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RECENT DAILY UPDATES Here are the programs we've had on the Daily Update recently. If what you're looking for is not below, you can still find it through a topical Search of our database, or, if you know its name, through our alphabetical list: 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z September 14, 2010 SYNCTOY .......... The M$ version of DropBox. (Thx Don_U) "SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders.".....(free).....GO THERE! LISTARY .......... Search as you type in various places in windows. "Listary is an excellent find-as-you-type search utility that makes searching items in large unmanageable lists of Windows applications a breeze. Items in Windows Explorer, Task Manager, Registry Editor, Windows Desktop, file Open/Save dialogs and numerous other components and third-party applications can be found instantaneously with this free utility that allows you to type any part of the item name to be searched.".....(free).....GO THERE! KEYBOARD INDICATOR .......... Have a laptop without a Caps Lock LED? Consider this app. "Keyboard Indicator is an easy to use indicator for the Num Lock, Caps Lock, Scroll Lock and Insert keys. This utility is especially useful for those who do not have a keyboard or laptop with led indicators.".....(free).....GO THERE! September 13, 2010 TOMBOY .......... Keep track of your notes (Thx Gerry). "Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day.".....(free).....GO THERE! EARTH ALERTS .......... See what's shaken on Terra. "Earth Alerts is a Windows-based application that allows you to monitor in near real-time a variety of natural hazard events that are occurring anywhere around the world. Alert notifications, reports, and imagery provide the user with a convenient way to view natural phenomenon as they occur, whether close to home or some far-flung corner of the globe!".....(free).....GO THERE! KNOWLEDGE MANAGER ......... A place to store and categorize various information and even attach files. Note: new domain name. "Mike’s Awesome Knowledge Manager is a place to store all the little pieces of information you need to know but don't have the time to memorize. Information can be search, filtered, edited, and shared with colleagues. A single data file can be shared between multiple users, or you can keep all the know-how to yourself. Terms, definitions, lessons learned, step-by-step guides, contact information, templates, and so much more can be stored in this application.".....(free).....GO THERE! September 10, 2010 NETWORKING BASICS .......... Everyone should know at least the basics of networking. "A broad overview of computer networking and how the Internet works.".....(free).....GO THERE! VISTASWITCHER .......... Alt+Tab replacement. "VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a nice box that shows a list of all running tasks, with their names and preview snapshots, and enables the user to take actions on them using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts.".....(free).....GO THERE! CLOSE-ALL .......... Tell every program to go away. "This program lets you close all running applications with just a single click. It doesn’t use system resources because it only flashes a ‘close’ signal to all open applications on the desktop and then ceases. Just create a shortcut to the tool in the Start Menu, Quick Launch, Windows 7 Taskbar or elsewhere.".....(free).....GO THERE! September 9, 2010 NexusFile .......... An alternative file manager that has been around a long time. It sports a lot of features and a distinctive look. "NexusFile is a powerful and stylish file manager for Windows. Many useful functions will save your time and effort.".....(free).....GO THERE! NexusFont .......... A font manager. "NexusFont is a simple but powerful font manager for Windows. Organizing, managing and choosing fonts is a piece of cake with NexusFont.".....(free).....GO THERE! NexusImage .......... A unique image viewer that consists of a film strip, image window, and shading effect. "Simple and light image viewer for Windows.".....(free).....GO THERE! September 7, 2010 CAROUSEL .......... Phone call (VoIP) program. "Carousel is software to connect VoIP calls to ordinary telephone lines and vice versa using one of a number of professional telephony devices.".....(free).....GO THERE! POSTER FORGE .......... Easily make your own demotivational signs. "Poster Forge is an easy-to-use poster generator. A motivational poster, a movie poster as well as a Old West "Wanted" poster can be created with its help in practically no time and totally for free! You can save your new posters and publish them on the Internet (myspace, livejournals, flickr, etc.).".....(watermark-ware).....GO THERE! SNAPTIMER .......... A simple countdown timer. "All the timers I tested were too complex for my taste. I decided to write one that was dead simple, so you could run it, type in a time and hit enter. The aim of SnapTimer is to get out of the way and help you be productive. It's fast, lightweight and simple to use, but powerful too.".....(free).....GO THERE! September 6, 2010 Link Shell Extension .......... Easiest way to create junctions that I've seen. "Hardlinks provide the ability to keep a single copy of a file yet have it appear in multiple folders (directories). They can be created with the POSIX command ln included in the Windows Resource Kit or the fsutil command utility included in Windows XP. Thus, using standard Windows facilities Hardlinks can only be created at the command prompt, which can be tedious, especially when Hardlinks to multiple files are required or when one only makes occasional use of Hardlinks. Support for Junctions in standard Microsoft software offerings is even more limited than that offered for Hardlinks.".....(free).....GO THERE! CSS3 PLAYGROUND .......... Mess with css 3.0 with this webapp. "Use this web application to experiment and learn about new css3 capabilities. The styles applied when changing the different settings should follow the principles of progressive enhancements and will work in all browsers that support the setting.".....(free).....GO THERE! MAC MAKEUP .......... Change your MAC address (which uniquely identifies your NIC). "Did you ever get bored with your old MAC address? If you did, this is the solution! Mac MakeUp let’s you change the MAC address of any of the interfaces present on your Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista box. Sometimes this is referred as MAC address spoofing.".....(free).....GO THERE! September 3, 2010 OPTIMA .......... A deeper Windows Cleanup tool. "An application, written in Borland Delphi, whose aim is to remove temporary and useless files from your drives. It performs a deeper cleanup than the standard Windows cleanup tool while allowing you to identify useless files and remove them with the same ease.".....(free).....GO THERE! CHREADER .......... Compress and browser the the files of a downloaded website (presumably gathered by another app). "CHReader is an application which compresses a group of related web files (along with images, resources, etc...) to a single compressed archive (whose length can be up to 4 Gb) and let you browse it using your preferred internet browser without even decompressing it (acting as a dedicated web server on port 8078 of your machine). This way you can retrieve very large sites with web spiders and keep them in an optimal space-saving way always ready to be browsed.".....(free).....GO THERE! HTTRACK .......... Download a whole website. "HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.".".....(free).....GO THERE! September 2, 2010 KNOWLEDGE MANAGER ......... A place to store and categorize various information and even attach files. "Mike’s Awesome Knowledge Manager is a place to store all the little pieces of information you need to know but don't have the time to memorize. Information can be search, filtered, edited, and shared with colleagues. A single data file can be shared between multiple users, or you can keep all the know-how to yourself. Terms, definitions, lessons learned, step-by-step guides, contact information, templates, and so much more can be stored in this application.".....(free).....GO THERE! STYLE JUKEBOX .......... A new media player (still in beta) with quite a bit of eye-candy. "Style Jukebox is the next generation media player for Windows, allowing you to organize your audio and video library under an easy to use and unique user interface. Audio/video support. Organize all your songs and videos under the same user interface. You can view your items in list view and grid view, depending on what you choose.".....(free).....GO THERE! VIRTUAL ROUTER .......... Turn a Win7 PC into WiFi hotspot. "Virtual Router turns any Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 Computer into a Wifi Hot Spot using Windows 7's Wireless Hosted Network (Virtual Wifi) technology.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 28, 2010 I usually take off Saturdays. I may not have internet access for a few days, so I'm making up for it with a special post. Along with the normal variety expected of ShellCity, I'm putting the spotlight on Dropbox. Enjoy the embedded links. I hope they hold you over for a little while. Dropbox has gotten the attention of freeware junkies and the Washington Post. This app has won several awards including, not one, but two HiveFives at LifeHacker. It works with windows, Linux, and Mac. Dropbox .......... File sync, on-line backup, and file sharing all in one. This is one app I can't live without. "Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they'll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you've installed Dropbox on (Windows, Mac, and Linux too!). Because a copy of your files are stored on Dropbox's secure servers, you can also access them from any computer or mobile device using the Dropbox website.".....(free).....GO THERE! K-MELEON .......... A longstanding branch of the Mozilla project. Before there was FireFox (or even Phoenix), I used this browser. "K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on theGecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by Firefox. K-Meleon isfree, open source software released under the GNU General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft Windows (Win32) operating systems.".....(free).....GO THERE! CMDTIME 3 .......... I use this in a script to sync to an atomic clock (scroll to bottom of page). "Cmdtime 3 is easy-to-use command-line utility which adjusts computer's date and time via Internet Time Servers. It's recommended to use it either standalone, or in batch-files, or with external schedulers.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 27, 2010 CYGWIN .......... Linux style cmd.exe replacement which emulates the terminal. "Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: (1) A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality. (2) A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel.".....(free).....GO THERE! Quick Guide to Bash Shell Scripting .......... The basics of bash shell scripting (Cygwin is compatible). "I stumbled across this gem of a quick guide to Bash shell scripting over at some or other forum and so as not to lose this valuable resource for my later use, I’ve decided to duplicate it here and thus save it for prosperity.".....(free).....GO THERE! Unix/Linux Command Cheat Sheet .......... One page guide to using UNIX, the Linux terminal, or Cygwin. Made in color, but printed nicely in b&w. "In an attempt to find a good Unix reference for you FOSSwire readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, why not make one?".....(free).....GO THERE! August 26, 2010 PCDECRAPIFIER .......... Easily identify and remove crapware from a new (or old) PC. "The PC Decrapifier is a program designed to remove or uninstall a specific list of unwanted software in an unattended fashion. It can be used to clean off most of the annoying software that is typically shipped with new PCs.".....(free).....GO THERE! XMPLAY .......... Longstanding alternative music player with a skinnable interface. "XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / AIFF / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. When XMPlay was first released in 1998, only the XM format was supported, hence the name 'XMPlay'.".....(free).....GO THERE! RAINDROP .......... Turn your computer into an white noise machine. "An application, written in Borland Delphi, whose aim is to produce natural ambient sounds along with some special stimulating sounds for deep relaxation, sleep induction and perceived noise suppression. It is bundled with a series of highly realistic sound sets (tropical rain, birds, etc...), meditation loops (mantra chants, instrumental vibrations, etc...) and a binaural beats generator.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 25, 2010 MP3TUNES .......... Stream/backup your favorite songs for free (2GB start, 10GB via request). Subscribe for more space. "MP3tunes is a Music Service Provider (MSP) and the home of MP3tunes Locker: the only secure, online music space to feature unlimited listening. With just a couple clicks, Locker users can sync their personal digital music and video up to "the cloud" for enjoying from any web browser and a wide variety of mobile and home entertainment devices.".....(free/paid).....GO THERE! FILEZILLA .......... The FTP client of me, Bob, and a lot of other people. "Welcome to the homepage of FileZilla, the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License.".....(free).....GO THERE! CHANGE THE WALLPAPER FOLDER .......... A step-by-step guide to changing the wallpaper directory (registry hack). "Now here I'll show you a way to change the default wallpaper directory in Desktop Properties, so that whenever you'll open it, it'll show the wallpapers present in your desired folder.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 24, 2010 CDBURNERXP .......... One of the best freeware CD burners out there (IMHO). "CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.".....(free).....GO THERE! CONSOLE .......... A cmd.exe alternative with features you would expect from a modern program. "Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles".....(free).....GO THERE! ROBOT CONTROL CODE GENERATION TOOL .......... A webapp that does the work of creating a robots.txt file for you. "The robots.txt is a very simple text file that is placed on your root directory. An example would bewww.yourdomain.com/robots.txt. This file tells search engine and other robots which areas of your site they are allowed to visit and index.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 23, 2010 ROOTKIT BUSTER .......... Anti-root kit tool. "Trend Micro RootkitBuster is a rootkit scanner that scans hidden files, registry entries, processes, drivers, and Master Boot Record (MBR) rootkits. In addition, RootkitBuster can also clean hidden files and registry entries.".....(free).....GO THERE! FILEKILLER .......... Shred your files. "It completely removes a file from your disk without leaving any track. It is very fast. It overwrites any deleted file with blanks or random data N times - where N is given by the user. Also, it changes the filename. No setup is needed.".....(free).....GO THERE! BONKENC .......... Versatile sound encoder. "BonkEnc is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 20, 2010 RADIAN .......... A circular app launcher. "Radian is a simple radial application launcher. The interface is triggered by a continuous right-click and is divided into four slices. Each slice can be configured differently, currently supporting the following modes: Custom, Quick Launch, Desktop, and Recent Docs".....(free).....GO THERE! MAGIC ENHANCER LITE .......... A PhotoShop plug-in that will work with XnView, IrfanView, and Corel Painter. "Using Magic Enhancer you can essentially improve your photos adjusting its lightness, contrast and color balance. Magic Enhancer is perfect for enhancement image and photo with lack of lightness or uneven illumination, silhouetted images on dark background. Convenient color temperature control allows fixing color balance defects easily. Plug-in has attractive and user-friendly interface, when in use you can keep an eye result histogram.".....(free).....GO THERE! 6 COMMAND PROMPT TRICKS .......... Tips for the DosBox; some well known, some not. "Post Windows 2000 and Windows XP, the use of the Windows Command prompt has been on the decline. Everything that is done on Windows today is done through the graphical user interface. There are still some tasks that are done through the Command prompt, but we aren’t going to discuss about commands available for the Command line. There are plenty of references for that. Rather, we are going to find out those tricks that make working on the prompt easier.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 19, 2010 MOODTURN .......... Ambient noise webapp with a nice photography slide show (personal fav/bookmark). "It is a free web service, developed by Ramunas Geciauskas, that provides ambient music and soothing landscapes to help you relax and avoid stress in your daily life." .....(free).....GO THERE! CTRL+V IN DOS .......... AutoHotKey script to fix a really annoying thing about the old DosBox. "If you hop between the regular applications and the command prompt with any frequency the lack of CTRL+V paste is frustrating. Tweak the Windows command prompt to support keyboard-based pasting with a simple AutoHotkey script.".....(free).....GO THERE! COMPUTER SYMBOL HISTORY .......... Interesting read on where computer symbols came from. "They are road signs for your daily rituals-the instantly recognized symbols and icons you press, click, and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know about their origins.".....(read).....GO THERE! August 18, 2010 TWEAK ME! .......... Tweak the advanced/hidden settings in windows. "Tweak Me! Is a new unique Windows Tweaking Application which supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7! Never has it been so easy to tweak all most used versions of Microsoft Windows using just one application.".....(free).....GO THERE! PROCESS HACKER .......... Details on the processes of your computer. "Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer.".....(free).....GO THERE! MP3 CUT .......... Splice MP3s easily and quickly. "MP3 Cut is an easy and efficient FREE mp3 cutter which cuts MP3 files in various ways.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 17, 2010 SCULPTRIS .......... Sculpting 3D program. "Sculptris wants you to make 3D models. Download it and have a go! I'm sure you will enjoy.".....(free).....GO THERE! FREEMAKE VIDEO CONVERTER .......... Convert a video file to another format. "Convert between video formats, rip DVD, convert to devices, burn DVD, create photo slideshows and music visualizations, cut, join, rotate and upload video, photos, music to YouTube with our free video converter.".....(free).....GO THERE! MP3 SPEED .......... Speed podcasts and other files for faster listening. "MP3 Speed is a freeware which changes the speed of mp3 files.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 16, 2010 VLADSTUDIO COMPANION .......... The easy, automated way to stay on top of Vlad Studios. "Vladstudio Companion is a freeware program with the following exciting features: Wallpaper changing & New wallpapers notification. Vladstudio Companion will add an icon to the taskbar tray, next to the clock. Simply right-click Companion icon and select an action!".....(free).....GO THERE! PDFCREATOR .......... Print to PDF. "PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.".....(free).....GO THERE! DARKROOM .......... Online image editor. "Edit photos from anywhere. With nothing but a web browser, you can get the most out of your digital camera and transform your original digital photographs into breataking compositions." .....(free).....GO THERE! August 13, 2010 UNIVERSAL VIEWER .......... View images, documents, and media from one app. "Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are: Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode; RTF encoded texts; Image; Multimedia; Internet; MS Office.".....(free).....GO THERE! SANDBOXIE .......... Contain the RAM a program uses. "Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.".....(free).....GO THERE! SEARCHMYFILES .......... An alternative to the windows file finder that can also find duplicate files. "SearchMyFiles is an alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 6, 2010 Just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be away on vacation for the next few days. See you Wednesday!.... Red August 5, 2010 HOSTSXPER .......... A program to edit your host file. "HostsXpert is an ultra-groovy Hosts file Manager, Editor and Helper-outter. Below you'll find a list of HostsXpert's functions.".....(free).....GO THERE! CD RECOVERY TOOLBOX .......... A program to rescue data from a damaged disk. "CD Recovery Toolbox (download, mirror) tool was developed for recovering damaged files from different disk types: CD, DVD,HD DVD, Blu-Ray, etc. You can use it to restore information lost as a result of some mechanical damage of the disk (scratches, chips, different spots on thesurface) or as a result of incorrect recording." .....(free).....GO THERE! SECONDSHELL .......... Add tricks and features of the blackbox shell to the default one. "A couple of years ago back at the win2k times I’ve been using a great shell replacement called Blackbox for windows. Ever-since I stopped using it, (does not run well on Vista) I’ve been missing its great features." .....(free).....GO THERE! August 4, 2010 MVPS HOSTS .......... Everything you need to know about host files. "As time has progressed the focus of this project has changed from just blocking ads/banners to protecting the user from the many parasites that now exist on the Internet. It doesn't serve much purpose if you block the ad banner from displaying as most other HOSTS files do, but get hijacked by a parasite from an evil exploit or download contained on the web site.".....(free).....GO THERE! ICONVIEWER .......... See what icons are in a file from its properties. "IconViewer is a free Windows Explorer extension that lets you easily view, copy, and save icons contained within programs and libraries. Open a file's Properties box, select the "Icons" tab, and view the icons contained in the file.".....(free).....GO THERE! Snap MD5 .......... Simple check sum validator. "Snap MD5 is a simple utility to validate the MD5 sum of downloaded files.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 3, 2010 SYSTEM FILE CHECKER .......... How to run the SFC when offline. "The System File Checker (sfc.exe) is an useful tool that lets you scan the integrity of Windows system files, and repair corrupt or missing system files. Numerous cases have been resolved thus far by running Sfc.exe with the "scannow" parameter. However, there are situations where in a corrupt or missing system file prevents Windows from booting normally, and running Sfc.exe from Windows isn’t possible. In such cases, Sfc.exe can be run offline using two additional parameters, via the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.".....(free).....GO THERE! HOSTSMAN .......... A program to edit your host file. "HostsMan is a freeware application that lets you manage your Hosts file with ease. No Spyware! No Adware! No Viruses! 100% Freeware! Clean & simple.".....(free).....GO THERE! MDOWNLOADER .......... Download lists of items from various file hosting sites. "A tiny application designed for downloading files available at the most popular file hosting servers. Don't click - queue it.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 2, 2010 START! .......... An alternative to the default start page in Google Chrome. "This replaces the default start page (new tab) in Chrome. On the right side of the page you will have your "bookmarks bar" in a different layout than before. On the left side you will have all your bookmarks grouped hierarchically. There is also a possibility to add your favorite news feed to the page." .....(free).....GO THERE! DEVMANVIEW .......... An alternative to the default device manager in windows. "DevManView is an alternative to the standard Device Manager of Windows, which displays all devices and their properties in flat table, instead of tree viewer. In addition to displaying the devices of your local computer, DevManView also allows you view the devices list of another computer on your network, as long as you have administrator access rights to this computer." .....(free).....GO THERE! DVD SLIDESHOW GUI .......... An easy way to make DVD slide shows. "DVD slideshow GUI offers a very simple way to make your own slideshows. Just import photos and burn them as a slideshow on a DVD!" .....(free).....GO THERE! July 30, 2010 Running Linux and feel like you're missiong out? ABA Games are open source and some have been ported to linux by Evil Mr Henry. Several other game ports are there too. TORUS TROOPER .......... The racing meets Tempest game. "Torus Trooper is an abstract shooter.".....(free).....GO THERE! TUMIKI FIGHTERS .......... Shoot 'em up with a twist. "Salvage parts from enemies to enhance your firepower.".....(free).....GO THERE! Z-LOCK .......... Not by ABA Games, but it has a similar feel. "Z-lock is a Japanese shooter with a twist: your shot power is directly proportional to the number of enemies locked on to you.".....(free).....GO THERE! July 29, 2010 Part two of our look at ABA Games. Here is an interview with the man behind the madness, Kenta Cho (found via the wikipedia article). GUNROAR .......... Asteriods mixed with Cobra Triangle. "Guns, Guns, Guns! 360-degree gunboat shooter.".....(free).....GO THERE! TORUS TROOPER .......... Like a racing game Tempest style (personal fav). "Speed! More speed! Speeding ship sailing through barrage.".....(free).....GO THERE! rROOTAGE .......... Just fight bosses in your chioce of style. "Defeat autocreated huge battleships. Shootem up game.".....(free).....GO THERE! July 28, 2010 ABA Games .......... Imagine what classic video games would look like with just a little help from simple 3D graphics. You're going to find out. For the next two or three days I (Red) am going to feature some fun stuff from ABA Games. It's a Japanese site, but everything has an English section/page too. PARSEC47 .......... Vertical shoot 'em up. "Defeat retro enemies modernly. Retro-modern hi-speed shmup.".....(free).....GO THERE! TITANION .......... A cross between Galaga and Centipede. "Strike down super high-velocity swooping insects. Fixed shooter in the good old days.".....(free).....GO THERE! MU-CADE .......... Snake meets sumo wrestling. "The Physics Centipede Invasion. Smashup waggly shmup.".....(free).....GO THERE! July 27, 2010 TRACKMANIA NATIONS FOREVER .......... A free Steam racing game. "A free game in the truest sense of the word, TrackMania Nations Forever lets you drive at mind-blowing speeds on fun and spectacular tracks in solo and multiplayer modes.".....(free).....GO THERE! AMERICA'S ARMY 3 .......... A free Steam FPS game. "Start playing America's Army 3 today. America's Army fans and new players alike can now experience America's Army 3, the official U.S. Army game, which has more authentic military elements including training, technology, weapons, and audio than any other military game.".....(free).....GO THERE! AVIARY TOOLS .......... An online image editor. "Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We're on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing.".....(free).....GO THERE! July 8, 2010 This whole update thanks to Cuttheredwire and his skinnables.org. NASA MOONBASE ALPHA.......... Great strategy and simulation game. "NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.".....(free).....GO THERE! ZUGYA DX.......... Cool fun Japanese game. "Scrolling in all directions! Destruction! Destruction! Destruction! Destroy the enemy fortress destroyed by explosion Purazumabonba shooting super! Good score attack even burn! Break Through all 50 stages!".....(free).....GO THERE! ASSAULTCUBE.......... What is AssaultCube? AssaultCube is a FREE multiplayer first-person shooter game, based on the CUBE engine. Taking place in realistic environments, with fast, arcade gameplay, it's addictive and fun!".....(free).....GO THERE! June 27, 2010 Thanks for all your supportive email.... So many of you have been with us for such a long time.... So I did a little digging and here's some Shell City Fun. This is an early version. (Heh! This is still in my on-drive archive.): Shell City 1999 And here's another hoot--2000--and be sure to check out the old message board: Shell City 2000 June 23, 2010 Friends, we're only going to be posting intermittently over the next few weeks as we decide the fate of Shell Extension City..... This won't affect our other site, Daily Rotation, which is still updated every half hour, 24 hours a day..... Thanks for your patience. June 21, 2010 LEFT SIDER..........Shift the close, maximize and minimize buttons to left side of Windows Explorer. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! SYNC YOUR IPOD WITHOUT ITUNES..........Some of the best free alternatives to using iTunes to sync iPod to computer without iTunes .....(free).....GO THERE! INPUT DIRECTOR.......... Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard and mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves regularly sliding from one system to the other.....(free).....GO THERE! June 17, 2010 DOWNLOAD GOOGLE BOOKS..........Google Books offers a vast library of books and magazines. Some books and magazines are provided as full digital copies that can be read online while others are only available as previews or summaries. Download options are not provided on Google Books which leaves users with no other choice than to read the books and magazines online or use a third party tool to download them .....(free).....GO THERE! DUAL MONITOR TOOLS.......... Dual Monitor Tools is a software package for Windows users with dual or multiple monitor setups. All the tools are open source and free, and each tools is independent so you only need to install or run what you want.....(free).....GO THERE! TRANSFORM WINDOWS VISTA TO WINDOWS 8.......... You might wish to change and try something new and original, something which has not been released yet…like Windows 8! Here is a great, free package which turns and transforms your boring Windows Vista to Windows 8.....(free).....GO THERE! June 15, 2010 MEDIA PLAYER CLASSIC HOME CINEMA.......... This project is based on the original "Media Player Classic." Many new player features have been integrated in this player, such as: An option to remove Tearing, MPC Home Cinema in Your Language (see all languages), Additional video decoders and in particular H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support, Better support for Windows Vista, including a release for 64 bits platform, Support for EVR renderer, Bugs and vulnerability fixes, All previous features from the Guliverkli Project (MPC) from Gabest.....(free).....GO THERE! ON TOP REPLICA..........You can clone whatever window is on your screen and watch it in a small thumbnail that always keeps on top of all other windows (even if it hasn't mouse focus). So, for example, you can watch a movie while coding. Thanks to freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! SINGLE-USE CODE IN HOTMAIL.......... The new Windows Live Hotmail includes several new security features, notable among which, is the Single-use Code feature.....(free).....GO THERE! June 14, 2010 WIN EXT..........Customise your desktop with a horizontal bar that gives you easy access to all your programs and documents. WinExt is not an alternative to the windows shell, but a good expansion which gives your shell at set of new features. WinExt consists of a bar docked to the top or bottom of the screen and gives access to wide range of features while you work at your computer. The menus system serves you programs and documents with very few mouse clicks. You can set up your own menu structure that fits your needs by adding the files and folders you use most frequently. Below the menu you find an optional infobar with status indicators for CPU, memory, battery, and hard disk drive usage. This bar helps you monitor your system and gives easy access to the file manager and task manager. .....(free).....GO THERE! SECURE IT..........Are you tired of trying to remember all the different User IDs and passwords you need? SecureIT can help. SecureIT is a small utility designed to hold items of sensitive information in a single file for easy retrieval. The data items are encrypted and a password is required to access them. SecureIT has been designed with ease-of-use in mind. It allows for the easy addition and amendment of the data items .....(free).....GO THERE! SUPER ANTISPYWARE.......... Advanced Detection and Removal, Light on System Resources and won't slow down your computer, Repair broken Internet Connections, Desktops, Registry Editing and more with our unique Repair System! Real-Time Protection, Prevent potentially harmful software from installing or re-installing!.....(free).....GO THERE! June 11, 2010 AUTORUNS.......... This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP. Autoruns' Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured on a system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS 7 TRAINING KIT FOR DEVELOPERS..........Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that are compatible with and shine on Windows 7. Thanks to The Windows Club .....(free).....GO THERE! INSSIDER..........inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn't work well with Vista and 64-bit XP, this was created, an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for the current generation of Windows operating systems.....(free).....GO THERE! June 10, 2010 Friends, we're taking a day off..... But we bet you can still find something good HERE June 9, 2010 PASSWORD CARD..........You have dozens of accounts on all kinds of websites and other systems, each of whom wants you to pick a secure password. But they all have different rules, and anyway, you can't even remember one secure password that consists of a random string of letters and numbers, let alone dozens of them! So, you use simple, easy to remember (and easy to guess) passwords, or you use the same password everywhere. We all do it. But in these days of identity theft, that is a very bad idea! Enter PasswordCard. A PasswordCard is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them! You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords Thanks to Sequimtech Blog.....(free).....GO THERE! VM TWEAKER..........VM Tweaker is a hidden features tweaker for VMWare .vmx files. Features: VM BIOS Tweaks, Time/date syn between host and guest; MAC address tweaking; UUID keep switch(VM 5.x-like); Hardware compatibility switch(esx/hosted); Tweak amount of VGA RAM .....(free).....GO THERE! TWELVE MUST-HAVE GOOGLE CHROME PLUGINS.......... The following is a list of 12 plugins that you will absolutely want to have if you use Google Chrome: (1) LastPass, (2) Clip to Evernote, (3) Xmarks Bookmarks Sync, (4) Postponer (an unofficial Read-It-Later extension), (5) Click&Clean, (6) Shareaholic, (7) Feedly, (8) Join Tabs, (9) Inline Search and Lookup, (10) SEO Site Tools, (11) ChromeMailer, and (12) Chrome Link Checker.....(free).....GO THERE! June 8, 2010 WINOMETER.......... This small utility measures your computer activity. It counts the keyboard / mouse presses and computes trajectory that you have arrived by your mouse. You can easily set it up to be automatically loaded on startup if you would like to have captured all your activity. Every day is saved into history, so you can make statistics of your activity (averaging..). You can also export your whole history to a CSV file (comma separated values) which may be used later in e.g MS Excel. You can do it using the right click menu or directly from the command line (e.g. winometer.exe /exporthistory history.csv) Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! SPECCY..........Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC. It really will bring up lots of valuable info that other similar tools do not present .....(free).....GO THERE! SYSTEM RESCUE CD.......... SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It comes with a lot of linux software such as system tools (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It requires no installation. It can be used on linux servers, linux desktops or windows boxes. The kernel supports the important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).....(free).....GO THERE! June 7, 2010 MINI-TOOL PARTITION RECOVERY.......... MiniTool Partition Recovery is a Free Partition Recovery Software for Windows. MiniTool Partition Recovery can recover lost and deleted partitions from IDE disk, SATA disk, SCSI disk and Removable disk. The partition recovery function can retrieve the lost partitions quickly & easily. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system. MiniTool Partition Recovery can run under 32/64bit Windows 2000 Pro./XP/Vista/Window 7. It's a must-have partition recovery software and free for home users.....(free).....GO THERE! HARD DRIVE ERASER..........Hard Drive Eraser will shred a drive partition beyond any possible recovery .....(free).....GO THERE! BI-LITE CUBE-IT ZERO.......... BI-Lite CUBE-it Zero is a FREE OLAP Cube builder for SQL Server which brings building cubes within the grasp of anyone familiar with MS Access or SQL Server. CUBE-it Zero bridges the gap between Access Queries and OLAP CUBES. CUBE-it Zero extends the reach of OLAP cubes to everyone by enabling the creation of cubes using a simple 4 step process. Whilst not a replacement for a data warehouse, CUBE-it Zero, delivers fully functional SQL Server OLAP cubes that do not require the foundation of a data warehouse.....(free).....GO THERE! PROX FETCH.......... ProxFetch is an application for fetching public proxies from different web sites. This is stable and completely free proxy grabber for Windows OS. Released under LGPL license with a closed source code. You need GTK+ runtime installed to be able to run ProxFetc.....(free).....GO THERE! June 3, 2010 COOL CURSOR PACKS FOR WINDOWS..........Go ahead and choose a new mouse cursor.....(free).....GO THERE! SMART DEFRAG..........Smart Defrag has the world’s fastest defragmenting engine. Specially designed for modern, large hard drives, so it eliminates long waiting time. Smart Defrag doesn’t just use simple defragmentation. It also streamlines your file system, places the frequently used files and directories into the fastest area of the disk, enabling your computer to run at top speed with the most stability. .....(free).....GO THERE! SAN MONITOR..........SAN Monitor to Manages Storage Performance. You work hard to keep your network humming like a finely-tuned space cruiser. The last thing you need is an errant storage array slowing data flow—especially when that array is sitting somewhere in a datacenter far, far away. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could keep a close eye on storage performance from the comfort of your command center, otherwise known as your cube? Now you can! Our free SAN Monitor delivers the real-time visibility you need to stay steps ahead of infrastructure evils that threaten to slow storage performance .....(free).....GO THERE! June 2, 2010 PHONE TRACKER.........The priceless software application Phonetracker Location Center 4 Free enables you to track one mobile object in real time. You only need a windows PC like a netbook and an internet connection. Incoming position reports will be shown on a map and stored in a history database. The position reports can be stored without limits and restored and filtered any time. A collection of more then one position report can be shown as a track on the map. A graphic chart shows you the driving time and off-time by day. The application Phonetracker Location Center 4 Free supports an export function into CSV file format to process the data furthermore or into KML format to show the track in Google EarthTM. Phonetracker Location Center 4 Free is a free of charge version of the GPS tracking software Phonetracker Location Center. As real time tracking device the software application Phonetracker Locator PC works running on windows PC like a netbook. The application takes the NMEA data of a connected GPS receiver and send them in a 30 seconds interval to the Phonetracker server through the mobile internet connection.....(free).....GO THERE! HOW TO BROWSE WITHOUT A TRACE WITH AN UBUNTU LIVE CD..........No matter how diligently you clear your cache and erase your history, web browsing leaves traces on your computer. If you need keep your browsing private, then an Ubuntu Live CD is the answer .....(free).....GO THERE! MAKE VERTICAL TABS IN GOOGLE CHROME..........Simple and Quick Vertical Tab Extension. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! May 31, 2010 REBOOT SYSTEM RESTORE.......... If System Restore is failing to restore your system, starting fresh may be your best option. At least future restore points will work. It's also a good idea after cleaning up malware. Otherwise, you might accidentally reinfect your PC by restoring the wrong point.....(free).....GO THERE! PENYULOCKER..........With PenyuLocker, you can lock or unlock any folder with a given password. This will prevent unauthorised person from having access to any sensitive or confidential information in your computer. Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! FIVE BEST COMPUTER DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS..........Computers are easier to use and more dependable with each new generation of hardware and operating system update, but that doesn't mean they're problem-free. Here's a look at the five most popular tools for troubleshooting your computer problems .....(free).....GO THERE! May 27, 2010 WINHIDE.SB..........Conceals the windows of visible programs of your own choice (including from the taskbar). When Hide an active window is switched on, the analogue of the "anti-boss" key is added to the window that is active at this moment. Changes the icon of the program in the system tray. or shuts down of the icon of the program in the system tray. .....(free).....GO THERE! RAM MAP..........Graphs exactly how Windows is assigning physical memory, how much file data is cached in RAM, and how much RAM is used by the kernel and device drivers. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! REG FROM APP..........RegFromApp monitors the Registry changes made by the application that you selected, and creates a standard RegEdit registration file that contains all the Registry changes made by the application. You can use the generated .reg file to import these changes with RegEdit when it's needed. Makes things easy to reinstall or migrate .....(free).....GO THERE! May 26, 2010 NAMEBENCH.......... Hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way.....(free).....GO THERE! BEEP.......... Nullsoft Beep is an application that makes your computer sound like computers sound in the movies. It requires Windows 95 or later with DirectX 3 or later.....(free).....GO THERE! PINWHEEL.......... operate a vintage mechanical calculator from before the micro-electronics revolution.....(free).....GO THERE! May 25, 2010 INSTALL UBUNTU FROM A USB STICK..........Ubuntu is one of the most popular versions of Linux, and their Netbook Remix edition is especially attractive for netbook owners. Here we’ll look at how you can easily try out Ubuntu on your netbook without a CD/DVD drive .....(free).....GO THERE! JUMPLIST EXTENDER..........Add jumplists to any program .....(free).....GO THERE! HOW TO BUY AND INSTALL RAM..........Deciding how much of what kind of RAM you need—and your computer can hold—is the tough part, and will require some dedicated research time. But only a little. And the process will give you the tools you need to speed up your computer.....(free).....GO THERE! DISK PULSE..........DiskPulse is a free and easy-to-use disk change monitoring utility allowing one to monitor one or more disks or directories and detect file system changes in real-time. In addition, DiskPulse Pro adds the ability to save HTML, Excel CSV and text reports, provides an option to monitor specific file types and allows one to automatically send E-Mail notifications or execute custom commands. Thanks to ghacks.....(free).....GO THERE! May 24, 2010 TURN A FOLDER INTO A SAFE..........There are certain times where you need to protect your files, pictures, documents etc. from nosy users. In these cases, most of the times, the only solution you have got is to buy expensive applications to lock and protect your stuff. But, did you know that Windows has got a special command which turn a folder in a lock, a safe, a stronghold? And all this in right one click .....(free).....GO THERE! IE LIGHTS..........Extremely light version of IE 6 .....(free).....GO THERE! GDIPP..........The gdipp project is a replacement for the Windows default text render, which allows you to have the effect of text like Mac OS and Linux distributions. It is easy to use with unnoticeable overhead, and it is fully customizable .....(free).....GO THERE! May 21, 2010 FOLDER CACHE..........A very simple utility that caches folders opened by Explorer. An MRU Cache of Explorer Folders. Leave running in Tray. Press Shift-NumPadAdd to open the Folder Cache Window .....(free).....GO THERE! FOLDER 2 ISO.......... Creates an ISO from the contents of a folder.....(free).....GO THERE! SOCKET SNIFF..........SocketSniff allows you to watch the Windows Sockets activity of the selected process. For each created socket, the following information is displayed: socket handle, socket type, local and remote addresses, local and remote ports, total number of send/receive bytes, and more. You can also watch the content of each send or receive call, in Ascii mode or as Hex Dump .....(free).....GO THERE! May 20, 2010 BROWZAR.......... Search and surf the web without leaving traces on your computer. Browzar is based on the Internet Explorer engine, which means it's such a small file that it only takes seconds to download. We've made it disposable; so you have the choice of keeping Browzar on your PC, or downloading it each time you need to protect your privacy......(free).....GO THERE! DEFRAGGLER.......... Most defrag tools only allow you to defrag an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment. When Defraggler reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using Defraggler is just as safe for your files as using Windows. Defraggler's tough on your files – and light on your system. At a glance, you can see how fragmented your hard drive is. Defraggler's drive map shows you blocks that are empty, not fragmented, or needing defragmentation. Organizes empty disk space to further prevent fragmentation. Defragment while you sleep - and wake up with a faster PC. Set Defraggler to run daily, weekly or monthly.....(free).....GO THERE! TURN WEBSITES INTO GEOCITIES PAGES..........Geocities was a popular service back then that allowed its users to create basic websites. Many Geocities pages dated back to the beginning days of the Internet where webmasters liked to use animated gifs, sounds and other distracting elements on their pages. The Geocities-izer brings back those fond memories by offering to turn any modern website into a Geocities look-a-like that is making use of all those elements that were popular back then Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! 65 YEARS OF RADIO SHACK STUFF..........View 65 years of RadioShack catalogs online. Thanks to Instant Fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! May 19, 2010 PROCESS MANAGER FOR WINDOWS..........Increase your control over processes and windows, and set sticking priorities. PMW adds following menus to system menu of any application. 1. Kill 2. Priority 3. Remember Priority for Application 4. Hide me 5. Hide Others 6. Always on top 7. Minimize to system tray 8. Transparency. This version of PMW also adds following items to tray menu of its own. 1. Kill All 2. Kill [Introduced in v2.0.886] 3. Hide All 4. Unhide All 5. Unhide .....(free).....GO THERE! YOUR MENU..........Quickly add menu items to your right-click Windows 7 desktop menu.....(free).....GO THERE! PROGRESS BAR CLOCK..........ProgressBar Clock is a normal clock that shows seconds, minutes, hours, years, months and days. The time is mainly shown in progressbar form, but labels have been added for an accurate time. ProgressBar Clock also has a stylish glassy look. Thanks to Instant Fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! May 18, 2010 OK, we've got this thing working again. Glad to see you all.... And here's the Daily Update you've been waiting for... BE A FORENSICS EXPERT WITH AN UBUNTU LIVE CD.......... Plenty of utilities can recover deleted files, but what if you can't boot your computer, or the whole drive has been formatted? Here's how to dig deep and recover the most elusive deleted files, or even whole partitions.....(free).....GO THERE! UNTINY..........Find out what real url is behind a tiny url. Thanks to Sequim Tech.....(free).....GO THERE! KINO.......... A program that darkens the whole Screen, except a user-defined area which the user wants to emphasize. Great for presentations. It also works with Multi-Screen configs.....(free).....GO THERE! LAZY CLICK..........For phones, but not just... LazyClick is an addon for Firefox Mobile, Fennec whose purpose is to fix potential missed clicks by searching the adjacent area, and applying the click to the closest object that can accept clicks, for instance a link or a button. With LazyClick your fingers don’t have to be precise. Just tap the screen close to the target and LazyClick will catch and apply them to the nearest clickable element. The user can select the click detection range, although the values of the radius are vague and subjective such as “small”, “medium” and “huge”. LazyClick also works on a normal desktop. Thanks to Instant Fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! May 17, 2010 You may have noticed we're having a few technical problems, along with Daily Rotation. But come back tonight.... May 12, 2010 PRIORITY SAVER..........This compact program allows you to save the priority you specify for any process on your system, so you won't have to change priorities every time you start a program .....(free).....GO THERE! MOUSE SHADE.......... MouseShade is an essential tool for everyone doing presentations or demos. If turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention to an area of interest. The shape of the spotlight, the colour of the shade and the opacity of the shade can all be varied by accessing the pop up menu available from the icon in the Taskbar, simply by right clicking.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS DEFENDER - HOW TURN IT OFF..........If you’re already running a full anti-malware suite, you might not even realize that Windows Defender is already installed with Windows, and is probably wasting precious resources. Here’s how to get rid of it .....(free).....GO THERE! MECHWARRIOR 4..........MekPak3.1 and Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries, now free. The ability to create literally thousands of configurations allows the game to continue in popularity over its lengthy life span. The Free Release not only comes with the original mechs and weapons of Mercenaries, but also with the Clan and IS Mech Packs and all the Mektek mechs and weapons.....(free).....GO THERE! May 11, 2010 BOOTABLE USB STICK WITH UBUNTU..........Two methods of putting the fresh new release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) on a USB stick. The first method will create a bootable USB stick with a live version and the second process will create a live version with persistence. Both methods are an excellent way to always have your favorite Ubuntu system and software with you .....(free).....GO THERE! IREBOOT..........iReboot sits in your taskbar at startup, only taking up 400KB of memory, and lets you choose which operating system you want to reboot into. Instead of pressing restart, waiting for Windows to shut down, waiting for your BIOS to post, then selecting the operating system you want to boot into (within the bootloader time-limit!); you just select that entry from iReboot and let it do the rest. Thanks to Lifehacker .....(free).....GO THERE! IE CACHE VIEW..........IECacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Internet Explorer, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: Filename, Content Type, URL, Last Accessed Time, Last Modified Time, Expiration Time, Number Of Hits, File Size, Folder Name, and full path of the cache filename. You can easily save the cache information into text/html/xml file, or copy the cache table to the clipboard and then paste it to another application, like Excel or OpenOffice Spreadsheet .....(free).....GO THERE! May 10, 2010 SUPER ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT IN WINDOWS 7..........Windows 7 has got a super administrator account which, by default, is disabled. Such account is automatically created when Windows 7 boots up for the first time but, for security reasons, is hidden from view. Turn it on with a simple query in the Command Prompt .....(free).....GO THERE! ETHERNET THROUGHPUT UTILITY..........Simple tool to measure throughput of etherent networks .....(free).....GO THERE! MATH-O-MIR..........Equation editor, but even more than that. You can write your math as if you are using pencil and a sheet of paper. The idea was to make software that will replace pencil and paper when doing with math. This is however very hard to accomplish because pencil and paper are almost perfect tools .....(free).....GO THERE! GRANOLA.......... Granola is software that improves the energy efficiency of your PC or laptop.....(free).....GO THERE! May 7, 2010 FLUX..........F.lux makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better. Or try the Linux version. f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again. Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. F.lux will do the rest, automatically. .....(free).....GO THERE! GIGA TWEAKER..........GIGATweaker is a free powerful and compact tool that allows you to optimize and tweak your Windows 7. It works with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and can be used as a portable application. GIGATweaker is one of the best and fastest programs that combine the highest comfort, compactness and power. GIGATweaker doesn’t have too many unnecessary hidden tweaks but only the useful ones .....(free).....GO THERE! QUICK CODE PAGE.......... A simple tool that converts ANSI string to Unicode using a code page you select. The QuickCodePage application was developed to be a simple tool that converts ANSI string to Unicode using a code page you select. It's a very small and simple utility, you'll puzzle out it fast. When you start it, there should appear its icon in the system tray. To convert a string, copy it to the clipboard (if it is in an edit control, then type Ctrl+C), and than double-click the tray icon. Your string should be displayed, whereas at the upper combo box you can choose any code page installed on your system.....(free).....GO THERE! May 5, 2010 TWEET MY PC..........Allows you to control and access your computer from anywhere by simply sending a twitter-message with a special command as its content .....(free).....GO THERE! WIZ MOUSE..........WizMouse is a mouse enhancement utility that makes your mouse wheel work on the window currently under the mouse pointer, instead of the currently focused window. This means you no longer have to click on a window before being able to scroll it with the mouse wheel. This is a far more comfortable and practical way to make use of the mouse wheel. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! May 4, 2010 EDGELESS.......... This application causes the mouse pointer to wrap around the screen instead of stopping at the edges. It can be configured to start at Windows startup if required.....(free).....GO THERE! CHUNKY CURSORS..........A selection of chunky cursors for anyone who finds the existing cursors too small. Simply download the zip file and extract into the Windows/Cursors folder and you are ready to go .....(free).....GO THERE! DARK SCREEN..........Some computer users experience problems with glare from the screen. Dark Screen sits over all windows and provides a means of dimming the output between 20 and 90%. Dark Screen is multi monitor aware, and can be used on the main monitor only or all monitors. Everything is controlled from the icon in the Notification area of the Taskbar (where the clock sits). Clicking this icon will open the menu which allows the selection of Multi Monitor Support, and the percentage of dimming of the screen .....(free).....GO THERE! SONAR 4..........This package provides an expanded ring around the mouse pointer for users who have difficulty locating the pointer. Unlike the Windows XP version, this package places a permanent ring around the pointer. This version introduces the option to vary the colour of the Sonar ring .....(free).....GO THERE! May 3, 2010 PROCESS PRIORITY SAVER..........This compact program allows you to save the priority you specify for any process. Once set, every time you execute the program, it'll run at the priority level you specify. Free for personal use .....(free).....GO THERE! DOUBLE DRIVER.......... Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers.....(free).....GO THERE! AERO ZOOM.......... Enhances the new Magnifier in Windows 7 to turn any mouse into a presentation mouse, where zooming in/out and moving around becomes a breeze without a keyboard. Thanks to Instant Fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! April 29, 2010 ULTRA DEFRAG..........UltraDefrag is a powerful disk defragmentation tool for Windows. It is the first open source defragmenter with full support of system locked files defragmentation. Actually all files including registry hives and paging file can be processed by UltraDefrag during the Windows boot process. Also one of the primary goals of the UltraDefrag design is doing the job as fast as possible. UltraDefrag is fully compatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and all of the 64-bit editions of Windows .....(free).....GO THERE! VIRTUALIZING INTERNET EXPLORER..........Run Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7 in Windows 7. PDF file. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! CHEMITORIUM..........3D visualization of molecules. With this free Organic Chemistry Analysis and Visualisation Tool you can write chemical formulas and let the computer calculate the threedimensional structure of the molecule, compute atomic properties and export your results as image or video files. The 3d-view uses a state-of-the-art shader-enabled realtime renderer to generate high-quality images, optionally with reflection and wobbling effects and full antialiasing. With a special export module, you can render animations as avi-videos. The export module uses fixed-framerate-timing to prevent the common timing errors and frame gaps that occur if you simply record a realtime output with a screen capture program Thanks to Instant Fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! April 28, 2010 PENYULAN.......... PenyuLAN is a free software to monitor computers in a local area network. PenyuLAN is most suitable for internet café monitoring system. However, the features are also useful for school computer labs for monitoring purpose. PenyuLAN can be used on local area network (LAN) whereby it will connect to the client PCs through the IP using designated port number......(free).....GO THERE! SECURE FILE TRANSFER.......... Software for transmitting files with security using public key 1024 bit and Rijndael for symmetric encryption.....(free).....GO THERE! PENYUUSB.......... PenyuUSB can enable or disable USB mass storage......(free).....GO THERE! TOOL TIP FIXER..........Created to permanantly fix one of Windows' most annoying & oldest bugs to date. The "hidden tooltip" bug has been around since the days of Windows 95, and became progressively worse with each Windows Upgrade – until Windows Vista, where it only appears from time to time; but it is still there nevertheless. If you are experiencing tooltips hidden behind the taskbar, then this is for you .....(free).....GO THERE! April 27, 2010 MAIL VIEWER.......... Viewer for standalone files containing Microsoft Outlook Express 4,5 and 6 message database (*.idx/*.mbx/*.dbx), Windows Vista Mail/Windows Live Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird message databases as well as standalone EML files. This application is based on MiTeC Outlook Express Reader. It displays list of contained messages with all needed properties as ordinary e-mail client. Message can be viewed in detailed view including attachments (save ability) and HTML preview. It has powerful searching and filtering capability and also allows to extract all email address from all emails in opened folder to list by one click. Selected messages can be saved to *.eml files with or without their attachments. Attachments can be extracted from selected messages by one command.....(free).....GO THERE! MONITOR SWITCH..........Moving windows is a common task on multi-monitor systems, and MonitorSwitch makes it easier and more efficient. MonitorSwitch adds two custom buttons in the caption bar of any windows, allowing you to move the window to the next or previous monitor .....(free).....GO THERE! IE TAB CLASSIC.......... Easily run Microsoft Internet Explorer on a tab within Google Chrome. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! FIX IT CENTER..........Microsoft Fix it Center unleashes automatic troubleshooters to solve the issues you have now and prevent new ones .....(free).....GO THERE! April 23, 2010 HOW TO BLOCK BAD WEBSITES..........According to the author, "There are many ways to block bad websites and unwanted content. I break this guide into three different ways to prevent your PC from being infected by accidentally visiting a malicious or compromised website: (1) programs and tips that help prevent your PC from being a target for malware. (2) Programs that alert you to potentially malicious websites when they appear -- the self-censorship or "just change the channel approach". (3) Programs that filter unwanted content/websites from appearing -- the censorship approach".....(free).....GO THERE! JOIN A UBUNTU MACHINE TO A WINDOWS DOMAIN.......... With Likewise-Open5 that job is made significantly easier. Now I understand that with the upcoming major release of Samba, joining a domain should be much simpler. But with the tools we have now, Likewise-Open5 is your best bet......(free).....GO THERE! April 22, 2010 FCONTEXT TWEAKER..........Context Tweaker is a windows utility which allows Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 users to edit , add and delete editable items from right click context menu in Vista and 7 . Note : Use as administrator. Thanks to Life Rocks.....(free).....GO THERE! AERO SNAP.......... AeroSnap is a simple but powerful application that allows you to resize, arrange or maximize your desktop windows with just drag and drop. Simple drag a window to a side of your desktop to snap it or drag it to the top to maximize. When you drag it back to the last position, the last window size will be restored .....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE GOVERNMENT REQUESTS..........Google regularly receives requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from its services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The interactive map shows the number of requests along with information definingeach request that it received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, with certain limitations.....(free).....GO THERE! April 21, 2010 X-MOUSE BUTTON CONTROL..........Provides application specific mouse button mappings, which means one application can use the mouse differently from another. This is useful for games which do not inherently support the extended mouse buttons, because you can map keys to each button. Thanks to How-To Geek.....(free).....GO THERE! WIN BUBBLE..........In just two clicks, WinBubble will help you to Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista easily. Its features cover Customization, Security and Optimization .....(free).....GO THERE! SHELL ICON RESTORE..........Simple save and restore desktop icon layout for Windows XP x64.....(free).....GO THERE! April 20, 2010 SECOND SHELL.......... SecondShell is free portable software, providing useful enhancements for the Windows shell with some extra help to netbook users.....(free).....GO THERE! TCP OPTIMIZER.......... The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run. (Make sure you back up your system settings first).....(free).....GO THERE! CPU TWEAKER..........MemSet is a tweaker which allows to change memory timings under Windows. You can read principal and secondary timings, and eventually change these timings values, but use this software at your own risk .....(free).....GO THERE! CPU TWEAKER..........Same as MemSet but for CPU with Integrated Memory Controller only, CPU-Tweaker allows you to change memory timings under Windows. You can read principal and secondary timings, and eventually change these timings values, but use this software at your own risk .....(free).....GO THERE! April 19, 2010 MEMSCOPE..........Subjects memory to various stresses to test its efficacy. Includes walking tests, block moves, lots more .....(free).....GO THERE! GLINT.......... Glint reveals system activity by changing its indicators brightness in response to changing values of corresponding system performance counters.....(free).....GO THERE! NICE COPIER..........NiceCopier replaces windows explorer file copy, it adds many feartures like pausing, resuming and it calculates the best copy speed. Its main goal is to improve the copy organisation and GUI. Thanks to Life Rocks.....(free).....GO THERE! AUTO SIZER..........AutoSizer automatically resizes programs for you, keeping them at a specific size or keeping them maximized. One popular use is to keep Internet Explorer maximized when you go on the web. It works with most software programs, and supports maximizing to specific monitors on multi-monitor computers. Use the handy Always On Top system tray menu to quickly position specific programs above all others.....(free).....GO THERE! April 16, 2010 EVENT LOG EXPLORER.......... Event Log Explorer is an effective software solution for viewing, monitoring and analyzing events recorded in Security, System, Application and another logs of Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. Event Log Explorer greatly extends standard Windows Event Viewer monitoring functionality and brings many new features.....(free).....GO THERE! COMODO TIME MACHINE..........Quickly restore your computer to an earlier point in time. CTM 'snapshots' are a complete record of your entire system (including the registry, critical operating system files and user created documents). Schedule automatic snapshots to be taken at regular intervals. Roll back to the last known working state in the event of virus attacks or crashes. Take snapshots of your computer before large installations or system maintenance. Software Developers and testers can easily restore test systems to the default configuration after each deployment without the need to manually uninstall each application. Home users can even let the kids run amok on the family PC for an afternoon and be safe in the knowledge that any damage can be instantly undone and all files recovered. Comodo Time Machine features an intuitive, friendly interface which offers quick and easy access to all functionality in the application. Additionally, it also features a sub-console that can be accessed before Windows starts and a Quick Operation console containing shortcuts to important and commonly executed tasks......(free).....GO THERE! ERASER..........Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008. Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License. Thanks to freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! April 13, 2010 AUTUMN SHELL ..........Not really a full Windows shell replacement but rather a replacement for the start menu, which is superseded by a panel, on start button mouse click. This panel has many functions. You can see a number of sections, each of which allows you to add your own function. You can execute programs placed in start menu, manage your files, switch between virtual desktops, customize system. Also permits you to group programs .....(free).....GO THERE! DISK SPACE FAN.......... Manage disk space.....(free).....GO THERE! DEMO OF IE 9 HARDWARE ACCELERATION..........For those who are not aware, IE9 will offload the rendering job to the GPU, thereby improving speed of videos and JavaScripts rendering and general responsiveness of the system by a significant factor. Hardware acceleration is going to be the next big thing for web browsers .....(free).....GO THERE! April 12, 2010 BYPASS THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN FIREWALL..........Beat the censors... A slideshow explaining it all .....(free).....GO THERE! WIN BUBBLES LITE.......... A customization and tweaker designed for Windows 7 and Vista. This is a small, light-weight, updatable and Open For All version of WinBubbles. In just few clicks, WinBubbles-Lite will let you access the most important Customization functions of Windows 7 and Vista easily. The powerful utility includes a built-in Graphical User Interface designer and programmer called RegDevelop that will let you update the program the way that you want. Add Features that is needed.....(free).....GO THERE! TINY ME..........TinyMe is a minimalist distribution of Linux aimed at making your computing experience as bloat and lag-free as possible. We do this for those of you who have old computers, like to mess around with small/fast systems, or just want a minimal environment. TinyMe is comparable to distributions like Puppy, AntiX, ZenWalk, and DSL. If you like small distributions of Linux, give TinyMe a try. Thanks to Unixmen.....(free).....GO THERE! April 8, 2010 First, a note: all of our selections tonight are from Skrommel's page at Donation Coder. Hope you can tell we think well of his work.... GHOSTER.......... Dims all windows except the active one.....(free).....GO THERE! FIND .......... Opens the Find window. Put it on your toolbar ......(free).....GO THERE! RUN ..........Opens the Run window. Put it on your toolbar .....(free).....GO THERE! CAPS SHIFT..........Ever hit caps lock by accident and not found out until half a page later? CAPshift extends the Caps Lock key by slowing it down, and shows a menu to change the selected text to lowercase, UPPERCASE, TitleCase, iNVERTEDcASE, RaNDoMCaSE or to Replace user defined characters .....(free).....GO THERE! April 7, 2010 IPAD PEEK ..........Online iPad simulator shows you how your web site looks and plays on the iPad .....(free).....GO THERE! STALLED PRINTER REPAIR..........Portable freeware application to Detect and Repair Stalled Print Jobs. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! PROCESS LIBRARY ..........Comprehensive online library of processes is for everyone who needs to know the exact nature and purpose of every process that should, and should not, be running on their PC.....(free).....GO THERE! April 6, 2010 CRACK TRACKER..........For software authors... Almost all filesharing sites subscribe to and respond to DMCA complaints. If you see one of your programs available as an illegal download, you mark the URL and send a complaint to the hosting site asking them to take it down. The hard part is finding all these links though. This program does that for you.....(free).....GO THERE! ASCII SCAN..........ASCII Scan renders any file as 7-bit text. Essentially a filter, this application allows you to peek at the textural content of otherwise unviewable files. Uses include: Viewing hidden text in EXE, DLL, PDF, and salvaging information from corrupt data. Once a file is processed with ASCII Scan, you can copy/paste the results into any word processor or text editor, including Notepad.....(free).....GO THERE! FELIX..........Felix is a pencil-and-paper cipher offering relatively good security for causal use. Unlike modern encoding schemes that require, at a minimum, a computer to be of any practical consequence; Felix requires only that you follow three elementary rules (outlined below). If you're curious about cryptology, the Felix cipher is a great place to start. This cipher can typically be understood and applied, even by children, in a handful of minutes. Quite simply that means, its easy to implement for common folks.....(free).....GO THERE! MIRROR..........Mirror is an easy to use freeware tool that duplicates a folder structure to a new location.....(free).....GO THERE! April 2, 2010 SCRUB XP.......... ScrubXP cleans temporary files and registry keys resulting from opening files and or using the Internet. It removes IE History, IE Temporary Files, IE Cookies, Documents List from Start Menu, Empties Recycle Bin, Clears Autocomplete Entries, Clears Recent File Lists for Run, Common Dialogs, Recent Documents, Search Assistant, Typed URLs, Paint, Find Computer, Printer Ports, Find Files, Media Player, Previous Tasks, and Real Player (scroll down to find it).....(free).....GO THERE! MAKE ME ADMIN..........When you run MakeMeAdmin.cmd, you get a Command Prompt running under your normal user account, but in a new logon session in which it is a member of the Administrators group. This Command Prompt and any programs started from it use your regular profile, authenticate as you on the network, but have full local admin privileges. All other programs continue to run with your regular, unprivileged account (scroll down to find it).....(free).....GO THERE! INSTALL TRACER..........Every time you install a new program, you make a leap of faith. The installation utility adds some files to your system, replaces other files, and changes elements of the Registry and essential INI files. You hope it will make those changes cleanly and correctly and will record them for use by the program's uninstall utility. But in case it doesn't, This tool can provide a record of exactly what the install program did (scroll down to find it).....(free).....GO THERE! STARTUP SELECTOR..........StartupSelector will save or load the Windows configuration data that causes programs to run at system startup. This allows you to easily switch between multiple startup configurations, for a myriad of potential purposes (scroll down to find it).....(free).....GO THERE! March 31, 2010 MONITOR TEST..........Displays test patterns for use when performing monitor repairs. Displays pure colours and white screens for colour tuning or finding missing colours, grid lines for focusing and setting the image dimensions correctly. A must for any monitor repair person or checking the quality of a monitors display .....(free).....GO THERE! UNSTOPPABLE COPIER..........Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts of the file were not recoverable in the end .....(free).....GO THERE! DATA BYTE.......... Converts any file into a format that can be included into your application. Supports ASM \\\\\\\'db\\\\\\\' and C++ style header file output. Allows for pictures, text, music or any other file to be included inside your application executable rather than in a separate file.....(free).....GO THERE! SCAN PORT.......... Scans a given computer for open ports. Reports which service the port is related to and if its open, closed or filtered via a firewall. Useful utility for checking your computer is secure from hacking attempts and only services you want to share are visible to other users via the network.....(free).....GO THERE! March 30, 2010 IREBOOT..........iReboot is a simple yet effective reboot helper tool. iReboot sits in your taskbar at startup (only taking up 400KB of memory!) and lets you choose which operating system you want to reboot into. Instead of pressing restart, waiting for Windows to shut down, waiting for your BIOS to post, then selecting the operating system you want to boot into (within the bootloader time-limit!); you just select that entry from iReboot and let it do the rest. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! VIDEO CACHE VIEW..........After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser's cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future. It automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play flv files, it also allows you to play the video directly from your browser's cache .....(free).....GO THERE! EASY IMAGE UPLOADER ..........Image upload tool. Visit the imageshack website with your internet browser, locate the picture and fill in the form, click a button to start uploading, wait a bit, then use the link to post your image to a forum (or include it in a blog post like the picture to the right). But if you do this kind of thing often, the hassle is too heavy a chain to bear, so I wrote a little program to automate the procedure as much as possible. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the easy uploader. Things can't get much simpler than this. First you start ezUpload.exe (download link below), you select your picture source (the easiest is to import picture data from the clipboard, e.g. after ) click on the upload button, then sit and wait while ezUpload is finishing the job for you. In the end you just click a button to get the image address as a forum friendly [IMG] tag or as a HTML anchor link.....(free).....GO THERE! March 29, 2010 THE SECRET ORIGIN OF WINDOWS..........A quarter century ago, Windows wasn't everywhere. In fact, some were doubtful it would ever ship at all .....(free).....GO THERE! START MENU 7..........Software to replace the standard Windows Start Menu. The list of menu items is alphabetically sorted, so you can easily find any program or command by its name. Open any location on your PC with a single click. You can create, modify, and reorder items in Start Menu 7. So it's easy to create a list of the most used locations, popular directories, and virtual folders to access them with a single click. here is a special Run button to access seldom used locations without adding them into menu. Start Menu 7 has a customizable Power Buttons panel. With Power Timer feature you can delay any of power management operations.....(free).....GO THERE! TIP CASE SOUND RECORDER.......... Want to record stream audio. Will record all audio sound from microphone or sound card. You can also set the volume, echo or sound effect.....(free).....GO THERE! DISK WIPE.......... Securely erases the contents of a disk replacing it with random data or leaving the drive completely blank. Numerous passes can be performed to ensure data is totally unrecoverable. Program works on hard and floppy disks aswell as USB/Flash drives.....(free).....GO THERE! March 25, 2010 HOW TO COMPLETELY ERASE A HARD DRIVE OR SSD.......... With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here's how to wipe them clean.....(free).....GO THERE! NET ROUTE VIEW.......... NetRouteView is a GUI alternative to the standard route utility (Route.exe) of Windows operating system. It displays the list of all routes on your current network, including the destination, mask, gateway, interface IP address, metric value, type, protocol, age (in seconds), interface name, and the MAC address. NetRouteView also allows you to easily add new routes, as well as to remove or modify existing static routes.....(free).....GO THERE! PORTABLE START MENU..........Portable Start Menu is a simple and free start menu application that can be installed on USB sticks or local PCs. Organize your programs in a simple menu system and launch them via a tray icon. If you close Portable Start Menu on an USB-Stick, running applications can be closed automatically, too .....(free).....GO THERE! March 24, 2010 DOWNLOAD VIDEOS FROM HULU..........A step by step guide .....(free).....GO THERE! KLEO BARE METAL BACKUP FOR SERVERS.......... All inclusive backup of operating systems, device drivers and programs. Includes 100’s of Tools. With Kleo, you can now create all inclusive backups of your servers. Saves 100s of hours tracking down original CD’s or obsolete device drives. Kleo enables you to recover from server failure without the need of any other software......(free).....GO THERE! IO GRAPH.......... An application that turns mouse movements into a modern art. The idea is that you just run it and do your usual day stuff at the computer. Go back to IOGraph after a while and grab a nice picture of what you’ve done!.....(free).....GO THERE! March 23, 2010 GOOGLE PLAY..........We do not know exactly what this is, but get on and start clicking. You won't be sorry .....(free).....GO THERE! DISABLE STARTUP..........Disable Startup is a free startup manager and monitoring program, it can scan all Windows Startups on your computer, and monitor all new startup items, helps you control, manage and optimize Windows Startup configuration. It can work with fine Windows XP and Vista, is one protecting tool for Windows Startup from changes. This software can help you save system memory and resources by disable unnecessary programs, because windows launches many unnecessary programs and services at boot up. Disable Startup also monitor the start page of Internet Explorer; stop any change that you don't know. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! MONITOR ASSET MANAGER.......... Monitor Asset Manager is a Plug and Play monitor information utility that works under all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. It is fully multi-monitor-capable, and unlike similar reporting utilities queries the monitor directly rather than relying on potentially dubious information stored in the registry. In addition to providing detailed information on monitor color and timing characteristics, this compact utility (~400kb) is the only program of its type to accomplish this under every Microsoft OS from NT 4.0 to Windows 7, providing corporate IS managers with a simple tool to track monitor inventory by serial number.....(free).....GO THERE! March 22, 2010 ALGO SIM.......... AlgoSim is a very intuitive and advanced mathematical software for numerical analysis and visualisation, and physical simulation. It offers a unique design and an almost poetic depth of features.....(free).....GO THERE! APP CRASH VIEW.......... AppCrashView is a small utility for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that displays the details of all application crashes occurred in your system. The crashes information is extracted from the .wer files created by the Windows Error Reporting (WER) component of the operating system every time that a crash is occurred. AppCrashView also allows you to easily save the crashes list to text/csv/html/xml file.....(free).....GO THERE! NET BALANCER.......... Browse and do any internet activity comfortably even when your download manager or torrent client downloads huge files from internet - just lower their network priority with NetBalancer. NetBalancer is an internet traffic control and monitoring tool designed for Windows XP/2003/Vista/Win7 (except Vista/Win7 x64 - they will be supported in a next version). You can use NetBalancer to set download/upload transfer rate priority for any applications and monitor their internet traffic. Applications with a higher network priority will gain more traffic bandwidth than those with a lower one. The Free version is limited to 5 process priorities/limits at a time.....(free).....GO THERE! March 17, 2010 WIN 7 TASKBAR THUMBNAIL CUSTOMIZER .......... This tool will allow you to resize and tweak the Windows 7 taskbar thumbnails left and right, in and out.....(free).....GO THERE! SERVER MONITOR.......... Monitors network connectivy to servers and reports downtime, network connection dropouts and high packet loss. Handy for any network administrator who want to know when servers are offline to minimize downtime. Problems are displays in levels of severity and by the type of problem that has occured. The levels to trigger different severity levels are user defined.....(free).....GO THERE! RAM TEST.......... Allows you to test your computers RAM for errors aswell as gauge its performance.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOW MESSAGE.......... Displays information about the window the mouse pointer is currently over. Displays the windows handle, size and the owner thread information. Useful for people writting windows applications or wanting to create an interface to another application such as macros and scripts.....(free).....GO THERE! March 16, 2010 BOOT BUILDER.......... Boot builder allows you to create your own custom boot sector from scratch. This utility allows you to recreate or restore boot sectors lost due to virus or other damage to a drive. Boot sectors can be imported/exported to a disk or created from a template. This program supports FAT and NTFS boot sector types.....(free).....GO THERE! RAW COPY.......... This program copys a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. This utility is designed for people who have faulty drive and want to transfer the data directly to another drive without doing a file by file copy. This saves the need for operating system re-installs and allows drives with an unknown file system to be copied (including from console game machines, data recorders, mac etc). The program has a built in data recovery function which will attempt to recover data from bad sectors to ensure all the available data is restored from the drive. This program is designed to run under NT/XP/2000 or later operating systems.....(free).....GO THERE! AUDIT..........Creates a database of computers on your network and their configurations. Allows you to track what applications are installed across your network for license auditing purposes. A great help for large networks trying to ensure they are legitimate. Audit also provides a great way of determining which computers in your network require hardware upgrades or software installations .....(free).....GO THERE! March 15, 2010 XP AUTO LOG-IN FOR FASTER BOOT..........Make boot up easier and faster .....(free).....GO THERE! IO GRAPH..........An application that turns mouse movements into a modern art. The idea is that you just run it and do your usual day stuff at the computer. Go back to IOGraph after a while and grab a nice picture of what you’ve done.....(free).....GO THERE! THE EERIE SILENCE..........Half a century after it began, the quest to find life elsewhere in the universe has drawn an almost total blank. Possibly we are looking for the wrong indicators .....(free).....GO THERE! March 12, 2010 NET BALANCER..........Browse and do any internet activity comfortably even when your download manager or torrent client downloads huge files from internet - just lower their network priority with NetBalancer. NetBalancer is an internet traffic control and monitoring tool designed for Windows XP/2003/Vista/Win7 (except Vista/Win7 x64 - they will be supported in a next version). You can use NetBalancer to set download/upload transfer rate priority for any applications and monitor their internet traffic. Applications with a higher network priority will gain more traffic bandwidth than those with a lower one. Free version limited to 5 process priorities or limits at a time .....(free).....GO THERE! C STATE MACHINE DESIGNER FOR WINDOWS..........In embedded software domain, state machine is one of the key software components to model the system behavior. For the complex system behavior, the state machine implementation in code required significant amount of time to implement, test and verify the behavior of that system. To facilitate the implementation of system, the State machine designer helps the software designer to design the state machine and view the state machine behavior interactively using mouse point and click. Go to Products .....(free).....GO THERE! TEST DISK..........TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy .....(free).....GO THERE! March 11, 2010 GREEN GNOME.......... GreenGnome is a free, modern desktop environment for Windows XP. Written completely from scratch, it aims to become the first Windows like operative system and follow the Windows architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Unixlike based system (as GNU/Linux). The main goal of the GreenGnome project is to provide an operating system which is binary compatible with Windows. This will allow your Windows applications and drivers to run as they would on your Windows system. Additionally, the look and feel of the Gnome desktop environment is used. The ultimate goal of GreenGnome is to allow you to remove Windows and install GreenGnome.....(free).....GO THERE! AUTO MUTE..........A small Auto Mute software utility to make a PC silent when it's turning on or is waking up. Thanks to freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! DRIVE SORT.......... Sort an entire drive by size or date to find the largest or newest files.....(free).....GO THERE! DISABLE THE SMARTSCREEN FILTER IN IE..........The so called SmartScreen Filter has been added to Internet Explorer 8 by Microsoft. The filter has been designed to warn the user in case unsafe websites are accessed in the web browser. Some Internet Explorer users on the other hand might prefer to deactivate it. Either because they are using a security software that checks the websites for them, like Web of Trust for instance or a security software that integrates in the web browser and checks the accessed websites, or because they do not want to transmit information about the visited websites to Microsoft. .....(free).....GO THERE! March 10, 2010 We missed you for two days, folks... Called out of town, and no access. But here's a fresh Daily Update for you. COMODO DRAGON INTERNET BROWSER.......... Fast and versatile Internet Browser based on Chromium, infused with Comodo's unparalleled level of Security.....(free).....GO THERE! WINX HD VIDEO CONVERTER..........Free only until March 15. WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe builds in 160 video codecs and 50 audio codecs. And without any third-party codecs, it can easily support Multi-track HD video, such as BDAV, M2TS, MKV, AVCHD, HDTV and MPEG-TS video movies. It also supports converting all the HD and HD-Camcorder videos MOD MTS, to both portable and console players, such as iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PS3, PSP, Xbox, Zune, PDA, Blackberry, Nokia, Android, Zen, etc,. Supporting Multi-CPU and Hyper Threading, WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe offers up to 5x - 15x real time video converting speed. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! FORCE YOUR SCRIPT TO RUN LONGER THAN MAX EXECUTION TIME..........Parsing very large files almost always results in a script spitting back that horrible maximum execution time exceeded error message, even though you've adjusted the maximum execution time setting in the php.ini file to as large as you dare. Here's the answer .....(free).....GO THERE! March 5, 2010 IS MY LCD OK.......... Small program but effective solution to easily check for dead, paralysed, or stuck pixels on LCD monitors.....(free).....GO THERE! CPU FREQUENZ.......... Small tool to accurately identify the CPU frequency.....(free).....GO THERE! WINBIN2ISO.......... This small program converts BIN CD images to ISO images. Files over 2GB are also no problem. When it comes to a quick convert, is exactly the WinBin2Iso conversion tool that you need.....(free).....GO THERE! DO A TOTAL BACKGROUND CHECK ON YOURSELF..........Now you can know what Big Brother knows about you. Here is a comprehenisve list of websites and phone numbers for most of the specialty consumer reports, like your employment, rental, and check writing history. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! March 4, 2010 TRANS OTHER.......... Make all windows but the active one transparent. From Skrommel.....(free).....GO THERE! SINGLE APP.......... Only allow one application to be active. From Skrommel.....(free).....GO THERE! CACHE SORT.......... Automatically move files from Internet Explorer's cache into folders based on the files extensions. From Skrommel.....(free).....GO THERE! EXPLORER2.......... Free edition. The lightweight version of xplorer2 is not as powerful as the professional version but it shares the same desktop browsing and file management engine, it sports dual panes and folder tabs, and gives many rival paid-for file managers a run for their money — literally! It is a complete little file manager. From my old friend Nikos.....(free).....GO THERE! March 3, 2010 CLASSIC SHELL.......... Classic Shell is a collection of features that were available in older versions of Windows but not anymore. It brings back the classic start menu that Windows 7 doesn't support, adds a toolbar for Windows Explorer in Vista and Windows 7 like the one in Windows XP and adds couple more smaller features.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS 7 START ORB CHANGER..........Tiny portable tool that allows you to change your Windows 7 start orb button with just one click. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! RESTORE PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF FILES IN WINDOWS 7.......... Have you ever accidently deleted a file, or removed a crucial part of a document only to realize it no longer makes sense? Windows 7 is smart enough to protect you from yourself, and here we’ll see how you can restore files in any edition of Windows 7.....(free).....GO THERE! March 2, 2010 COMPLETE GUIDE TO WINDOWS SYSTEM RESTORE..........Most of us remember Windows System Restore as a lame-duck feature from Windows XP; when it seemed we might benefit from using it, it never quite worked how we expected. That's no longer the case. Windows System Restore is an awesome system recovery tool, and it's included with Windows for free. It's the ideal solution for rolling back bad drivers, fixing when buggy software breaks your PC, or simply rolling you back to a previous point in time. If you've still got a bad taste in your mouth from the lackluster XP version of System Restore, it's time to take a look at it again if you've upgraded to Windows 7 or Vist .....(free).....GO THERE! LS MACRO.......... LSMacro is a freeware keyboard macro utility program from UndefinedVariable! You can run multi programs, open urls, screen capture, send key/mouse event to an other programs with just a few keystrokes.....(free).....GO THERE! TVERSITY..........Play personal and Internet media, even Full Episodes, on TV, STB, game consoles and mobile. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! March 1, 2010 RECLOCK DIRECTSHOW FILTER..........The purpose of ReClock is to definitely get rid of jerky playback of AVI and MPEG material on a PC (or a HTPC driving a TV, a flat panel, or a video-projector). It's a DirectShow filter which is loaded in place of the default directsound audio renderer. It provides a new reference clock that is locked to the video card hardware clock, in order to ensure that frames are played at the exact speed of what is expected by the video card vertical sync. It also provides a frame rate adaptator for media files that do not match a multiple of the video card refresh rate (ex: playback of 23,976fps IVTC NTSC on a PAL TV). The combination of the two will give you the true experience of smooth playback with your PC .....(free).....GO THERE! SECRET SHORTCUTS TO TURN OFF WINDOWS..........These are handy. As you know in all Windows Operating Systems there are a lot of shortcuts which help you with your daily tasks. What you don’t know is that there are hidden, or at least little known shortcuts, which involve a sequence of keys that, if individually pressed (meaning that you have to press the keys one at a time), turn off and exit your computer right away.....(free).....GO THERE! DESKTOP OK..........Save and restore the positions of icons. DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for user that have to change the screen resolution often .....(free).....GO THERE! NETWORK SEARCH ENGINE..........Intranet shared files crawler and indexer. A self-contained index-based network search engine that indexes all files in your local area network and provides users with the ability to locate necessary files within a few seconds. It returns blazingly fast search results to your users, even when large numbers of shared files and folders are present.....(free).....GO THERE! February 26, 2010 SIP SOFTPHONE.......... The SIP softphone is simple and easy to use while giving you everything you need to facilitate communication around the office. Audio and video quality is exceptionally good and the program is fully compatible with a number of different SIP servers including MS Office Communications Server and the free OfficeSIP Server.....(free).....GO THERE! SMART CALL MONITOR..........SmartCallMonitor is the new phone monitoring software for TAPI capable hardware like a telephone system or an ISDN card. It automatically tries to match incoming phone calls with data stored in your Microsoft Outlook contacts to provide you with information about the caller (e.g. name, address etc.). The information will be shown in a clearly arranged datasheet. If SmartCallMonitor cannot find matching information about the caller in your MS Outlook contacts, it can use an internet reverse search service to obtain information about the caller. With just one click, you can start a Google search directly from the monitoring software to look for further information about a call (e.g. the company's website). The detailed view shows you all information about the selected entry at a glance. With SmartCallMonitor you always know who is calling. In the integrated journal, you can filter missed calls or specifically search for a contact or a number in the call log. SmartCallMonitor can simplify your daily office routine by monitoring incoming calls, saving information about the caller (e.g. time and date of each call), creating call back reminders and many other features. SmartCallMonitor V1.2 fully functional version is completely free .....(free).....GO THERE! KOLIBRI..........Kolibri is a small x86 assembler hobby operating system. It forked off MenuetOS in 2004 and has mostly been developed by ex-USSR community since. API and ABI is being enreached with developer-frendly features. User interface is not that good yet but we are trying to improve it as well. Your feedback is very appreciated, although help would always be much more valuable. Current 0.7.7.0 release introduces several kernel, applications and libraries updates Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! MUTE ON LOCK.......... Mute on Lock is a tiny resident utility that sits in the system tray and monitors your session: when you are locking your Windows workstation, it mutes the sound of your speakers. With the help of this program you can quickly mute or unmute the system sound by double-clicking the tray icon or using an optional hot key.....(free).....GO THERE! February 25, 2010 GLEE BOX..........gleeBox is an experimental project that takes a keyboard-centric approach to navigating the web. It provides alternatives to actions that are traditionally performed via the mouse. Some of these are radically more efficient than using a mouse, some not so much. In all cases, they are mostly meant for keyboard and command line lovers Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! GPU-Z..........GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you lots of information about your video card and GPU .....(free).....GO THERE! JAD RETRO..........JadRetro is a command-line utility that could help You to successfully decompile Java classes created by the modern Java compilers (of Java 1.4, Java 1.5 or later). JadRetro operates by transforming the specified Java class files (if needed) into ones which could be processed correctly by an old Java decompiler (designed to work with classes of Java 1.3 or earlier). JadRetro is not a decompiler itself, it is a class transformer helping some old (but good) Java decompilers to convert more class files and/or generate more correct source code. .....(free).....GO THERE! February 24, 2010 VMWARE PLAYER..........VMware Player allows anyone to try new operating systems without rebooting your PC to switch between them. VMware Player is the easiest way to run multiple operating systems at the same time on your PC. With its user-friendly interface, VMware Player makes it effortless for anyone to try out Windows 7, Chrome OS or the latest Linux releases, or create isolated virtual machines to safely test new software and surf the Web. VMware Player can also be used to run a virtual copy of an old PC so that you can recycle the old machines you have under your desk or stored in the closet......(free).....GO THERE! CONSOLE PALETTE CHANGER.......... Console Palette Changer is a utility which lets a user edit and load customized color palettes for the Windows console (formerly called the DOS prompt). This utility is especially beneficial when used with a color directory lister such as my NDIR utility, the Cygwin ls utility, or any other similar tool; such color utilities show off the palettes in use in the various color schemes. There are two programs included in this package; Console Palette Changer - A Windows utility which lets you preview, edit, and save palette files, as well as opening new consoles with your selected palette. Note that, while this utility is very useful for creating and editing the palette files, it's easier to load an existing palette into a console using the consattr utility. consattr - A console (i.e., DOS) utility which allows one to load an existing palette into the current console. It does not provide any editing options, but it does change the current console. You can even put a consattr in your autoexec.bat (or 4start.bat for 4NT users), to start up a console with your desired palette.....(free).....GO THERE! DESMUME..........Nintendo DS emulator .....(free).....GO THERE! February 23, 2010 COMMAND LINE IN WINDOWS..........Lots of useful information. Windows is famous as a graphical user interface and many computer users tend to forget (or never knew) that there are also very useful command line functions in Windows. In fact, there is a great deal more to Windows than just point and click. The keyboard and the command line can be substantial adjuncts to the mouse and icons. There are two basic features involving a command line. One is the entry 'Run" (or "Start Search" in Vista) that is in the Start menu and the other is the command prompt window.....(free).....GO THERE! 25 MOST DANGEROUS PROGRAMMING ERRORS..........The 2010 CWE - SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is a list of the most widespread and critical programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, and easy to exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently allow attackers to completely take over the software, steal data, or prevent the software from working at all .....(free).....GO THERE! UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT VIRTUALIZATION R2 SOLUTIONS.......... Free e-Book for IT professionals who want to learn more about the latest Microsoft virtualization technologies, including Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, and Microsoft’s private and public cloud computing platforms including Windows Azure. Microsoft Press. Only available free until the end of February 2010.....(free).....GO THERE! February 22, 2010 WOWD..........Realtime search. Discover what is popular right now A new way to search... when what's happening Now matters Great for current events, politics, news, sports .....(free).....GO THERE! COMMANDS IN DEMAND.......... Commands in Demand provides non-technical users with easy access to more than 100 Windows commands and features that can be hard to find or time consuming to get to. The program includes shortcuts to terminate non-responsive applications, restart Windows Explorer, view/clear the clipboard, open a command prompt in a selected folder, access system folders, view TCP/IP configuration settings and more.....(free).....GO THERE! EASY IMAGE UPLOADER..........Automate the process of uploading pictures to various websites .....(free).....GO THERE! VM MAP..........VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility. It shows a breakdown of a process's committed virtual memory types as well as the amount of physical memory (working set) assigned by the operating system to those types. Besides graphical representations of memory usage, VMMap also shows summary information and a detailed process memory map. Powerful filtering and refresh capabilities allow you to identify the sources of process memory usage and the memory cost of application features. Besides flexible views for analyzing live processes, VMMap supports the export of data in multiple forms, including a native format that preserves all the information so that you can load back in. It also includes command-line options that enable scripting scenarios. VMMap is the ideal tool for developers wanting to understand and optimize their application's memory resource usage. Thanks to instant fundas .....(free).....GO THERE! February 19, 2010 SSD DRIVE TWEAKER..........Increase the life of your solid state drives. With all the advice online for SSD hard drives it can take hours of research and fiddling to properly setup your SSD drive. Now with this little app you can Tweak Windows 2K/XP/Vista & 7 including x64 in seconds. Lets you Tweak the following: * Windows Indexing Service, System Restore, Windows Defrag, Use Large System Cache, Ntfs Memory Usage, Disable 8.3 Filenames, Disable Date Stamping, Disable Boot Tracing, Windows Prefetcher, Windows Vista Superfetch, Windows Services. Thanks gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! REMOTE PROCESS EXPLORER..........Remote Process Explorer is a powerful tool for managing, monitoring and analyzing processes on a local or remote computer. You can use Remote Process Explorer to not only get the list of processes running on a remote or local computer, but also run a new process, kill a process or change its priority. In real time, Remote Process Explorer monitors the performance of a remote computer, shows what processes are running on it, how much CPU, memory and other system resources they use. It will show hidden processes, which will allow you to detect spyware and malware. Free for personal use .....(free).....GO THERE! REPROFILER..........A tool for repairing broken userprofile-associations. A common problem encountered with all recent Windows versions is the unexplained loss of access to a user's data and settings.In most such circumstances, the problem arises because Windows no longer recognises the profile as belonging to its user. What will happen in this case is that the next time the user logs-on, a fresh, empty profile will be created, named 'user.domain' or 'user.computer' instead of just 'user' -and from that point on, the new profile will be used instead of the correct one. It is possible to correct this type of problem manually, but this involves editing the registry and adjusting permissions, tasks which are painstaking and time-consuming, and are probably beyond the skill-level of the average user. Reprofiler offers a quick and easy way to see which profile is associated with which user. If a problem is evident, it then provides an intuitive and straightforward means of correcting the profile ownership.....(free).....GO THERE! SIMPLE HDD CLONER..........Based on the command line tool to clone storage devices , Simple HDD Cloner only requires the device letters. After that all files from the source are copied to the destination. Very useful for upgrading primary hard drives without reinstalling everything. Go to downloads and scroll down .....(free).....GO THERE! February 18, 2010 LOOK IN MY PC..........LookInMyPC generates a complete, comprehensive system profile that includes information on all installed hardware and software. Additionally it provides system diagnostic information such as details on running processes, installed services, startup programs, Windows updates and hot fixes, active network and Internet connections, TCP/IP port usage, event log detail, and much more. All this is provided in an easy to read, formatted report that you can view and print using your web browser. Many items are hyperlinked so you can quickly and easily Google them to find out what they are or if some programs might be spyware or viruses. It is also completely non-invasive and makes no changes to your computers settings whatsoever. We have even included a handy function that allows you to create a full system profile and diagnostic report. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! PIC PICK.......... PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want. It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely.....(free).....GO THERE! EASY POSTER PRINTER..........Easy Poster Printer enables you easily to print posters of any size (max 20x20 meters). Just drag n drop your picture into the application and click print. Easy Poster Printer also allows you to do basic image manipulations such as rotate, flip and stretch for better fit. When you are done creating an awesome poster simply save it! Easy Poster Printer comes with a Windows Shell Extension that allows you to see thumbnails of your posters in Windows, just as if it was pictures. This ensures that it is very easy to locate your posters in Windows for later use or sharing. Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! February 17, 2010 LUNASCAPE.......... Lunascape is the only triple engine browser, using Trident, Gecko and WebKit. Lunascape is now compatible with the expanding array of Firefox add-ons in addition to the already supported Internet Explorer add-ons and Lunascape plug-ins, achieving the greatest degree of extensibility and flexibility among Web browsers. Transferring your add-ons from Firefox is very easy......(free).....GO THERE! RESOURCES EXTRACT.......... ResourcesExtract is a small utility that scans dll/ocx/exe files and extract all resources (bitmaps, icons, cursors, AVI movies, HTML files, and more...) stored in them into the folder that you specify. You can use ResourcesExtract in user interface mode, or alternatively, you can run ResourcesExtract in command-line mode without displaying any user interface.....(free).....GO THERE! OK MAP..........GPS Mapping Software. OkMap is an interactive software which allows you to work on your computer screen with digital maps that you have either bought or scanned. OkMap can also import vectorial data from the most common formats and DEM data relevant to height informations. Through these maps, OkMap lets you organize paths by creating waypoints, routes and tracks on your computer monitor, and upload this data to your GPS. To make it easier, OkMap provides you also with autorouting and geocoding functions. Data collected by your GPS can be downloaded on your computer, stored and displayed on the maps. They can also be used to create different types of statistics. By connecting a GPS to your laptop, you can plot your position on maps in real-time. If you are connected to the network you can constantly send your position to a remote computer, or receive the position of your companions on your computer and display the related tracks on maps in real time. OkMap can also interface Google Maps and Google Earth. With Google Maps you can get portions of maps immediately available in OkMap. With Google Earth you can view your paths and your maps also in 3D.....(free).....GO THERE! February 16, 2010 LAMMER CONTEXT MENU..........Lammer Context Menu is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer with very handy features like: Copy Path, Explore Here, Command Prompt, Path Operations (Move, copy, delete based on advanced wildcards like: delete all folders matching "*\bin\obj"), Batch rename files (manual changes, sequences generator, etc), Search (and Replace), Select all files in a folder by extension, Mount virtual drivers (aka subst), Register/Unregister COM Modules (*.ocx, *.dll), UAC friendly (Shift to run as administrator), And much more to come Thanks to freewaregenius.com .....(free).....GO THERE! FREE CLEAR HISTORY.......... Free Clear History is a free history cleaning tool for computer to protect your local & online privacy and provide you a safe & clean computer environment. Your computer tracks most activities you do while working on the computer or surfing the Internet. you may want to clear the saved data so the next person using your computer will never know your computer activity. This program can quickly clean history of your web browsing and computer use permanently. including clearing internet temporary files, clearing cookies, clearing IE address bar URL history, clearing IE auto-form history, clearing IE password history, clearing IE internet history items, clearing IE my favorite links, clearing system temporary folder, clearing recycle bin, clearing finding files history, clearing history of run command, clearing recent documents, etc. Scroll down to find it.....(free).....GO THERE! KILLING ME SOFTLY..........Stop runaway or frozen processes.....(free).....GO THERE! February 15, 2010 MINIMEM.......... Minimem now can reduce the memory footprint of any application. It runs in the background and can be set up to optimize as many proceses as you'd like, using a very intuitive graphical interface. Unlike other memory optimization tools, it gives you full control over what applications you want to optimize, when and how often, as well as the possibility to only optimize memory when required and relevant. It optimizes memory by removing as many non-necessary memory pages as possible from the selected processes. It does so at regular intervals which can be user-defined as well and every 30s by default, though uses an advanced pooling mechanism to ensure the CPU usage of Minimem remains low at all times. This then optimizes your applications which can load those pages back whenever they need, and makes your overall system perform much better whenever it is memory limited. Minimem runs in the background and is fully non-intrusive. It stays in your tray where you can access its settings at any time and will remember your favorite settings for an optimal ease-of-use. Its intuitive GUI should make it useable for any type of user so no specific skills are required to take advantage of this great tool.....(free).....GO THERE! IS PROTECTOR..........Permanently deletes selected files from your computer with the most reliable data termination algorithms. A stranger can't recover erased confidential information .....(free).....GO THERE! IPHONE EXPLORER..........With the iPhone Explorer can you look into the file system of your iPhone and down- and upload files by USB connection, regardless of whether file format. Within this function can use your iPhone as "USB-Stick". The program supports also a direct access to the photos directory of the iPhone. Herewith can you photos easily and simple copy to the computer. The same function is also available for videos, music (from iPod) and ringtones. The highlight of the iPhone Explorer yet is the creating of own ringtones with the ringtone editor from MP3, WAV, AIFF and M4A audio file formats.To this can you copy audio titles from iPhone music archive or from local computer. However the song length is not limited to 32 seconds as iTunes.....(free).....GO THERE! FUZZY WINDOWS..........New site from the creator of the immortal Winxpcentral.com. Tech news, software, everything of interest to the geek-minded. (And you can add it to your Daily Rotation by clicking Here) .....(free).....GO THERE! February 12, 2010 GOOGLE BUZZ INTRODUCTION..........It feels like there is not a day where Google is not updating or publishing a new service. Google Buzz is the latest service that is being rolled out to all Gmail users .....(free).....GO THERE! BATTERY CARE..........BatteryCare is a software created to optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery. It monitors the battery discharge cycles and increases autonomy, improves its lifetime.....(free).....GO THERE! NETWORK WINDOWS LIVE MOVIEMAKER.......... Windows Live MovieMaker is a good tool for creating videos in Windows 7, however, one problem is it doesn’t allow you to import videos directly from network locations. Here we’ll take a look at a quick registry hack that will enable network support.....(free).....GO THERE! SPEED UP WINDOWS 7 BY DELETING CALIBRATED DISPLAY.......... Display Color Calibration allows you to calibrate the display or screen color of your computer in order to get an optimal color view, be your computer screen an LCD or a CRT. However, this feature hides a bothering and annoying downside.....(free).....GO THERE! February 11, 2010 ACER GRIDVISTA..........This free app allows you to use your monitors more effectively by dividing your screen into custom sections. It mimics the Windows 7 snap feature but goes further by allowing you to place your windows into any of two, three, or four sections on the screen through drag and drop. It also works with all versions of Windows and even works well alongside the Windows 7 snap feature (you can have both working together simultaneously).....(free).....GO THERE! 30 COMMERCIAL GAMES NOW FREE..........Essential games you’d still want to play. Most of them look dated, for sure, but whether you’re looking for some decent side-scrolling action, nostalgic hits from the golden age of adventure, classic titles of interest, or even MMORPGs, you’re bound to find something .....(free).....GO THERE! 64 THINGS EVERY GEEK SHOULD KNOW.......... If you consider yourself a geek, or aspire to the honor of geekhood, here’s an essential checklist of must-have geek skills.....(free).....GO THERE! February 9, 2010 XP SYSPAD.......... XP SysPad is a Windows system monitoring utility that allows easy access to Windows system information and Windows system utilities, such as the individual control panel applets, as well as putting the “hidden” applications in Windows at your fingertips. XP Syspad also recovers lost Windows & MS-Office product keys. With XP SysPad, you can easily access hundreds of Windows operating system utilities and system monitoring information. You can also recover your Windows 2000/XP product key, get your IP address, execute web queries, monitor any running system process, launch any program, search files, and more. For convenience, it also can minimize itself to the system tray. XP SysPad has well over 250 functions in all!.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS SE7EN FILE REPLACER..........System file replacer. This program will, back up the old file, try to Take Ownership and replace it with the NEW dragged or manually selected file. The Replacer will first look in the system32 folder for a match with your NEW dragged or selected file, if the OLD file is found it will be backed up and replaced without prompt, otherwise you will be asked to select it manually. It's just an .exe and nothing will be installed. WARNING: Use is on your own risk .....(free).....GO THERE! SECRET LIFE OF CHAOS..........BBC documentary on chaos theory. Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand. It turns out that chaos theory answers a question that mankind has asked for millennia - how did we get here? In this documentary, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to uncover one of the great mysteries of science - how does a universe that starts off as dust end up with intelligent life? How does order emerge from disorder? It's a mindbending, counterintuitive and for many people a deeply troubling idea. But Professor Al-Khalili reveals the science behind much of beauty and structure in the natural world and discovers that far from it being magic or an act of God, it is in fact an intrinsic part of the laws of physics. Amazingly, it turns out that the mathematics of chaos can explain how and why the universe creates exquisite order and pattern. The natural world is full of awe-inspiring examples of the way nature transforms simplicity into complexity. From trees to clouds to humans - after watching this film you'll never be able to look at the world in the same way again .....(free).....GO THERE! February 8, 2010 TWEAK NOW POWER PACK.......... TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser. The Registry Cleaner module provides you with a safe and simple way to clean Windows Registry. To keep your computer always at top performance, we recommend to clean your registry at least once a month. For Windows tweaking lovers, the suite provides more than 100 hidden Windows settings in the Windows Secret section. Using modules included in this section, you can easily customize your Windows like geeks do. The Virtual Desktop module lets you run as many as four custom-designed desktop configurations simultaneously, allowing you to tailor your computer screen to your mood and your work requirements. Last but not least, the suite also gives you a complete picture of all aspects of your computer's hardware, including detailed information about your motherboard, processor, video card, memory, hard disk and network.....(free).....GO THERE! SMART..........Smart is a freeware utility which helps you tweak Windows 7 Services. Portable application to customize your Windows services settings, to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, it can make your system faster, as you will be disabling services which you do not require Thanks to GO THERE! TROUBLESHOOT WIN 7 WITH MICROSOFT BUILT-IN TOOLS..........Windows 7 gives you a robust set of tools to track down problems you encounter. Take a look at a number of those tools, and how they can help you in your problem solving .....(free).....GO THERE! PC INFORMANT..........Pretty good tech news site we just discovered. (And you can add it to your Daily Rotation by clicking Here) .....(free).....GO THERE! February 5, 2010 TASKIX.......... Reorder taskbar tabs. Scroll tabs with mouse wheel. Close tabs with middle-click. Quick access to Desktop. Small - Simple - Effective. This item is shareware, but the trial is not limited in time or performance.....(sw).....GO THERE! SHELL MENU NEW..........ShellMenuNew is a small utility that displays the list of all menu items in the 'New' submenu of Windows Explorer. It allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items, so this 'New' submenu will display only the items that you need. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! IMG BURN.........ImgBurn is a lightweight CD, DVD, HD, DVD, Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit.....(free).....GO THERE! February 4, 2010 SANDBOXIE..........Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer. .....(free).....GO THERE! PAGE ZIPPER..........Ever read one of those top ten lists or photo galleries where every item is on a different page? You spend more time clicking "Next" and waiting than actually reading anything. PageZipper is a free bookmarklet which automatically merges all the "Next" pages into one, so you can skip directly to the stuff you want. Thanks to freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! PERIAN..........The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. .....(free).....GO THERE! February 3, 2010 MSI AFTERBURNER..........Graphics card overclocking utility. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! JD CONTEXT MENU..........Combines a variety of different extensions, all on the right mouse button: Copy to clipboard, open a DOS window, MD5 Checksum, File DateTimeStamp, New Folder here, Clear Folder, Add File Link to Startup folder, more .....(free).....GO THERE! MOTHERBOARD MONITOR..........Motherboard Monitor is a tool that will display information from the sensor chips on your motherboard in your Windows system tray. MBM supports a wide range of Chipsets & Sensor Chip combinations. It can sense temps from Cpu, HDD, GFx and Mobo. It does also sense Fan speeds. If it senses that your hardware is overheated it can protect it by Shutting it down (user configured). To see if MBM5 supports your hardware check out the Motherboard List. It does also record all temps and fans for later viewing. This is a great invention if you want to overclock .....(free).....GO THERE! ICON MANAGER..........View, change order, or delete icon formats in .ico files .....(free).....GO THERE! February 2, 2010 GANGLIA.......... Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. It leverages widely used technologies such as XML for data representation, XDR for compact, portable data transport, and RRDtool for data storage and visualization. It uses carefully engineered data structures and algorithms to achieve very low per-node overheads and high concurrency. The implementation is robust, has been ported to an extensive set of operating systems and processor architectures, and is currently in use on thousands of clusters around the world. It has been used to link clusters across university campuses and around the world and can scale to handle clusters with 2000 nodes.....(free).....GO THERE! FILE WING..........Recover lost or deleted files, and also Delete files safely, so they can't be recovered. If you delete a file in Windows, this file isn't really deleted. Windows instead intentionally "forgets" where the file is located on the hard disk. It is possible to restore some of these files if they have not been overwritten on the hard disk. Our new tool FileWing can help you recovering unintentionally deleted files and can also help deleting files by overwriting them multiple times, so that they cannot be recovered anymore - by anyone .....(free).....GO THERE! VIRTUAL KEYBOARD..........A free, lightweight, multilingual and finger friendly virtual on-screen keyboard. Free Virtual Keyboard works on any Windows based UMPC with a passive touchscreen (Ultra-mobile PC, Tablet PC and Panel PC). If you spend a lot of time responding to e-mail or jotting down notes on your mobile computer and find your hardware keyboard awkward or too small, a screen software keyboard may be just the improvement you've been seeking. This handy keyboard has keys large enough to be typed with the fingertips .....(free).....GO THERE! February 1, 2010 ENVY.......... ENVy compares the environment of two computers and provides a color-annotated display of the results. ENVy compares Environment Variables, over 400 Internet Explorer settings, Network Configuration, Installed Software, Operating System, Processor, Startup Commands, Process List and more. ENVy is essential for any developer or IT professional that works with multiple computers. Using ENVy v1.2 will save you time, money, and headache by instantly identifying and guiding you right to the differences between your environments.....(free).....GO THERE! SIPC..........SIPC is an ICC colour profiler for digital scanners. ICC colour profiles are currently the best way of ensuring that you are preserving original colours in the digital image. SIPC uses an open source ICC compatible colour management system - Argyll. The Argyll binary is included in the SIPC distribution package and will be automatically installed. .....(free).....GO THERE! DRUMLIN PDF SECURITY AND ENCRYPTION..........The Drumlin PDF software and DRM service provides a complete and free PDF security solution. It includes a free PDF reader with built-in military-strength encryption, wide-ranging secure publishing ('writing' a secure PDF file), coupled with a free central Digital Rights Management (DRM) service. THERE IS NO CHARGE! Simply download the Drumlin software, register when prompted, and you are ready. Select any PDF and use the built-in PUBLISH facility to create your own secured PDF ready for distributing. PDF security for ebook publishing and secure document distribution couldn't be simpler! .....(free).....GO THERE! January 29, 2010 5 FREE ONLINE SERVICES TO SEND AN EMAIL TO A FAX MACHINE..........Faxing seems to be going obsolete. Fewer and fewer machines are available. But no need to scramble to find an available fax machine. Thanks to Sequim Tech Blog.....(free).....GO THERE! IMG BURN..........ImgBurn is a lightweight CD, DVD, HD, Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit .....(free).....GO THERE! THE SETUP..........Nerdy interviews with the likes of Richard Stallman, Amy Hoy, Ben Fry, and numerous other high tech thinkers.....(free).....GO THERE! January 28, 2010 KDIFF3..........Great program for programmers and text users. KDiff3 is a program that compares or merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and character by character, provides an automatic merge-facility and an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts, supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM" supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.), Printing of differences, Manual alignment of lines, Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$), and has an intuitive graphical user interface .....(free).....GO THERE! KEEPASS..........KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). .....(free).....GO THERE! PHP SEC INFO.......... PhpSecInfo provides an equivalent to the phpinfo() function that reports security information about the PHP environment, and offers suggestions for improvement. It is not a replacement for secure development techniques, and does not do any kind of code or app auditing, but can be a useful tool in a multilayered security approach......(free).....GO THERE! January 27, 2010 TOMSRTBT..........The most GNU Linux on one bootable floppy disk, for rescue recovery panic & emergencies, tools to keep in your shirt pockets, whenever you can't use a hard drive. Tomsrtbt stands for: Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable. Thanks to Sequim Tech - Blog .....(free).....GO THERE! 7 TASKBAR TWEAKER..........This programs enables you to tweak your Windows 7 taskbar. Features: Show standard window menu on right click instead of jump list. Close or focus a window on middle click instead of running a new instance. Disable grouping of windows by file path or application id. Cycle through windows of a grouped button on left click instead of showing a thumbnails preview. Open with while dropping a file on a taskbar button instead of pinning. Disable thumbnail previews .....(free).....GO THERE! LUPO PEN SUITE..........The Suite includes over 180 highly selected portable programs and games, including 7-Zip, Audacity, CCleaner, eMule, FileZilla, Firefox, Foxit Reader, GIMP, IrfanView, Notepad pluss pluss, Opera, Pidgin, Thunderbird, µTorrent, VLC and many more .....(free).....GO THERE! January 26, 2010 INPUT DIRECTOR.......... Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard and mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves regularly sliding from one system to the other (and wearing out the carpet in the process!). With Input Director, you can share a single keyboard/mouse across a set of systems. You switch which system receives the input either by hotkey or by moving the cursor so that it transitions from one screen to the other (in a very similar fashion to a multi-monitor setup). The idea being that you can position the monitors from two or more systems in a row and use a shared keyboard/mouse to control all of them. Input Director also supports a "shared" clipboard, in which you can copy data onto the clipboard on one system, transition across to another and paste.....(free).....GO THERE! QUICK RESTORE MAKER.......... Create a Restore Point with single click in Windows with Quick Restore Maker. Normally, to create a system restore point, you have to, via the Control Panel, open the System Protection box and then open the System Restore utility (rstrui.exe) to create a restore point. Quick Restore Maker allows you to create one in a single click. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! TASKIX.......... Reorder taskbar tabs. Scroll tabs with mouse wheel. Close tabs with middle-click. Even unregistered, Taskix has the same functionality and is not limited in time or in performance. However paying the $4.00 license fee is your Thank You for the considerable time and effort invested in Taskix......(sw).....GO THERE! January 22, 2010 ANDROID OPERATING SYSTEM..........Google Android, the telephone operating system, has been ported to run on x86 machines, just like the one in front of you. ISO images are available. Unclear whether source code only is available. If so, you'll have to compile it yourself.....(free).....GO THERE! ULTIMATE WINDOWS TWEAKER..........Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware TweakUI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows 7 & Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable application to customize your Windows to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, it can make your system faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. The tweaker detects whether you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista installed and accordingly offers you the relevant tweaks only.....(free).....GO THERE! TERA COPY..........TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features: Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives. Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click. Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer. Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files. Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual. Full Unicode support. Windows 7 x64 support.....(free).....GO THERE! January 21, 2010 COMODO TIME MACHINE..........Better alternative to Windows System Restore. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! TURN A FOLDER TO A SAFE IN ONE CLICK .......... There are certain times where you need to protect your files, pictures, documents etc. from nosy users. In these cases, most of the times, the only solution you have got is to buy expensive applications to lock and protect your stuff. But, did you know that Windows has got a special command which turn a folder in a lock, a safe, a stronghold.....(free).....GO THERE! WIN PREFETCH VIEW..........View the content of Windows Prefetch files .....(free).....GO THERE! January 20, 2010 T3 DESK.......... A 3D desktop adding the third dimension to your Windows screen. Windows will appear in three dimensions and transparent on your screen and have the ability to be flipped, zoomed, moved, swiveled in almost any way you want. T3Desk is lightweight on your resources, unlike most applications of its kind.....(free).....GO THERE! CLASSIC SHELL..........Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others .....(free).....GO THERE! STOP UAC FROM DIMMING THE DESKTOP..........If you are a Windows XP user who recently switched to Windows 7 you must have been getting annoyed by the blacking out of the screen every time the User Account Control kicks in. Microsoft calls this dimming the screen. What actually is happening is that the Windows dims the screen to bring the user’s attention to the UAC prompt that has been opened. This happens for instance during software installations and there is no option to continue working with the operating system until action has been taken in the UAC prompt. Most advanced users might not need the extra eye-opener when a program tries to change data on the computer system, especially not during software installations that have been initiated by the user. Windows 7, and Windows Vista as well, provide an option to disable that UAC dims the desktop during prompts. This will still display a notification in the form of a normal window so that it is possible to interact with other elements on the desktop. .....(free).....GO THERE! January 19, 2010 TRAY MENU.......... Use SE-TrayMenu to gain quick access to most frequently used applications and system commands via a customizable popup menu.....(free).....GO THERE! RED BUTTON..........Windows optimization.. Increase speed of starting Windows. Reduces the space occupied by system on the disk. Activate hundreds of hidden Windows settings to get the most out of your Windows. Enhance the performance of Windows. Turn off and remove unnecessary, disturbing to work components of Windows. Increase the speed of Windows shutdown. Clean your hard drive and remove unneccessary files to get wasted hard drive space back. Clean your registry .....(free).....GO THERE! COFFEE..........Easily change the association of a file type or extension. Coffee is a small, free tool that can change the default applications used for opening any file type and allows for defining a primary as well as a secondary alternate program. Thanks to freewaregenius.com .....(free).....GO THERE! January 18, 2010 DEFRAGGLER.......... Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files - unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.....(free).....GO THERE! RECUVA..........Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it's free .....(free).....GO THERE! PLANET M.U.L.E.......... Planet M.U.L.E. is a free remake and tribute of the original game M.U.L.E. from Ozark Softscape.....(free).....GO THERE! AGROWI..........This wallpaper manager can download pictures or create collections and works with a large number of image formats. Special multi-monitor support. In Dutch.....(free).....GO THERE! January 15, 2010 PREDATOR .......... One way to protect your machine is to lock it using a simple USB drive which can be used in the same way you use your key to turn on your car. PREDATOR locks your PC when you are away, even if your Windows session is still opened. It uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device. Free for non-commercial use. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! TOUCH FREEZE..........TouchFreeze is simple utility for Windows that automatically disables the touchpad while you are typing text. Thanks to ghacks.....(free).....GO THERE! 3 TIPS TO SPEED UP IE 8.......... If you are experiencing performance issues with Internet Explorer 8, after upgrading from a previous version, you may try these 3 tips that help to boost performance up to 10 times.....(free).....GO THERE! JABACK..........Backup software designed to automate all your backup, synchronization, and archiving tasks .....(free).....GO THERE! January 14, 2010 USB SAFEGUARD.......... Software to encrypt and protect data with a password on your removable pen drives using the AES 256 bits encryption.....(free).....GO THERE! USB DUMPER.......... USB Dumper is a small portable software program for the Windows operating system that can be used to create automatic backups of data on USB devices that are connected to the computer system. The program is configured in an ini file that is supplied with the download. The parameters that can be edited include the destination for the backups on a local hard drive, a system tray icon that can be shown or hidden and a prompt that can also be shown or hidden.....(free).....GO THERE! JAR 2 EXE.......... This program will help you easily convert a JAR file (MIDP application, such as Nokia Mobile Games) to an EXE file (Win32 NHAL Emulator). You can run the midlets just like what the execution files running on Windows platform.....(free).....GO THERE! IMAGE EXPLORER..........Win32 application to explore bitmaps, icons, and cursors in running processes .....(free).....GO THERE! January 13, 2010 7 STACKS...........Windows 7 seems to have one glaring omission, OSX style stacks. Now, with 7stacks, you get almost the same functionality as the OS X stacks, but with a more Windows 7 appearance. 7stacks is an easy to use, free app that lets Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) users have "stacks" of icons in their Taskbar (in 7) or QuickLaunch Toolbar (in Vista and XP). By using stacks, users can reduce icon clutter, and combine a group of related icons into a single icon. For instance, if you use application suites such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or Adobe CS4, you can have all the suite's icons combined into one icon! Thanks to freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! SWITCH OFF..........Shutdown your PC automatically or remotely from any computer or mobile phone. Switch Off is a lightweight easy-to-use tray-based system utility that can automatically perform various frequently used operations such as shutting down or restarting your computer, disconnecting your current dial-up connection and locking your workstation. It also provides fast access to these operations through the system tray icon. Utility has Web interface that allows you to initiate operations remotely from any computer or mobile (cell) phone with web browser installed. This utility is intended to be used by either a novice or a professional user, because of its intuitive interface and professional features .....(free).....GO THERE! QUICK CHECKSUM VERIFIER.......... Quick Checksum Verifier checks file integrity by secure time proven algorithms like MD5 and SHA-1.....(free).....GO THERE! TIMECOMX.......... TimeComX is a small and resource-friendly automation program, that can execute various actions after specified time or by a lower deviation of network and processor usage activity.....(free).....GO THERE! January 12, 2010 CPU FREQUENCY..........Small tool to accurately identify CPU frequency .....(free).....GO THERE! BLANK AND SECURE.......... Portable tool to securely delete data.....(free).....GO THERE! COLOR CONSOLE.......... ColorConsole brings a little color to your black and white world of Windows console. One can save many hand moves and also time. An installation of ColorConsole is not required and can be executed easily from the desktop.....(free).....GO THERE! DESKTOP OK.......... Save and restore the positions of icons. DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for user that have to change the screen resolution often.....(free).....GO THERE! January 11, 2010 39 MORE WINDOWS GOD MODE SHORTCUTS..........Ultimate List of God Mode shortcuts for Windows 7. As with the other shortcuts, the process of turning one of these GUIDs into a shortcut that opens a shell folder or Control Panel item is straightforward .....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS 7 CLASSIC START MENU.......... If you are confused by Windows 7 Start Menu, or miss the familiar Classic Start Menu, you should take a look at this utility – Classic Start Menu. UPDATE--we made a mistake in our initial listing. Sorry, this program is not free.....(free).....GO THERE! PLANET MULE.......... Planet M.U.L.E. is a free remake and tribute of the original game M.U.L.E. from Ozark Softscape.....(free).....GO THERE! January 8, 2010 TRANS OTHER.......... Make all windows but the active one transparent.....(free).....GO THERE! GODMODE IN WINDOWS 7..........A secret Windows 7 feature. Most games have a godmode, something that will enable all cheats and features. Windows 7 too. This is going to be a brief tutorial that will allow you to enable the secret godmode in Windows 7 .....(free).....GO THERE! HIDE DESKTOP.......... Hide the desktop icons when the mouse is elsewhere.....(free).....GO THERE! SINGLE APP.......... Only allow one application to be active.....(free).....GO THERE! January 7, 2010 SNIPPAGE..........Easily make desktop widgets out of any site. Take pieces of your favorite web sites and run them on your desktop. Things like that auction you've got your eye on, your web mail's inbox, or even that search box you're always using. Well, Snippage lets you do just that .....(free).....GO THERE! JDOWNLOADER..........JDownloader is open source, platform independent and written completely in Java. It simplifies downloading files from One-Click-Hosters like Rapidshare.com or Megaupload.com - not only for users with a premium account but also for users who don't pay. It offers downloading in multiple paralell streams, captcha recognition, automatical file extraction and much more. Of course, JDownloader is absolutely free of charge. Additionally, many "link encryption" sites are supported - so you just paste the "encrypted" links and JD does the rest. JDownloader can import CCF, RSDF and the new DLC files .....(free).....GO THERE! MAMMOTH DEDICATED GAME SERVER GUIDE..........In order to give game developers and publishers a starting point, Mammoth ISP has created The Mammoth Dedicated Server Guide. This document provides high-level information about what makes good dedicated server software, including a list of things you should do, as well as things you should definitely not do .....(free).....GO THERE! January 6, 2010 JUMPLIST LAUNCHER..........The Windows 7 jumplists, which appear when you right-click on an any program pinned to the taskbar, help improve the workflow a lot, but if you want combine multiple programs in one icon, you’re screwed. The Jumplist-Launcher comes to the rescue! It lets you add up to 60 programs or files within self-defined groups inside a jumplist. Thanks to freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! FONT PAGE.......... FontPage lets you examine and compare all of the fonts on your system. You can view any typeface in bold, italic, underline and also 3D. In addition, you can also compare two selected fonts and preview fonts that are not yet installed on your system. FontPage can also print a sample page for selected fonts or print a list of all installed fonts.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS DOUBLE EXPLORER.......... Windows Double Explorer manages two or more Windows Explorers in one application. Also you can add your favorite folders with drag and drop to the toolbar for quick access. It's easyier to manage your disc structure. (A kind of Norton Commander or Total Commander).....(free).....GO THERE! ZOOM IT..........ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image .....(free).....GO THERE! January 5, 2010 WINDOWS LAYOUT MANAGER..........Manage windows across multiple monitors .....(free).....GO THERE! FLOAT LED..........See hard drive and partition activity on your screen. No more bending over to see the leds on the front of the machine .....(free).....GO THERE! BROWSER SIZE..........Browser Size is based on a sample of data from visitors to google.com. Special code collects data on the height and width of the browser for a sample of users. For a given point in the browser, the tool will tell you what percentage of users can see it. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! TWEAK PREFETCH..........TweakPrefetch is a utility coded in VB.net capable of managing fetching in Windows XP, Vista and 7. It allows the user to set separate parameters for the native Windows Prefetch and Superfetch functions. Scroll down for English version of text .....(free).....GO THERE! January 1, 2010 TOP 20 PROGRAMS OF 2009 -- FINALE We'be been presenting the cream of the crop all week, but tonight we have the crème de la crème for you. Here they are folks, the final Top 5 , as picked by Shell City Readers throughout the year..... 5. WINDOWS 4 ALL OS..........Windows4all.com is a Silverlight based online virtual operating system. It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser .....(free).....GO THERE! 4. RETURNIL.......... Using Returnil, you can work using a virtual copy of your system, with the real system being preserved, untouched in the background. This provides two key advantages: Protection and Convenience. The personal edition - feature packed - is free.....(free).....GO THERE! 3. GPARTED..........GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information. A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the adjacent one larger). The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents. GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging) .....(free).....GO THERE! 2. COREBOOT..........Replace the proprietary BIOS you can find in most computers. Currently supports 200 different mainboards .....(free).....GO THERE! 1. CHROMIUM OS FOR USB STICK..........Supposed to be really fast .....(free).....GO THERE! December 31, 2009 TOP 20 PROGRAMS OF 2009 -- Part 3 And tomorrow night we'll have our grand finale, with the final Top 5 Programs of 2009... or if you're going to be busy New Years Eve, no problem, just come by in the morning. We'll have eggs and orange juice waiting.... 10. ZENKEY..........Cool multifunction utility. A million features... Launch a program, bring it back into focus, or move to another one. Use an Infinite desktop space. Spread groups of windows around and move between them seamlessly. Iconize windows. Save Desktop area by replacing windows with 'live' icons showing CPU and memory usage. Open a document, folder, Internet resource or start a search. Move, minimize, or make windows transparent. Make them bigger, smaller, send them to the tray. Set them to 'Always on top' or tile them. Play. Issue a Media command, such as play, pause or volume up/down. Use an unlimited desktop to move across and place program windows. Start your screensaver, shutdown your computer, open a CD door and more. Access hidden Windows utilities. Control Winamp or compatible media players. Instantly display any menu of programs or actions at the mouse pointer. Launch other programs automatically on ZenKEY startup. Simulate a series of keystrokes (Script any action - automate tasks). .....(free).....GO THERE! 9. 57 USEFUL GOOGLE TOOLS..........If you’re like most people, you use Google’s products several times a day to search for information or check email. Most people don’t know, however, how many useful tools Google has to make research and time management much easier. Here are just a few of the products Google offers that may be worth trying whether you’re a scholar, student, or hobbyist. These Google products can make the most basic of computing tasks easy and are a must for any Google devotee. .....(free).....GO THERE! 8. BOOT IT..........BootIt is a tool offered by Lexar that enables a user to format a USB flash drive, set a volume label, set a (bootable) active partition and most importantly, Flip the Removable Media Bit (RMB) on the USB device to allow windows to see the USB device as a fixed disk, rather than removable media. Flipping the Removable Media Bit on a USB flashdrive will allow a user to setup, see and use multiple partitions on the USB flashdrive from Windows .....(free).....GO THERE! 7. 10 TIPS FOR BETTER LCD IMAGE QUALITY.......... People use LCD displays as if they were CRTs - We can do better than that - by ExtremeTech.....(free).....GO THERE! 6. WINDOWS 7 SETUP SECRETS..........Information on the right and wrong ways to set up Windows 7 .....(free).....GO THERE! December 30, 2009 TOP 20 PROGRAMS OF 2009 -- Part 2 15. ITS HIDDEN..........ItsHidden gives you free VPN for anonymous surfing. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! 14. CLONEZILLA..........You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting! Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting .....(free).....GO THERE! 13. VMWARE ESXI ..........Run all your production applications at near-native performance on the next-generation OS-independent VMware hypervisor, now available for free. Reliably Run Multiple Operating Systems on a Single Server. Deploy mature hypervisor technology that is proven in tens of thousands of customer environments. VMware ESXi helps you to minimize risk by deploying the only operating system independent hypervisor and avoid the security hardening, user access control and anti-virus tasks associated with a typical operating system.....(free).....GO THERE! 12. LUNASCAPE.......... Lunascape is the world’s only triple engine browser. What this means is that you can have the best features, performance, and speed of Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari all in one browser and can view any website in an optimal way without a need to open another browser.....(free).....GO THERE! 11. READABILITY..........A lovely and useful tool. If you read many articles on the net, you need it. Removes all the clutter surrounding the article, presenting it as clean as the page of a book -- It's like your pc is a Kindle.....(free).....GO THERE! December 29, 2009 TOP 20 PROGRAMS OF 2009 As we do this time every year, tonight we're beginning our presentation of the Shell City Top 20 programs of the year..... We'll be listing them in reverse order, five each night, until New Year's Eve, when we'll name the final Top Five for the New Year. So this is how it begins..... 20. VISTA SERVICES OPTIMIZER..........When you install Microsoft Windows Vista for the first time, you will notice the low performance of your system. There are many reasons of the performance problems in Windows Vista, one of them that there are many of Windows Vista services that are running in the background that consume a lot of CPU power and take up much space in the system memory (RAM) which we do not really need them at all. So I suggest to tweak Windows services by stopping and disabling unwanted services in order to reduce CPU usage and save some space in the system memory .....(free).....GO THERE! 19. SYSINTERNALS SUITE..........The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault. The Suite is a bundling of about 75 Sysinternals Utilities .....(free).....GO THERE! 18. WIRELESS NETWORK TOOL..........New wireless network tool Informs you of who is using your wireless network, Informs you of all the names, Informs you of all the IP addresses, Informs you of the Mac addresses, Scans your wireless network in only 10 seconds, Detects computers even if you don't see them in program neighbourhood, Detects computers even if you can't ping them.....(free).....GO THERE! 17. PRINT WHAT YOU LIKE..........Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don't want? PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing in seconds. Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! 16. ICLOUD.......... Get your very own computer online. Complete with desktop, mail, applications, up to 50GB storage, and much more. Too many computers? No problem! Use icloud for storing files online. Store once. Open from any computer. icloud keeps your files and photos safe, yet always right next to you.....(free).....GO THERE! December 24, 2009 We're taking Christmas off, and we hope you are too..... And when we come back, we'll be starting our countdown of the top programs of the year.... Meanwhile, here's a little something for Christmas Eve. MPS PORTABLE MINI-DESKTOP..........Carry your whole desktop around on your thumb drive. No need for a notebook .....(free).....GO THERE! NETMAN..........Secure and easy to use remote control software. Control your computer from afar Free for personal use.....(free).....GO THERE! NO DRIVES MANAGER.......... NoDrives Manager is a simple, free tool for hiding Windows drives. The hidden drives are still accessible but they are not visible in the Windows Explorer.....(free).....GO THERE! INSTANT MASK..........Easily remove backgrounds from images Thanks to Freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! December 23, 2009 SKEYS.......... Remap those odd button on your keyboard, for example, that email button, or volume control button -- actually make good use of all the extra buttons on your modern keyboard.....(free).....GO THERE! CHROME PLUS.......... ChromePlus has all the functionalities that Google Chrome has. More, ChromePlus added some useful features such as Mouse gesture, Super drag, IE tab, etc. Meanwhile, ChromePlus is free with no function limitation.....(free).....GO THERE! V-GREP..........V-Grep is an easy to use while feature-rich application that brings - well known in the Unix world - regular expressions power to the typical Windows users. Even in DOS you could use masks, to speed-up searching for files. These masks were later adopted for use in Windows. Masks are special types of strings that with the help of reserved characters - here it would be an asterisk and question mark - allow you to easily describe complex patterns. Sounds complicated ? But it isn't - very simple expression '*.txt' describes every string that ends with '.txt' phrase. Regular expressions are using basic concept of the masks but they add even more special characters that can represent definite number of characters, optional phrases etc. You can specify expressions representing complex patterns that are difficult or impossible to find using only masks, such as: e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, IP addresses etc. In the Unix-class systems regular expressions are handled by a program called GREP (Global Regular Expression Print). V-Grep (Visual GREP) gives you whole functionality of GREP and lots of other very useful options - all packed in a typical Windows GUI. V-Grep allows you also to search for files even without any knowledge about regular expression, but even then it's much better way to do this than by using Windows built-in search feature, mainly because of a more legible search results .....(free).....GO THERE! JD WALL..........You have many beautiful background pictures and want to change them frequently, but the manual effort, you too much? Then JDWall is exactly right for you. Here you can find a list of all JPEGs or BMPs you like paste, then you have options in the switch activating mark and confirm. Now you get with each system starts or the duration, as you adjust it automatically set up a new background .....(free).....GO THERE! December 22, 2009 RAINBOW FOLDERS..........Rainbow Folders is a unique application that allows you to change color of any icon representing any folder. To make it short: with this program you can colorize your folders ! Such operation will speed up your navigation among thousands of folders located on your hard drive. Would you like to mark your favorite folders with green color, your work or school folders with blue, and your personal documents and photos folders with red ? No problem. With Rainbow Folders you can colorize as many folders as you want using any color of your choice. Such colorized folders are visible in every Explorer window, every open/save dialog and in every folder selection tree as seen in many programs. In addition you can manage your favorite colors and colorize folders using Explorer context menu item. You can also add a custom hint or secure a folder from deleting it by mistake. This and much more can be done with the help of Rainbow Folders. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! TOOLER..........Tooler is a unique program that allows you to create special type of shortcuts. What's so special about them ? They have all features of the typical shortcuts, so you can move them, rename them, or change their icons. But they also allow you to easy accomplish such tasks like turning off the monitor, restarting your PC or ejecting selected CD-ROM tray. This program is very easy to use, requires no installation and the exe file has only 50KB - so you can take it wherever you'll need it (See menu in left margin).....(free).....GO THERE! MP3 HINT.......... MP3 Hint is an InfoTip Shell Extension. After installation, hovering the mouse cursor above any MP3 file icon will display a hint which will contain information extracted from the TAG of this MP3 file. You'll see title, artist, album, year, comment, genre and track number. Also this hint will contain two additional handy information extracted from the MP3 file: song's bitrate and duration. This extension can be very useful when you have a lots of files with meaningless names as e.g. Track23.mp3. With help of MP3 Hint you will fast recognize any MP3 file, without necessity of loading this file into a MP3 player. I'm sure you will appreciate advantages of this extension when you will be renaming your music files, copying chosen compositions for someone, or browsing someone's music collection in the local network - you don't need to download whole file anymore to see what song it is, just hover your mouse cursor over its icon (See menu in left margin)......(free).....GO THERE! AINVO REGISTRY DEFRAG..........Unused and bad sections appear in the registry with time. It leads to errors and poorer system performance. Defrag will allow you to improve the Windows performance and stability due to registry defragmentation. The program is designed in the form of a convenient wizard so even inexperienced users can speed up their computers. Defrag allows you to defragment all registry sections on all popular systems including new Windows 7 and 64-bit platforms. The dynamic defragmentation map is used to evaluate the condition of the registry. Defragmentation results are displayed in the form of a convenient and visual report. The program is now more stable because the defragmentation procedure is now started at the operating system startup .....(free).....GO THERE! December 21, 2009 ECHO VNC..........EchoVNC is a secure, firewall-friendly, remote-desktop tool with support for VNC, Remote Desktop, and RAdmin servers and viewers. With it, a Windows PC or OSX Mac can be remotely accessed regardless of firewall, router or web-proxy configuration .....(free).....GO THERE! JD CONTEXT MENU..........JDContextMenu combines a variety of different extensions for Windows Explorer. 1. Copy to clipboard full name. Copies the full names of the selected items to the clipboard. 2. Copy short name to clipboard. Copied the simple name of the selected items to the clipboard. 3. CMD here. In the current directory opens a DOS window. 4. MD5 Checksum. Generates a MD5 checksum of the selected files. 5. File DateTimeStamp. Modifies the timestamp of the selected files. 6. New Folder here. Generated from the specified directory new subdirectories. 7. Clear Folder. Recognizes the specified directories according to their wishes. 8. Send full name as link. Sends the complete file marked by email. 9. Add File Link to Startup folder. Adds a selected program in order to start a car. 10. Favorites. They manage their frequently used folders. 11. Options / Info. Program information, including options and update test (scroll down page to find app).....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS DOUBLE EXPLORER.......... Windows Double Explorer manages two or more Windows Explorer in one application. Also you can add your favorite folders with drag and drop to the toolbar for quick access. It's easyier to manage your disc structure. (A kind of Norton Commander or Total Commander) (scroll down page to find app).....(free).....GO THERE! December 18, 2009 INDEX OF COMMANDS FOR WINDOWS XP..........Learn the commands. Become a command line guru .....(free).....GO THERE! VISTA SWITCHER..........VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a nice box that shows a list of all running tasks, with their names and preview snapshots, and enables the user to take actions on them using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts. With just one click, you can switch tasks, minimize, maximize, restore the main window, or close the process .....(free).....GO THERE! ZOOM IT.......... ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations. ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs.....(free).....GO THERE! December 17, 2009 ADVANCED SHORTCUTS COMPOSER..........With Advanced Shortcuts Composer you can create shortcuts to run programs with a pre-defined destination, priority and keyboard hotkeys to activate .....(free).....GO THERE! VISUAL PERFORMANCE ANALYZER.......... Visual Performance Analyzer (VPA) is an Eclipse-based performance visualization toolkit. It consists of six major components: Profile Analyzer, Code Analyzer, Pipeline Analyzer, Counter Analyzer, Trace Analyzer, and Call Tree Analyzer. Profile Analyzer provides a powerful set of graphical and text-based views that allow users to narrow down performance problems to a particular process, thread, module, symbol, offset, instruction, or source line. Profile Analyzer supports time-based system profiles (Tprofs) collected from a number of IBM® platforms and the Linux® profile tool OProfile 0.9.4. Code Analyzer examines executable files and displays detailed information about functions, basic blocks, and assembly instructions. It is built on top of FDPR-Pro (Feedback Directed Program Restructuring) technology and allows adding of FDPR-Pro and Tprof profile information. (The Linux version of FDPR-Pro is available here at alphaWorks.) Code Analyzer is able to show statistics; navigate disassembled instructions; and display performance comments, instruction grouping information, and map instructions back to source code. Pipeline Analyzer is a port of the IBM Performance Simulator for Linux on POWER™, another alphaWorks technology. Pipeline joins the VPA toolkit to provide VPA users with the means of examining how code is executed on various IBM POWER processors. Pipeline Analyzer displays the pipeline execution of instruction traces generated by a POWER series processor. It does so by providing a scroll view and a resource view of the instruction execution. Counter Analyzer accepts hardware performance data from collection tools such as CPC or HPMCOUNT. The data is provided as XML and is parsed by this plug-in in order to allow visualizing and analysis through CPI breakdown models. The data can be saved in the embedded database for later viewing, or it can be exported to a CSV file for inclusion in a spreadsheet. Trace Analyzer visualizes Cell Broadband Engine™ traces containing information such as DMA communication, locking and unlocking activities, mailbox messages, etc. Trace Analyzer shows this data organized by core along a common timeline. Extra details are available for each kind of event: for example, lock identifier for lock operations, accessed address for DMA transfers, etc. Trace Analyzer can also visualize the AIX traces, and the output collected with SAR and tcpdump on Linux. Call Tree Analyzer is a tool that analyzes call trace data collected by tools such as Jprof, which is part of Performance Inspector. The call trace data contains information about each method call, such as how much time is spent in every invocation and who calls whom. Control Flow Analyzer provides two major ways of visualizing the call trace data: a graph of the execution flow and and a set of tables displaying the calling tree.....(free).....GO THERE! CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SPELLING CHECKER..........Context-Sensitive Spelling Checker (csSpell) is a spelling checker that examines words and their context to detect potential misspellings instead of using a spelling dictionary (the cs in csSpell stands for context sensitive). csSpell can scan plain text files; files that contain non-text elements such as SGML, HTML, or XML tags; and even files that contain program code. How does it work? csSpell scans a group of files, analyzes each word in each file, and reports potential inconsistencies. Instead of comparing each word to a list of known words (as dictionary-based spelling checkers do), csSpell compares each word to all the other words in the group of files being scanned. It can therefore identify likely misspellings that dictionary-based spell checkers cannot .....(free).....GO THERE! NTP TIME SERVER ..........According to the developer, "This utility will set up a NTP time location for your 2003 server. So I had to setup a bunch of 2003 servers to use an external time source (NTP servers) for a domain a while back and they were dispersed around the world. So I looked up the TechNet article for setting up NTP on a 2003 server and there are many registry settings to set up a 2003 sever to use an external time source for its w32time updates. So I said "f-this" and wrote this utility to do it now and for the future. It's nice because I put the entire list of NTP server pools from around the world into the drop down list so you don't have to go searching every time. As well you can run this against any remote server you have admin access to with out having to be on it or remote-controlling it. Basically it takes a 20 minute task and makes a 2 minute task" Go to utility quick links .....(free).....GO THERE! December 16, 2009 CAMEO..........Cameo is a portable desktop environment built upon available freeware and open source applications for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It also utilizes a modified bbLean shell to replace the Windows Explorer shell for a more nix style and feel. Think of it as portable apps with a shell. Alternatively They also offer just the Cameo shell.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS ENABLER..........Windows Enabler is a program that runs on Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000 and WinXP. It allows the user to enable disabled windows and controls such as buttons and tick boxes and choose menu options that would normally be disabled. This is obviously a very dangerous practice if used recklessly but having said that, you’d be surprised at how often it comes in handy. Windows Enabler has a very simple user interface; it appears as an icon in the system tray and can be turned on and off simply by clicking on it.....(free).....GO THERE! DRIVE MANAGER..........Drive Manager is a Free Stand Alone Portable Drive Info Utility. It can be used to display, identify and manage your Hard Drives, CD/DVD Drives, Removable USB Flash Drives, and USB Hard Drives. From Capacity and firmware revision to serial number and product ID, Just about everything you need to know about your drives is available. Other features include the ability to unhide or hide drives, map drives, create remove or substitute drive letters and much more. Thanks to Pendriveapps.com.....(free).....GO THERE! December 15, 2009 FIX WIN.......... FixWin is a portable application to repair and fix common Windows annoyances and issues. The solutions to repair and fix 50 common Windows annoyances, issues & problems have been categorized under 5 tabs, viz : Windows Explorer, Internet & Connectivity, Windows Media, System Tools & Misc Additional Fixes. FixWin detects whether you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista installed and accordingly offers you the relevant fixes only. .....(free).....GO THERE! FREE PROCESS FREEZER..........Free Process Freezer is an easy to use free program for suspending (freezing) and resuming processes. It works similar to Windows Task Manager, but instead of terminating the process, the program allows you to suspend the problematic process and resume it later. This program is very handy when a process is consuming lots of system resources, but you do not want to terminate it. In this case, use Free Process Freezer to suspend the process without losing any data, and resume it later whenever you wish .....(free).....GO THERE! AD-HOC NETWORKING ON WINDOWS 7 STARTER..........It works. Just follow the single direction.....(free).....GO THERE! December 14, 2009 LOSETHOS OPERATING SYSTEM..........Interesting experimental OS, maybe like a really souped up Commodore 64. x86_64, preemptive multitasking, multicore, open source, public domain. Live CD image so you can test drive or install. .....(free).....GO THERE! SIMPLE PORT TESTER..........Help users test if their ports are open with just a few clicks. Tests both TCP & UDP ports .....(free).....GO THERE! SLIDE MATE..........SlideMate is an On-Screen Annotation Tool to mark up the Screen anytime, anywhere, and any application. Opens or Closes by One-Touch only. It can help you to create stunning slideshow, draw a pencil picture for kids, make a cool effect on your report or teaching .....(free).....GO THERE! DESIGNERS RULER..........On screen ruler, configurable for horizontal, vertical, centimetres, inches, pixels and colour. Allows software or web page designers to measure layouts for positioning. Other people may find other uses for it as well .....(free).....GO THERE! December 11, 2009 RADIAN.......... Radian is a cool looking radial application launcher. The interface is triggered by a continuous right-click and is divided into four slices. Each slice can be configured differently, currently supporting the following modes: Custom - the slice will contain shortcuts manually dragged from existing shortcuts or files (from the Quick-Launch, Desktop, Start-Menu, Folder, etc...), Quick Launch - shortcuts from Windows' Quick-Launch, Desktop - shortcut from Windows' Desktop, Recent Docs - recently opened documents.....(free).....GO THERE! NET LIMITER.......... Freeware version shows list of all applications communicating over network, connections, transfer rates and more.....(free).....GO THERE! MOUSE SHADE..........MouseShade is an essential tool for everyone doing presentations or demos. If turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention to an area of interest. (Go to Other Software) .....(free).....GO THERE! MOUSE MIXER.......... This application enables quick and easy swapping of the primary mouse button. One click will automatically change from left to right and vice versa. (Go to Other Software) .....(free).....GO THERE! December 10, 2009 FAB AUTOBACKUP 2.......... Fab Autobackup 2 is a program wich allows users to backup and restore personal data and settings like emails, documents, internet browser bookmarks... You can use it as Windows PE plugin (developed for Bart's PE Builder) or as a standalone program for Windows.....(free).....GO THERE! GMER.......... GMER detects and removes rootkits. It scans for hidden processes, hidden threads, hidden modules, hidden services, hidden files, hidden Alternate Data Streams, hidden registry keys, drivers hooking SSDT, drivers hooking IDT, drivers hooking IRP calls, inline hooks.....(free).....GO THERE! HACK FIREFOX: SECRETS OF ABOUT CONFIG..........Explore some of the most useful Firefox settings that you can change on your own and that aren't normally available through the program's graphical interface. The closest analogy to how Firefox manages its internal settings is the Windows Registry. Each setting, or preference, is given a name and stored as a string (text), integer (number) or Boolean (true/false) value. However, Firefox doesn't keep its settings in the registry, but in a file called prefs.js. You can edit prefs.js directly, but it's often easier to change the settings through the browser window. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter, and you'll see all the settings currently enumerated in prefs.js, listed in alphabetical order. To narrow down the hundreds of configuration preferences to just the few you need, type a search term into the Filter: bar. (Click the Show All button or just clear the Filter: bar to get the full list back again.) .....(free).....GO THERE! MOUSE EXTENDER.......... MouseExtender is a cosy utility with shortcuts to programs, folders and system functions (Control panel, Restart and Shutdown). This program allows you to improve your productivity. It is extremely simple and fully customizable.....(free).....GO THERE! December 9, 2009 INTERNET CONTENT LOGGER..........Save all incoming and outgoing Internet traffic on the hard disk and capture all the incoming and outgoing Internet traffic of your programs. Internet Content Logger works on the system level, and supports nearly all know Internet related programs. The Internet content for each program is saved in its individual log file. The content log files also are separated by date and by computer users. Important: Please note that Internet Content Logger is NOT a spyware program. It always stays in the system try menu (near the clock) and is always viewable by everyone who works on the computer. .....(free).....GO THERE! CHROMIUM OS.......... Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web. Here you can review the project's design docs, obtain the source code, and contribute......(free).....GO THERE! DO IT AGAIN.......... Do It Again is a free and simple program that allows you to make your computer automatically perform a task for you, whenever you want. If there is something that you do on your computer over and over, and you do it exactly the same way every time (such as backing up your pictures, checking web-based email for new messages, etc.), you can tell Do It Again how to perform that task (by doing it once yourself to create the new task). Then you can run that task whenever you want and Do It Again will automatically click the buttons and press the keyboard keys (in exactly the same way as when you created the task), while you sit back and watch the task being performed on the screen. It allows you to record a macro, then play it back to automate the actions of that macro.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS SERVER 2003 RESOURCE KIT TOOLS..........The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks such as troubleshooting operating system issues, managing Active Directory, configuring networking and security features, and automating application deployment. Contains dozens of great utilities .....(free).....GO THERE! December 8, 2009 BEST GOOGLE TRICKS EVER WRITTEN.......... Well, maybe not - but definitely some arcane ones. Try [intitle: chocolate: cnn.com].....(free).....GO THERE! DISABLE WINDOWS 7 HIBERNATION..........Windows 7 is supposed to simplify your lives. Nevertheless, there are certain things on it which have got trickier than ever .....(free).....GO THERE! MAGNETIZER.......... Those of you who torrent will have come across sites such as torrentz.com (which is the site this addon is hardcoded to work with for the moment) which index torrents by hash, and link to other sites. Unfortunately, this doesn't always mean you can get the torrent, as sometimes the torrent in question has been removed from other sites, or no other sites are listed. Luckily, sites such as torrentz.com use the torrent hash as part of the URL. Using this, we can create a magnet link, and get firefox to pass this off to its default application, which should be your primary torrent client. This will in turn use uTP or some similar protocol to retrieve the torrent file from DHT or the trackers you specify in the options (it comes with two as default), and then let you use the newly acquired torrent to download whatever you wanted to begin with. Thanks Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! December 7, 2009 SEADRAGON..........Seadragon a nifty online viewer designed for very large images. Seadragon.com from Microsoft Labs is a free web service designed to view, zoom, pan-into, and share large images on the internet without degrading them or otherwise making them smaller. Thanks to freewaregenius.com .....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS 7 SECURITY COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT..........From Microsoft, The Windows 7 Security Compliance Management Toolkit provides an end-to-end solution to help you plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of computers running Windows 7 and BitLocker Drive Encryption in your environment .....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS SURFACE SCANNER ..........This free but powerful software will quickly scan your hard drives and let you know if there are any sector errors. It is critical that all customers thinking about running data recovery software run the Freeware Windows Surface Scanner before choosing their recovery option. Thanks to Lifehacker .....(free).....GO THERE! SIMPLE SEARCH-REPLACE..........Simple Search-Replace is like a replacement for the Windows containing text option found in the search window. It is extremely fast and allows for the option of replacing that text with different text. There are many features of this free software such as backup support, command line support, case sensitivity, multiple file types, subdirectory support, result printing and saving and more. After searching or replacing the results tab will allow you to open the matched file(s) and view the contents as well as edit them .....(free).....GO THERE! December 4, 2009 GOOGLE PUBLIC DNS..........Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System -DNS- resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. If you decide to try Google Public DNS, your client programs will perform all DNS lookups using Google Public DNS. .....(free).....GO THERE! SPEED FAN.......... SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). SpeedFan can access digital temperature sensors and can change fan speeds accordingly, thus reducing noise. SpeedFan can find almost any hardware monitor chip connected to the 2-wire SMBus (System Management Bus (trademark belonging to SMIF, Inc.), a subset of the I2C protocol) and works fine with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Windows Vista. It works with Windows 64 bit too.....(free).....GO THERE! WAN IP MINDER..........Discovers the WAN IP address, optionally sends via FTP a text file containing the WAN IP information, optionally sends an email containing the WAN IP information to a designated recipient .....(free).....GO THERE! WHAT IN STARTUP.......... This utility displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and more. It allows you to easily disable or delete unwanted programs that runs in your Windows startup. You can use it on your currently running instance of Windows, as well as you can use it on external instance of Windows in another drive. WhatInStartup also supports a special "Permanent Disabling" feature - If a program that you previously disabled added itself again to the startup list of Windows, WhatInStartup will automatically detect the change and disable it again.....(free).....GO THERE! December 3, 2009 WINDOWS LAYOUT MANAGER .......... WiLMA for short, this is a fabulous must-have help if you have to keep track of many open windows at the same time, even over multiple monitors. (The developer shows a shot of eight monitors.) The main application has a basic window that allows the management of various layouts. Adding new ones, editing existing ones, configuring the options, all the basic things you can expect from any normal application. When closed or minimized it sits in the tray and offers a tray icon with quick access to layouts that are enabled (it’s possible to exclude layouts from populating the tray menu since some layouts are not meant to be applied directly). A layout is a collection of window definitions that contain conditions and actions. Conditions that describe the window and how it should be detected and matched and actions that allow various actions to be taken such as minimizing, moving, relocating, moving it to a different screen, offsetting the position, maximizing it to a certain screen, etc. There are three types of layouts: Normal Layouts: these contain window definitions where the entire layout can be applied to a current desktop. Individual Window Layouts: these contain window definitions that can be applied individually through an active window context popup menu. Live Layouts: these are layouts where the system is monitored and when windows that match any or all definitions it will apply the actions to that window as it becomes available and gets noticed .....(free).....GO THERE!I MEDIA COPE..........Media Cope is a multi-functional media software for Windows Xp/Vista/7 with the following functions: Audio/Video Player, Audio/Video Cutter, Audio Converter, Video Converter, Photo Cutter, Photo Resizer, Slide Show and Internet Tools .....(free).....GO THERE! LOCK THIS..........LockThis is a tiny Windows utility that makes it possible to password protect almost any programs or documents that are currently running or open. This tool is perfect for people who often lend their PC to others, because with this tool they can keep the content of some programs or documents from other people eyes without need to close them first. Huge time saver if you really often lend your PC. It's very easy to apply the protection. Mostly it only involves pressing keyboard Ctrl button when minimizing the window of the program/document and supply the password in the dialog that follows Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! December 2, 2009 DRIVE MANAGER..........If you have lots of drive letters of different types of drives, such as mapped network drives, thumb drive (USB memory sticks), smart media and compact flash, CD-ROM and DVD then this utility is perfect to help you manage them. Drive Manager has been written to help you easily identify drives which are of the same type. As well as displaying the volume label it also displays vendor information so that multiply CD/DVD drives and removable drives such as USB thumb drives can be differentiated by their manufacturers name, version and revision date. Also the serial number can be seen as a unique ID for each drives .....(free).....GO THERE! WIN SONAR.......... Winsonar 2010 is a program specifically designed for process monitoring and system protection from unknown processes. The basic idea is that if the user could know a new program silently installed into memory, he could take appropriate countermeasures. The program detects new processes running into memory alerting the user. The on-line status is also detected, asking then the user if an automatic termination of any unknown process is desired (this option can be also enabled by default). This leads to an active protection against trojan\spyware-infected e-mail attachments. (Go to downloads).....(free).....GO THERE! SYSVIEWER..........SysViewer is a tiny application showing you exactly how much of the computers resources you are using at all times. It also outputs your OS version, the computers name and if it's connected to a network. Greate for keeping track of computer strain and how much storage you've got left with just a quick glance at the application window .....(free).....GO THERE! PROJECT MONITORING TOOL..........Automate the project monitoring process. It might be useful for project management of larger projects as well as for time management of one-person projects.....(free).....GO THERE! December 1, 2009 WAKE UP ON STANDBY.......... Wake up your system from a Stand-by mode or Hibernation programmatically. This simple utility, WakeupOnStandBy, will do it for you. Once activated it resides in the system and wakes it up at predefined time, runs a file and if necessary sends it into Stand-by mode, hibernates it or shuts it down. It can also be used to run scheduled operations every day, or on specific day(s).....(free).....GO THERE! TOFF.......... This utility will be handy for people who would like to leave their computer unattended for some time before automatically turning it off (logging off a user, rebooting it, sending it into hibernation or stand-by mode). TOff can perform these tasks at a certain day and time (one time or every day), as well as after a certain period of mouse & keyboard, CPU or network inactivity with the seconds discrepancy. I used it every time when I left my computer at the office to download some stuff from the Internet and then to turn it off at night so that it looked as if nothing happened in the morning.....(free).....GO THERE! WIN ID.......... WinID is a controls and windows identification utility that is both powerful and compact. Its main purpose is to give an easy way to retrieve information about Microsoft Windows controls visually right off the screen. WinID resembles Spy++ from the Microsoft Visual Studio toolset but it also incorporates lots of its own handy features. Who would be interested in using WinID? Definitely, a person who knows (or plans to learn) the architecture of the Microsoft Windows Operating System - programmer, debugger/tester, beginner. It will definitely be handy for debugging your C/C++/MFC/.NET and Visual Basic applications, as well as learning more about how your favorite programs are made.....(free).....GO THERE! EXPLORE AS ADMINISTRATOR POWERTOY..........In Windows, use this utility to create a folder within or copy a file into a protected folder such a Program Files or Windows without having to deal with the confusing File Operation dialog box. This is one of the most confusing and poorly understood features of User Account Control. When running as a administrator with UAC enabled, your standard user token does not have write permissions to these protected folders. Unfortunately, because Windows Explorer was not designed to run in multiple instances in the same desktop session, Windows cannot simply throw up a UAC prompt and then launch an elevated instance of Explorer. Instead, you get one or more elevation prompts (if full-prompting is enabled) and Windows completes the operations using the full administrator token. This can be annoying if you have to make repeated operations in these folders. So to work around this annoyance, a new Explore as Administrator PowerToy. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! November 30, 2009 CHROME SHELL..........ChromeShell is a non-google affiliated replacement shell for Windows that strips your desktop down to what you really need; the browser. The shell transforms your normal windows desktop into something a kin to the Chrome OS. ChromeShell gets from standby to email in less than 3 seconds on a quadcore machine and around 32 seconds from cold boot .....(free).....GO THERE! CHROMIUM OS FOR USB STICK..........Supposed to be really fast .....(free).....GO THERE! GRIDY.......... Gridy adds an invisible grid to Windows, so that any window you move or resize is snapped to it. Snapping is enabled with mouse drag or keyboard arrow keys. In addition, you can: Make any window semi-transparent, hide the window's Alt-Tab icon and set any window to be Always on Top......(free).....GO THERE! LOG PARSER UTILITY.......... Log Parser Utility is a revised version of the Exchange Log Parsing tool. This is great for opening any text based file and searching through it. Especially good for cumbersome log files. If you have to search through large log files or text based files this simple tool can be a huge help. It creates a separate file that it writes out the data your searching for (if found) too. This makes large files into small easy to manage files or reports however you want to look at it (Scrool to bottom of page).....(free).....GO THERE! November 27, 2009 AERO SNAP.......... AeroSnap is a simple but powerful application that allows you to resize, arrange or maximize your desktop windows with just drag and drop. Simple drag a window to a side of your desktop to snap it or drag it to the top to maximize. When you drag it back to the last position, the last window size will be restored. Really easy. It also works with multiple monitors.....(free).....GO THERE! DDNS UPDATER..........The DDNS Updater is a tool that is used to update multiple dynamic dns accounts with the external ip that is used on the current network. This tool has a service that runs in the background that updates the IP whether the application is running or not. This application was created to support an unstable server or a unstable power environment where the computer restarts constantly. For this application to start updating does not require login and manual start like most free ip update software available on the market .....(free).....GO THERE! CORE AFFINITY RESIDENT..........With the new dual and quad core processors, Windows allows you to assign one or several cores to almost any application running in your system. This tool is intended to assign automatically a single core or multiple cores to an application by default, without using the Task manager of Windows .....(free).....GO THERE! DEVICE DOCTOR..........Device Doctor is a freeware Windows application that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for your devices. It also locates drivers for "unidentified devices" in the Windows Device Manager Thanks to How-To Geek.....(free).....GO THERE! November 24, 2009 WINTO FLASH.......... WinToFlash will help pull over the contents of a Windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can alsow do this with your LiveCD. You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, as media is shifted to the cloud.....(free).....GO THERE! 100 FREE MICROSOFT GAMES..........Microsoft offers over a 100 online games to play, free. From Ranch Rush to Bumper Stars, there is sure to be one which will interest you. Thanks to The Windows Club.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS 7 GROUP POLICY SETTINGS.......... This spreadsheet from Microsoft, lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files delivered with Windows 7. These files are used to expose policysettings when you edit Group Policy Objects (GPOs) using Group Policy Object Editor (also known as GPEdit).....(free).....GO THERE! YOPOW.......... YoPoW provides an easy to use step-by-step interface that lets you create a Web Album from your image collection.....(free).....GO THERE! November 23, 2009 MEMORY VIEWER..........With Memory Viewer you can view your system memory configuration, without having to open the box! Not only does Memory Viewer show you the channel, dimm, size and speed....but it also shows you the type of memory: SDRAM, DDR, etc. Memory Viewer can save you time by telling you detailed information about the memory cards installed in your computer, as well as the current memory allocation. (Go to utilities) .....(free).....GO THERE! ACTIVE DIRECTORY EDITOR..........This utility will load the Active Directory user account attributes for the Domain you are currently logged in to. All three attribute types, Standard, Mandatory and Optional are loaded. Also has the added ability to use different values for each account changed in multiple account mode. (Scroll down to Utility Quick Links) .....(free).....GO THERE! SHORTCUT KEY EXPLORER..........Shortcut keys allow you to type a keyboard shortcut that you can press to start a program in Windows. However, there is no easy way to view and manager these shortcut keys. Shortcut Key Explorer will help you manage the list of shortcut keys you have loaded on your computer. Simply run Shortcut Key Explorer and it will automatically load the existing shortcut keys and display them in an easy to read list. From this list you can double-click on any item and edit the properties of the Windows shortcut. This is great for troubleshooting duplicate shortcut keys or shortcut keys you did not even know existed. (Go to utilities) .....(free).....GO THERE! VHD ATTACH..........This is small tool that adds Attach and Detach option to contextual - right-click - menu of Virtual disk (vhd) files. That enables those operations to be done without trip to Disk Management console. Detach option is available on hard drive contextual menu also. Additionally program can be used as classic utility in order to see various information about virtual disk, even without attaching it. Do notice that this program only works with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Older operating systems are not supported .....(free).....GO THERE! November 20, 2009 XEN LIVE CD..........The only open source hypervisor, now available as a live CD.....(free).....GO THERE! MEMSCOPE.......... Testing memory is not always easy since many factors come in to play. Some tests are very short but to catch all possible errors it is often best to stress test the memory extensively. Besides time, other factors to take account of are: memory, amount to test, memory speed and CPU speed. MemScope presents an alternative algorithm to identify memory problems than those used in MicroScope......(free).....GO THERE! TO INHABIT THE SOLAR SYSTEM.......... Free book in which rocket scientist discusses his career and involvement in any number of interesting cutting edge projects, many secret, and all his observations are utterly unvarnished. Here's a review from The Register.....(free).....GO THERE! November 19, 2009 READY BOOST MONITOR..........A small application that monitors readyBoost, peaks, cache size, graph, read and write speed.....(free).....GO THERE! STARTDISK..........This program will wait until a new drive becomes available and start a program on it. (Go to "My Programs") .....(free).....GO THERE! COMMANDLINE GUI..........A programmers tool to create a GUI wrapper around DOS commandline tools. (Go to "My Programs") .....(free).....GO THERE! November 18, 2009 If you have internet access on your phone, you might want to try our new Daily Rotation mobile service. Check it out and let us know what you think. (Be sure to tell us what kind of phone you're using....) And here's your Daily Update ALL MY APPS.......... All your applications can be installed on your new PC with one click. Should you need to reinstall your system, Allmyapps takes care of reinstalling all your favorite applications in the blink of an eye.....(free).....GO THERE! FORMAT RECOVERY FOR EMAIL..........Format Recovery for EMail is a powerful and free EMail Recovery Software. The software can recover EMail from a damaged dbx file or deleted dbx file or re-installed Windows drive. The mail fragment can be saved as an EML file. It supports Outlook Express and Foxmail format. Even if the file name is lost, deleted or formatted, it can scan the lost EMail from the drive or hard disk .....(free).....GO THERE! DEFAULT PROGRAMS EDITOR.......... Default Programs Editor is a powerful but simple file association utility for Windows. It is a context menu editor, an autoplay editor, and default programs association editor, essentially, it gives you the ability to edit the settings in the Default Programs Control Panel page. It's a replacement for the File Types dialog in Windows XP, and brings some key features of TweakUI to Windows Vista and Windows 7. Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS EASY TRANSFER..........Use Windows Easy Transfer to copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, settings, and more from a computer running Windows XP to a computer running Windows 7. You can transfer data using an Easy Transfer Cable, removable media, or across a network. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! November 17, 2009 CREATE PRIVATE TORRENTS.......... This article explains how to share large files with either your friends privately or with anyone publicly using Bittorrent and uTorrent, and optionally using the uTorrent built in embedded tracker.....(free).....GO THERE! ACCESS LINUX FILES FROM WINDOWS.......... How to get safe and quick access to alternative file systems? DiskInternals Linux Reader is a new easy way to do this. This program plays the role of a bridge between your Windows and Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems. This easy-to-use tool runs under Windows and allows you to browse Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems and extract files from there.....(free).....GO THERE! ONLINE ARMOR.......... Great security for those on a tight budget.....(free).....GO THERE! BROWSER CHOOSER..........Browser Chooser is a small tool acting as the default browser allowing you to choose what browser to open the link in. It gives you the flexibility to choose what browser to use for any given task. It is developed in VB.Net and geared towards Windows Vista and Windows 7.....(free).....GO THERE! November 16, 2009 QUICK FIX PLUS..........There are a lot of excellent free Windows comprehensive repairing and fixing tools around the internet. But there are times when you want just one quick fix for example when you are under a virus attack and you just want to enable the Task Manager or the Registry Editor so you can fight the virus back, or when some new installation changed your XP behavior and My Documents opens on every start up. This is the right time to draw XP Quick Fix Plus with 40 common Windows XP problems fixes, only 0.58mb, portable, small and fast, a must have on every computer and with a small extra, a command line utility to fix 6 common problems directly from command line .....(free).....GO THERE! GMAIL DRIVE.......... GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium. GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.....(free).....GO THERE! SET OWNER 1.0 .......... A mini utility that let you quickly and safely change the registered owner and organization in Windows (the information you see when you run Winver command), Portable and simple to use, tested on Win XP, Win 7.....(free).....GO THERE! TRAY CLEANER .......... Tray cleaner is a small and portable tool to clean your System Tray (notification area) from past items (even if you don't see them). The tool is very simple to use, just one click to clean, if there are no past items, Tray cleaner will inform you and the Clear button will be disabled.....(free).....GO THERE! November 13, 2009 UNERV..........Unerv is a free Windows sub-system. It is: Small, Feature Rich, Command Line Compatible, Compatible with Windows 95 and up. Sounds interesting, but we don't have a clue what it does, and the web site doesn't tell us. Try it out and let us know.....(free).....GO THERE! OXELON MEDIA CONVERTER ..........Convert media files from Explorer context menu. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! COMPLETE GUIDE TO GOOGLE WAVE..........We got our invitation the other day, but we have not dived in yet. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that is notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes.....(free).....GO THERE! FREELANCER TOOLSET.......... 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need. Running a business for yourself means you have to be inventive and always on the lookout for a new and better way to get things done. Innovation junkies, take note: the Internet has a lot to offer. From invoicing to marketing, these are tools that freelancers need to know about......(free).....GO THERE! November 11, 2009 PROCESS MONITOR.......... Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more. Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.....(free).....GO THERE! OKAY KEYBEES.......... OkayKeybees is a freeware keyboard remapper with a twist. You define what keys are always replaced or what keys are replaced only when a user defined modifier key is held. You can effectively "move" keys to either side of the keyboard or even effective disable keys (like the Windows key).....(free).....GO THERE! RENAME MASTER.......... Utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files. This utility will add, remove, or replace parts of the filename with ease and also supports renaming via file properties, MP3 tags, JPEG JFIF and EXIF tags. Batch renaming that's simple to use, yet still very powerful.....(free).....GO THERE! ALTERNATIVETO.......... AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell them what application you want to replace and they give you great alternatives, based on user recommendations.....(free).....GO THERE! November 10, 2009 ARS CLIP.......... ArsClip monitors the clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Press a configurable hotkey and select an item (or items) to quickly paste into a program. ArsClip used to be barebonez, but it has become a nicely featured program due to user requests for changes. ArsClip remembers the last 15 or more text entries entered into the Windows clipboard and can be configured to monitor non-text items. Delphi 6 source code is included - modify it freely for any non-profit use. NOTE: The newer versions are compiled with Turbo Delphi for Win32.....(free).....GO THERE! MOUSE WRANGLER..........Utility for performing mouse gestures. MouseWrangler monitors the mouse while Right-Click is held and keeps track of the movements made. When a set of movements is made, called a "gesture", an action is performed. MouseWrangler can simulate keystrokes, or run programs and files to automate common Windows tasks (like closing programs, minimizing programs, saving files, and so on). For more complex actions, MouseWrangler can also be used to trigger external macro programs .....(free).....GO THERE! BROWSE WITHOUT LEAVING A TRACE.......... Keeping track of where you've been does not end with simply clearing out your browsing history and other private data—your operating system continues to store more information about what you've been up to, like cached DNS lookups and worse, Flash cookies that don't get wiped. It's worth noting that you won't be able to erase all of your tracks all the time—if you are browsing stuff that you shouldn't at work, you can still get caught by a system admin even if the history on your PC is gone. On your own PC, however, here is how to boost your browsing privacy.....(free).....GO THERE! STP.......... STP allows you to convert your paper documents into PDF files. Additional functions: creating JPEG files from scanned images, PDF creation from separate JPEG files, preview with basic image editing functions (rotate, crop), external preview and editing, variable compression/quality of PDF pages, etc.....(free).....GO THERE! November 9, 2009 TRANSLATE CLIENT ..........Just select text in your web-browser or other application and get instant translation by Google Translate Service. Google Translate is the most widely used free translation service. But translating a webpage or a piece of text can still be a tiresome process: you need to visit Google Translator website, copy/paste the text, choosing the language... Too long! Client for Google Translate is a free translator which translate text in every Windows application such as Outlook, MS Word, Internet Explorer, Firefox and so on Thanks to ghacks.....(free).....GO THERE! DVD KNIFE..........DVD Knife is a simple tool for extracting DVD clips from your DVD's.The clips will be stored in VOB format only. This is the simplest and fastest tool in its category which has ability to extract long VOB clips in few seconds.Its so simple that only three steps can extract the clip ie "Select start" - "Select end" - "Save". So get your favorite movie or film scenes stored seperately now .....(free).....GO THERE! MONITOR ASSET MANAGER..........Monitor Asset Manager is a Plug and Play monitor information utility that works under all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. It is fully multi-monitor-capable, and unlike similar reporting utilities queries the monitor directly rather than relying on potentially dubious information stored in the registry. In addition to providing detailed information on monitor color and timing characteristics, this compact utility (~400kb) is the only program of its type to accomplish this under Windows NT 4.0, providing corporate IS managers with a simple tool to track monitor inventory by serial number. Reports generated by Monitor Asset Manager provide detailed technical information about the target display device and its capabilities. Corporate licensed versions of this lightweight utility can be set to run periodically in the background where it can silently save reports in SMS-compliant MIF file format to designated locations at pre-specified intervals. An IS manager wishing to implement SMS-compliant asset management and inventory practices will find that Monitor Asset Manager is the perfect tool to compliment existing management capabilities. Moreover, end users puzzled by the way Windows treats their monitors and high-definition display devices can gain insight into exactly what Plug-and-Play means: all the information provided by the display to the system is displayed in readable format, including DPM and GTF/CVT support, color chromaticity values, native and recommended resolutions with exact timing parameters, as well as device minimum requirements and maximum limits. The latest version also supports DisplayID structures, extracts and decodes EIA/CEA-861 extension data for consumer electronics devices like HDTVs, build EDID override INF files, and queries for basic Monitor Command and Control (MCCS) information from next-generation DisplayPort and DDC/CI compliant displays .....(free).....GO THERE! CREATE A DVD FROM ISO FILE WHICH CONTAINS ALL WINDOWS 7 EDITIONS.......... If you have just installed or upgraded to Windows 7, you will notice that one of the major changes during installation is the lack of the well-known setup wizard which asks you to choose among different Windows editions to install. Each Windows 7 DVD instead, will automatically install its own preset edition. Basically, Windows 7 DVD doesn’t contain all editions in its setup anymore, but mind you, such a feature is still supported! Here is a simple, free utility which lets you create a DVD from a Windows ISO file containing all Windows 7 editions.....(free).....GO THERE! November 5, 2009 CONNECTIFY..........Turn your Windows 7 laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot to share the internet. Easily connect any number of Wi-Fi enabled devices to your computer, wirelessly.....(free).....GO THERE! NOTEPAD2..........Windows notepad replacement. Notepad2 has a small footprint and is very fast, even when used on very old machines. Aside from rivaling Windows Notepad for startup speed and responsiveness, Notepad2 also sports a clean, unobtrusive interface free of the clutter that often overwhelms the users of other text editors. Yet, despite its speed and tidy interface, Notepad2 sports a lot of powerful features, such as syntax highlighting, brace matching, tag completion, encoding conversion, code folding (with my custom build; see below), and a variety of other useful tools. Put together, this mix of features, speed, and usability makes Notepad2 the ideal Notepad replacement .....(free).....GO THERE! COPY CAT..........Copy Cat 2.0 will skip the bytes which are not readable from files and copy all other bytes. Windows will not usually copy portions of a damaged disk. Therefore it extracts max data which is normally not done by windows copy operation. Copy Cat can be helpful at times when you want to copy a CD or DVD which is scratched,when you want to copy data from harddisk area which is partially not readable , when you want to copy data from floppy which is currently not being copied by windows .....(free).....GO THERE! NO REDIRECT..........NoRedirect is a Firefox extension that lets the user take control of HTTP redirects. It can be used to interdict ISP DNS search redirection hijacks, preview shortened URLs, stop the annoying redirection of smart error pages, etc .....(free).....GO THERE! November 4, 2009 MICROSOFT RESEARCH VIRTUAL WIFI..........Virtual WiFi helps a user connect to multiple IEEE 802.11 networks with one WiFi card. VIt works by exposing multiple virtual adapters, one for each wireless network to which connectivity is desired. Virtual WiFi uses a network hopping scheme to switch the wireless card across the desired wireless networks. Switching between networks is transparent to the applications, such that the user feels she is connected to multiple wireless networks simultaneously. Virtual WiFi is implemented as an NDIS intermediate driver, and a user-level service in Windows XP. Virtual WiFi interacts with the card device driver at the lower end, and network protocols at the upper end. The buffering protocol is implemented in the kernel and the switching logic is implemented as a user-level service .....(free).....GO THERE! FILES TO PHONES..........Send any files from PC to any mobile phones. Files to Phones provides free transmission of any files (TXT, MP3, JPG, 3GP, MP4, vCal, vCard) to any Bluetooth devices (mobile phones, smartphones, hand-held devices, communicators, laptops, mini-laptop computers) within coverage over Bluetooth. Does not require any special software or hardware - only a computer (PC, laptop) and a Bluetooth dongle. Absolutely any files can be distributed. Simultaneous distribution of files to 1...7 Bluetooth devices located within coverage area. Supported BlueSoleil, Toshiba, WidComm/Broadcomm and Microsoft stacks(Scroll down page to find program) .....(free).....GO THERE! TALKING DESKTOP CLOCK..........Talking Desktop Clock adds new features to your Windows® XP system tray clock. It shows the time in the system tray and/or on the desktop, with a choice of many attractive clock styles, analog or digital. It uses Microsoft® Speech or Microsoft® Agent to announce the time on the hour, ½ hour, or ¼ hour. It can also play a chime on the hour, ½ hour, or ¼ hour. Talking Desktop Clock 1.0 Preview is an incomplete pre-release version .....(free).....GO THERE! FILE COMMANDER.......... File Commander helps you save time when organizing the files on your disk. If you find that you're moving, copying, or deleting the same files over and over, you can use File Commander to make a simple command that does it for you. When you run the command, your files will be moved, copied, or deleted just as if you'd done it yourself. File Commander includes a Wizard for creating new commands, with easy step-by-step instructions. There are no scripts to write and no technical jargon to understand.....(free).....GO THERE! November 3, 2009 DATAMINER..........This program recovers lost files from a damaged optical disc (CD or DVD). Use it to rescue your important files from a scratched disc, or e.g. an accidentally overwritten RW. The program can heuristically recognize various kinds of files, such as bmp, ico, cur, ani, avi, cda, pal, qcp, rmi, wav, riff, 7z, bz2, cab, gz, hqx, nri, rar, rpm, sit, sqx, tar, uha, zip, zoo, aiff, amr, au, flac, mid, mp3, ogg, doc, xls, ppt, chm, mdb, pdf, psd, psp, sib, sqlite, exe, dll, chr, bgi, class, dcu, elf, gm6, ppu, ti calculator, res, tlb, tpu, dcx, emf, gif, jpg, pcx, png, tif, wmf, asf, ra, rm, mov, mpg, swf, vob, lnk, sfk and text files. It restores your precious data for free of charge.....(free).....GO THERE! PAINTER..........Greenfish Painter is an interesting painting program. In this program, you cannot find the usual rectangular selection, lasso, gradient fill or text tools. Instead, you can paint with a virtual brush, calligraphic pen, charcoal, or chalk. G/F Painter provides a virtual canvas to imitate real painting. Some sample images are included.....(free).....GO THERE! ICON EDITOR PRO.......... GFIE Pro is a powerful icon, cursor, animation and icon library editor. Layer support with advanced selection handling makes it a really professional and unique freeware tool for designing small pixelgraphic images. GFIE offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow; supports editing animated cursors and managing icon libraries. It's lightweight (< 1.8 MB unzipped) and requires no installation - just unpack it to your USB drive and use it anywhere. A clean, customizable, multilanguage user interface makes it really easy to learn and use .....(free).....GO THERE! DISABLE LAST ACCESS TIMESTAMP TO SPEED UP XP..........Disabling automatic file timestamps speeds up machine .....(free).....GO THERE! November 2, 2009 MOBAXTERM..........Multitab Unix browser for Windows. MobaXterm (formerly known as MobaXVT) is an enhanced terminal with an X server and a set of Unix commands (GNU/Cygwin) packaged in a single portable exe file. Formerly known as MobaXVT, MobaXterm now includes a multitab native Windows terminal, a new X server based on X.Org for easily export your Unix/Linux display and a lot of new GNU Unix commands. You can also use some of the free plugins for extending MobaXterm capabilities .....(free).....GO THERE! RAINMETER.......... Rainmeter is a Windows customization application. Empower your desktop with an expandable library of useful tools – handy notes and application launchers, weather and feeds from the web, system status and more. Then, rearrange and modify them to suit your personal style.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS DOUBLE EXPLORER..........Windows Double Explorer manages two Windows Explorer in one application. Also you can add your favorite folders with drag and drop to the toolbar for quick access. It's easyier to manage your disc structure. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! October 30, 2009 WIN MACRO..........WinMacro is a simple Macro recorder/player for Windows written in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. It can record whatever you do at your Windows Desktop, and can replay them exactly. It doesn't record video, instead it uses windows hooking mechanisms to monitor your mouse and keyboard events, and plays them back. Therefore the recorded file is much smaller than what would be if you recorded live video, typically in the range of kilobytes .....(free).....GO THERE! REGISTRY LIFE..........The system registry is one of the most important components of the operating system. The stability of the system's operation depends upon it being in working order, and the speed of the applications you work with depends upon the volume of data contained in it. Registry Life helps correct errors in the registry and optimizes it, increasing the working speed and stability of the system. It's a compact, simple to use, and FREE solution for servicing your system registry .....(free).....GO THERE! SIGNO..........The Signo tool is an impressively complete hotkey manager that can handle pretty much anything you can think of doing with either hotkeys or textkeys and provides a large range of built-in functionalities you can easily leverage to boost your productivity. Thanks to freewaregenius.com .....(free).....GO THERE! SYS PROGS..........SysProgs site contains various tools & programs that illustrate the use of several low-level development techniques. All tools are provided with the source code and convenient documentation generated using Doxygen. Additionally, you can find several articles related to low-level development and describing some undocumented features of Windows operating systems .....(free).....GO THERE! October 29, 2009 STYLE 7.......... Style 7 is a Windows 7 theme generator. It uses the default Microsoft Aero theme as base and generates a new theme using blackbox styles. Blackbox styles are created with a single, simple, human-readable, configuration file. Thousands are also readily available for download on the internet. You will need UxStyle Core or UxTheme patcher to run the Unsigned Themes created by Style7.....(free).....GO THERE! LIFEHACKER COMPLETE GUIDE TO WINDOWS 7.......... Windows 7 is finally ready for widespread, public consumption. This guide will take you straight through from system requirements and upgrading your PC to highlighting Windows 7's best new features to helping you hit the ground running with all of the awesome tweaks Windows 7 has in store for you.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS 7 USB-DVD DOWNLOAD TOOL.......... When you purchase Windows 7 from Microsoft Store, you have the option to download an ISO file or compressed files. The Windows 7 USB-DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB-DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD. The ISO file contains all the Windows 7 installation files combined into a single uncompressed file. When you download the ISO file, you need to copy it to some medium in order to install Windows 7. This tool allows you to create a copy of the ISO file to a USB flash drive or a DVD. To install Windows 7 from your USB flash drive or DVD, all you need to do is insert the USB flash drive into your USB port or insert your DVD into your DVD drive and run Setup.exe from the root folder on the drive.....(free).....GO THERE! DAE..........The sole purpose of this program is to simplify the process of changing the dates and attributes of a file or list of files. DAE (Date and Attribute Editor) offers an easy to use and intuitive interface .....(free).....GO THERE! October 28, 2009 COMODO INTERNET SECURITY.......... Comodo Internet Security is the free, multi-layered security application that keeps hackers out and personal information in. Built from the ground upwards with your security in mind, CIS offers 360° protection by combining powerful Antivirus protection, an enterprise class packet filtering firewall, and an advanced host intrusion prevention system called Defense+. Unlike the stripped down versions of commercial software that other software vendors offer for free, this is the full, completely functional version of the product. .....(free).....GO THERE! HARD DRIVE POWERWASH..........Hard Drive Powerwash will clean your hard disk by removing file clutter from your system drive, from external drives or from network drives. It checks for unnecessary files of more than 50 kinds. Additionally, it deletes your internet tracks including cookies, typed URLs and other form data for Internet Explorer and Firefox. And it allows you to add custom file types or custom folders that should be deleted. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! DOTMOBI.......... Test your Web site to see if it is ready for mobile customers.....(free).....GO THERE! GIGATWEAKER.......... Powerful and compact solution to optimize your windows. All changes made by GIGATweaker in the system are transparent through informative console. Built-in Startup Manager and Uninstall Manager.....(free).....GO THERE! October 27, 2009 CONSOLE TASK MANAGER.......... ConsoleTaskManager is a simple taskmanager replacement. Works in textmode only. Reason for this is that if your graphics system somehow is screwed the standard win taskmanager won't be able to show something useful. Since this switches the graphics to textmode it will in most cases help you kill the task responsible for messing up your graphics system.....(free).....GO THERE! DRIVE GLEAM.......... DriveGLEAM is a harddrive activity monitor application.....(free).....GO THERE! DISK2VHD.......... Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted).....(free).....GO THERE! INTERNET EXPLORER COLLECTION.......... Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time.....(free).....GO THERE! October 26, 2009 ALVO..........Tiny stand alone DOS program that Enrypts and Decrypts any kind of files with a very safe and fast csprng algorithm .....(free).....GO THERE! COMPUTER VIRUS TUTORIAL..........Learn what they are, their history, protection, and some of the characteristics of a virus hoax.....(free).....GO THERE! CROSSLOOP.......... CrossLoop simplifies the process of securely working with friends located in different physical locations and across different network environments. CrossLoop enables you to see the screen and control the mouse and keyboard on a remote computer. It is as if you are working side by side at the same PC.....(free).....GO THERE! DEEPTHOUGHT..........Firefox add-on will open search results in multiple tabs.....(free).....GO THERE! October 23, 2009 MULTICORE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT (free): A set of tools to test, debug and analyze applications targeted for multicore hardware systems.....(free).....GO THERE! IBM PAGE DETAILER (free): A graphical tool that enables Web content providers to rapidly and accurately measure client side performance of Web pages.....(free).....GO THERE! APPLICATIONS PRIORITY MASTER (free): Run programs with your desirable pre-defined priority. Instead of using Windows Task Manager to change the Running Processes priority (something which is not convenient), Applications Priority Master gives you the ability to create programs' shortcuts, specifying the priority you want them to start with.So, make a list of programs and run them from Applications Priority Master, with a pre-defined priority according to your needs.....(free).....GO THERE! DRIVE FOLDER (free): Create Virtual Drives by associating folders of your disks with Drive letters .....(free).....GO THERE! October 22, 2009 TEXT CONVERTER.......... With the Text Converter, you can change many Text Files at once: Replacing of text or lines, deleting of text or lines, inserting of text at special locations, changing the notation, HTML options and lost of other things are possible. The output can be carried out as text, image or HTML document.....(free).....GO THERE! IMAGE CONVERTER..........Whenever you would like to change a variety of pictures without a difficult graphics program, the Image Converter comes to its use. With only one click you can change the size of pictures, cut pictures to size, add watermarks, change the colour values, convert pictures into another fileformat and much more .....(free).....GO THERE! VIRTUAL IQ PRO..........Reduce virtualization complexity with simple, easy to use VirtualIQ Pro dashboard. Use VirtualIQ to manage up to 5 CPUs and 25 VMs for FREE .....(free).....GO THERE! WUINSTALL.......... WuInstall is a command line tool for windows, which enables you to install windows-updates for a certain workstation in a controlled way by using a command line script instead of the standard window update functionality......(free).....GO THERE! October 21, 2009 WIRELESS NET VIEW.......... WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitors the activity of wireless networks around you. For each detected network, it displays the following information: SSID, Last Signal Quality, Average Signal Quality, Detection Counter, Authentication Algorithm, Cipher Algorithm, MAC Address, RSSI, Channel Frequency, Channel Number, and more.....(free).....GO THERE! BOXEE.......... On a laptop or connected to an HDTV, this free software lets you navigate all your personal movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like MLB, Netflix, Pandora, Last.fm, and Flickr from one screen with a remote.....(free).....GO THERE! ZOMBIE SURVIVAL AND DEFENSE WIKI.......... Organize before they rise.....(free).....GO THERE! October 20, 2009 TWEET MY PC..........Control your computer through Tweets. Thanks to freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! COMMANDS IN DEMAND.......... Commands in Demand provides non-technical users with easy access to more than 80 Windows commands and features that can be hard to find or time consuming to get to. The program includes shortcuts to terminate non-responsive applications, restart Windows Explorer, view/clear the clipboard, open a command prompt in a selected folder, access system folders, view TCP/IP configuration settings, etc.....(free).....GO THERE! LINK EXAMINER..........AnalogX LinkExaminer at its core is a link checker, it goes through each and every page (assuming you have it set to) and parses the HTML in order to extract the links existing on the page. While it's parsing the page, it can also perform other checks; from simple tasks like extracting the page title, to SEO analysis, to more advanced tasks like identifying pages with high similarity to other pages. Once it's done, you can go over the results in the GUI, then export to a variety of formats including CSV and Google-compatible XML sitemaps. It also boasts a template-based HTML report generation engine, that allows you to make completely custom report to focus on the aspects of the scan that are most critical to you.....(free).....GO THERE! INDEX AUTHOR.......... A particularly annoying task is to search 100 pages to write an index, a kind of table of contents which contains all relevant keywords. The Index Author relieves you of exactly this task, whether the object be text, html, etc. In addition there are lots of other functions to adapt this index as you want. For example it is possible to add only words of a certain length, to remove all upper or lower words or define a White List or a Black List, to decide whether a word should be added or not. Besides this task of making an index from a single file, there are also some further functions. For example you can choose some files at the same time to create a HTML Index or you can write a Keyword Index from another file collection......(free).....GO THERE! October 19, 2009 RIZONE POWER TOOLS..........All-around tool to optimize, repair and test Windows Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! DEFRAG DRIVES.......... If you need to defragment multiple hard drives or partitions (maybe doing something else in the meanwhile) or you want to have a well defragmented hard drive, you can try DefragDrives, an alternative to the standard Windows interface. And it works a whole lot better than the standard Windows interface, allowing options Microsoft didn't think of.....(free).....GO THERE! REAL TEMP.......... Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core and Quad Core processors. Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data relative to TjMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU. As your CPU heats up, your Distance to TjMax will decrease. If it reaches zero your processor will start to throttle or slow down so maximizing your distance away from TjMax will help your computer run at full speed and more reliably too.....(free).....GO THERE! RIOT .......... Radical Image Optimization Tool. Saving images for web, email and other media with the best compression ratio and quality is a difficult task if you don’t have the right tools. Choosing the right format then choosing the right parameters are the key factors of smaller files. Previewing the resulting image and the projected filesize will help the user choose the best settings.....(free).....GO THERE! October 16, 2009 NHANCER..........Advanced Control Panel and Profile Editor for nVidia cards. nVidia's modern graphic cards offer a whole range of settings to optimize the display of games and also of professional applications. Some settings can also be used to improve the performance and to resolve rendering errors. nHancer is the tool that empowers both experts and inexperienced users to fully utilize the possibilities of the graphic card.....(free).....GO THERE! ICSI NETALYZR.......... The Netalyzr analyzes various properties of your Internet connection that you should care about — including blocking of important services, HTTP caching behavior and proxy correctness, your DNS server's resilience to abuse, NAT detection, as well as latency & bandwidth measurements — and reports its findings in a detailed report. You can check out an example report from a real network to get a better idea of our tests. To perform these tests, the Netalyzr runs a Java applet on your computer. You may be asked to confirm network-related activities that your system's applet security policy or firewall considers sensitive. We hope that you will permit any such activity, as it will ensure more comprehensive test results.....(free).....GO THERE! MICROSOFT PHOTO STORY..........Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device. Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! INSTALL WIZARD CREATOR..........This Easy, 3-Step, Install Creator will allow you to create a Professional looking Installer. It can install up to 250mb of Files (Documents, Photos, Music, Graphics, Programs, etc.). This Program was designed for those of us who found the other Installers too Complicated .....(free).....GO THERE! October 14, 2009 HIDE APP..........Hide specified applications even as they run .....(free).....GO THERE! BACKUP MILL.......... You can back up your data files on to disk, diskette, CD or DVD. Buckup Mill will keep track of file versions and disks. You can restore any file to any previous version without having to know on which disk or in which backup set it is located. You can create unlimited incremental backups. This saves time, backups and restores are very fast.....(free).....GO THERE! WIN DATA RECOVERY FREE ..........comprehensive data recovery software to recover data on major windows operating system. It recovers files emptied from the Recycle Bin, lost due to hard drive crash, formatted or damaged hard drive, virus infection and other unknown reasons. Support recovery of all major file types, including text, exl, pdf, bmp, exe, html, jpg, avi, mp3, etc. As a easy disk data recovery software, get delete and formatted files back. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! HOT BABE..........Hot-babe is a small graphical utility which displays the system activity in a very special way. When the CPU is idle, it displays a dressed girl, and when the activity goes up, as the temperature increases, the girl begins to undress, to finish totally naked when the system activity reaches 100% Thanks to Instant Fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! October 13, 2009 IROTATE.......... iRotate provides convenient access to the native rotation capabilities present in contemporary display drivers, via a popup menu accessible from the system tray and optional system-wide hotkeys. It's no longer necessary to resort to bloated Windows hacks, additional software layers or phantom drivers to achieve content rotation. In most instances, support is now available directly from the graphics chip manufacturers, who continuously improve and apply quality assurance to their drivers. By leveraging the native rotation capabilities now provided by ATI, nVidia, Intel, Matrox, S3, XGI and others, iRotate offers exceptional speed and efficiency, with minimal impact on scarce system resources - the entire iRotate package, including installation, documentation, and native language support in all the major European and Asian languages, weighs in at only 125kb. And like all EnTech graphics utilities, iRotate supports multiple graphics cards from various vendors, simultaneously, under every multi-monitor enabled operating system from Windows 98 to Vista.....(free).....GO THERE! CAM STUDIO..........CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos .....(free).....GO THERE! AVOID CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME..........You’re working at your desk, working on the computer with your mouse, trying to ignore the tingling or numbness you’ve had for months in your hand and wrist. Suddenly, a sharp, piercing pain shoots through the wrist and up your arm.....(free).....GO THERE! COPY CHANGED FILES..........Great for backing up each version of a worked on file. The copy changed files tool is a free program that lets you copy changed files from one directory tree to another. The program only copies changed files, leaving all other files behind. Needed if you have a vast amount of images/documents/source code files that you only want to make a incremental backup of, You have a lot of customer websites that you maintain and only want to update the changed files, You need to copy changed files only from one directory tree to another, or You take a lot of pictures you want to backup several times a day to a DVD or another media where you cannot overwrite only append to......(free).....GO THERE! October 12, 2009 CHROME OPERATING SYSTEM.......... Chrome OS is a brand new free operating system built around the revolutionary Google Chrome browser. The project aim is to provide a lightweight Linux distribution for the best web browsing experience.....(free).....GO THERE! DEFAULT BROWSER.......... DefaultBrowser allows you set the default web browser for your user profile in Windows XP, without affecting the other users. The list of browsers you see in the Presets are tested and working flawlessly as user defaults. Note that the user interface in Windows XP does not provide an option for setting the default browser for each user.....(free).....GO THERE! BLINK SYNC..........BlinkSync is a free file and directory synchronization tool. It works both locally and over a network. It has a command line interface and is particularly suitable for scripting. Common uses include build processes, deployment/publishing, and content updates .....(free).....GO THERE! BLUEMAC..........This is a basic program designed for IT Technicians. It is a portable program designed to run on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7. Think of it as a lazy man's interface to the command line. You'll find some common commands, which can be executed at the touch of a button. Fixes for Microsoft Updates and Installer, networking bits, and a common print fix .....(free).....GO THERE! October 9, 2009 CONSOLE.......... Console is a Windows console enhancement. Features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.....(free).....GO THERE! END POINT SCAN..........Are you aware of all the devices – USB sticks, CDs, floppies, smartphones, MP3 players, handhelds, iPods, digital cameras – that have been connected to your network? As an administrator, do you know how many employees have been using or are using portable storage devices at the moment? Monitoring your network for these devices is not only time-consuming but nearly impossible to do manually. With GFI’s free web utility EndPointScan you can actually check within minutes what devices are or have been connected to computers in your network and by whom .....(free).....GO THERE! NIR CMD.......... NirCmd is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface. By running NirCmd with simple command-line option, you can write and delete values and keys in the Registry, write values into INI file, dial to your internet account or connect to a VPN network, restart windows or shut down the computer, create shortcut to a file, change the created/modified date of a file, change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive, and more.....(free).....GO THERE! SHELL RUN AS..........The command-line Runas utility is handy for launching programs under different accounts, but is not convenient for heavy Explorer users. ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of Runas to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry .....(free).....GO THERE! October 8, 2009 MOBA LIVE CD.......... MobaLiveCD is a freeware that allows you to run your LiveCD on Windows into an emulation window.....(free).....GO THERE! SEADRAGON..........Zoom into and pan around any image on the web .....(free).....GO THERE! RED BUTTON.......... Red Button is a free program for Windows optimization. By means of Red Button you can reduce space occupied by your system on a disk; switch off and remove unnecessary components; increase speed of loading, operation, turn off of system; clean "junk" files; correct errors in the registry, more.....(free).....GO THERE! October 7, 2009 REMOTE DESKTOP MANAGER..........Remote Desktop Manager is a small application used to manage all your remote connections and virtual machine. Add, edit, delete, shared, organize and find your remote connection quickly. Compatible with Microsoft Remote Desktop, Terminal Services, VNC, LogMeIn, Team Viewer, Ftp, SSH, Telnet, Dameware, X Window, VMWare, Virtual PC, PC Anywhere, Hyper-V, Citrix, Radmin, Microsoft Remote Assistance, Sun Virtual Box and more.....(free).....GO THERE! KEEPASS PASSWORD SAFE.......... KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database.....(free).....GO THERE! WIRESHARK.......... Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.....(free).....GO THERE! FAT WALKER.......... Utility that allows you to parse through any FAT partition (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT) on any media readable by your computer.....(free).....GO THERE! October 6, 2009 CLONEZILLA..........You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting! Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting .....(free).....GO THERE! STYLE FOLDER.......... StyleFolder tool for quickly customizing looks of selected drive or folder. You can costumize background, icon, text color and Info tip. Free, easy and handy to use. All costumizing previews and settings will be displayed on one screen.....(free).....GO THERE! DISK DIGGER..........Data recovery utility that scans your media for traces of lost files (images, documents, etc.), and can undelete files from FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS partitions.....(free).....GO THERE! NTFS WALKER..........Utility that allows you to parse through any NTFS partition on any media readable by your computer .....(free).....GO THERE! October 5, 2009 MINIMEM..........Minimem is a memory optimization tools that allows you running modern applications on not-so-modern computers that are RAM-limited. You just choose which programs to optimize and how to do so, and Minimem takes care of the rest, running silently in your tray bar. Go to Tools .....(free).....GO THERE! SIGNO..........Signo runs silently in your tray bar and allows you managing multiple hotkeys and textkeys and their association with various actions. Signo intends to support everything you'd want to use hotkeys for and therefore is the most feature full hotkey manager you can find, including a very large range of feature such as action hotkeys, auto-replace textkeys, screen and windows management, screen are capture tool, etc. Go to Tools .....(free).....GO THERE! DESKTOP PINGER.......... This little stay on top application is a handy tool for the helpdesk and online gaming, verifying that computers and other equipment are connected and online. Desktop Pinger does not require installation, just copy it to a suitable folder and start using it right away.....(free).....GO THERE! EXE TO MSI CONVERTER.......... A free tool to quickly convert .exe setup application to a msi package. If an application comes without a .msi file you cannot use the deploying by using GPO. However you can publish it by making msi package with the Exe to Msi Converter. Tool builds setup executable in to a msi package which can be used for deployment on multiple machines via Active Directory.....(free).....GO THERE! October 2, 2009 OFFLINE MAP..........Offline Maps is an application which provides its users the ability to download tiles from Google Maps and Openstreetmap. Developers can create layers on top of google maps to visualize stuff. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! IDLEBACKUP..........Idlebackup is a backup solution for Windows. Typical use is backup files such as photos, mp3s or backup data, such as databases. Idlebackup can make a backup to hard-disk, USB drive or network (also compressed to a Zip file). Easy restore .....(free).....GO THERE! IMAGE ROTATER..........Simple tool to rotate an image under any angle.....(free).....GO THERE! IP CHANGER.......... IP Changer is a small program to quickly change and view your IP address or DNS/WINS between four different configurations.....(free).....GO THERE! October 1, 2009 HIVE LOADER.......... HiveLoader is a powerful system tool that allows you to load and unload registry hives as well as create new registry hives. If you do not know what a registry hive is then this program is not for you! Improper modification of your computer's registry could easily break your computer. If you know what a registry hive is but you are wondering why you would want to load a new registry hive, there are several good reasons to load another registry hive. First, not all registry hives are loaded into the active registry at startup, e.g. the "Default User" hive is not loaded. Second, you may have multiple copies of Windows installed on the same computer, this allows you to load registry hives from the inactive copy of Windows. Lastly, you can load registry hives from offline registry hives contained in virtual machines or disk images. HiveLoader allows you to load these hives, view and edit these hives, then unload them. All changes are committed to the hive as you make them, you cannot unload the hive and discard the changes you made.....(free).....GO THERE! MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS.......... Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple. Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times .....(free).....GO THERE! G SMART CONTROL..........GSmartControl is a useful 'runs-on-anything' open source tool designed for the prevention of hard drive failure. Essentially a S.M.A.R.T. frontend client, GSmartControl will give you a close-up look at your disks, and predict 64% of failures before the drive fulfills its paper-weight destiny. Thanks to Freeware Pharmacy.....(free).....GO THERE! GMAIL NOTIFIER..........If you are tired of checking your Gmail, Gmail Notifier is the perfect solution for you - and it has lots and lots of options .....(free).....GO THERE! September 30, 2009 SYS RUN..........SysRun is a powerful program that allows you to run a program as SYSTEM. If you do not know what it means to run a program as SYSTEM then this program is not for you! Running a program as SYSTEM can be very dangerous, it completely bypasses security. The SYSTEM account is authorized to do anything. But for the uber-dork who knows what he/she is doing, running certain processes as SYSTEM can be very useful. Note: if you run a SYSTEM process while logged into a machine using Terminal Services you will not see the UI as SYSTEM processes appear in a different desktop than the TS window .....(free).....GO THERE! REGISTRY WIZARD.......... Registry Wizard is a powerful program that allows you to backup your Windows registry. Every version of Windows has a registry or "database" that stores all the information about your system such as hardware, software, personal settings, etc. If your registry becomes corrupt you can lose everything. Historically the only way to backup your registry was during a tape backup of your system. However, most people don't have a tape drive and therefore cannot make a backup of their registry. With Registry Wizard you can make a backup to directory on your hard drive. In the event that your registry becomes corrupt, Registry Wizard can restore your original registry.....(free).....GO THERE! QUICK PASTE..........QuickPaste is a simple program that extends the capability of the Windows clipboard. Anyone who has done a lot of "cut and paste" work has wished that it were possible to store multiple strings in the clipboard. QuickPaste simulates this behavior by allowing you to store up to nine strings that can be placed into the clipboard with a click of the mouse .....(free).....GO THERE! FTP EDIT.......... FTPEdit is a combination between a FTP (file transfer protocol) program and a text editor. FTPEdit allows you to locally open, edit, and save a file on a remote FTP server without having to first download the file with a separate FTP program. No longer do you have to use one program to download the file and a second to edit it. Then use the FTP program again to upload it once editing is complete.....(free).....GO THERE! September 29, 2009 HIDE IP VPN.......... There are several web services which are locked to particular regions. Hulu and Pandora, for instance, are available only for US residents. In order to access these sites from outside the regions they are meant for, you have to trick them into believing you reside inside those regions or countries. One way to achieve that is to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network). Enter HideIPVPN. This free VPN service is the only one that offers you US and UK based IP addresses, and you decide which country’s IP address you want. Want to watch Hulu? Use their US servers. Want to stream music from Spotify? Switch to a UK server. HideIPVPN is the only one I know that offers this kind of flexibility. Using HideIPVPN you can successfully bypass the region-lock of Hulu, Pandora, Spotify, BBC iPlayer, Veoh and anything that’s available only on the US and UK. Thanks to instant fundas which has managed to find this service free.....(free).....GO THERE! DESKTOP SIDEBAR.......... Desktop Sidebar provides you with instant access to the information you most desire by grabbing data from your PC and the internet and displaying it in a special window. The result is a dynamic visual display you configure and control. Choose from among a wide selection of information conduits called "panels". Fully customizable, Desktop Sidebar allows you to dock these panels to the edge of the screen, or arrange them anywhere on your desktop as you wish. All panels are configurable with a number of specific options. With hundreds of skins available and an easy to use Skin Editor, you can freely change the appearance of Desktop Sidebar to suit your tastes.....(free).....GO THERE! DIGITIZER..........Digitizer will convert any image into a colorized textual representation of that image. The result is a neat effect and can be very stunning and beautiful given the right image and options. You are encouraged to experiment with the settings and create a new work of art from an existing work of art .....(free).....GO THERE! FTP SHORTCUT..........A small utility to make FTP Shortcuts easier to create and modify, using the standard Windows shell command to open FTP sites in normal 'explorer' windows. Passwords are always hidden and the files containing them are encrypted, making it a little more secure. Ideal for those wishing to use their normal browser to access FTP sites .....(free).....GO THERE! September 28, 2009 SAFE KEYS..........SafeKeys is a small program that helps to defeat keyloggers on unsecure computer terminals. Neo’s SafeKeys is perfect for travel – use it in internet cafes, the office or even at home as protection against stealth keylogging programs that can be installed without your knowledge. Neo’s SafeKeys is a custom-made tool that allows for you to mouse-click your password on an on-screen keyboard .....(free).....GO THERE! ARP..........ARP Plus Plus is an advanced version of the Add and Remove Programs that is a part of Windows. It will allow you to uninstall programs which cannot be removed from (or may not even appear in) the Windows ARP. Not all programs installed on your computer may be uninstalled using the Windows ARP. And still more programs may not even appear. ARP++ displays all known programs on your system that can be uninstalled through conventional means .....(free).....GO THERE! CHROME PLUS..........ChromePlus has all the functionalities that Google Chrome has. More, ChromePlus added some useful features such as Mouse gesture, Super drag, IE tab, etc. Thanks to the How-To Geek.....(free).....GO THERE! CURR PORTS..........CurrPorts is network monitoring software that displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it. In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file. CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications (Applications without version information and icons) .....(free).....GO THERE! September 25, 2009 Just a note: Fixed the two broken links below. Sorry.... HOW TO MOVE A WINDOW, WHEN ITS TITLE BAR GOES OFF SCREEN..........On occasions it may have happened that the title bar of your open explorer window may have moved off screen, as a result of which you are unable to move the window with the help of your mouse pointer. Here is a simple tip which will help you move the window in such situations.....(free).....GO THERE! 10 THINGS THEY NEVER TELL YOU IN FIREFOX EXTENSION SCHOOL.......... A few great tips. Presumes knowledge of how ro build an extension.....(free).....GO THERE! RESTORE ZUNE MISSING FEATURES..........Microsoft has already announced the availablity of Zune HD & Zune 4.0, but some of the features are not available for users outside US and Canada. With the help of this registry hack, non-US/CA users will be able to enable these features .....(free).....GO THERE! September 24, 2009 MOBA LIVE CD..........We love this one.... MobaLiveCD is a freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD on Windows thanks to the excellent emulator called "Qemu". MobaLiveCD allows you to test your LiveCD with a single click. After downloading the ISO image file of your favorite LiveCD, you just have to start it in MobaLiveCD and here you are, without the need to burn a CD-Rom or to reboot your computer.....(free).....GO THERE! MOBA SSH.......... MobaSSH allows you to run commands and transfer files on a remote Windows PC from any operating system (GNU/Linux, Unix, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, ...) through a fully secured and encrypted network connection. MobaSSH is 100% compatible with the Linux/Unix/HPUx/AIX SSH clients, but also with Putty or WinSCP on Windows.....(free).....GO THERE! MOBA PHOTO..........Create professional looking photo galleries for your webpage. MobaPhoto also allows you to resize, crop or correct red-eyes of all your pictures very easily .....(free).....GO THERE! September 23, 2009 EXPLORER CANVAS..........Modern browsers like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera support the HTML5 canvas tag to allow 2D command-based drawing. ExplorerCanvas brings the same functionality to Internet Explorer. To use, web developers only need to include a single script tag in their existing web pages.....(free).....GO THERE! MJ REGISTRY WATCHER..........MJ Registry Watcher is a simple registry, file and directory hooker/poller, that safeguards the most important startup files, registry keys and values, and other more exotic registry locations commonly attacked by trojans. It has very low resource usage, and is set to poll every 30 seconds by default, although you can adjust this to anywhere between 0 and 9999. A configuration file stores all your settings for future use. MJRW not only polls the system, but it also hooks it, so that most changes to keys, files and directories are reported instantaneously. Key deletions are still caught by the polling loop though, since they cannot be hooked. Exactly which keys and files are protected can be completely configured by the user, although the sets I supply with MJRW will cover most standard PCs .....(free).....GO THERE! SHORTCUTS MAN..........ShortcutsMan displays the details about all shortcuts that you have on your desktop and under your start menu. Broken shortcuts (shortcuts that point to file that doesn't exist) are automatically painted with pink color. You select one or more shortcuts, and then delete them, resolve them or save the shortcut's details to HTML/Text/XML file .....(free).....GO THERE! ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SCAREWARE..........Throughout the last two years, scareware (fake security software), quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily basis, with the gangs themselves earning hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process .....(free).....GO THERE! September 22, 2009 RESOURCES EXTRACT..........ResourcesExtract is a small utility that scans dll/ocx/exe files and extract all resources (bitmaps, icons, cursors, AVI movies, HTML files, and more...) stored in them into the folder that you specify. You can use ResourcesExtract in user interface mode, or alternatively, you can run ResourcesExtract in command-line mode without displaying any user interface .....(free).....GO THERE! PREVENT..........Prevent cut, paste, copy, delete, re-naming of files & folders. Prevent: 1. Stops Cut 2. Stops Paste 3. Stops Copy 4. Stops Delete 5. Stops Copy To 6. Stops Move to 7. Stops Send To 8. Prevents renaming 9. Disables Task Manager’s End Process button. Also it doesn’t allow you to right click on process name and click on end process. It also grays out the context menu items, disable Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V and/or stops the process. .....(free).....GO THERE! IREBOOT..........iReboot sits in your taskbar at startup (only taking up 400KB of memory!) and lets you choose which operating system you want to reboot into. Instead of pressing restart, waiting for Windows to shut down, waiting for your BIOS to post, then selecting the operating system you want to boot into (within the bootloader time-limit!); you just select that entry from iReboot and let it do the rest Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! September 21, 2009 GIMAGE X..........GImageX is a graphical user interface for the ImageX tool from the Windows Automated Installation Kit v2.0 (WAIK). ImageX is used to capture and apply WIM images for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 desktop deployments. It uses the Microsoft WIMGAPI API for working with WIM files. The ImageX GUI is a native application for the x86 and x64 platforms that will also work in Windows PE (WinPE). There is also a COM component version included that implements some of the basic functionality for direct use in languages such as VBScript .....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS AUTOMATED INSTALLATION KIT..........The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools and documentation that support the configuration and deployment of Windows operating systems. By using Windows AIK, you can automate Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, configure and modify images using Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management (DISM), create Windows PE images, and migrate user profiles and data with the User State Migration Tool (USMT). Windows AIK also includes the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT), which enables IT professionals to automate and centrally manage the volume activation process using a Multiple Activation Key (MAK) .....(free).....GO THERE! CHANDLER.......... Very simple, full screen, word processor. No frills, just words.....(free).....GO THERE! SET POWER.......... SetPower harnesses your computer's existing power management capabilities. SetPower allows you to specify when your computer may fall asleep and when it must be awake. Why is this important to do? Because when you control your computer's wake and sleep cycle, you can reduce your power consumption -- and reduce your enery bills, too. SetPower is good for you, and the environment. Consider this: most people do one of two things: 1. they leave their computer on all the time, sucking energy and wasting money. 2. they use the built-in Windows power feature, resulting in a computer that falls asleep at inopportune times. SetPower, on the other hand, lets you leverage your computer's existing power management capabilities so that you can save energy and money, while also ensuring that your computer is ready to go when you need it.....(free).....GO THERE! September 18, 2009 DRIVEIMAGE XML..........DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a useless backup! Restore images to drives without having to reboot. DriveImage XML is now faster than ever, offering two different compression levels. DriveImage XML runs under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista and Windows 7 only. The program will backup, image and restore drives formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS .....(free).....GO THERE! PARTITION FIND & MOUNT..........Partition Find & Mount implements a new concept of deleted or lost partition recovery. It works in the most convenient way possible — by locating and mounting partitions into the system, thus making those lost partitions available to you like any generic disk volume. Partition Find & Mount will also work in case any Boot Record (including the Master Boot Record) is missing, damaged or overwritten .....(free).....GO THERE! TDP X-RAY..........TDP x-Ray is a visual tool intended for disk space administration. It has been designed to simplify the work with high-capacity data storage containing millions of files. You shall appreciate TDP x-Ray, for example, when there is no free space on your 500GB disk and it is not clear where all the free space has gone. Instead of spending hours of your time browsing through folders file by file in the effort to find out what can be removed from the disk, TDP x-Ray shall provide a clear graph showing the disk space occupation. In the graph, you can immediately see which files and folders occupy the most space. To easily visualize the entire disk space, a special “sunburst” graph is used. In fact, it is a multilevel round diagram. The graph levels correspond with the structure of the selected disk or folder. The size of specific parts represents a relative size of the respective file or folder in comparison with the other files on the disk. The largest files and folders occupy the most space on the screen, which makes them easy to identify. Part colors are selected so that two adjacent colors always differ .....(free).....GO THERE! September 17, 2009 ZENKEY..........Cool multifunction utility. A million features... Launch a program, bring it back into focus, or move to another one. Use an Infinite desktop space. Spread groups of windows around and move between them seamlessly. Iconize windows. Save Desktop area by replacing windows with 'live' icons showing CPU and memory usage. Open a document, folder, Internet resource or start a search. Move, minimize, or make windows transparent. Make them bigger, smaller, send them to the tray. Set them to 'Always on top' or tile them. Play. Issue a Media command, such as play, pause or volume up/down. Use an unlimited desktop to move across and place program windows. Start your screensaver, shutdown your computer, open a CD door and more. Access hidden Windows utilities. Control Winamp or compatible media players. Instantly display any menu of programs or actions at the mouse pointer. Launch other programs automatically on ZenKEY startup. Simulate a series of keystrokes (Script any action - automate tasks). .....(free).....GO THERE! PEGTOP PSTART.......... PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks.....(free).....GO THERE! PMETER.......... PMeter is a very handy pixel meter. There are plenty of desktop rulers around, but it's hard to find a good one, which is free. PMeter is a simple to use desktop ruler allowing to switch between 3 user configurations easily. For each configuration you can set width and colors individually, choose to add a desktop magnifier to your ruler, and more. PMeter also includes a color picker in case you need to know or work with the color of any pixel visible on your screen. The additional display for mouse cursor coordinates might also be useful for you.....(free).....GO THERE! REGSHOT.......... Regshot is an open-source registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.....(free).....GO THERE! September 16, 2009 PARTED MAGIC..........Free partitioning tool. The Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, etc...) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of file system tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs. Parted Magic requires at least a i586 processor and 256MB of RAM to operate or 128MB in "Live" mode .....(free).....GO THERE! DRIVER BACKUP.......... Fast and user friendly free tool for driver backup, restoration and removal with command line options, automatic restoration from CD and path formatting. DriverBackup! includes also an interactive command line builder.....(free).....GO THERE! FORTI CLIENT..........FortiClient standard edition offers one of the most comprehensive security suites for your PC available - including a full range of Fortinet threat protections for PCs and laptops, even when used on insecure public networks. This free download provides SSL and IPSec VPN, a personal firewall, antivirus/antispyware scanning, Intrusion Prevention and web filtering. FortiGate users complete their network security framework with Endpoint Control, Application Detection and WAN Optimization. Automatic updates from the FortiGuard subscription service ensure protection against the latest threats. Thanks to Freeware Pharmacy .....(free).....GO THERE! GRAPHS MADE EASY.......... Free program to create great looking graphs in minutes. Simplified data entry: no data grids, wizards or spreadsheets. Self-explanatory user interface. Date values on the X Axis. Save graph images in popular image formats, or copy and paste straight in to your application .....(free).....GO THERE! September 15, 2009 CONNECTION MONITOR ..........The Connection Monitor is a tool that allows the user to observe incoming and outgoing network connections. This is ideal for those whose computer is part of a local network or is accessible over an internet connection, as you can keep track of all wanted and unwanted outbound and inbound Socket-Connections on your computer monitor .....(free).....GO THERE! WIRELESS NETWORK TOOL..........New wireless network tool Informs you of who is using your wireless network, Informs you of all the names, Informs you of all the IP addresses, Informs you of the Mac addresses, Scans your wireless network in only 10 seconds, Detects computers even if you don't see them in program neighbourhood, Detects computers even if you can't ping them.....(free).....GO THERE! BUTTON BAR..........Program launcher. ButtonBar is a remake of the toolbar shipped with the old 16-bit MS-Office, with some major improvements.....(free).....GO THERE! CLPSENDCHAR..........Normally it's not possible to paste text from Windows clipboard to a textbox of a Java Applet. But it works to send single chars by WM_CHAR messages. That's what ClpSendChar does. When it starts it grabs the text from the Windows clipboard and then it sends the text char by char using WM_CHAR messages to the active text control. When you start ClpSendChar the cursor must be in the target. That's why you cannot start it thru the Windows Start menu because it doesn't activate the program that was active before. But you can create a link to ClpSendChar and define a hotkey there like Ctrl+Alt+V. Then you can use Ctrl+Alt+V to paste text from Clipboard to a Java Applet .....(free).....GO THERE! September 14, 2009 QQRIPPER.......... QQripper is the autoloader software to automate the ripping of a stack of music discs (to convert audio tracks from music CD to digital files) to supported storage devices such as hard disk, iPod or MP3 player.....(free).....GO THERE! QQSCAN2DISC.......... QQScan2Disc is the automation software that will scan multi-page paper, convert the scanned images to PDF and burn the files on discs in one hotkey. It is easy and simple, yet will tremendously relief tedious work and increase production efficiency.....(free).....GO THERE! IBM BLUETOOTH REMOTE INVOCATION TOOL.......... IBM Bluetooth Remote Invocation Tool enables you to run applications on your PC remotely in the range of Bluetooth connection. Currently this tool can be used to run applications either through Bluetooth or through other technologies, including file transfer over FTP or chat clients.....(free).....GO THERE! MOUSE SMOOTHING SOFTWARE.......... Mouse Smoothing Software is assistive software for people with hand tremor. It is intended primarily for individuals with Essential (non-specific) Hand Tremor who have difficulty using a computer mouse. Significant improvement has been found for people who can basically control their hand, apart from a moderate degree of tremor. But at Shell City we might find other uses too, like maybe for the creation of digital art.....(free).....GO THERE! September 11, 2009 WIN TO FLASH..........WinToFlash starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can also do this with your LiveCD. You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, as media is shifted to the cloud .....(free).....GO THERE! PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL..........Want to touch up photos like a professional Photoshop artist? No need to pour over dozens of Photoshop tutorials or spend hundreds of hours in practice, just use Portrait Professional – the automatic portrait airbrushing software that has been "trained" in human beauty. Exceptionally fast and easy to use, and capable of the highest quality touch up, it lets you improve your photos instantly, just by moving sliders. Portrait Professional allows unskilled users to get sophisticated fully professional touch-up in minutes. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! DRIVER BACKUP..........Fast and user-friendly free tool for drivers's backup, restoration and removal with command line options, automatic restoration from CD\DVD and path formatting. DriverBackup! includes also an interactive command line builder .....(free).....GO THERE! September 10, 2009 PREDATOR..........Predator can lock and protect your PC with a USB flash drive as a key. Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! VISTUMBLER..........Find Wireless access points - Uses the Vista command 'netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid' to get wireless information. GPS Support. Export/Import access points from Vistumbler TXT/VS1/VSZ or Netstumbler TXT/Text NS1. Export access point GPS locations to a google earth kml file or GPX(GPS eXchange format). Live Google Earth Tracking - Auto KML automatically shows access points in google earth. Speaks Signal Strength using sound files, windows sound api, or MIDI. Open Source ( AutoIt Scripting Language - http://www.autoitscript.com ) .....(free).....GO THERE! 3CX PHONE SYSTEM FOR WINDOWS..........3CX Phone System is a free VoIP PBX software for Windows that allows you to easily set-up a professional, modern phone system for your business. Use popular VoIP providers and SIP trunks for low cost calling. Use popular IP Phones (Polycom, Snom, Cisco & others) or Softphones. Keep using your old telephone lines with the use of VoIP gateways. Runs on Microsoft Windows - no need to dedicate a PC or learn Linux! Eliminate phone wiring. Includes enterprise phone system features such as voicemail, auto attendant, fax server, unified communications and more. 3CX Phone System FREE edition is a fully functional product - it supports an unlimited number of extensions and does NOT time out .....(free).....GO THERE! PHATCH..........Phatch is an user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners, … and do much more actions in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually .....(free).....GO THERE! September 9, 2009 VIRTUAL WINDOWS OS..........Online Virtual Windows Operating System. Windows4all.com is a Silverlight based online virtual operating system. It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser. Windows4all.com replicates the desktop environment of a modern operating system. You can launch applications right away without installation. Windows4all.com is web-based and requires Silverlight 3 to operate. Application runs in Silverlight’s security sandbox. By default code is restricted from accessing user's file system or doing anything that could hurt user's machine. Besides desktop, taskbar, start menu and sidebar, currently it includes such applications as File Explorer, Internet Explorer, Video Player, Rich test editor, RSS reader, Notepad, Paint and more. Thanks to Web Talk.....(free).....GO THERE! SUPER COPIER..........SuperCopier replaces Windows explorer file copy and adds many features: Transfer resuming, Copy speed control, No bugs if You copy more than 2GB at once, Copy speed computation, Better copy progress display, A little faster, Copy list editable while copying, Error log, Copy list saving and loading .....(free).....GO THERE! ICON EDITOR PRO..........GFIE Pro is a powerful icon, cursor, animation and icon library editor. Layer support with advanced selection handling makes it a really professional and unique freeware tool for designing small pixelgraphic images. GFIE offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow; supports editing animated cursors and managing icon libraries. It's lightweight (< 1.8 MB unzipped) and requires no installation - just unpack it to your USB drive and use it anywhere. A clean, customizable, multilanguage user interface makes it really easy to learn and use .....(free).....GO THERE! DATA MINER..........This program recovers lost files from a damaged optical disc (CD or DVD). Use it to rescue your important files from a scratched disc, or e.g. an accidentally overwritten RW. The program can heuristically recognize various kinds of files, such as BMP, ICO, CUR, ANI, AVI, CDA, PAL, QCP, RMI, WAV, RIFF, 7Z, BZ2, CAB, GZ, HQX, NRI, RAR, RPM, SIT, SQX, TAR, UHA, ZIP, ZOO, AIFF, AMR, AU, FLAC, MID, MP3, OGG, DOC, XLS, PPT, CHM, MDB, PDF, PSD, PSP, SIB, SQLITE, EXE, DLL, CHR, BGI, CLASS, DCU, ELF, GM6, PPU, TI calculator, RES, TLB, TPU, DCX, EMF, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TIF, WMF, ASF, RA, RM, MOV, MPG, SWF, VOB, LNK, SFK and text files. It restores your precious data for free of charge .....(free).....GO THERE! September 8, 2009 RECENT FOLDERS..........Remember your folders that opened recently. Tired of changing folders from one to another by browsing My Computer? Recent Folders can remember which folder you were recently working on. Select your favorite folder from a list just like selecting a file from "My Recent Documents" .....(free).....GO THERE! PING PLOTTER..........PingPlotter Freeware is a high performance, low-overhead traceroute application. It allows you to quickly "trace" the route between you and a target of your choice (a web site, Voice over IP provider, online game server, or similar target), and then continue to collect performance metrics about that route. Packet loss and latency numbers are available within seconds, and the results are displayed in a graphical format, in addition to text values. This allows you to quickly see if the final destination is performing as you expect, and if it's not, you can see which hop is causing the problems .....(free).....GO THERE! USB DRIVE FRESHER..........Your computer and others may automatically place files on your USB drive every time you use it. Now you can keep it clear and clean just as automatically – using rules you set up and approve .....(free).....GO THERE! SECRET DATA MANAGER..........Secret Data Manager is a personal tool to help computer users keep their private files in encrypted status. It is a great option for anyone who is looking for a powerful and convenient way to protect data from being read, or even stole from the computer .....(free).....GO THERE! September 7, 2009 CHROME PLUS.......... ChromePlus has all the functionalities that Google Chrome has, and more -- Mouse gesture, Super drag, IE tab, and more.....(free).....GO THERE! ZERO REMOTE..........ZeroRemote is a free, tiny, portable, single-executable remote desktop application for Windows. With blazing speed, file transfer, audio playback, out-of-the-box Aero and alpha blending support, and minimal resource usage, ZeroRemote may be the best remote desktop app you've never heard of. Thanks to Freeware Pharmacy.....(free).....GO THERE! PIC PICK..........PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want. It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely .....(free).....GO THERE! FLV METADATA INJECTOR.......... FLV MetaData Injector (FLVMDI) is a Win32 console (command line) application that can add 'onMetaData' AMF data to FLV files. (There's also a GUI frontend FLVMDIGUI). FLVMDI optionally saves an XML version of the injected data, and can add an additional string data or save the onMetaData data to an XML file. FLVMDI has some unique functionality, but it's not as vital now because flashcom 1.5.2+ and Flash Video Exporter 1.2+ adds the required metadata. (Unfortunately there's still a gotcha with Sorenson Squeeze 4, also see Sorenson Squeeze (4.1) FLV Metadata upate...).....(free).....GO THERE! September 4, 2009 EJECT USB..........Designed to be a simple utility to close all programs running from a specified drive or folder and then attempt ejection if a drive was specified. Extended functionality includes flushing the file cache, closing Explorer windows and removing registry entries and Recent Document shortcuts referencing the specified drive or folder. (Advanced program - Read the comments below the app description before using) .....(free).....GO THERE! WAKE ON LAN..........This program wakes computer via LAN, you need just enter appropriate MAC address of the computer you would like to wake .....(free).....GO THERE! SILVER SHIELD.......... A tiny SSH and SFTP server for Windows. It features SSH2 password-based, interactive and public-key authentication methods and fully supports forwarding and sftp subsystem. Yet its management console makes it extremely easy to configure and deploy, both locally and remotely. Single-user version is free.....(free).....GO THERE! OPEN STREET MAP.......... OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. Use it in your GPS system. OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways.....(free).....GO THERE! September 3, 2009 MINIMEM..........Minimem is a memory optimization tools that allows you running modern applications on not-so-modern computers that are RAM-limited. You just choose which programs to optimize and how to do so, and Minimem takes care of the rest, running silently in your tray bar Go to tools.....(free).....GO THERE! SIGNO.........Signo runs silently in your tray bar and allows you managing multiple hotkeys and textkeys and their association with various actions. Signo intends to support everything you'd want to use hotkeys for and therefore is the most feature full hotkey manager you can find, including a very large range of feature such as action hotkeys, auto-replace textkeys, screen and windows management, screen are capture tool, etc. Go to tools.....(free).....GO THERE! TEST DISK..........TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy .....(free).....GO THERE! PHOTO REC..........PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted .....(free).....GO THERE! September 2, 2009 HYPER-V SERVER 2008 R2.......... Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs. With the addition of new features such as live migration and expanded processor and memory support for host systems, it allows organizations to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server and is a good solution for organizations who are consolidating servers as well as for development and test environments. By having the ability to plug into existing IT infrastructures Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 enables companies to reduce costs, improve utilization and provision new servers. It allows IT professionals to leverage existing patching, provisioning, management and support tools and processes. IT Professionals can continue to leverage their individual skills and the collective knowledge of Microsoft tools, minimizing the learning curve to manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. In addition, with Microsoft providing comprehensive support for Microsoft applications and heterogeneous guest operating systems support, customers can virtualize with confidence and peace of mind.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOW LAYOUT MANAGER..........The main application has a basic window that allows the management of various layouts. Adding new ones, editing existing ones, configuring the options, all the basic things you can expect from any normal application. When closed or minimized it sits in the tray and offers a tray icon with quick access to layouts that are enabled (it’s possible to exclude layouts from populating the tray menu since some layouts are not meant to be applied directly). A layout is a collection of window definitions that contain conditions and actions. Conditions that describe the window and how it should be detected and matched and actions that allow various actions to be taken such as minimizing, moving, relocating, moving it to a different screen, offsetting the position, maximizing it to a certain screen, etc. There are three types of layouts: Normal Layouts: these contain window definitions where the entire layout can be applied to a current desktop. Individual Window Layouts: these contain window definitions that can be applied individually through an active window context popup menu. Live Layouts: these are layouts where the system is monitored and when windows that match any or all definitions it will apply the actions to that window as it becomes available and gets noticed.....(free).....GO THERE! GRIDY.......... Gridy adds an invisible grid to Windows, so that any window you move or resize is snapped to it. Snapping is enabled with mouse drag or keyboard arrow keys. In addition, you can: Make any window semi-transparent, hide the window's Alt-Tab icon and set any window to be Always on Top.....(free).....GO THERE! LICENSED MEMORY IN WINDOWS VISTA..........The problem with more than 4 gigs of memory in Vista .....(free).....GO THERE! September 1, 2009 DARK ADAPTED..........Control your screen gamma on the fly. DarkAdapted controls the amount of red, green, and blue in your screen gamma so that you may, for example, preserve your dark adaptation while using your computer. Gamma fades can be scheduled, and run on Windows or Macintosh. DarkAdapted is being used by astronomers, planetarium operators, graphics professionals, medical professionals, airline pilots, air traffic controllers, and others worldwide to provide flexible, dynamic control over their monitor's screen color response. People with monitors that appear too bright (such as owners of certain iMac models), also find DarkAdapted to be valuable. Users may define an unlimited number of gamma presets, and invoke them via global hotkeys, by menu selection, or by typing the first few letters of a preset’s name.....(free).....GO THERE! DISK CRYPTOR..........DiskCryptor is the only truly free solution, provided under GNU General Public License, which offers encryption of all disk partitions, including the system partition .....(free).....GO THERE! CRYSTAL DISK INFO..........CrystalDiskInfo is an HDD, SSD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T. .....(free).....GO THERE! DSHUTDOWN..........DShutdown is a stand-alone program that allows you to easily shutdown and wake up local or remote PCs, with many specific options. DShutdown supports more than just standard shutdown options, there are options relating to "pure" shutdown (such as the "force after wait" option which causes a forced, but 'clear' shutdown). There are monitoring options that allow you to shutdown a PC after a particular application terminates (useful at the end of compressing several files). There are also options to shutdown a PC when Internet traffic reduces below a particular data-rate (useful to shutdown a PC when it has finished a large download). It is also possible to intercept a shutdown request, initiated by the user or an application, and to then execute the shutdown request with selected options from DShutdown. (For example: to simultaneously shut down all Lan PCs when the server shuts down). DShutdown doesn't force a power-off without logging off and saving settings. DShutdown instead provides a means to log-off, shutdown and safely power-off your PC. Administrators who use roaming profiles will appreciate the benefits of this feature .....(free).....GO THERE! August 31, 2009 DOUBLE DRIVER..........Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers simply and reliably. Double Driver analyzes your system and lists the most important driver details such as version, date, provider, etc and offers you the chance to update to the latest version. All drivers that are found can easily be backed up the application and easily restored at a later point in one go .....(free).....GO THERE! ACTIVE PARTITION MANAGER.......... Active Partition Manager is an application that helps you manage storage devices and the logical drives or partitions that they contain. You may create, delete, format and name partitions on your computer without shutting down the system. Most configuration changes take effect immediately.....(free).....GO THERE! IT CERTIFICATION STUDY GUIDE BUNDLES..........Access to a multitude of free IT Certification Study Guides and Practice Exams. These products all come from Examforce, a well-known publisher of practice material for IT certifications of all kinds. Practice Exams and study guides go hand in hand, and ExamForce produces some of the highest quality reference material available. ExamForce’s certified instructors craft these study guides so they follow each exam’s specific and recommended objection categories to ensure that you’ve got what you need come exam da Thanks to confessions of a freeware junkie.....(free).....GO THERE! PONGED..........Really a lot of online games. Action, Strategy, RPG, Puzzle, Sports & Shooter Games .....(free).....GO THERE! August 28, 2009 VISTA SERVICES OPTIMIZER..........When you install Microsoft Windows Vista for the first time, you will notice the low performance of your system. There are many reasons of the performance problems in Windows Vista, one of them that there are many of Windows Vista services that are running in the background that consume a lot of CPU power and take up much space in the system memory (RAM) which we do not really need them at all. So I suggest to tweak Windows services by stopping and disabling unwanted services in order to reduce CPU usage and save some space in the system memory .....(free).....GO THERE! SEARCH SELECT.......... Select text in a document or website and then search for it with favorite search engine and CTRL+SHIFT+C. No more having to copy the text, open a web browser, go to Google (or similar), paste text into search box, and hit enter. Just highlight and press a key combo. Easy! Switch search engines with a click of the mouse.....(free).....GO THERE! SECURITY THE EASY WAY..........Guide to harden and clean Windows .....(free).....GO THERE! KIDS MENU..........A replacement shell for windows that can function as a simple launcher .....(free).....GO THERE! August 27, 2009 TITLEBAR DATE TIME.......... Titlebar Date-Time displays the date and, or time on the right hand side of the titlebar of whatever program is active. There are many options for customizing the display. You can change the color of the background and text. You can drag and drop to change the order of the items, more .....(free).....GO THERE! UNISON..........Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.), distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.), uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.), and other synchronizers (Intellisync, Reconcile, etc) .....(free).....GO THERE! XML ESCAPE TOOL..........In XML text and attribute values, we need to escape ASCII characters like the angle brackets, semicolon, single quote, double quotes. XML Escape Tool can escape or unescape XML characters easily and quickly .....(free).....GO THERE! August 26, 2009 TEXT ON 9 ..........Type on your Computer like you’re Texting from your Phone. (Scroll Down) Thanks to freewaregenius.com.....(free).....GO THERE! LIVE EDGE.......... LiveEdge is a radically simple approach to mouse gestures. The application makes use of the edges and corners of your screen and turns them into hot zones. Drag the cursor to the edge and a keyboard shortcut of your own choosing will be executed. LiveEdge is great for web surfing. It lets you keep your focus on what you are looking for instead of trying to hit those small back and scroll buttons. LiveEdge is very fast and easily customizable.....(free).....GO THERE! DLL ARCHIVE.......... Everyone has uninstalled programs at one point or another, just to be presented with that wonderful dialog asking whether or not we want to delete some 'shared' Windows resource... Do we? Does something else use that DLL file it's asking about? Help!!! That's where AnalogX DLL Archive comes in - it searches through all the files on your system and lets you know if any of them contain references to the DLL's in question! AnalogX DLL Archive is super-simple to use, just click search and let it do its thing - once done, you'll be presented with a list of all the DLL's that don't have references in the system! Then just select which ones you think aren't necessary anymore and archive them - it's that simple! Make a mistake? No problem, restoring DLL's from the archive is just as simple - nothing is deleted until YOU delete it.....(free).....GO THERE! TASK SWITCH XP..........Alt-Tab Replacement For XP. TaskSwitchXP is an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying thumbnail preview of the application that will be switched to.....(free).....GO THERE! August 25, 2009 SYSINTERNALS SUITE..........The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault. The Suite is a bundling of about 75 Sysinternals Utilities .....(free).....GO THERE! SUPER F4..........What SuperF4 basically does, is kill the process of the foreground window when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. You might think, doesn't Alt+F4 do this? Well, it's a bit different. When you press Alt+F4, the program can refuse to quit. Windows essentially only asks the program to quit, and lets it decide for itself what to do (almost always it behaves just as if you would have pressed the × in the upper-right corner) .....(free).....GO THERE! FREE APP ALERT..........iPhone apps that are now free but were formerly commercial .....(free).....GO THERE! STAX BACKUP.......... StaxBackup is a GUI for Microsoft robocopy and reg command line applications useful to make file and registry key backups.....(free).....GO THERE! August 24, 2009 SOCKET SNIFF.......... SocketSniff allows you to watch the Windows Sockets (WinSock) activity of the selected process. For each created socket, the following information is displayed: socket handle, socket type, local and remote addresses, local and remote ports, total number of send or receive bytes, and more. You can also watch the content of each send or receive call, in Ascii mode or as Hex Dump.....(free).....GO THERE! SHADOW.......... This application is a powerful data encoder and decoder that has the possibility to encode or decode everything and anything that fits on/in your Hard Disk Drive. You can encode texts, pictures, movies, music, applications ... so on.....(free).....GO THERE! REG START..........RegStart is a powerful Registry Start-Up Cleaner which will help you remove or backup any element present in your Registry or Start Menu start-up locations. Due to its powerful registry scanner RegStart has the ability to look in all startup locations and it will show you every start-up entry present in your system registry. If you are logged in as an administrator RegStart will give you the possibility to clean the start-up locations for all users present on your station. Please note that RegStart also has the ability to scan the "Start Menu" start-up locations and it will show you every file present in those locations. RegStart has a few extras too, that is, it will give you the possibility to edit special system files that are normally read on system start-up .....(free).....GO THERE! SHAFT.......... Shaft is a powerful cleanup utility used to remove unnecessary files like temporary files, links to recent files, cookies, temporary internet files and so on. Shaft gives you the possibility to select the files that are to be deleted or folders that should be cleaned up. Why bother with manual cleanup when you have the possibility to do it automatically using Shaft.....(free).....GO THERE! August 21, 2009 QUARK..........Quark is a powerful security tool which will help you protect your computer from unauthorized access by taking over your system and denying any user interaction until the correct password has been provided .....(free).....GO THERE! REGSHOT..........Regshot is an open-source(GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product. .....(free).....GO THERE! RARZILLA.......... RarZilla Free Unrar is a beautiful decompression tool for RAR-archives that supports spanned archives as well as the extraction of password protected files. Decompression can be started by drag 'n' drop, double click or shell integrated context menu. To speed the whole process up, RarZilla has the option to define a default output folder or a default password or both.....(free).....GO THERE! PROCESS MONITOR.......... Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process and thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more. Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.....(free).....GO THERE! August 20, 2009 ISO DISK.......... Mount and create ISO disk images.....(free).....GO THERE! MUTE VISTA..........You find it annoying that Vista only lets you mute individual apps. Simple VB.NET program to mute or unmute (Go to freeware).....(free).....GO THERE! KEYBOARD LOCK..........Lock your keyboard and mouse by entering a phrase, and then unlock it by entering a different one.....(free).....GO THERE! WORD COUNT..........Word Count is a simple utility for quickly counting the words, characters and lines in a variety of formats. (Note the meaning of 'lines' is dependent on format, but represents the accurate number of lines for formats where appropriate, handling line breaks, page breaks etc. but is an approximation for free-flowing text.) (Go to freeware).....(free).....GO THERE! August 19, 2009 CYBER CAFE..........Cyber cafe software for internet cafe operators. The internet cafe software known as MC3 consists of MC3 Admin and MC3 Client. The internet cafe software will enable the user to record and monitor the transactions and activities in internet cafe. Made in Wakaf Che Yeh, MC3 cyber cafe software can monitor all client PCs from the administrator PC via the network. MC3 software can also record the activities of internet cafe for user's monitoring purpose. Though MC3 has been specifically designed for internet cafe operators, it can also be used for home, office and school .....(free).....GO THERE! FREE HIDE FOLDER.......... Free Hide Folder is a free computer security software to hide your private folders. It is very useful to keep your personal data away from others. Others will not know where your personal files exist and they will not be able to accidentally view them. You can hide folders simply with a few mouse clicks. Free Hide Folder is protected by a password that you can change or remove at any time.....(free).....GO THERE! DOWNLOADABLE, PRINTABLE, PAPER PIN HOLE CAMERAS..........They work, too. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! EMAIL VERIFIER..........Removes invalid, dead and duplicate email addresses from your mailing list. Thanks to gHacks .....(free).....GO THERE! August 18, 2009 CONTROL PAD.......... ControlPad turns the numeric keypad on your keyboard to a Windows command execution system.....(free).....GO THERE! PERFGRAPH ..........Perfgraph is a CPU, memory, network, hardware monitor. It is implemented as an Explorer toolbar so it does not necessarily take up space from your desktop. A quick overview of its features: CPU utilization display for up to 8 cores, Memory utilization indicator, Network throughput monitoring via SNMP, Network performance & reliability monitoring by pinging remote hosts, CPU temperatures, Chipset temperatures & fan speeds, HDD temperature, Gigabyte Odin PSU support (voltage, current, power, etc.), Very lightweight: minimal CPU and memory utilization. Perfgraph will run on both x86 and x64 versions of Windows XP or later .....(free).....GO THERE! DESKTOP EARTH.......... Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator. It will generate a high-resolution, accurate representation of the Earth. The imagery is based on NASA's Blue Marble Next and Earth's City Lights. Day and night is accurately represented depending on the Sun's overhead position (which depends on both the time of day and the day of the year) and both the snow cover and the foliage changes with the seasons.....(free).....GO THERE! BLUE SCREEN VIEW.......... BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version). For each crash displayed in the upper pane, you can view the details of the device drivers loaded during the crash in the lower pane. BlueScreenView also mark the drivers that their addresses found in the crash stack, so you can easily locate the suspected drivers that possibly caused the crash.....(free).....GO THERE! August 17, 2009 COMMANDS IN DEMAND.......... Commands in Demand provides non-technical users with easy access to more than 70 Windows commands and features that can be hard to find or time consuming to get to. The program includes shortcuts to terminate non-responsive applications, restart Windows Explorer, view/clear the clipboard, open a command prompt in a selected folder, access system folders, view TCP/IP configuration settings, etc. It has a selections menu (sections) according to were its commands are related. If a command is related with more than one section and in order to be less confused, you may find the same command buttons more than one time.....(free).....GO THERE! SUSE STUDIO..........Custom Linux, fast & simple. Build an appliance - or your own custom Linux distro - with a few mouse clicks. Customize it, and share it with the world. Even make it a live CD!.....(free).....GO THERE! AUTORUNS..........Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP. This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more.....(free).....GO THERE! UNISON.......... Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.....(free).....GO THERE! August 14, 2009 BOXEE..........Boxee is a free, open-source software platform that integrates personal media with Internet media along with social networking. boxee’s social networking component allows users to share information about what they’re listening to or watching with other Boxee users or friends on social networks like twitter, facebook, etc. Boxee is designed for your TV and use of a remote control. To get Boxee on your TV you’ll need to first connect your computer to the TV screen. You will most likely need an DVI/VGA to HDMI cable (but it depends on the specific input/output on your computer and TV). Boxee is based on the Award winning open-source project XBMC, and also incorporates the XUL framework (which is the basis for the Mozilla browser) .....(free).....GO THERE! SYSTEM INFO SCREEN SAVER..........Displays information about your system status while the system is (or seems to be idle). very useful for servers and and background activity system .....(free).....GO THERE! ACTIVITY INDICATOR.......... Utility that indicates the hard disk drive activity in a tray icon .....(free).....GO THERE! I-NET..........Network diagnostics utility. Run the utility dirrectly from storage media and get info about the current system IP the user administrator rights and the public IP of your network. With this utility you can ping an IP address or a host name dirrectly without the use of the command line .....(free).....GO THERE! August 13, 2009 REG TOY..........Neat all-around tweaker. Registry Tweaking, Services Manager, Startup Manager, Registry Backup, Renew Registry, Registry Cleaner, Registry Search & Replace, Window Manager, Tray Icon Manager, Shell Context Menu Extension, Screen Capture, Shutdown Scheduler, Wallpaper Changer, Screen Saver Randomizer, Disk Cleaner, Memory Cleaner, Quick Cleaner, File Renamer, File Splitter, File Encryptor, Secure Delete, Many other miscellaneous tools. Localizations for some languages. UPDATE: WE JUST FIXED THE LINK, SORRY .....(free).....GO THERE! QT WEB..........QtWeb is a lightweight, secure and portable browser having unique user privacy features .....(free).....GO THERE! DELTA COPY.......... DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program. Let's say you have to backup one file that is 500 MB every night. A normal file copy would copy the entire file even if a few bytes have changed. DeltaCopy, on the other hand, would only copy the part of file that has actually been modified. This reduces the data transfer to just a small fraction of 500 MB saving time and network bandwidth. In technical terms, DeltaCopy is a "Windows Friendly" wrapper around the Rsync program, currently maintained by Wayne Davison. "rsync" is primarily designed for Unix/Linux/BSD systems. Although ports are available for Windows, they typically require downloading Cygwin libraries and manual configuration.....(free).....GO THERE! August 12, 2009 COLOR CONSOLE.......... ColorConsole brings a little color to your black and white world of Windows console (Go to page 1).....(free).....GO THERE! CPUFREQUENZ.......... Small tool to accurately identify the CPU frequency.....(free).....GO THERE! WINBIN2ISO..........This small program converts BIN CD images to ISO images. Files over 2GB are also no problem. When it comes to a quick convert, is exactly the WinBin2Iso conversion tool that you need (Go to page 3).....(free).....GO THERE! DESKTOP OK..........Save and restore the positions of icons (Go to page 1).....(free).....GO THERE! August 11, 2009 Q-DIR.......... Great file manager -- all the features of the others plus more, using the amazing quadro-view technique.....(free).....GO THERE! LIVE EDGE.......... LiveEdge is a radically simple approach to mouse gestures. The application makes use of the edges and corners of your screen and turns them into hot zones. Drag the cursor to the edge and a keyboard shortcut of your own choosing will be executed. LiveEdge is great for web surfing. It lets you keep your focus on what you are looking for instead of trying to hit those small back and scroll buttons. LiveEdge is very fast and easily customizable .....(free).....GO THERE! WINSOCK REPAIR..........Winsock, which stands for Windows Sockets Api, defines how networking software should access network services. Many users come into contact with Winsock after experiencing connection problems that are usually related to Winsock. The connection problems come in a wide variety and include losing network connections, dns lookup problems, websites becoming unavailable, limited network connections plus many more. There are several reasons for these network issues including computer crashes, installation of networking software or malicious software attacks that tampered with network settings and Winsock. A corrupt Winsock can therefor lead to all kinds of networking troubles which are difficulty to analyze and understand for the inexperienced user. Winsock Repair can fix most Winsock errors with the push of a button. That’s obviously more comfortable than having to fix the errors manually. Winsock Repair is a portable software program for the Windows operating system that has two primary functions. The first is to reset the TCP/IP stack which will rewrite important Windows Registry keys with their default values. The second will try to repair Winsock so that the network connectivity issues are a thing of the past. It does provide an option to list the installed LSPs (Layered Service Providers) which can be important as pre-installed LSPs might need to be reinstalled after fixing the Winsock errors (scroll down on the site to find the app).....(free).....GO THERE! INTERNET REPAIR KIT..........Tool to fix Windows Update and SSL issues. Before you use this tool, you need to take note of one rule. Never try and fix something that’s not broken. So, don’t try and fix Windows Update if it’s working. Rizone’s Internet repair KIT can be used for fixing Windows Update and Windows Automatic Update issues. If you can’t download and install updates, try running this tool, it should help. In addition, it will also fix the SSL, HTTPS and Cryptographic services for when you’re having trouble connecting or using SSL (Secured) sites (Ex. Banking) .....(free).....GO THERE! August 10, 2009 First, a note: Sorry we missed an update or two over the last couple weeks, and thanks for your concern. Just working long hours... Anyway, here's your Daily Update for tonight... TRID.......... TrID is an utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. While there are similar utilities with hard coded rules, TriID has no such rules. Instead, it is extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats in a fast and automatic way. TrID has many uses: identify what kind of file was sent to you via e-mail, aid in forensic analysis, support in file recovery, etc. TrID uses a database of definitions which describe recurring patterns for supported file types. As this is subject to very frequent update, it's made available as a separate package. Just download both TrID and this archive and unpack in the same folder.....(free).....GO THERE! PDF TOOLS..........PDFTools is a PDF management application. It can encrypt, decrypt, join, split, stamp, create and rearrange a PDF file. Version 1.1+ includes a very powerful and simple to use XML to PDF converter .....(free).....GO THERE! PRINTEE FOR IE.......... Always annoyed by printing web page? Lots of ads, blank and other junk you don't want? Repeat 'Copy' and 'Paste' to WORD for printing once and again? Printee is a Web Printing tool for Internet Explorer. You can pick, edit and print web page only what you want .....(free).....GO THERE! IBM REDBOOKS..........For big iron affectionados, IBM has available two Redbook series entitled the ABCs of Systems Programming. They "introduce the structure of OS/390, z/OS, and S/390 operating environment. The set will help you install, tailor, and configure an OS/390 operating system, and is intended for system programmers who are new to an OS/390 or z/OS environment.".....(free).....GO THERE! August 5, 2009 ITS HIDDEN..........ItsHidden gives you free VPN for anonymous surfing. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! HIGH SIGN.......... High Sign is an application that allows you to easily create and map custom gestures to perform common actions on a Windows PC. Unlike some other mouse gesture recognition software, you are not limited to a set of predefined gestures; you are free to create any gesture you can think up. The original idea for High Sign was to be a complete StrokeIt alternative, but since High Sign's birth, the vision has changed dramatically for it to become so much more. The gesture recognition engine was written from scratch and designed to focus on maximum recognition accuracy with a minimum sample set (typically one (1) sample is all that's required to reliably identify a gesture).....(free).....GO THERE! HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN DIGITAL FORENSICS LAB, CHEAP..........With the proper hardware that you probably already have and freeware available online, you can easily build your own basic computer forensics lab that will hold up in court, reduce E-Discovery costs and, most importantly, retrieve valuable evidence for all investigations. Thanks to Hack in the Box.....(free).....GO THERE! SYSTEM INFO SCREEN SAVER..........This is a freeware screen saver which displays information about your system status while the system is, or seems to be, idle. very useful for servers and and background activity systems .....(free).....GO THERE! August 4, 2009 FREE OTFE..........FreeOTFE is a free, open source, "on-the-fly" transparent disk encryption program for PCs and PDAs. Using this software, you can create one or more "virtual disks" on your PC/PDA. These disks operate exactly like a normal disk, with the exception that anything written to one of them is transparently, and securely, encrypted before being stored on your computer's hard drive .....(free).....GO THERE! DROPPER..........Dropper is a little program that shows a little box. When you drop files onto this box, it will open those files with whatever program you have specified .....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE SQUARED..........Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun). Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you're interested in. See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square. Save and share Squares with others.....(free).....GO THERE! VIETSPIDER WEB DATA EXTRACTOR..........Extract any data from Website, output to XML format, store to database (MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, PostGres,...). Session: login, query by form input. Multi downloading. Output XML, support: CDATA, Text and binary. Javascript handling. .....(free).....GO THERE! August 3, 2009 GRIDY.......... Gridy adds an invisible grid to Windows, so that any window you move or resize is snapped to it. Snapping is enabled with mouse drag or keyboard arrow keys. In addition, you can: Make any window semi-transparent, hide the window's Alt-Tab icon and set any window to be Always on Top.....(free).....GO THERE! AKG BACKUP..........A Fast and Efficient disk based backup utility. AKGBackup is a backup program written entirely in Java. As a result, it has the advantage that it should run on any platform as Java is a language having cross platform portability as one of its strong points. It is an utility for backing up your files on a different hard disk drive, network drives, floppies, different partition of the same disk drive or any media your operating system can write to.....(free).....GO THERE! COPYMARK..........A simulation of real world file transfer performance. Generates files and then transfers them using the Windows Shell or Finder in OS X. Outputs performance results to .csv and has an optional plotting featur .....(free).....GO THERE! FIREFOX SUPER SEARCH..........Firefox add-on that combines over 160 of the top search engines and people searches in one convenient addon, including 67 searches that can be done right from the toolbar, without having to visit each site and retype the name or search term that you are searching .....(free).....GO THERE! July 31, 2009 ALTERNATE DATA STREAMS SHELL.......... The Alternate Data Streams Shell is a utility for working with NTFS alternate data streams. It represents the streams as files and exposes its functions through the Windows shell facilities.....(free).....GO THERE! KILL KEYS..........KillKeys disables specified keys, preventing programs from picking them up. The default behavior is to disable both windows keys and the menu key when in fullscreen windows to prevent accidentally pressing them when playing games. Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! AN INTELLIGENT BACKUP SYSTEM FOR WINDOWS..........According to the author, "Traditional backup programs are still largely built on concepts from the days when everyone backed up their data to cheap backup media (i.e. discs or tape). They are typically designed to backup all information to a set of backup media. Even though most backup programs now allow you to back up data to external hard disks or network locations, most still create monolithic backup files. Getting to the data once it's on the backup media usually involves a restore process that moves the individual file data back to a hard disk. Nowadays however hard disks are cheap and online storage is practically getting cheaper by the minute. Backing up using a process that creates large, monolithic backup files just doesn't make as much sense anymore. Hard drives are very good as storing individual files and online backups services are most efficient when they can upload small incremental files changes rather than larger monolithic backup files. After this realization I started to look for possible alternatives to the monolithic backup process. Most of what I found offered little more than what NT Backup and some clever scripts had to offer. There were some notable exceptions and the solution I ultimately settled on is largely inspired by one of these exceptions, a tool named rsync. However once I made the decision to move away from NT Backup and a traditional, monolithic backup system things got a lot more complicated." .....(free).....GO THERE! AUSLOGICS DISK DEFRAG.......... Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startups and shutdowns. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of modern hard disks.....(free).....GO THERE! July 29, 2009 UNETBOOTIN..........UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list .....(free).....GO THERE! WATCH TV..........Allows one to watch various streaming TV channels from around the world .....(free).....GO THERE! WINROLL..........Make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top. Minimize, maximize or close all visible windows, including minimizing to the tray area. Make a window translucent on Windows 2000 or above. WinRoll is lovingly hand-crafted in 100% pure assembly language to give the fastest response and the smallest memory footprint .....(free).....GO THERE! CPU SPEED.......... CPU Speed measures the REAL speed of your Intel or AMD central processing unit. (Scroll down to find it).....(free).....GO THERE! July 28, 2009 ULTIMATE WINDOWS TWEAKER..........Ultimate Windows Tweaker v 2.0 is a freeware Tweak UI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows 7 & Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable application to customize your Windows to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, it can make your system faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. The tweaker detects whether you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista installed and accordingly offers you the relevant tweaks only .....(free).....GO THERE! SMILLA ENLARGER..........SmillaEnlarger is a small graphical tool to resize, and especially to magnify bitmaps in high quality.....(free).....GO THERE! UNBLOCK BLOCKED STARTUP ITEMS IN VISTA..........If you’ve ever encountered a blocked startup app in Vista and would like a work-around that can bypass it then this will do it .....(free).....GO THERE! SHELL MENU VIEW..........ShellMenuView is a small utility that displays the list of static menu items that appear in the context menu when you right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer, and allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items .....(free).....GO THERE! July 24, 2009 LUNASCAPE.......... Lunascape is the world’s only triple engine browser. What this means is that you can have the best features, performance, and speed of Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari all in one browser and can view any website in an optimal way without a need to open another browser.....(free).....GO THERE! FILE SEARCHER..........File Searcher allows you to search any file in any location for any content easily and quickly. File Searcher features a powerful regular expression engine that searches any type of file for any given regular expression or standard string. File Searcher is a huge step up on most other search programs because it is simple. It finds lost text files where you can only remember vague details about them. It is way better than the Windows search function at it .....(free).....GO THERE! PRODUCT KEY FINDER..........Product Key Finder is a free Windows application that retrieves license key information (CD Keys) from the Windows registry. Product Key Finder currently supports retrieval of 200+ windows applications such Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat .....(free).....GO THERE! KEY SCRAMBLER PERSONAL..........KeyScrambler Personal is a browser add-on. It protects all your inputs against known and unknown keyloggers in IE, Firefox, and Flock: your login credentials, credit card numbers, passwords, search terms, Java, Flash, PDF Forms, web email, and more (scroll down to find) .....(free).....GO THERE! July 23, 2009 KDE MOVING AND RESIZING FOR WINDOWS XP AND VISTA.......... The KDE Mover-Sizer is a background application that emulates the behaviour of KDE, which is a rather good Linux desktop environment. Actually, Gnome and other Linux window managers also do it these days, but that wouldn't make for such a funky name. Essentially, you hold down the Alt key, and Left-click to move a window, Right-click to resize it; and from anywhere inside the window. That's it. And once you use it for a few minutes, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it! The utility itself is coded with AutoHotKey, which is a bastard fork of AutoIt, but fairly useful in its own right. The original script (which I snaffled from the AutoHotKey forum, the best of many similar scripts) did all the above, but was missing something essential, that is; window snapping. So I added that, and gave them it back. The window snapping is important for at least two reasons; 1) it enables you to place a window, as if by magic, exactly at the edge of your desktop. If, like me, you like to keep your main document windows in the centre of your screen, and leave lots of folder windows open up and down the sides of your desktop (I have a widescreen monitor now, which makes this even more effective) then you will find it invaluable. And 2) it enables you to resize the window from the edge of your screen. This is easier to do than to explain, though I'm going to attempt that anyway, with a couple of how-to style tips.....(free).....GO THERE! KILL DISK..........Erase Hard Drive Completely. Detects and displays information about all partitions, hard disks and floppy drives currently connected to your computer. Wipes out all floppies and hard disk drives completely by secure overwriting data on physical level using [One Pass Zeros] data destruction method. Erases partitions, logical drives and even not used disk space. Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file. Supports IDE, SATA and SCSI drives. Supports larger than 128GB hard disks via using LBA(LBA48) mode to access drive's data.....(free).....GO THERE! EUSING REGISTRY DEFRAG.......... Eusing Free Registry Defrag is a free registry defragmentation software that optimizes registry by removing gaps, fragments and wasted space in Windows registry files.....(free).....GO THERE! July 22, 2009 HIGH SIGN.......... High Sign is an application that allows you to easily create and map custom gestures to perform common actions on your Windows PC. Unlike some other mouse gesture recognition software, you are not limited to a set of predefined gestures; you are free to create any gesture you can think up.....(free).....GO THERE! EVERYTHING SEARCH ENGINE..........Locate files and folders by name instantly .....(free).....GO THERE! REGISTRY CLEANER.......... Registry errors often cause instability and slow computer performance. This award-winning free registry cleaner will clean, repair and optimize the Windows registry to speed up your computer and eliminate frequent crashes.....(free).....GO THERE! REMOVE METADATA FROM ANY FILE IN WINDOWS 7..........Metadata are details of any file which are included in the file and this includes data like author, date created, modified, type of file, computer used for creation and many more details. When you share any file with your friends, its better to remove these personal information from the files. If you are sharing photos, you can check this freeware to remove metadata from images. In Windows 7 (also in Vista), you can easily remove the metadata from any file using the properties window. In order to remove personal information and properties, follow these steps .....(free).....GO THERE! July 21, 2009 TASKBAR EX.......... Drag items off of your Taskbar onto your Desktop. That’s right, you can easily reduce the clutter of having a huge list of open Windows by putting some of them in other locations on the screen. And more.....(free).....GO THERE! IDLE MONITOR..........A free Idle Monitor. "Idle Monitor" is a handy little program that monitors your computer's idle time, based on mouse movements. It can shutdown your computer for you, if left unattended for X number of minutes .....(free).....GO THERE! BOXEE..........On a laptop or connected to an HDTV, boxee's free software lets you navigate all your personal movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like MLB, Netflix, Pandora, Last.fm, and Flickr from one screen with the TV remote. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! NEATX..........Neatx is an Open Source NX server, similar to the commercial NX server from NoMachine .....(free).....GO THERE! July 17, 2009 LIVE ANDROID..........Run the Google mobile operating system on your PC using LiveAndroid, a LiveCD for Android running on x86 platforms. Want to give Google Android a try, but don't feel like buying a T-Mobile G1? LiveAndroid lets you download a LiveCD disc image of the Google Android operating system. Just burn the image to a disc, stick it in a CD-ROM drive, and reboot your computer and you can check out Android without installing it or affecting any files on your PC. This will not affect the operation of your current OS since it's run from a cd. You can also use the disc image in a virtualization application like VirtualBox, VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC if you want to try the operating system without even rebooting your computer.....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE VOICE..........Ask for an invite - we've been using it for a week. Allows you to combine all your phone numbers, screen calls, block calls, ring based on who's calling, lots more.....(free).....GO THERE! G.HO.ST..........G.ho.st, pronounced ghost, is the Global Hosted Operating SysTem that provides a free and complete Internet-based Virtual Computer (VC) service, including personal desktop, files and applications, available from any browser, anywhere .....(free).....GO THERE! GLASS TOAST..........Get longhorn 4xxx style Glassy notification balloons in Windows XP / 2003 and Vista .....(free).....GO THERE! July 16, 2009 WINDOWS 4 ALL OS..........Windows4all.com is a Silverlight based online virtual operating system. It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser. Thanks to instant fundas .....(free).....GO THERE! ROGUE DHCP DETECTION TOOL..........Rogue DHCP servers are those DHCP servers that are misconfigured or unauthorized unknowingly or those that are configured with a malicious intent for network attacks. Either be the case the impact on clients that are serviced by the rogue DHCP servers are critical. That is the clients would experience network access problems due to rogue DHCP server leasing incorrect IP addresses & incorrect options to the client. Security threats are caused when malicious user with rogue DHCP server can spread bad network parameters and thereby sniff the traffic sent by the clients. There are also certain Trojans like DNS-changing that uses a compromised machine in the network to pollute the network by installing rogue DHCP servers on the machine. Rogue detection tool is a GUI tool that checks if there are any rogue DHCP servers in the local subnet .....(free).....GO THERE! SPHIDER..........Sphider is a lightweight web spider and search engine written in PHP, using MySQL as its back end database. It is a great tool for adding search functionality to your web site or building your custom search engine. Sphider is small, easy to set up and modify, and is used in thousands of websites across the world. Sphider supports all standard search options, but also includes a plethora of advanced features such as word autocompletion, spelling suggestions etc. The sophisticated adminstration interface makes administering the system easy .....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS VIRTUAL PC.......... Windows Virtual PC provides the capability to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop......(free).....GO THERE! July 15, 2009 WIKI TAXI..........Did you ever want to take Wikipedia with you while you are offline? Call on WikiTaxi: It is a portable application that delivers the Wikipedia of your choice to wherever you go. WikiTaxi enables you to read, search, and browse Wikipedia offline. No Internet connection is needed, all pages are stored in a WikiTaxi database. Because Wikipedia is constantly growing, WikiTaxi uses compression to make sure that the database stays reasonably small. The huge English Wikipedia easily fits on a 8 GB memory stick .....(free).....GO THERE! SE-EXPLORER.......... Replace standard Windows Explorer with SE-Explorer - simple and powerful dual panel file manager with tabbed interface and lots of built-in viewers.....(free).....GO THERE! VORTEX BOX..........VortexBox is a free, open source (GPL v3), quick install ISO that turns your unused computer into an easy to use music server/jukebox .....(free).....GO THERE! URL SCAN..........UrlScan version 3.1 is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 will process. UrlScan screens all incoming requests to the server by filtering the requests based on rules that are set by the administrator. Filtering requests helps secure the server by ensuring that only valid requests are processed. Most malicious attacks share a common characteristic in that the attack involves the use of a request that is unusual in some way. For instance, the request might be extremely long, request an unusual action, be encoded using an alternate character set, or include character sequences that are rarely seen in legitimate requests. By filtering unusual requests, UrlScan helps prevent such requests from reaching the server and potentially causing damage. By blocking specific HTTP requests, UrlScan helps prevent potentially harmful requests from reaching the server. UrlScan verision 3.0 security tool will install on IIS 5.1 and later, including IIS 7 .....(free).....GO THERE! July 14, 2009 WINDOW SENSOR..........This program can be used by software developers in order to reveal the structure of a graphical user interface. Window Sensor is a simple tool to find out the type of window or control at the mouse pointer position. It displays the class name, window handle and window text of the window or control and of all of its parents (containers) up to the main window. Optionally the window or control can be highlighted by a red rectangular frame .....(free).....GO THERE! MP3 QUALITY MODIFIER..........Change the bitrate of your mp3 music collection in a really simple but intuitive way so that the filesize can be dramatically reduced while the audio quality stays the same. With this advantage it's possible to put more music on your mp3-player or just to save some disk space .....(free).....GO THERE! NETWORK MONITOR 3..........Tool to allow capturing and protocol analysis of network traffic. Network Monitor 3 is a protocol analyzer. It enables you to capture, to view, and to analyze network data. You can use it to help troubleshoot problems with applications on the network.....(free).....GO THERE! SMART PORT FORWARDING.......... Smart Port Forwarding Allows you to Forward Ports Like a Normal Port forwarding program, AND also allows you to Forward ports based on the Actual Data Coming in from the port.....(free).....GO THERE! July 13, 2009 TINY TALK.......... TinyTalk is like a tiny internet phone, or intercom system. For direct IP to IP voice communication. A very tiny single exe application that streams 8 bit PCM voice data at 11.025KB/s in Full Duplex operation.....(free).....GO THERE! XP RUN COUNT EDITOR .......... XP keeps track of which applications are used the most, this program allows you to manually modify each programs run count, and modify which programs are on the XP Recently used Program List.....(free).....GO THERE! EXPLORE AND BURN.......... Explore and Burn is a CD or DVD burning application with intuitive and easy to use interface, integrated with Windows Explorer. It is the easiest and fastest way to burn files and ISO images on your computer to CD or DVD. Explore&Burn is extremely lightweight comparing to other bloated burning applications today on the software market and does just what you need.....(free).....GO THERE! XP ASSOCIATE.......... XpAssociate is a small little tool for munging the XP registry so that the correct app actually starts when you open a file. In otherv words, it helps you associate files with the correct app.....(free).....GO THERE! July 10, 2009 BUMP TOP..........Transform your desktop into a 3d interface. BumpTop is a fun, intuitive 3D desktop.....(free).....GO THERE! DESK BUG.......... This friendly little menu is efficient simplicity, no frills, no bloat no cost. Files, programs, links, multiple links - run them all. DeskBug is a selectable, mouse moveable graphic with a pop-up menu attached. The graphic can be as small as a few pixels or as large as you can stand! It can be made so non-intrusive that it can put anywhere on the screen but still be just a click away.....(free).....GO THERE! SNIP IT.......... Use this add-on to send text selected in Internet Explorer as e-mail. Add-On for Internet Explorer.....(free).....GO THERE! HULU VIDEO DOWNLOADER.......... Download Hulu.com clips, episodes and videos to your PC, Ipod, Zune, PSP, Mobile Phone with one-click.....(free).....GO THERE! July 9, 2009 VIRTUAL CLONE DRIVE ..........Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive. Thanks to Confessions of a Freeware Junkie.....(free).....GO THERE! ABEL CAM..........WebCam Server for Windows. With AbelCams built-in webserver you don't need expensive web hosting. The server supports various technologies: SilverLight, PHP, CGI, Ajax, all documented with templates. Motion detection. Multiple camera support. Pan, tilt, zoom support.Configure AbelCam remotely with the Web Admin Interface Use any webcam, tv tuner or other capture device as video source.....(free).....GO THERE! MACRIUM REFLECT..........Back-up software. A really fast Disc Imaging Backup Software. Makes a complete .iso copy of your hard drive. It has a built-in scheduler, you can set it up to create backups on a regular schedule, making it harder for you to "forget" to take care of business. Images can be saved off to network drives, DVDs, or removable drives (USB and FireWire). Images can be password-protected for the security of your data. Using Microsoft's Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS), Free for personal use by Macrium Software......(free).....GO THERE! CAPSTER..........Have a program run at the startup of Windows, but only if your caps-lock key is down at the time......(free).....GO THERE! July 8, 2009 READABILITY..........A lovely and useful tool. If you read many articles on the net, you need it. Removes all the clutter surrounding the article, presenting it as clean as the page of a book -- It's like your pc is a Kindle.....(free).....GO THERE! VIDEO LAN.......... Latest version of one of the best video and multimedia players available.....(free).....GO THERE! PC DECRAPIFIER..........The PC Decrapifier will uninstall many of the common trialware and annoyances found on many of the PCs from big name OEMs. There is a long list of software and items that the PC Decrapifier can detect and remove. You get to see the list of items it detects and then choose what will be removed automatically .....(free).....GO THERE! July 7, 2009 WINBUILDER..........WinBuilder is a script engine that will run projects which produce very efficient boot or live disks available for several windows platforms. Use it to create boot disks from Windows XP, or for a variety of other projects. Not sure about it? Go look at the Projects page under downloads.....(free).....GO THERE! OFF BY ONE WEB BROWSER.......... The Off By One Web Browser may be the world's smallest and fastest web browser with full HTML 3.2 support. It is a completely self-contained, stand-alone 1.2 MB application with no dependencies on any other browser or browser component. For Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Now, with a tabbed browsing interface. No javascript .....(free).....GO THERE! UXSTYLE.......... UxStyle Allows Custom Windows Themes Without Patching. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! July 6, 2009 XPIZE..........xpize is a utility program for Windows XP (32-bit only) and Windows Server 2003 (32-bit only) that replaces most of the bits in Windows that didn't match XP's style with bits that do. xpize does not replace any files, system or otherwise. Instead it "patches" the files by replacing the old resources inside the files .....(free).....GO THERE! RESOURCER..........A ResHacker clone developed as a testbed for Anolis.Core and to replace ResHacker (because ResHacker doesn't support x64, XN Resource Editor (ResHacker's spiritual sequel) doesn't support multiple-language resources and crashes a lot, and other utilities rest cost actual money. It has a powerful yet simplified UI that doesn't duplicate commands or confuse the users with special-case handlers (which ResHacker and XN have in spades) .....(free).....GO THERE! SANVIENT..........sanvient is an input support utility. It can vastly improves your productivity when you must cut and paste repetitive text .....(free).....GO THERE! MYIPNEIGHBORS.COM..........Reverse IP Lookup and Domain Check DNS Tool. For those on shared hosting, myIPneighbors IP search is a great way to find out who your neighbors are or just to see how many other websites your hosting company hosts your server. Is your website packed into a crowded host with hundreds of other sites? Or is there questionable content being hosted side by side with your site? If so, it may be time to look for a better host.....(free).....GO THERE! July 3, 2009 LIVEUSB CREATOR.......... The liveusb-creator is a cross-platform tool for easily installing live operating systems on to USB flash drives. Features Works in Windows and Linux! Completely non-destructive install. There is no need to deal with formatting or partitioning your USB key. Supports automatically downloading various Fedora releases, as well as Sugar on a Stick! Automatically detects all of your removable devices. Persistent storage creation. This lets you to allocate extra space on your USB stick, allowing you to save files and make modifications to your live operating system that will persist after you reboot. This essentially lets you carry your own personalized Fedora with you at all times. SHA1 checksum verification of known releases, to ensure that you've downloaded the correct bits .....(free).....GO THERE! CS MENU..........Brings the Classic Start Menu Back to Windows 7. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! MITAKA..........Mitaka is software for visualizing the known universe with up-to-date observational data and theoretical models, developed by the Four Dimensional Digital Universe (4D2U) project of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). It navigates across the universe seamlessly from the Earth to the edges of the known universe .....(free).....GO THERE! MONITOR ES.......... MonitorES is a small utility helps you to turn off the monitor display when you lock down your machine.Also when you lock your machine , it will pause all your media programs like winamp & set your IM Messengers status message to "Away" and restore it back to normal when you back.Also supports HOTKEY(CTRL+F2) to just turn off display.....(free).....GO THERE! July 2, 2009 MONITOR TEST SCREENS..........Eight different testmodes, some with submodes. Test your monitor for sharpness, moiré, geometry, convergence, high voltage supply stability, brightness, color quality and more. Adjusts to any given resolution (even odd ones, like 1280x1024). Comes with a tutorial text. You can step through the screens with ENTER and "hold" the auto changing screens in the submodes with SPACE. Scroll to bottom .....(free).....GO THERE! USE WOLFRAM SEARCH AND GOOGLE SEARCH TOGETHER..........One of the latest hot news in the Internet is the release of the excellent Wolfram Search engine. Basically, it is an answer search engine which tries to answer real queries or questions directly by computing the answer into a structured data, rather than providing a list of results or web pages that might contain the answer. Well, it looks like that the old dream to speak to computers is getting closer and closer. In the meanwhile, millions of people are still using Google Search. If you want to use Wolfram but at the same time you don’t want to give up on Google, have a look at this nice add-on for Firefox letting you use both of them on your favorite browser. Wolfram Alpha Google is a nice add-on for Firefox letting you display Wolfram Alpha results in Google Search .....(free).....GO THERE! EDID VIEWER..........EDID Viewer is a simple solution for providing comprehensive information about identity and capabilities of your monitor (EDID 2.0) and of your DTV (EIA/CEA 861 Extension). EDID Viewer extracts & analyses EDID data from your windows registry or from the monitor plugged to the FPDLite Device (DDC link). The information report can be saved in RTF format, directly printed or simply copied to the clipboard (using the right-click menu) .....(free).....GO THERE! ELDIM VIDEO TIMING CALCULATOR..........eVTC (ELDIM Video Timing Calculator) is a small utility that calculates refresh rate, horizontal frequency from timing data (Display size, Blanking size, Pixel frequency).....(free).....GO THERE! July 1, 2009 CAPSTER..........Control what programs start at Windows boot using hotkey .....(free).....GO THERE! DOUBLE VISION..........Lets you watch video and surf the web in a transparent browser. You can click through the browser to your open applications and work seamlessly Thanks to Freeware Genius.....(free).....GO THERE! EYE OS..........eyeOS is an Open Source Platform designed to hold a wide variety of Web Applications. eyeOS was thought of as a new definition of an Operating System, where everything inside it can be accessed from everywhere inside a Network. All you need to do is login into your eyeOS server with a normal Internet Browser, and you have access to your personal desktop, with your applications, documents, music, movies... just like you left it. eyeOS is the Cloud Computing Operating System. Work online -personally or collaboratively- with your files, office, calendar, contacts and much more. Your data is safe and always available. If you do not want to install eyeOS in your own server, you can create an account in their free public server and start using eyeOS right now. Just go to eyeos.info and discover the power of eyeOS .....(free).....GO THERE! FARR..........Find and Run Robot (FARR) is a program for keyboard maniacs -- it uses an adaptive "live search" function to rapidly find programs and documents on your computer as you type. Press your chosen hotkey to display the FARR window, then just start typing the first letters of the application you want to launch and the results appear instantly. Hit enter to launch the top result, or refine your search with special modifiers and commands. FARR also lets you quickly run web searches, send email, manipulate files, control on-screen windows, and much more. Build and share custom commands or install plugins to add tons of new features, like live search features for your clipboard history and your internet bookmarks; a popup a calculator with history tape and persistant variables; and many more .....(free).....GO THERE! June 30, 2009 BOOT SECTOR EXPLORER..........DiamondCS Boot Sector Explorer allows you to quickly and easily read and write to both the boot sectors of your logical drives such as PhysicalDrive0 and the Master Boot Records (MBRs) of physical drives such as C:, D: etc. It can even examine drives that aren't hard drives, including CD-ROMs, DVDs, USB sticks and more. Some trojans, worms, viruses, rootkits and various other types of malware have been known to modify these sectors, but Boot Sector Explorer can be used to keep sector backups, and then be used to write the backups back in the event of an infection .....(free).....GO THERE! BROWSER TRAY SWITCH.......... BrowserTraySwitch is a super tiny little system tray utility (only 90k) to help you quickly change your default browser. Just right-click to change your default browser - after that all launched files and urls will open in the selected browser. Want to just launch a specific browser once? Use the left click.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS FIREWALL CONTROL ..........Protects your applications from undesirable network incoming and outgoing activity, controls applications internet access. Allows you to control personal information leakage via controlling application network traffic. Manages and synchronizes port forwarding provided by external network connection (firewall/router) box with applications requirements and activity. Designed for Windows 7 & Vista. Free version .....(free).....GO THERE! NETWORX.......... NetWorx is a simple and free, yet powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection. NetWorx can help you identify possible sources of network problems, ensure that you do not exceed the bandwidth limits specified by your ISP, or track down suspicious network activity characteristic of Trojan horses and hacker attacks.....(free).....GO THERE! June 29, 2009 THEEM..........Theme your windows so that they look like Mac OS, BeOS and more - beta, possibly unstable.....(free).....GO THERE! SEROGATE..........HTTP Proxy Server with Remote Proxy, User-Agent, Cookie, HTML Tug, Outgoing Header, Incoming Header and Access Log. .....(free).....GO THERE! SET FILE ASSOCIATIONS WITHOUT WRITING TO REGISTRY..........PEM stands for Portable Extension manager. It's purpose is to be able to handle file associations without writing any data to the system's registry, making it possible to defaultly open files with programs on a flash drive. Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! DRIVE SORT..........Sort an entire drive by size or date to find the largest or newest files.....(free).....GO THERE! June 26, 2009 POWER SLAVE..........It then lets the user choose one power scheme that will be used during the working day and a second power scheme that will be used at night. During the day none of us want our PC to switch off the monitor or the hard drives or even power down just because we went for a coffee however, if we leave our PC on all night then after work hours it should be okay to power some of these devices down. When PowerSlave sees that the time has gone past the end of your working day it switches to the night-time power scheme. When you come back in the morning it will see that we are back in work hours and automatically switch back to your chosen day time plan .....(free).....GO THERE! KONTROL PACK.......... KontrolPack is a cross-platform network controller. KontrolPack provides a large list of network related features such as : remote shell command execution, file transfer, network overview, etc... The objective of this project is to improve system interoperability by connecting remote computers, regardless of their operating system, and remotely executing shell commands over the network.....(free).....GO THERE! COPY TRANS MANAGER..........Sick of iTunes? Is it too complex and slow for your needs? Looking for a faster, lighter and free alternative iPod manager? CopyTrans Manager is the perfect iTunes replacement for your iPhone or iPod. Add music & videos to iPod, edit song tags and artworks, create and organize iPhone playlists, preview tracks with the integrated music player. It has never been this simple. UPDATE--Be sure you download the zip, not the installer, or else you'll download the whole shareware suite .....(free).....GO THERE! MP3 QUALITY MODIFIER.......... The main purpose is to change the bitrate of your mp3 music collection in a really simple but intuitive way so that the filesize can be dramatically reduced while the audio quality stays the same. With this advantage it's possible to put more music on your mp3-player or just to save some disk space. Even advanced tasks are possible: Downsampling, changing the used channels and so on. With the included presets it's simpler than ever before to manage all the provided settings. Helpful for the concluding quality comparison is the generated summary that comes after a process because it truly points out the made change by illustrating the filesize modification.....(free).....GO THERE! June 25, 2009 JUMPLIST LAUNCHER.......... Tweak the way you can use the newly introduced jumplists in Windows 7. Great increase in functionality.....(free).....GO THERE! BEST PRACTICE..........Interesting audio tool - BestPractice allows you to slow down or speed up music, either from an MP3 file or directly from a CD. Ordinarily the sound is distorted when slowed down our sped up - you get the effect like when playing a 33 rpm record on 45 rpm speed (remember the Chipmunks?). BestPractice tries to correct this, so you can slow down and speed up music, while keeping the original pitch. It is also possible to change the pitch of the music without affecting its tempo. Made for musician practice sessions, but we can find more uses than that .....(free).....GO THERE! BINARY VIEWER.......... Binary Viewer is a free windows utility allowing you to open and view any file located on your computer regardless of format file was saved. It displays file content in hexadecimal, octal, decimal and text format, therefore letting you to peek into binary files, usually not viewable by standard Windows viewer/editors like Notepad. Most likely you will use it to: Analyze internal format of binary files, Reverse engineering of programs and files saved in proprietary file, Check content of files not viewable by other means, Compare/check differences between binary files. Supports large file sizes (up to 4GB files), MDI (Multiple Document Interface) allows working with multiple files simultaneously, Simple and intuitive user interface, Two-column display for easy viewing same content in multiple formats, Allows selecting, copy and saving to the file, Has very small memory footprint.....(free).....GO THERE! June 24, 2009 ZEN KEY.......... ZenKEY allows you to control all aspects of your computer via keystrokes. Using the configuration utility of the ZenKEY Wizard, you can create menus, each containing items which perform "actions". You can "fire" these actions by clicking on the item or pressing a key-combination. Using these actions, you can: Work and play on an Infinite desktop. Open a program or a file. Control program windows. Automatically make windows transparent. Iconify windows. Issue a Media command. Open a folder. Open an Internet location. Issue a Windows System command. Simulate a series of keystrokes. Switch between active tasks.....(free).....GO THERE! LAN-EXPLORER..........Determine all computers, shares and printers on your local network. Resources such as computers, shares aso. are presented clearly. The tedious and slow "click through the network environment" is not necessary and saves precious time. The determination of the computer or shares works in the background. The LAN-Explorer has a build-in explorer as well as a favorite-function .....(free).....GO THERE! WINX FREE DVD TO IPHONE RIPPER..........Special designed for ripping and converting DVD movies to iPhone, iPod + touch, Apple TV video formats. Apple multimedia fans could put DVD movies on apple gadgets as iPod, iPhone, Apple TV via real 100% free software called WinX Free DVD to iPhone Ripper. And, audio files also could be extracted from DVD disk into MP3 music. This one-click easy to use free software has handy options enable you watch DVD movies with your iPod, iPhone, or on Apple TV at anytime, anywhere and could save your money at this hard time. You deserve this great softwar .....(free).....GO THERE! June 23, 2009 PDFTK..........The pdf toolkit. If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:, , Merge PDF Documents, Split PDF Pages into a New Document, Rotate PDF Pages or Documents, Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required), Encrypt Output as Desired, Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms, Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp, Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels, Update PDF Metadata, Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document, Unpack PDF Attachments, Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages, Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams, Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible), Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris .....(free).....GO THERE! PULP TUNES.......... You've got a huge music collection in your iTunes at home. You want to access that music from the office, at a friend's party, or let other people hear it from anywhere in the world. Install pulpTunes and access your music from anywhere, through a web browser.....(free).....GO THERE! POWER RESIZER..........PowerResizer is a utility that provides many facilities in moving or resizing windows in a Microsoft(R) Windows(R) desktop environment: one of the key-features of PowerResizer is windows-docking .....(free).....GO THERE! SPECIAL FOLDERS VIEW..........Windows operating system have dozens of special folders that are used for storing application settings and files, storing Internet files, saving temporary files, storing shortcuts to other files, and so on. This utility displays the list of all special folders in your system, and allows you to easily jump to the right folder simply by double-clicking the folder item. You can also save the list of all folder paths into text/html/xml file .....(free).....GO THERE! June 22, 2009 MBR WIZARD..........Wide degree of functionality in a powerful, yet flexible utility designed to assist with all types of Master Boot Record difficulties. Initially developed to overcome MBR problems introduced by disk imaging products such as Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image, MBRWizard has become a popular utility for creating bootable Windows 7 flash drives, as well as repairing all types of MBR problems, especially those caused by disk-2-disk and system backup and recovery applications. Whether you are looking to solve issues caused by experimentation, repair partition entry issues after recovering a disk image, or simply safeguarding your system by capturing a backup of the MBR before disaster strikes, you have come to the right place.....(free).....GO THERE! HAWKSCOPE..........Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via drill down menu from a system tray icon. Main features: Cross platform, runs on Windows, Linux and Mac, Navigation through hard drive contents via dynamic popup menu, system wide global hotkey for invoking menu right under mouse location (on Windows and Linux only), Configurable favourite locations for quick access, Hide unwanted drives, folders or files by adding them to blacklist, Plugin system. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! ANTI-MALWARE TOOLKIT..........Anti-Malware Toolkit - a program that automatically downloads a number of recommended programs to help users clean their computers and have them running at peak performance again .....(free).....GO THERE! June 19, 2009 OPERA UNITE..........According to the developer, "Opera Unite is a unique technology that turns any computer or device running Opera into a Web server. In other words, your computer (running Opera Unite) is truly part of the fabric of the Web, rather than just interacting with it, and it’s something anyone can use. With Opera Unite, everyday non-technical users can serve and share content and services directly from their own computers in the form of intuitive applications. That sounds kind of cool from a technology point of view, but what can you do with it, and why is it important? With Opera Unite, we are giving developers a chance to develop applications (known as Opera Unite services) that directly link people’s personal computers together, so that you can connect with one or more of your friends at the same time. It all happens through the browser, so no additional software has to be downloaded, and it will work wherever Opera works (Windows, Mac, Linux, and later mobile phones and other devices). Opera provides the platform and you provide the applications—what you create is limited only by your imagination. We believe Opera Unite will redefine what’s possible with Web applications, and we invite you to join us in moving beyond stale ideas and limitations".....(free).....GO THERE! TOTAL MOUNTER.......... KernSafe TotalMounter is an advanced and powerful virtual CD/DVD-ROM/RW/RAM emulator, and it is full-featured free software for windows. TotalMounter is also a free full-featured iSCSI initiator, virtual disks emulator, and a client of INetDisk. Its goal is to mount everything, you can not only mount a CD/DVD images (such as iso, bin, cdi, mdf, ccd, nrg etc.) as a virtualized drive, and also make these images by creating a CD/DVD-RW virtualized drive and burning data into it by burning software.....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE IT..........Google It is a simple, unobtrusive widget used to search the content of your clipboard automatically on Google. It's a snap to setup and works on Windows Vista and XP running .NET Framework 3.0. .....(free).....GO THERE! 3 TOOLS TO ADD START MENU TO USB DRIVES.......... Menus are a convenient way to access applications on a drive or computer, and they also help in organizing the stuff. Portable application suites often come with such start menus or program launchers to access the programs within the pack. If you do not use such application packs but still want to use a start menu to locate and search files on your flash drive, here are three free programs to choose from.....(free).....GO THERE! June 18, 2009 ULTRA SURF..........UltraSurf allows you to overcome censorship and blockage on the Internet. You can browse any website freely, so as to obtain true information from the free world. Protect Internet privacy with anonymous surfing and browsing -- hide IP addresses and locations, clean browsing history, cookies & more. Completely transparent data transfer and high level encryption of the content allow you to surf the web with high security......(free).....GO THERE! ACTIVE KILL DISK..........Disk eraser software for secure formatting of hard drives without the possibility of data recovery. DOS application can be run from floppy boot disk. DoD 5220.22-M compatible. Erasing PC Hard Drives. Free version.....(free).....GO THERE! FIFTEEN CLASSIC PC DESIGN MISTAKES..........There’s no such thing as the perfect computer, and never has been. But in the personal computer’s long and varied history, some computers have been decidedly less perfect than others .....(free).....GO THERE! June 17, 2009 TWEAK NOW POWER PACK.......... TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser. The RAM Idle program manages the free memory that is available to run Windows programs. It prevents performance from degrading as you swap files and programs in and out of memory. The AutoShutdown program lets you suspend, hibernate, or shut down your computer after a specified period of time. In addition to saving resources, this program keeps your system more secure by making it unavailable to unauthorized people. The CD AutoRun is an extension of Windows' CD and DVD autorun features, giving you additional options for starting programs or listening to music. The Virtual Desktop program lets you run as many as four custom-designed desktop configurations simultaneously, allowing you to tailor your computer screen to your mood and your work requirements. The suite gives you a complete picture of all aspects of your computer's hardware, including detailed information about your motherboard, processor, video card, memory, hard disk and network.....(free).....GO THERE! CD RECOVERY.......... CD Recovery is an extremely easy to use software that can copy maximum data from your scratched CD, DVD or any other bad media. It can copy single file or folder or it can copy multiple files and folders and even entire drive.....(free).....GO THERE! VIDEO CUTTER.......... Video Cutter is a very simple tool that can cut any video in almost any format easily. It supports MPG, VOB, DAT, AVI, DIVX, MP4, WMV, MOV, MKV, FLV and other video formats.....(free).....GO THERE! VIDEO ENCODER.......... Video Encoder can encode or convert any of your videos to any video format including MP4, 3GP, WMV, MOV, AVI, DIVX, MPG, FLV, MKV and VOB. You can also set the basic output quality or set the output bitrate, framerate, framesize and aspect ratio. You can also specify to crop and pad the output video.....(free).....GO THERE! June 16, 2009 RAM PAGE..........RAMpage is a Windows utility that displays the amount of available memory in the System Tray. It can also free memory; by double clicking the tray icon, by setting a threshold that activates the program automatically, or by having it run automatically when a program exits .....(free).....GO THERE! SEARCHABLE GUIDE TO WINDOWS REGISTRY..........Free ebook, the most comprehensive guide to the Windows Registry and the best part - it is searchable. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! TWEAK PDF..........Set the initial view preferences of a PDF document, such as whether to center window of the PDF file when opened, whether to display document title, to fit window, to hide menubar, to hide toolbar, and to hide window UI. When window UI is made hidden, a PDF file is just like a PowerPoint slide zoomed to full screen. You can even set the page mode of a PDF document, such as show PDF files in full screen mode, outlines mode, thumbnail mode, or simply without any special mode. Page Layout also comes as an option for you to tweak. PDF document properties such as title, subject, author, keywords can be modified with Tweak PDF. You can even tweak PDF version from 1.0 to 1.5 for compatibility concerns, and shrink PDF files by setting the compression level and choosing the compression algorithm .....(free).....GO THERE! WEIRDEST COSMOLOGY THEORIES..........Just a few of the ideas bouncing around cosmological physics these days .....(free).....GO THERE! June 15, 2009 HULU DESKTOP..........Desktop viewer for vids from the aliens at Hulu. Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that's optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu's entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and mouse-enabled. Hulu Desktop is a downloadable application and will work on PCs and Macs......(free).....GO THERE! PREY..........Software to keep track of your stolen laptop. Prey is a simple and lightweight program that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free.....(free).....GO THERE! ICE ECC..........ICE ECC is a file verification and repair tool. ICE ECC allows you to protect your important files and sensitive data against digital corruption using Reed-Solomon codes. Did you know that a typical CD-R/DVD-R disk can hold its data intact for only a few years? ICE ECC is the perfect solution to this problem - before you store your data, protect it against corruption with ICE ECC. ICE ECC is easy to use. To protect a file against corruption, just select the file/files/directories with the program by navigating the explorer-style window and click Create. This creates recovery file/files of the original files. You can easily control the size and number of the recovery files. When you want to verify whether the file has been modified or if the data in it has been corrupted, just select the appropriate .ecc file and click Verify. ICE ECC will then do a full analysis of the file and let you know if it has been corrupted, in that case ICE ECC will automatically recover it for you .....(free).....GO THERE! ISYS CLEANER..........iSysCleaner is a freeware system optimization tool. It removes all unused files from your system with few clicks and faster - freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet History and Cookies. But the best part is that you can define your own search script .....(free).....GO THERE! June 11, 2009 FREE SSHD..........freeSSHd, like its name says, is a free implementation of an SSH server. It provides strong encryption and authentication over insecure networks like Internet. Users can open remote console or even access their remote files thanks to buit-in SFTP server .....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE SQUARED..........New from Google, Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun). Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you're interested in. See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square. Save and share Squares with others .....(free).....GO THERE! ADD WEB SHORTCUTS TO DESKTOP CONTEXT MENU..........If you want to hack the context menu by adding shortcuts to your favorite website, here is a hack easy to apply .....(free).....GO THERE! EMULATE A CELL PHONE ON YOUR PC..........How to emulate a cell phone on PC using Windows Mobile 6.5 developer toolkit .....(free).....GO THERE! June 10, 2009 EXECUTOR.......... This is a multi purpose launcher and a more advanced and customizable version of windows run. The program originated as I was sick of spending too much time searching for programs through my ever growing windows start-menu, and also I missed a tool that could ease and optimize my daily work flow. There was of course already programs like this available, but each had it's annoyance or missing features or too(!) geeky.....(free).....GO THERE! WIN CD EMU..........WinCDEmu is an open-source software that allows mounting CD/DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer. It supports both Windows XP and Vista, is open-source .....(free).....GO THERE! NETWORX..........The program allows you to monitor all your network connections or a specific network connection (such as Ethernet or PPP) only. The software also features a system of highly customizable visual and sound alerts. You can set it up to alert you when the network connection is down or when some suspicious activity, such as unusually heavy data flow, occurs. It can also automatically disconnect all dialup connections and shut down the system .....(free).....GO THERE! ADD CHROME TABS TO FIREFOX.......... Google Chrome displays thumbnails of the most visited websites together with a search function and a list of recently closed pages which can be a great time saver if the user intents to open a website that is listed in that display.....(free).....GO THERE! June 9, 2009 ONLINE ARMOR..........Free firewall. Stops Hackers, Stops Malicious Programs, Protects your Identity .....(free).....GO THERE! SSH AND SCP PROGRAMS..........A Comparison of Free SSH and SCP Programs for Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP .....(free).....GO THERE! RAM PAGE.......... RAMpage is a Windows utility that displays the amount of available memory in the System Tray. It can also free memory; by double clicking the tray icon, by setting a threshold that activates the program automatically, or by having it run automatically when a program exits.....(free).....GO THERE! WEIRDEST COSMOLOGY THEORIES .......... Cosmology is one of the most creative and bizarre areas of science. Explore some of the strangest ideas in this exclusive feature.....(free).....GO THERE! June 8, 2009 WINDOWS 7 SETUP SECRETS..........Information on the right and wrong ways to set up Windows 7 .....(free).....GO THERE! CONFIGURING IE SECURITY SETTINGS.......... A step-by-step guide.....(free).....GO THERE! CUSTOMIZING RIGHT-CLICK MENUS..........Step by step instructions for customizing the options that appear on the right-click menu for various file types .....(free).....GO THERE! DOMAIN TOOLS.......... Nice bunch of tools to find and work with domain names.....(free).....GO THERE! June 5, 2009 GUIDE TO UPGRADING TO WINDOWS 7 RC..........Whether you want to set up a dual-boot system, you're ready to migrate all the way to Windows 7 RC from XP, or something in between, here's what you need to know, including download links for Win 7 RC .....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS COMMAND-LINE UTILITIES..........A bunch of nice little command-line utilities, mainly for use in Windows batch files .....(free).....GO THERE! PDF OWNER GUARD.......... PDF Security, Copy Protection, Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Distribution Management Solution. PDF Security, DRM, Protection and Distribution Management technologies are used as a copyright enforcement mechanisms and sometimes as an alternative mechanism to copyright law. Granting exclusive ownership rights to authors and creators through Copyrights, Security and DRM, allows for a better chance of enrichment of more and more creativities and cultural products, and they can nominally compensate their efforts and costs. Intellectual efforts for producing a product or artifact must be appropriately prizes and we must prevent people to benefit from such products free of charge. PDF Security and DRM provides a better base for protecting contents against illegal distributions, usages and sells. PDF Security and Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are provided to ease distribution of PDF documents for end users by enforcing some usage and distribution limitations like printing, copying, save, transfer.....(free).....GO THERE! HOW BIG IS THE NET..........Amusing article with breath taking views of the net .....(free).....GO THERE! June 3, 2009 WINDOWS 7 LITTLE TWEAKER..........Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a small and simple to use utility that let you easily activate a few useful extras for Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a Windows 7 only portable application and will not run on any other Windows versions. Windows 7 Little Tweaker must run as Administrator, and with UAC disabled .....(free).....GO THERE! VSUITE RAMDISK..........VSuite Ramdisk is a great solution to hard disk bottleneck. It can greatly reduce the work of hard disk by using computer's RAM to simulate a hard disk. Access time can be greatly improved to files held on Ramdsiks, and so the throughput of your computer may improve by many times. Besides the service life of a physical hard disk will be prolonged via reducing access. This is suitable for applications such as P2P download. It can also detect the memory which is invisible to OS when your system has 4GB RAM or above. Public Edition. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS 7 TIPS AND TRICKS..........Improve your productivity by familiarizing yourself with some of the enhancements that are new in Windows 7. And share them with your customers to help them learn more about Windows 7. Check back for future editions to enrich your Windows 7 experience .....(free).....GO THERE! TWEAKNOW POWER PACK..........TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser. The RAM Idle program manages the free memory that is available to run Windows programs. It prevents performance from degrading as you swap files and programs in and out of memory. The AutoShutdown program lets you suspend, hibernate, or shut down your computer after a specified period of time. In addition to saving resources, this program keeps your system more secure by making it unavailable to unauthorized people. The CD AutoRun is an extension of Windows' CD and DVD autorun features, giving you additional options for starting programs or listening to music. The Virtual Desktop program lets you run as many as four custom-designed desktop configurations simultaneously, allowing you to tailor your computer screen to your mood and your work requirements. The suite gives you a complete picture of all aspects of your computer's hardware, including detailed information about your motherboard, processor, video card, memory, hard disk and network .....(free).....GO THERE! June 2, 2009 SRWARE IRON.......... SRWare Iron is a real alternative, based on the Chromium-source with the same features as Chrome - but without the critical privacy concerns. Use the innovative features without worrying about your privacy. .....(free).....GO THERE! SERVER WATCH..........ServerWatch is a Windows application designed to help network administrators keep track of the servers on their networks. ServerWatch is being developed under the OpenSoftware License and will be available free of charge. Currently the system is in Alpha phase of development, the alpha is available for download now, but please kep in mind that this is testing purposes only at the moment and not all features are built yet. For more information about ServerWatch, or its developers, please follow the links on the menu .....(free).....GO THERE! SWITCH TO DVORAK IN XP.......... You might have considered the susceptibility of your wrists to carpal tunnel. You might be trying to prevent your invasive friends and family from using your PC without looking like you have something to hide. You might even be trying to ward off Alzheimer's by intentionally subjecting yourself to the frustration of feeling like you’re five years old again. The Dvorak keyset aids in all of these endeavors, and making the switch is actually far easier than typing with it enabled. For those game to make the switch, here’s how it’s done.....(free).....GO THERE! COMODO SYSTEM CLEANER.......... Comodo System Cleaner is a powerful suite of utilities and tools that allows you to make your Windows XP or Vista computer faster, more efficient and more secure. Take control by customizing virtually every aspect of Windows XP or Vista behavior with just a few mouse clicks. Optimize system performance, disk space and overall stability with built in Registry Cleaner and Disk Cleaner tools. Gain complete visibility and control over your computer's hardware, software, processes and performance with powerful diagnostics tools. Ensure complete on-line and off-line privacy by clearing the history, cache and temp files of Internet browsers, Instant Messengers and Windows applications. 100% Safe Cleaning - Unique 'Registry Protection' and 'Safe Delete' features automatically roll back your system if important files were deleted in error. Available in 32 bit and 64 bit versions for XP and Vista and Windows 2003 server. Comodo System Cleaner is 100% free to home and business users.....(free).....GO THERE! June 1, 2009 REG FROM APP..........RegFromApp monitors the Registry changes made by the application that you selected, and creates a standard RegEdit registration file (.reg) that contains all the Registry changes made by the application. You can use the generated .reg file to import these changes with RegEdit when it's needed .....(free).....GO THERE! DRIVER VIEW..........DriverView utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name, company that created the driver, and more.....(free).....GO THERE! BLUETOOTH VIEW..........BluetoothView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitor the activity of Bluetooth devices around you. For each detected Bluetooth device, it displays the following information: Device Name, Bluetooth Address, Major Device Type, Minor Device Type, First Detection Time, Last Detection Time, and more. BluetoothView can also notify you when a new Bluetooth device is detected, by displaying a balloon in your taskbar or by playing a small beep sound .....(free).....GO THERE! LOG VIEWER..........Log Viewer is a custom made freeware tool for viewing text files, specifically log files. The text viewing portion of the GUI is custom made for improved memory usage and file navigating performance on very large files. The tool provides built-in greping (show and hide filtering on a line per line basis), color highlighting and multiple search strings .....(free).....GO THERE! May 29, 2009 TOP 10 CLIPBOARD TRICKS.......... One of the greatest features the point and click interface brought to personal computers is the clipboard - that invisible, temporary shelf you use more times per day than Google. If you think the clipboard is only about Ctrl+C, you're missing out. Several utilities can turbocharge your clipboard and track, transfer and reformat the clipboard to your heart's content.....(free).....GO THERE! KEYBOARD LOCK..........Using this too, you can lock your keyboard and mouse by entering a phrase, and then unlock it by entering a different one .....(free).....GO THERE! POWERTOOLS LITE..........Freeware Registry Cleaner. Detects and fixes registry errors, Finds and cleans unneeded registry junk. Finds leftover temp files. Clears History and MRU data. Safe to use - automatic backup feature. Multilingual user interface .....(free).....GO THERE! HWINFO32..........HWiNFO and HWiNFO32 are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports .....(free).....GO THERE! May 28, 2009 GPARTED..........GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information. A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the adjacent one larger). The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents. GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging) .....(free).....GO THERE! CPU OFF..........CPUOff monitors the CPU load and initiates computer shutdown if the average CPU load has been below a set threshold for a preset time. It can also be used to control a remote computer. CPUOff supports all the normal shut down modes. Thanks to instant fundas.....(free).....GO THERE! ADAPTER WATCH.......... AdapterWatch displays useful information about your network adapters: IP addresses, Hardware address, WINS servers, DNS servers, MTU value, Number of bytes received or sent, The current transfer speed, and more. In addition, it displays general TCP/IP/UDP/ICMP statistics for your local computer.....(free).....GO THERE! May 27, 2009 WINDOWS 7 SETUP SECRETS..........According to the author, "For the benefit of the early adopters and those who patiently wait, I’ve been gathering information on the right and wrong ways to set up Windows 7. For the past week or so I’ve been installing and upgrading the RC code on a wide variety of systems—notebooks and desktops, with and without touch and tablet capabilities, with and without TV tuners and Blu-ray drives, as clean installs and upgrades, in x86 and x64 flavors, documenting the process".....(free).....GO THERE! CONSTRUCT..........Construct is a free powerful and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications. It includes an event based system for defining how the game or application will behave, in a visual, human-readable way - easy enough for complete beginners to get results quickly. Optionally, advanced users can also use Python scripting to code your creations .....(free).....GO THERE! DUMMY FILE GENERATOR.......... Creates files with null content in various sizes - in German.....(free).....GO THERE! LOCKS..........Holds computer in standby mode until unlocked - in German .....(free).....GO THERE! May 26, 2009 DEVICE REMOVER ..........In-Depth view of all installed Devices, Device Classes, Drivers and Services on a Windows System (Hidden, Detached, Current installed, Problematic Devices,etc,...), Easy mass removal of multiple Devices On-The-Fly, Modification/Manipulation of Devices, Drivers and Services on the System, Live detailed View of Device Detections on the System, Multiple Device Problem solving Features and Functions, And many many more useful Features.....(free).....GO THERE! WOLFRAM ALPHA..........New search engine -- more analytical and quantifiable-data intensive than the others. WolframAlpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide.....(free).....GO THERE! SERVERS MAN.......... ServersMan turns your mobile device into powerful server and network storage. Turn your iPhone/Windows Mobile into your personal web server.....(free).....GO THERE! GMAIL GROWL.......... Using Growl for Windows, Gmail Growl keeps you updated on new mails in your Gmail Inbox in a fancy way. In addition to notifications for new mails, Gmail Growl gives you direct access to your Gmail Inbox and you can compose new mails from the system tray.....(free).....GO THERE! May 22, 2009 US BOOT.......... USBoot is a package that helps in the preparation of Windows for booting from USB storage devices by providing extensive support for automated installation and configuration of drivers especially for setup class USB.....(free).....GO THERE! DESKTOPOK.......... Save and restore the positions of icons. DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for user that have to change the screen resolution often.....(free).....GO THERE! IS MY LCD OK.......... IsMyLcdOK is a small program but effective solution to easily check for dead/paralysed/stuck pixels on LCD monitors.....(free).....GO THERE! SUPER FDISK..........Super Fdisk is the free DOS Partition Manager. With Super Fdisk you can quickly and easily create, delete, format partitions in DOS system .....(free).....GO THERE! May 21, 2009 CPU FREQUENZ.......... Small tool to accurately identify the CPU frequency. The PC is slow! Is it the CPU? .....(free).....GO THERE! COLOR CONSOLE.......... ColorConsole brings a little color to the black and white world of Windows console. Installation of ColorConsole is not required.....(free).....GO THERE! ZILLA PDF TO TXT CONVERTER..........Convert pdf files to plain text format files in batch mode. Zilla PDF to TXT Converter also support convert specific pages range to txt files .....(free).....GO THERE! COMPILER 911.......... Optimizing, easy and clever, multi-target object pascal and assembler compiler, suitable absolutely for all kinds of programming tasks on x86 platform (even writing an own OS). Contains the set of source code analysis and refactoring tools. Has an easy and friendly user interface. Not like other compilers. Free edition......(free).....GO THERE! May 20, 2009 TEST WINDOWS 7 RC ON A VIRTUAL MACHINE - PART 1.......... According to the author, "Microsoft has released it’s Windows 7 Release Candidate (Win7RC) and is making it available to, well, pretty much everyone! In the past, beta’s and release candidates would normally be released to IT professionals who had an extra computer kicking around to test things like this on. Yet, what if you just have the one computer at home and really want to test Win7RC, what do you do? Here’s the answer and it’s not as scary as you might think. Install a virtual machine (VM). What in blue blazes is a virtual machine you ask? Think of it as a computer within a computer. Then you can install whatever you want to test on it, without fear of losing your main operating system and the files on it. I’m going to outline the installation of Sun’s VirtualBox. There are quite a few VM’s out there, I just chose Sun’s since it was recommended to me by a friend who is vastly more knowledgeable about computers than me. Yes, it’s true. Someone knows more than me. Okay, most people know more than me." .....(free).....GO THERE! TEST WINDOWS 7 RC ON A VIRTUAL MACHINE - PART 2.......... According to the author, "Since my last article you’ve been sitting there with your freshly installed virtual machine, just waiting with baited breath to install Windows 7 Release Candidate. Wait no more, my friend, wait no more. Now we’ll install Win7RC on your virtual machine" .....(free).....GO THERE! COMODO VERIFICATION ENGINE..........VerificationEngine gives you the ability to verify that the site you are visiting (or directed to via a e-mail) can be trusted - essential in the current environment of fraudulent sites and faked emails.....(free).....GO THERE! REGISTRY TRASH KEYS FINDER..........Registry Trash Keys Finder (TrashReg) is an advanced Registry cleaning tool. The main function of RTKF is to allow the removal of unnecessary keys from the Windows Registry. Many programs leave keys in the Registry, even after programs removal using an uninstallation facility provided with the programs themselves. RTKF allows you to decide whether to delete or leave the keys found .....(free).....GO THERE! May 19, 2009 EEE ROTATE..........Rotate Monitor Screen. A tiny program to rotate your screen and touchpad at the same time. Especially designed for EeePC but should work with all computers Thanks to gHacks.....(free).....GO THERE! DEFRAGGLER..........It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool .....(free).....GO THERE! KEY STATE.......... Pretty straight forward this one. KeyState sits in your sysytem tray and pops a message in the top centre of the screen if the Caps Lock or Num Lock is on. Right click the KeyState icon in the system tray to open the Exit option.....(free).....GO THERE! MOUSE SHADE.......... MouseShade is an essential tool for everyone doing presentations or demos. If turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention to an area of interest. The shape of the spotlight, the colour of the shade and the opacity of the shade can all be varied by accessing the pop up menu available from the icon in the Taskbar, simply by right clicking. All options set are saved when the application closes, ready for the next time you use it. When in use, the shade can be minimised, giving a clear view of the whole screen, and can then be reactivated when you need to highlight a specific part of the screen by clicking the Show option on the menu.....(free).....GO THERE! May 18, 2009 HD CLONE.......... Copies smaller drives onto larger ones for migrating or backing up complete installations as well as for data rescue. The download package contains HDClone as a Windows application (HDClone/W) and as a self-booting application (HDClone/S). You can easily create a bootable HDClone/S floppy disk or CD/DVD on Windows with only few mouse clicks. A floppy image, ISO image, and manual (PDF) are also enclosed.....(free).....GO THERE! MOJO PAC..........Using MojoPac, you can run ANY app from your pc on any other pc, privately.....(free).....GO THERE! MZ CPU ACCELERATOR.......... Mz CPU Accelerator is an application that automatically changes the priority of the foreground window, by allocating more CPU power to the currently active application (program-game). Automatically de-allocates CPU priority when a new active application is selected. Also, new version contains an option that manages the cores of your processor! It works on any version of Windows. REMOVED OCCT.......... OverClock Checking Tool is a CPU stability testing program.....(free).....GO THERE! May 15, 2009 ICLOUD.......... Get your very own computer online. Complete with desktop, mail, applications, up to 50GB storage, and much more. Too many computers? No problem! Use icloud for storing files online. Store once. Open from any computer. icloud keeps your files and photos safe, yet always right next to you.....(free).....GO THERE! FIREFOX OPTIMIZED..........Faster, less memory-intensive browsing. Thanks to Lifehacker.....(free).....GO THERE! MAX TO.......... MaxTo is a small Windows program that divides your monitors into regions. When you maximize a window, it will no longer fit the entire screen, but only the region it was maximized into. Your windows are neatly organized into the grid you have defined when they are maximized. MaxTo has been described as a tiling window manager. MaxTo is light-weight, and works on both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and the Windows 7 betas. The .NET framework version 2.0 or higher is required (preinstalled on Windows Vista and Windows 7).....(free).....GO THERE! HOW TO MAP THE MULTIVERSE ..........Physicists keep banging into the possibility that we are one universe of many. Maybe that's telling us something. From New Scientist .....(free).....GO THERE! May 14, 2009 VMWARE ESXI BARE METAL HYPERVISOR..........VMware ESXi is the easiest way to get started with virtualization—and it’s free. Consolidate your applications onto fewer servers and start saving money through reduced hardware, power, cooling and administration costs. VMware ESXi has been optimized and tested to run even your most resource intensive applications and databases with minimal performance overhead. With VMware ESXi you can Run multiple operating systems on a single server and reduce hardware costs, Run a greener datacenter and reduce your energy cost, Enable easier back-ups and restores for your applications, Run the most resource intensive applications in production .....(free).....GO THERE! HARDEN-IT.......... Harden-It is a Network and System hardening tool for Windows, by hardening the IP stack your Network can sustain or completely thwart various sophisticated network attacks. Harden-It is intended for advanced or professional user.....(free).....GO THERE! CAPS LOCK KEY STATUS.......... A utility program that gives an on-screen display and optional audible indication of the keboard Caps Lock key status.....(free).....