiple filters

Gmail is currently the most basic email provider that almost everyone uses. So how can one organize their basic email provider so that it'll be easy to search and find emails? To help with this, Gmail has features like tabs & categories , labels to organize emails into different sections/tabs with custom categories and labels. But even with this manually moving emails into tabs or manually assigning categories and labels can be tiresome. So, here is where " filters " come to rescue. In Gmail, you can create rules to automatically move/assign emails to specific folder/labels using filters. But even this can be over-used if you don't know how to organize all you filters. So here is a video that shows you how you can combine multiple filters into a single rule.

Project Fractal by Autodesk to upload customizable dynamo scripts

Autodesk has created a website separately for users to upload and play with customizable dynamo scripts called Project Fractal . This tool lets you upload & view your parametric dynamo scripts/design . You can even see multiple iterations of a specific design to choose which iteration best suits your need. Unfortunately this website needs WebGL to run, lately, I'm getting an error while trying to view the example files in project fractal in chrome & I'm being presented with an error saying "Requires WebGL". Using Firefox would be the best option that worked well for me. Here is a getting started video that shows the capabilities of Project fractal and Dynamo