What are /r/humblebundles' favorite Products & Services?

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The only music editing software the average person could likely ever need would be Cakewalk Sonar, which used to be $499 but is now free. See here: https://www.bandlab.com/

edit: and this, combined with free VST instruments will do most anything.

Private Internet Access is pretty good. It's probably worth getting the $15 tier for a years subscription to PIA alone.

Heard good things about SpiderOak as well, but am unfamiliar with them. Same with ProtonMail for the most part. Prey, I think, has a free tier which has good reviews, so I'm not to sure about the subscription.

Dashlane looks good, but I prefer 1Password.

Don't know anything about the others.

The last Willey "for dummies" series I got was the how to land an IT job one and most of them were easy to read and had some decent pointers. That being said I'm always skeptical on getting stock market books. I own The intelligent investor and also have listened to Money Management Skills on the great courses audible series and I can say that phrase I keep hearing the most is that "you can't beat the market".

The average person who goes on etrade or Robin hood doesn't have the same resources as those higher up do with computers that can process hundreds of trades in the blink of an eye or potential insider sources . We also get emotional over stocks and find it hard to disassociate ourselves from our losses and boast about our gains. Getting someone else to manage your portfolio is also costly and you can most likely get better gains as long as you diversify your stocks in a mutual index fund. That's just a bit of what I learned and I suggest getting those 2 books/audiobooks that I recommend. I still believe the dummies books will be good, but from what I read, you'll have much more stress trying to maximize gains individually actively rather than take a backseat in a well diversified portfolio

I was let down by this bundle purchase ! I purchased it mainly for snagit and camtasia , Snagit is really useful and for me it is a must install on any system I use ! so I purchased this bundle to have a copy on my home PC , considering that this bundle just came out today ,you expect that you are buying the latest version of Snagit and Camtasia 9 , right ? WRONG ! there is a newer version of snagit 13 and its called snagit 2018 , and camtasia 9 has a newer 2018 version ! Guess what happens when you register the products on their website ? it will prompt you with : OH HELLO , YOU APPLICATION IS OUT OF DATE , HOW ABOUT YOU BUY THE UPGRADE PACKAGE FOR JUST 24,99$ !! or 99,99$ for camtasia ! Seriously , what a rip off.

What encouraged me even more to purchase this bundle , was VyprVPN , because I know that sometime in the future I will be visiting China and that I might have a use for it there , guess what ? Yes I know you need a credit card , I can read , but do you know what they do not tell you ? well it Must be redeemed before October 16th, 2018. Really .. I paid for this key .. you are forcing me to start my one year when I do not need it ? how about a disclaimer about that ? Outfox also has same limitation of Must be redeemed before October 16th, 2018 , I do not care about outfox because I know it is just pure BS.

Sure , Might have been my fault for not researching snagit 13 and 2018 , but it is clearly a cash grab and to make you upgrade for additional 125$ , but that restriction on when to redeem your purchase is just unacceptable and should be lifted.

Guys, I understand receiving emails like this is stressful, but cyber security is an INCREDIBLY difficult thing to get perfectly right, and from the sounds of things, hardly anything of note was even exposed. Most companies wouldn't even bother to mention this to their customers at all, and some of the negative responses I'm seeing here are exactly why that happens. The fact you heard anything about it at all is something to be celebrated.

I strongly recommend anyone who got one of these emails to go here and put in the email attached to their humble accounts. That site is set up by a cybersecurity expert who buys up and otherwise obtains all those big black market credential lists that are going around, and uses them to notify people when their logins are public knowledge. Attacks like this are usually a sign that your stuff has been exposed elsewhere, so be vigilant!

https://gg.deals/game/train-of-afterlife/

according to this, HB never had a bundle with this game. Your culprit is either Fanatical (as known as Bundle Stars) Groupees, and Indiegala.

I just purchased it, some of subscription services need to be redeemed before a deadline:

• DigitalOcean $50 credit Must be redeemed before August 1st, 2018
• Postman Pro Must be redeemed before May 17th, 2019
• PyCharm Professional Edition 6 mos Must be redeemed before August 9th, 2018
• GitKraken Pro Must be redeemed before June 15th, 2018

The egghead.io sub (one of the main reasons I bought the bundle) doesn't have a redemption time limit. Nothing else except for those noted above either.

Hope this helps!

Okay so I bought the $15 bundle for anyone who is interested here is the info about the keys. Looks like if you get the $15 dollar bundle you don't get $1 month of PIA from the $1 bundle (for anyone wondering).

Prey Anti-Theft Pro

Go to Prey to redeem your Prey Anti-Theft Pro key

Follow the above link to claim your Prey Anti-Theft Pro key.

For more detailed redemption instructions, click here.

Note: 6-Month subscription

System Mechanic

Reveal your iolo Technologies key

Redemption Instructions

Note: 1-Year License. New Users Only

Must be redeemed before September 1st, 2018

ProtonMail Plus $25 credit

Reveal your Proton Technologies key

Redemption Instructions

Vipre Advanced Security

Reveal your Vipre key

Redemption Instructions

Note: 1-Year subscription

TrackOFF Standard

Reveal your TrackOFF key

Redemption Instructions

Note: 1-Year subscription

Must be redeemed before December 1st, 2018

Dashlane Premium

Reveal your Dashlane key

Redemption Instructions

Note: 1-Year subscription. New Users Only

Must be redeemed before December 31st, 2018

AdGuard Premium

Reveal your AdGuard Software key

Redemption Instructions

Note: 1-Year subscription

Private Internet Access - 1 year

Reveal your London Trust Media key

Redemption Instructions

SpiderOak One Backup

Reveal your Spider Oak key

Redemption Instructions

Redemption Instruction Video

Note: Subscription duration is 365 days with auto-renewal. Unlimited devices. Limit one redemption per account. License will overwrite any existing licenses during redemption and remaining credit will not be refunded. Storage limit is 2TB. Android and iOS apps are read-only (cannot write to datastore).

If you`re buying this (and it IS a good bundle), beware of the entry in your key list that proudly claims itself to be:-

"Parallels Toolbox for PaintShop® Pro".

It has sweet F.A. to do with Paintshop Pro and is in fact This software :-

You HAVE to enter credit card details in order to enable your "free year", BUT... (and its a big BUT..)

Its a recurring charge...

Sneaky as **** huh? I NEARLY fell for it..

I was caught out like this once before with a years VPN service that had a recurring payment, luckily for me they were pretty cool about it and refunded me when I noticed it, (VyprVPN), but not all firms are equal...

Just be aware that its NOT a Corel Plug-in, its a crappy "Windows Toolbox" (for want of a better term) and it will cost you if you don`t cancel before the years up, IF you choose to install it.

My two bits:

• The licensing for Camtasia and SnagIt looks pretty forgiving. You should be able to install it onto two systems at the same time for a single user. It also says you can transfer the license to another person or another system. It doesn't get much better than that these days except for open source software.
• DisplayFusion is the shit for multi-monitor setups and customizing the look of your login screen and background wizardry. It is also a must for people switching from portrait and landscape modes on desktop computers. Multiple installations are fine as long as you log into Steam on both machines.
• VoiceBot is useful if you want some limited voice recognition that doesn't require sending your voice off. It uses the Desktop Recognition Engine that's been present since at least Windows 7. Again, multiple installations are fine as long as you log into Steam on both machines.
• I can't wrap my head around Outfox. How does adding an extra step in your gaming experience speed up your gaming? No thanks.
• Reflector 3 doesn't actually require a credit card during the redemption process. It's part of the $1 tier. They probably just don't want people buying dozens of copies and reselling them. You probably can't purchase two of these bundles with the same credit card.
• If you purchased AirParrot 2 in a previous bundle, you can stream your desktop using AirParrot 2 to Reflector 3 and infinitely nest your screen into itself. Super useful! I found I could stream games, Google Play and YouTube clips from my phone to my computer. Netflix wouldn't stream. My best use scenario would be when someone wants to show their photos to 2 or more people at a cafe. I'd have them stream it to the laptop instead.
• I remember making a hard pass on VyprVPN several years ago after researching. I don't remember why but I think it had something to do with what I find a creepy combination of it being in Texas, the company also running GigaNews USENET, and VPN logging.

If you don't want to pay for Snagit (which I've heard is great, no shade towards them) I cannot recommend ShareX enough; I use it every single day for work and it's just flawless, with constant updates that keep making it better and better. Free and Open-Source, best of everything.

Don't worry, we still are. We can be disappointed in Humble while still mocking people who blame IGN for literally everything.

I like VyprVPN and heard good things about DisplayFusion, so this purchase made sense for me. It might not for others, but it seems better quality than most software bundles, even those before IGN's acquisition.

Anyone who bought the $15 bundle know if the Private Internet Access Key expires after certain amount of days? I still have until December until my current sub to PIA ends so was wondering if the key expires or not.

It's a program called Depressurizer.

I use it mainly for smaller random games that I got for $0.50 over my time of using steam. I have a total of 430 games so I'd rather my "game" tab not be a cluster to scroll through.

It's first tuesday every month & has been that way for quite some time now

Humble said they are changing from friday to tuesday for months before the change

https://gg.deals/game/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/

3 days 22 hours 43 minutes & counting down

Maybe as a good all-in-one, but if you're wanting to start recording there's OBS for recording and tons of free video editors that could probably be just as good or better and free.

> According to the VPN website there's no mention of not logging or collecting data so it probably safe to assume they do.

"During our normal course of duties, Connectify does NOT throttle, rate-limit, monitor, record, or store the content of our paying customer’s Internet activities."

And

"We do not log the contents of your data sent or received through the Service. The following user specific logging data are captured by the servers: (1) the time and network location from which a Speedify connection was made; (2) the amount of data transferred, and (3) the duration of the Speedify connection. This information enables Connectify to enforce our Terms, troubleshoot, and improve performance."

Those are from their Privacy Policy. Then I've read elsewhere, though I don't see it on their site, that what data they do collect (connection time, etc) is deleted after 7 days.

Further, it looks like only "a few" (a review said only the Amsterdam server) of their servers allow P2P stuff, so that's something to factor in if you're looking at a VPN to torrent stuff.

I've only noticed the wikipedia list, which does not have OS/metacritic etc., just publisher & year of release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Humble_Bundles#Humble_Monthly_Bundles

I cross-reference with the Steam store to get further data, but it certainly would be nice to have something more convenient.

> see what old, unactivated games are out there

"Unactivated"? I'm not understanding this part. You mean games you bought via Humble Monthly but never activated for whatever reason?

Edit: I just saw a post in this subreddit from yesterday saying that that wikipedia page has been taken down. Damn those moderators; they've been far too zealous about deleting pages ever since wikipedia was new (that's why many of us gave up on contributing).

Anyway they gave a link to a cached copy of the page ( http://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_Humble_Bundles ) that apparently won't last long, and you can probably see the prior contents of that page permanently on archive.org, if that list with minimal data is still of interest (it was to me....)

In terms of privacy I'd definitely go with NordVPN, and regardless it's probably the more solid choice out of the two. VyprVPN does keep logs from what I've heard, I assume that's something you'd like to avoid as well.

VyprVPN works very well, from my experience. Someone else mentioned that it keeps logs, but at the very least, it let get me through China's Great Firewall with fairly good speeds when I visited, so there's that.

Others seem to really like DisplayFusion.

I contacted them about the same problem. According to the support, we should be fine:

>Hi Simon,
>
>We were not provided any deadlines for Private Internet Access so you should be good to redeem your one year Private Internet Access key in September when your subscription to the other service ends.
>
>Best regards,
>
>-Jimmy
Humble Bundle

I got one too and it is what you posted.

People can use this site to see if their email address has been compromised. I didn't realize mine had been compromised until I checked. Apparently my info was leaked through something called river city media spam list? Never heard of it.

Anyway, like OP said, 2 step verification is good and changing your passwords consistently is also probably a good idea.

The Google Play Store version doesn't work on Android 11 either (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.revolution.BSII&hl=en_GB&gl=US, see the reviews), so this has been abandoned by the developers.

my pleasure , but to be fair , someone @ VyprVPN has contacted me via private messages on reddit and gave me her email address to communicate and to provide me with a restriction free key , still did not get it , but it seems like she is willing to cooperate. I offered her to deactivate the key that i got off humble bundle and give me a new one that has no restrictions , ill keep you posted if your interested to know what happens.

Alex from Connectify, the makers of Speedify. You're right about the free VPNs. We're not one of them, though. We charge yearly subscriptions so we don't need to do any of the creepy advertising stuff that free VPNs do to pay their bills.

If you are on an Android device I recommend SmartAudioBook Player. This app is free to use but after 30 days you can pay a one time fee of 2 bucks to keep the advanced features.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ak.alizandro.smartaudiobookplayer&hl=en_US&gl=US

It gets really difficult to find things in Google Books once you have a large library, unfortunately.

I'm currently using Moon+ Reader on a dedicated tablet, but I miss the cloud syncing from Google.

IMPORTANT ! This bundle contained 25$ of proton credit for 1$, and since a single proton account could use as many codes as one would have, this was a big problem :

Apparently the bundle was severly abused (since it's like every proton service was at -96%), especially since Proton credit could be used to buy ProtonVPN subscriptions. So the proton credit codes are now limited to one per proton account, BUT IT IS NOT MENTIONNED ON HUMBLE BUNDLE.

(Source here)

EDIT : Changed a sentence to avoid any misunderstanding.

This IFTTT applet sends you an email anytime someone posts about a free game on /r/gamedeals. I find that one a lot more useful, easier to set up, and simpler to understand.

If you don't want to pay, have you tried taking a look at the libreoffice suite of programs? they are completely free https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/who-are-we/ i think its better than the ashampoo office as I didn't find office any better than libre, but libre is free, idk about how good the win10 optimizer or backup pro are.(but your question was mainly directed towards office) I mean I guess the play would be to install libreoffice and then if you don't like it, to then start looking into ashampoo office 8

...and for the intermediate/advanced level, my favorite is egghead.io.

For total beginners, I absolutely recommend their “Practical Git for Everyday Personal Use”. It’s a game-changing life-skill for any time you’re working with text-files (html, css, JavaScript, notes to self, JSON, Markdown, etc. - most things you would work with that aren’t pictures or Word documents.)

test this -> i use for read pdf from google

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft.moonreader&hl=it&gl=US

Not to complain but yet another book bundle about cybersecurity while not making an actual cybersecurity bundle. Sadface. :(

It was a really good deal in 2018 to get not only a good VPN service (Private Internet Access), a good antivirus/firewall software (Vipre) and an adblocker (Adguard for phone) but you got a bunch more stuff too all for 15 bucks or less for a year!

I purchased The Secret Life of Programs a few months ago (physical and digital copies), and have found it to be an informative guide on explaining how computers work from the application layer down to the physical (circuit) level. Obviously it doesn't explain every single detail, but it's enough to provide a medium-high level overview of the topics, and I definitely gained some new knowledge from it.

I haven't bought any of the other books (yet), so I don't know how good/bad they are.

A note about The Art of Assembly Language, however: apparently it doesn't teach Intel x86 assembly language (what most people think of when they think assembly language). Rather, it teaches high-level assembly language. Reviews on Amazon also state the same thing.

That aint even the half of it, a couple of weeks before that they had a Software bundle with Private Internet Access year subscription for less money.

PIA is better than Vypr in my opinion so even though I have both, I'm still gonna stick with PIA.

You should have taken PIA while you had the chance, because even though they are located in the 5 eyes, they keep no logs or personal identifying info. That said, Nord VPN also keeps no records and is outside the 5 eyes so it's better. VyprVPN, although is outside the 14 eyes, keeps users' logs.

Go with VyprVPN if all you're concerned about is security and bypassing ISP blocks and throttles, but Nord if you want privacy and torrent downloads.

No, Wube Software have stated that they will never participate in any sales [1]. I suspect this also includes bundles like humble bundle.
Although the 20% discount from being a humble monthly subscriber can be applied if you buy the game from the humble store [2].

1: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-140
2: https://i.imgur.com/l9B4DTd.png

I make web games! See here, no email required:

www.theorbium.com and install Bean Grower to see how I was able to use a few assets from around the 'net and a bundle.

And I've got a whole browser-based game engine I've been working on since 2013. Refactoring it in Svelte at the moment.

I haven't read any of the books, but I'd say get at least the $1 tier, even if you have a passing interest.

I'm amazed that https://www.freecodecamp.org/ hasn't been suggested in this thread. It's a completely free course and will get you to the point where most, if not all of these books will become helpful.

Today I stumbled upon a free Kindle Python book set from Amazon here. Maybe it might interest you?

These books seem like those overpriced ones that a professor makes you buy. You will never ever take a look inside unless you have to.

I've read a few books about data vizualization. This one from the bundle has zero reviews on goodreads or amazon. If you look through the table of contents, it deals with the very basics about visualizations. Nothing special here. Many much more renowned books have been written about this years ago.

Hard skip for me. The time you spent is much more valuable than you would ever get out of these books.

You cannot be sure. It is a trust issue. It depends on your country, whether you live under an authoritarian regime, etc. Maybe if you live in Germany, then you don't really need a VPN for daily browsing.

From , you can see the location is used as an argument:

>You will often see VPN services claim that their VPN can make you fully anonymous online. This is not true, see for example, the tracking issue discussed previously. Full anonymity with a VPN service is technically impossible because even though the sites you visit will not know your true IP address, the VPN provider will ALWAYS know your true IP. Therefore, while you can certainly sign up for ProtonVPN anonymously (using an anonymous ProtonMail email address), because you are connecting to our servers, we will know your true IP address.
>
>Therefore, ProtonVPN’s anonymity doesn’t come from a technical guaranty, but from a weaker legal guaranty. Under Swiss law, we cannot be forced to log your IP address, and therefore even though we technically have access to your IP addresses, we cannot be legally obligated to log it and turn it over. This is rather unique to Switzerland and one of the reasons we decided to base ProtonVPN in Switzerland.

That's a great point. Comcast deliberately slows down Netflix because getting money from subscribers isn't enough for them.

Hiding your traffic as encrypted unknown traffic with a smaller entity means that Comcast can't put the effort into specifically throttling it. That means your Netflix will come through quicker as they don't know it is Netflix traffic.

I'd use the sliders to pay only for Speedify if you buy this. All that other stuff is a thin layer of shit on functionality that's already provided in the operating system.

edit: Speedify seems slow, maybe too slow for media (i.e. Netflix) tunnelling. If you try to torrent they make you reconnect to a different server. I tried downloading a Linux ISO and I'm getting 1.2MBps vs 3.00MBps on a super sketchy Russian VPN. Still probably worth the beat the average price.

edit: And their redemption method seems to have a huge security hole in it. People could easily redeem for free. They must know that given how obvious the hole is.

I wouldn't. I was just researching and they seem pretty shady.

"Hotspot Shield VPN was directly identified in an academic paper for “actively injecting JavaScript codes using iframes for advertising and tracking purposes” with their Android VPN app. Furthermore, analysis of Hotspot Shield VPN’s source code revealed they “actively use more than 5 different third-party tracking libraries.” They were also exposed for redirecting user traffic to e-commerce domains, such as and through partner networks (See study here.). Users also complain about fraudulent activity after purchasing their paid VPN service. Also troubling is their Privacy and Security Policy which includes: third-party data sharing, IP address sharing, tracking, web browsing data collection, and geographical information." - from VPN WARNING List

"Contrary to popular belief, Zachtronics is not just me, and the other people that work here also have their own ideas for games" - Zach Barth

https://itch.io/blog/96211/zach-barth-on-how-zachtronics-have-shocked-and-surprised-with-eliza

Here's my collection of multiplayer games: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32660802-Intro-Gaming-Significant-Other/

They're divided into 3 categories to help on what type of game you're looking for.

You might want to look into IFTTT, it's an automation program that's used for stuff like this by using very simple logic (called recipes). I know for a fact that one "recipe" exists that keeps an eye on /r/gamedeals for when a free game is released.

Amazon kindle. go with glowlight or higher. I find eink has way less stress on the eyes for long periods of reading.

used market you can get these sub $50 or $100 new. The newer the model, you will get faster page turns / longer battery life

these also have the advantage that they support overdrive and you can take out tons of free books from the libary.

For your existing books, you can use calibre to convert from one format to any other format.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

Yes, but not without the help of an image editor. From what I understand from this quickly Googled video, you render a short video in the .jpeg image format, and in whatever folder you save it to, you'll get a bunch of images that represent each frame of your .GIF image. Then open it in an editor that supports saving in the .gif format (like GIMP, which is free) and work from there.

Are you kidding, did you fall and hit your head as a child or do you seriously think that you can just imagine numbers as a way to prove something?

In case you still don't understand.

So who exactly did teach you math or geography?

Just give up dude, it's clear you don't understand anything about the things you are talking about when you try to compare the sales numbers vs the population of the world/USA.
What you are doing is kinda like saying that winning $1 million on the lottery is a big thing because the GDP of China is $11.2 trillion.

I think so. Publisher is a decent publisher & there's a lot of info there. I haven't read any of the books yet though so I can't confirm. You may also want to check out /r/LearnPython as a resource. I've also seen this recommended, though I haven't gone through the deck yet.

In AU, The Humble Bundle that had Condemned blacked out for us, I just changed my region via an extension and it unlocked, The key worked fine in AU

Almost 100% of North American keys work on Australian Steam, HM2 & Hatred are the only ones I have heard of not working

I get the vast majority of my games as NA keys from digital retailers and input them to Australian Steam

Atm I am getting keys from the GMG Bday Sale with the GMGBDAY code adding extra discount

Edit: Never change your region when going to Steam

https://gg.deals/game/metro-exodus/

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press "bundles" & there you will see for how much longer is this choice live

1 day 22 hours 1 minute & counting right now

> Their winter sale just started a few days ago https://gg.deals/deal/humble-store-winter-sale-2021/

Nearly every time the "there are no bundles!" posts come up, its usually because they are having a store sale, usually with some games at historical low.

Sure its nice to have game bundles, but these people act like Humble has gotten out of the entire games business altogether, just because there's more book and comic bundles now.

U can try ebay, but do not email the person the serial keys because that is against their terms and conditions. Also, the buyer can easily use your key and claim it doesnt work. What u got to do to have some sort of seller protection by physically mailing the buyer a piece of paper with the serial key. Seriously.

Its easier to just trade.

/r/GameTrade and /r/steamgameswap

also

https://www.indiegala.com/trades

Keep an eye on Groupees. Mostly they do forgettable indie music bundles, but sometimes they do good comic bundles. Comics are usually drm-free downloadable cbz or pdf. They normally give you an option to donate a set percentage to a specific charity or just give Groupees 100%.

Groupees also actually encourages key-trading. They even have set up so you can trade digital comics.

It's video- and audio-editing software. Kdenlive is vastly superior on multiple levels in my experience in memory management, though inferior when it comes to drag-&-drop/WYSIWYG-style editing. In my opinion, this isn't really worth it when VEGAS Pro 15 was bundled years ago for half of the price, if one is willing to learn how to use open-source software instead.

They were lifetime licenses for their respective versions. I actually still have that exact SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 12 key, tucked away in a spreadsheet. I only used the VEGAS Pro 15 key and never touched the rest as I use Audacity for all of my audio needs. If you have unused game keys or other content available, we could conduct a trade. If you don't, I would strongly recommend Audacity and Kdenlive for all of your basic media-editing needs.

Cakewalk is pretty OK for free https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

Bandwalk also has a free tier but it has other issues (like needing an internet connection to work)

If you just want to get familiar with it, they offer a community edition for free. The paid features basically boil down to extended support if you're doing data science (numby, matplot lib, etc) or web development (django, flask, extensions for also doing JS).

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/features/

Are they EPUB? If so, just about any EPUB reader will work for reading, and most will have ways to change the font and size.

I upload my EPUBS to my OneDrive and access there through my reader on my iPad. I use Documents by Readdle (https://readdle.com/documents) to read.

I gave my key away to someone I knew from last time. Smart, right? Reported only a 3MBps connection at the best of times. You can remove the CC reauthorization right away. Apparently VyprVPN is also lazy about purging non-subscribed users and you can continue to "accidentally" use it for free after your free year is up before you get culled.

Most of those also have a limited time to redeem keys (I REALLY wish Humble would actually mention somewhere when that's the case)

• Backblaze (6-month sub for new users only) apparently must be redeemed within 15 days of installing the program.
• VyprVPN (1-year sub for new users only) must be redeemed by 5 May.
• Dashlane (1-year sub for new users only) must be redeemed by 30 June.
• ShieldApps Webcam Blocker and Ransomware Defender (both 1-year subs for new users only) must be redeemed by 31 August.

...definitely not the best way to spend $20.

I use the Smart AudioBook Player for listening and WiFi File Transfer Pro for transfers. Both have a free and a paid version and it was worth it for me to pay the couple bucks each for the full feature versions.

I use Moon+ Reader Pro on Android. Here's the non-pro (free) version; I upgraded for a few more features, no ads, and to support development (and it doesn't hurt that I regularly have free Google Play credit from surveys).

If something is free, then you are the product. Take Facebook for example. If privacy is important to you, I highly suggest you buy a VPN subscription. They're quite cheap these days, I just renewed my subscription with NordVPN for $89 for three years.

About a year ago I switched from NordVPN to PIA, and I've found it to be a little more reliable. I would have weird connection issues on NordVPN sometimes, requiring me to disconnect and reconnect to their servers. Almost all issues I've had with PIA's connections have been because of temporary internet dropouts on my end. I also feel like PIA has been faster, though I don't have any actual speed test numbers to back that up.

There plenty VPNs to choose from. If your a beginner you can try TunnelBear, ProtonVPN, , etc for free. When you get used to the basics, you can pay for premium VPNs (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, etc) which you usually start around $2-$8 per month.

You can also read them on your computer. :) Just use CDisplay.

On any random Android tablet you can use Perfect Viewer. I read comics on my tablet all the time. :)

Hmm I was really looking forward to buy this bundle especially for the Videostudio Pro but gaah... After reading this on trustpilot I'm not so sure anymore.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.corel.com?fbclid=IwAR1EJXSeM9D4sBaK5Le3vM\_3caTpCdo59say40w8EwqWoacKA1hCoMW4-FI

Do you guys have any more input about this. It's only 6 hours left for this bundle but I can't decide if I should or not. Is it all a bloody mess?

Suffice it to say, you will also need to buy a Raspberry Pi or Arduino since all but one of the books deal with manipulating these devices. I had a RPI version one many years ago and used it as a Linux web server. I'd imagine these books are more geared towards those who want to write Python scripts to manipulate the GPIO pins (or whatever they are called) to automate things. A typical script would would monitor the weather at weather.com. If temp reaches 30C, send an electrical current to this pin. If you have an LED attached to it, then it will light up.

Nothing you can't do with modern apps on a smart phone but if you are a maker, you might like these types of projects.

Check your email addresses at https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to see which ones have been compromised by hackers. Every account that belongs to you needs a completely unique password. Never reuse old passwords or duplicate passwords across different accounts, otherwise once one is compromised all the rest are too. Good luck.

Is it the authentication SMS for the humble bundle account itself ?

Support should be able to send you SMS manually or something (happened to some users before).

If you are not using authenticator for humble bundle yet, do so as soon as you'll be able to change your account settings. Email authentication is inferior just because you have to wait for response first.

Also instead of authenticator app, for all authenticators use qr scanner app first and save the results. That way you can keep the backup yourself and you don't have to rely on sync and other automated stuff (easy to load into new phone as well).

My preferred QR scanner app for android:
QRbot
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.qrbot&hl=en\_US&gl=US

Are you listening using a music player? Dedicated audiobook listening apps should remember your place within a file exactly.

If you're on Android, I've used Smart Audiobook Player for years: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ak.alizandro.smartaudiobookplayer

Hey, I believe it might have been you I was thinking always posting a DL script, and I ran into this automation framework the other day. I was wondering if you know it and might be interested in making a script for that?

I haven't used it yet, but I'd definitely would start using it for this. https://n8n.io/

If you're looking for a great PDF tool check out PDF-XChange Editor ... Note that there is a paid version but the free version is great. (I'm no shill I just dig it. Haven't touched Adobe or Foxit stuff in years.)

Top Cow stopped producing Tomb Raider comics back in 2005. Dark Horse eventually started a new Tomb Raider series around 2013 or so, and they republished the Top Cow stuff as their Tomb Radier Archives volumes (see https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V55PGMS).

Dark Horse hasn't done a Humble Bundle in a long time, so I wouldn't expect to ever see the Tomb Raider comics here in the near future, but you never know.

SOLVED

Turns out that NordVPN's "Threat Protection" feature was blocking the login request to HumbleBundle as well as the method for claiming games from Humble Choice. Coincidentally, it also interfered with calls to Google Cloud (Firebase in particular).

So a tip for those who have NordVPN (or some other threat protection software) -- try turning it off for sign in.

I have a Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Plus and I love it for comics. 10-inch razor-sharp QHD screen screen, massive battery life, especially if you turn off wifi and just read your drm-free copies, microSD card slot. Only problem is that particular model is discontinued. I think the most direct successor is the Lenovo Yoga Smart Tab which seems to have a lot of similar features and is in the same price range but the screen is slightly lower resolution

i'm assuming it's this one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staiapps.humblereminder

can't find the same on ios

From the book’s description on Amazon:

> Through this clear, practical guide, discover the many ways crystals can cure physical, emotional, and spiritual problems, divine the future, and enhance psychic powers.

The first eight volumes are on Kindle Unlimited, so that's probably the cheapest (legal) way to read those right now unless you can get them from your local library. For the rest, you could compare prices using Kodansha's "Where to Read" links or wait for another bundle, Comixology sale, etc.

I initially received a membership as a gift then renewed and found out that the choices were getting crappier or I already had the game usually from a bundle (Humble, fanatical, etc), it was a free game on Epic or I had purchased the game for cheap using gg.deals or istheranydeal.com .

Feb's humble bundle just came out, the headliner is BL3 (purchased the Ultimate Edition on Humble for like $15 a year or so ago); None of the other 7 games sound interesting. The new Humble Collection (used to be Trove) is a waste on those games I bought previously and are now free with subscription. I got Forager, Void Bastards and Wizard Legend in a Humble Bundle "build your own bundle" in May 2020.

I don't want this month but so tired of pausing and having trash selections that I will redeem the remaining months and give the keys to my teenager.

At least on XBGP I can play any a ton of headliners/AAA titles including a bunch from EA games for $10/mo.

No problemo

Also change "morkredd" as that game was in humble choice already (May 2021) & I dont think they would repeat that game

If a headliner - sure they did repeats in the past,but I dont think morkredd is a headliner material

https://gg.deals/game/a-plague-tale-innocence/

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According to here,it hasnt been bundled,but given by epic for free 5 months ago - that you guessed right

GG Deals is the best place to find out about game prices and discounts. The customization features are great. I punch in the game, import my steam wishlist, it does all the work, lowest price. That's when I noticed that Humble was completely missing from my wishlist. It was abnormal. Previous holiday seasons they'd have the lowest price on at least a few games in my wishlist.

https://gg.deals/

I think its funny you keep twisting my words to your liking. But there's an easy way of keeping a high quality of games, it's quality > quantity.

Anyways, Elden Ring is 59.99€ in German Humble Store, applying the discount makes jt 47.99€. According to https://gg.deals/game/elden-ring/ there's exactly 5 stores that are cheaper, the cheapest being over 5€ cheaper. And I'm not taking any unofficial key shops into account, those are officially supplied shops.

But you're missing the overall point. Besides there being cheaper shops than Humble Store, there are plenty shops that sell the same thing for about the same price, yet you don't have to subscribe to a monthly bundle, let alone stay subscribed for a long period of time to achieve the low price tag.

EGS basically gives away 1-2 games every week: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games

I don't think the rest of the service necessarily makes anything worth buying on that platform over other platforms, and certain anti-consumer practices of theirs give me pause, but there's little reason not to get the games they offer for free (they've given away many popular indie titles and even some AAA games). As long as you have an account, you can "purchase" those free games to associate them with your account, even if you never download them.

To be completely honest, it is not so much you, just the particular scammers/low ballers overall that make everyone look bad. I have seen people with over 1k games attempt to scam others, so attempting to scam humble bundle would not be unusual. Take a look at this article and you will see what I mean.

https://kotaku.com/g2a-scammer-explains-how-he-profited-off-stolen-indie-g-1784540664

Keep in mind, I am not accusing you of doing something similar or even attempting, but you have to agree if you were in our position and heard ''my keys were already redeemed even though I never did it'' would sound suspicious especially if you consider the % of people it can actually happen to.

This is such a broad question that I can't even think of a good answer. You can do all kinds of cool stuff. Browse through the projects people do at a site like http://hackaday.com or http://makezine.com for ideas.

To counter my original post, MAGIX has a TERRIBLE Trustpilot rating. I haven't had a huge problem with with Samplitude so far, other than it hard crashing and closing when I loaded a full song to use in Vita Sampler. https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.magix.com

Going by the official /r/MAGIX subreddit, people often make posts but next to no officials ever respond, so the support for Magix seems pretty terrible too.

Chickens Madness?

To be serious, though, if this is Dying Light (which has a soccer ball in it, by the way), I will kick myself, as I changed it out in my Prediction League guess for Planet Coaster. :(

EDIT: So does Yooka-Laylee, and in a ghost/Halloween themed level, at that. Obviously a small part of the game, but I don't think they're going to give away a huge hint for the game just yet, anyways.

EDIT: So how was this relevant at all to the early unlock?

I actually took a peek in one. These look like legit college textbooks, which is kinda awesome. They don't shy away from the math and nitty gritty, which is honestly something I'll be looking for after I finish the "Make:" books.

The kley from HumbleBundle is provided via an Epic Games store key, so says humble on the borderlands 3 humble page. On the other hand GreenManGaming has the game for $27USD.

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/borderlands-3-pc/us?_$ja=cid:9677916680%7Cagid:103088707127%7Ctid:kwd-843649408299%7Ccrid:426841442767%7Cnw:g%7Crnd:9593223085356894282%7Cdvc:c%7Cadp:%7Cmt:b%7Cloc:1014361&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsYb0BRCOARIsAHbLPhGp...

EDIT: The GreenManGaming one is provided via steam key

I don't have the patience to bother doing it, but after a quick scan I don't see a single featured game from the past 2 years here that's PvP only.

https://gg.deals/ca/news/humble-choice/

I'm not saying there aren't any other PvP only games in the bundles, I just don't think the games being featured to push the bundles should exclude anyone who doesn't play PvP games.

So with respect to books, I realize this might be a tad more involved than you'd want but...

I would suggest using one of the available downloaders to pull down books onto your PC and setting up a Calibre library (https://calibre-ebook.com/).

There are plenty of iOS and Android out there that can access Calibre's OPDS based server (since OPDS is a standard), which would let you pull the books down to read and have the additional advantage of not needing to hit Humble's site every time to pull down your content.

For screenshots use ShareX. If you want to screen capture videos use OBS. Both are free and open source and work much better than proprietary software.

Hello, thank you very much!

Basically, I've made video games for a living since they actually looked like Horace! I started in the industry in 1995, so the SNES was still around and the Playstation was just about launched, I think I mentioned it to someone else, Horace basically how I imagined games would look and feel when I was a kid! :)

As for specific inspiration, the two main things were the game, 'Jet Set Willy' and the film, 'Being There' but basically, I just wanted to make a tripple A SNES game, in 2020 :D

I made all the music in a super old package called 'MadTracker' http://www.madtracker.org/main.php but I can play quite a lot of instruments (mainly drums and a decent amount of guitar and piano) and have written songs for various bands I've been in for 20+ years so that side of things comes quite easy to me. I guess I can just recommend downloading MadTracker and mess around with it :)

As for story inspiration, as I say, 'Being There' was the main one, it's a story of a very innocent middle aged man leaving his house for the first time and going on a BIG adventure! I thought that would make for a decent story, I decided to change the man to a Robot though as it was easier to make him 'innocent'.

It's never expressly said but 'Chance' in 'Being There' probably has severe learning difficulties, I thought that may not be so easy to portray in a game though, so, he became a nice innocent yellow Robot instead :)

Cheers! :)

> PDF ... draw on with a stylus

As a Linux user, there's sadly only Xournal[++], but there are some alternatives (Drawboard PDF on Windows?)... and yeah, you can probably import a PDF layer in graphics editors, then export it or print it on virtual printer.

Figured I'd share: while looking up the details on GM's shift to subscription, I found several people mentioning Godot as an alternative. It's free and open-source, has a similar approach to game making, and looks very promising.