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10 AMAZING ALTERNATIVE OPERATING SYSTEMS .......... These alternative operating systems are usually developed either by enthusiasts or small companies (or both), and there are more of them than you might expect. This is a good selection of the more interesting ones, focused specifically on desktop operating systems.....(free).....GO THERE!
10 MINUTE MAIL.......... Gives you a temp disposable email address that is good for 10 minutes.....(free).....GO THERE!
10 REASONS CLIENTS DON'T CARE ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY..........Working as an accessibility consultant in an IT company is a very frustrating job right now. Highly publicized lawsuits and deep-rooted accessibility myths leave us with a lot to explain when the final product does not really help visitors. Our clients simply don’t care about accessibility as much as we’d like them to, and there are several reasons for that.....(free).....GO THERE!
10 SIMULTANEOUS DOWNLOADS..........Set Internet Explorer to allow 10 Simultaneous Downloads .....(free).....GO THERE!
10 THINGS YOU CAN DO WHEN WINDOWS XP WON'T BOOT..........If your computer powers up okay, but the Windows XP operating system won't boot properly, you have some troubleshooting ahead of you. Here's a look at the likely culprits and what you can do to fix the problem .....(free).....GO THERE!
10 TIPS FOR OPTIMIZED GOOGLE PERFORMANCE..........Ever had those days that you were searching on Google and you couldn't find what you were looking for? Try these tips to optimize your search phrases .....(free).....GO THERE!
100 PORTABLE APPS FOR USB.......... This stuff can be installed on any portable drive, i.e. USB thumbdrive, PDA or an iPod. You can use them at work, school, or any other place where you can plugin your device. Check them out, you can either scroll-down for relevant category, i.e office software, email tools, messengers, games, etc. or get a ‘all-in-one’ package (all essential tools) . While there are more apps for windows users, a mac version for each essential tool is included.....(free).....GO THERE!
100 WEB 2.0 ONLINE GENERATORS..........Lots of ways to create stuff online, graphics, css, flash, forms, lots more.....(free).....GO THERE!
13 GREAT FREE BACKUP PROGRAMS..........Making sure you've got a reliable backup solution is a must for any user - and more so for an administrator .....(free).....GO THERE!
15 ESSENTIAL WINDOWS EXPLORER ADDONS..........Group of recommended Explorer enhancements .....(free).....GO THERE!
15 MUST-HAVE FIREFOX TRICKS..........How to tweak, hack and bend Firefox to your will .....(free).....GO THERE!
150 BEST ONLINE FLASH GAMES.......... It was a long and exhausting task: playing hundreds of online games for hours in a row, day after day. It was hard, but someone had to do it......(free).....GO THERE!
17 ONLINE FREE WEB BASED APPLICATIONS..........17 online free web based applications that are very helpful for you to process your daily work. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here .....(free).....GO THERE!
1984..........George Orwell's masterpiece novel about the loss of privacy in a modern society. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen".....(free).....GO THERE!
2 XL SIMULATOR.......... A simulator for a brilliant electronic toy from 1978, written in Macromedia Flash. A tip from our friends at Donation Coder.....(free).....GO THERE!
25 MUST-HAVE THUMB DRIVE APPS FOR GEEKS ..........With traveling and use of many different computers, many geeks (and geek girls) often find a need to have a uniform set of tools handy wherever we may be. Here is a list of 25 invaluable portable apps that can be installed on an Ipod or Thumb Drive.....(free).....GO THERE!
28 FREE FILE STORAGE HOSTING WEBSITES..........Each of these websites has it’s cons and pros. Some are offering more file size limits, some aren’t. You decide which one you want to go for .....(free).....GO THERE!
2HOTSPOT.......... Create your own wireless hotspot in 10 minutes. Service that enables the creation of wireless hotspots.....(free).....GO THERE!
2X EXPLORER..........2xExplorer is a great dual-pane (Norton Commander-style) file manager for Win9x/NT. It offers efficient navigation and features such as file filters, folder synchronization, editor and shell context menu support, DriveBar for trick navigation, and Mirror browsing and scrolling for tree synchronisation. It extends the functionality of the standard Windows Explorer by adding an extra folder contents pane, which enables directory comparisons and easy file transfers. Yet the program is designed to look and "feel" like the standard Explorer so as to be straightforward to use .....(free).....GO THERE!
30+ FIREFOX ADD-ONS FOR WEB DEVELOPERS AND DESIGNERS..........Firefox has cool add-ons which make the job of website designers and developers much easier. Here is our list of 30+ excellent Firefox add-ons that every web developer and designer should know about .....(free).....GO THERE!
3CX PHONE SYSTEM ..........IP PBX - SIP server software and set-up a professional phone system that allows you to create extensions, transfer calls, and extend low cost VOIP services to all users. Best of all it works via your computer network (no separate phone wiring!) and allows you to use SIP software phones on your PC or any SIP hardware phone. 3CX Phone System runs on Windows and does not require a dedicated PC. You can even attach your existing PSTN lines via a VOIP Gateway .....(free).....GO THERE!
3D BROWSER LIGHT.......... 3D Browser Light gives you the ability to view, browse & manage your images and 3D files with its fast thumbnail browsing window. It recognizes more than 60 files formats and offers an image editor (including rotate, flip, convert features...) and a 3D viewer (including textures support)......(free, adware).....GO THERE!
3D COLOR CHANGER 4.......... For those who don't like the default 3D look and color schemes that Windows provides. 3D Color Changer 4 looks almost the same as the regular Display Appearance Control Panel applet, it gives you much more control over your Windows' look. With 3D Color Changer 4 you gain access to User Interface aspects that Microsoft restricted: 3D Frames' colors, Mouse hot-tracking color and more. Complete with scheme storage features, 3D Color Changer 4 becomes the ultimate UI color tool for Windows (Shareware, but according to the author, "uncrippled and nag-free, so actually it's more like a donation-ware".....(shareware).....GO THERE!
3D RAD.......... Rad is a collection of intelligent objects you can combine in virtual space to create interactive 3d worlds. What you get depends on the nature of the objects you add and the relationships you establish between them.....(free).....GO THERE!
3D ROTATION MENU..........Menu with 3D panels items. When an item is selected, the 3D page opens and expands. JPG and SWF files can serve as page contents. .....(free).....GO THERE!
3RVX.......... 3RVX is a skinnable volume controller and display that supports alpha-blended skins, cool fade effects, drive eject notification, and a lot more. It was originally developed to emulate the Mac OS X volume bezel on Windows, but has evolved to support more options and features. Thanks to our friends at Virtual Plastic.....(free).....GO THERE!
40 BEST OPEN SOURCE GRAPHIC PROGRAMS..........Extensive list of Open Source Graphic Programs that you may take into consideration for production use .....(free).....GO THERE!
4WARDING..........E-mail service that offers email and web forwarding along with other enhanced features for free and without advertising.....(free).....GO THERE!
5 FREE APPS TO CLONE YOUR HARD DRIVE..........Hard drive prices are so low now that it really makes sense to use an imaging program. That way you've got a perfectly cloned backup of your system exactly the way you have it configured in case of a crash, which is much more convenient than reinstalling Windows, activating, and loading all your applications all over again. Here are four great apps to get the job done - without spending a dime .....(free).....GO THERE!
5 IE EXTENSIONS YOU NEVER KNEW EXISTED.......... Five excellent Internet Explorer extensions that you never knew existed: (1) RCGoogle, (2) IECopySelectedLinks, (3) Find as you type, (4) Favorites Search, and (5) Web Archives Viewer.....(free).....GO THERE!
5 IMPRESSIVE WINDOWS XP TRICKS..........Don't just maximize your windows—go full screen. Add the Links toolbar to My Computer. Arranging windows on your desktop. Organize your files into groups. Make your own icons .....(free).....GO THERE!
5 LIGHTS BROWSER..........5 Lights is a browser that combines a host of new features. These include: picture Tabs, Tracers (Image maps) that outline the path you have taken to browse the web, Multi-tab searching that allows you to find a word or phrase within multiple tabs, Add all or selected tabs to favourites and open them as a group to allow for more productive research. Preview tabs without clicking on them! .....(free).....GO THERE!
5 PRODUCTIVITY TIPS FOR WINDOWS XP.......... Print from Windows Explorer. Pin programs to the Start menu. Use small icons on your Start menu. Search a folder. Send an e-mail attachment from anywhere.....(free).....GO THERE!
50 FREE INTERNET TOOLS FOR TIN-FOIL HAT WEARERS.......... Security to the nth degree, and more.....(free).....GO THERE!
55 PORTABLE APPS FOR MAKING A USB SUPER STICK..........USB flash is not (yet) a portable PC whereby any USB KVM monitor is your work station - but it will get there. In the mean time, making the most of your USB stick and creating a portable software suite isn’t hard - you just need a little guidance. So… for you road-warriors or super geeks the following list of 55 portable applications are worth taking note. With 2GB, 4GB and 8GB drives readily available at extremely cheap prices making a portable software suite and creating a Super Stick is quite easy......(free).....GO THERE!
6 DUMBEST IDEAS IN COMPUTER SECURITY..........What are they? They're the anti-good ideas. They're the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying "trying to ignore reality." Frequently those misguided attempts are sincere efforts by well-meaning people or companies who just don't fully understand the situation, but other times it's just a bunch of savvy entrepreneurs with a well-marketed piece of junk they're selling to make a fast buck. In either case, these dumb ideas are the fundamental reason(s) why all that money you spend on information security is going to be wasted, unless you somehow manage to avoid them .....(free).....GO THERE!
7 ZIP..........Archive and compress files. The main features of 7-Zip: Free software distributed under the GNU LGPL. Highest compression ratio in new 7z format format. Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB. For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip. Self-extracting capability for 7z format. Integration with Windows Shell. Powerful File Manager. Plugin for FAR Manager. Powerful command line version. Localizations for 38 languages.....(free).....GO THERE!
7-ZIP.......... 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.....(free).....GO THERE!
8086 MICROPROCESSOR EMULATOR..........Interactive system to study Assembly Language, Computer Architecture and Reverse Engineering. Microprocessor emulator with integrated assembler. Online reference, examples and tutorials .....(free).....GO THERE!
9800 FREE FONTS..........In case you needed a font or two.....(free).....GO THERE!
ANOTHER 16 FIREFOX ADD-ONS FOR WEB DESIGNERS..........Firefox can be extended to do just about anything you want, so why not have it help you with your web development and design? We’ve got a dozen suggestions to get you started down the road of turning Firefox into a powerful design and development tool in your arsenal .....(free).....GO THERE!