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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 May 1, 2008 SOFTWARE VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTION.......... Altiris Software Virtualization Solution Professional software is a revolutionary approach to software management. By placing applications and data into managed units called Virtual Software Packages, Software Virtualization Solution Professional allows you to instantly activate, deactivate or reset applications and to completely avoid conflicts between applications, without altering the base Windows installation. Application streaming provides the on-demand delivery mechanism that leverages the power of Software Virtualization Solution Professional to enable the real-time infrastructure. (Link is directly to the download page for the free, unrestricted personal edition).....(free).....GO THERE! PANEL HIDER.......... The program can attach any desktop window to one of the screen edges and auto hide it. (Hidden panels will work like the windows TaskBar). Very useful e.g. adding to the hide list the C++ Builder main window(top), object inspector(left) and project manager(right), makes a lot more editor space on the screen. HINT! You can add the active window to the hide list using the predefined Ctrl+Alt+A key combination. Also you can let PanelHider window active and use Alt+A Hotkey to easily add to the hide list the window under the cursor! Click to the program's system menu to see settings.....(free).....GO THERE! MD5 CHECKER.......... Md5Checker is a free, faster, lightweight and easy-to-use tool to manage, calculate and verify MD5 checksum of multiple files or folders. Calculate and display MD5 checksum of multiple files at one time. Use MD5 checksum to fleetly verify whether files have been changed. Load, save, add, remove and update MD5 checksum conveniently. It is about 300 KB and does not require any installation (portable). .....(free).....GO THERE! VSPE..........Tool for serial ports emulation. VSPE is intended to help software engineers and developers to create/debug/test applications that use serial ports. It is able to create various virtual devices to transmit/receive data. Unlike regular serial port, virtual devices have special capabilities: for example, the same device can be opened more than once by different applications.....(free).....GO THERE! April 30, 2008 DEBUT.......... Debut is a simple, easy to use video recorder that lets you capture video files directly on your PC using a webcam (video camera), or capture device (from video). This software can also capture and record almost anything that can be played or displayed on the computer screen. The program saves the video on your hard drive as avi, wmv or many other file types.....(free).....GO THERE! COLOR CONSOLE.......... ColorConsole brings a little color to your black and white world of Windows console. Features: Favorites commands, Export to HTML and RTF, Copy,Paste,Cut... Changeable font style and color.....(free).....GO THERE! IEXPRESS.EXE..........Windows has a built-in tool to create self-extracting archives. The built-in Windows command, IExpress.exe, is touted as a setup-builder, but it seems more Zip than InstallShield. You can archive files and folders and optionally give it a command to run after the extraction is complete. Also, IExpress prompts you to enter messages to your users, and you can even import a license file for your end users to agree to before extracting. Thanks to Confessions of a Freeware Junkie.....(free).....GO THERE! REAL ALTERNATIVE.......... Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer or RealOne Player from Real Networks. Supported are: RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil), RealText (.rt) and ReadPix (.rp). It also supports RealMedia content that is embedded in webpages. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.....(free).....GO THERE! April 29, 2008 IE7 PRO.......... IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.....(free).....GO THERE! PIXELFORMER..........Pixelformer is an advanced icon editor which is designed to give you full control over every pixel of your images. With its predictability and subpixel precision you can easily create professional quality icons and bitmaps .....(free).....GO THERE! QUICK DRAG..........QuickDrag is a Firefox extension that extends the function of the drag-and-drop mouse gesture so that it can be used to load URLs, do a web search of selected text on a page, or save an image on a page—all with a simple drag-and-drop. Thanks to our friends at gHacks! .....(free).....GO THERE! VIRTUAL RULER..........Centimeters, pixels, inches, opaque or transparent - useful screen tool .....(free).....GO THERE! April 28, 2008 GOOGLE WEBSITE OPTIMIZER ..........Website Optimizer, Google’s free website testing and optimization tool, allows you to increase the value of your existing websites and traffic without spending a cent. Using Website Optimizer to test and optimize site content and design, you can quickly and easily increase revenue and ROI whether you’re new to marketing or an expert .....(free).....GO THERE! AUTO CONTEXT..........Auto Context is a Firefox extension that will open a customized popup menu when you select a text .....(free).....GO THERE! DRIVEIMAGE XML.......... DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to: Backup logical drives and partitions to image files, Browse these images, view and extract files, Restore these images to the same or a different drive, Copy directly from drive to drive, Schedule automatic backups with your Task Scheduler. Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use......(free).....GO THERE! DOMAIN TOOLS..........Lots of tools to assist in your exploration of the web .....(free).....GO THERE! April 25, 2008 TASKBAR SHUFFLE.......... Taskbar Shuffle is a simple, small, free utility that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to rearrange them. Here’s a full feature list: Reorder your taskbar buttons by dragging and dropping them, reorder your tray icons in the same way, Reorder tasks in a grouped button's popup menu in the same way, Middle-click to close programs on your taskbar, Works with UltraMon taskbars, Tweak taskbar button grouping. If you run more than a few applications at a time, you'll definitely find Taskbar Shuffle useful.....(free).....GO THERE! FAIR USE 4WM..........If you can't transfer legally purchased music and videos to your iPod, Sony PSP because of the DRM protection of Windows Media files, here comes free software for Windows called FairUse4WM. FairUse4WM can't crack DRM license. You must have VALID license files on your harddrive and be able to play the DRM protected files without restrictions. FairUse4WM is intended to be used to make fair-use backups only. Please do not abuse this rule. .....(free).....GO THERE! SHUTDOWN.EXE ..........How to use Windows hidden shutdown interface .....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOWS VISTA TIPS..........Tips and tricks to speed up and configure Vista .....(free).....GO THERE! April 24, 2008 SLEIPNIR.......... Sleipnir is designed to be a highly customizable browser that you can configure to suit your individual needs. With Sleipnir, you can create your ideal browser by changing the design, skin, and visual appearance. You can also add custom functionality to Sleipnir with a wide range of plugins and user scripts. Users love Seipnir for it's unique blend of high-performance and customizability. For advanced users.....(free).....GO THERE! BIGSPY..........Screensaver from Digg - it's a tagcloud of current Digg stories .....(free).....GO THERE! NT REGISTRY TWEAKER.......... NT Registry Tweaker - free tool to tweak and tune up your Windows.....(free).....GO THERE! INDO CLEANER 2008..........Indo Cleaner is optimization software that will help you clean up recent file lists (MRUs) from installed applications in your PC. It will removes many unused files from windows system, by clean this files you can get extra space and faster performance your windows system. Indo Cleaner can removes your private data after internet activities such as browsing history, download history, cookies and internet cache.....(free).....GO THERE! April 23, 2008 DEXPOSE2..........Mac os-x style task switcher for Windows.....(free).....GO THERE! BLEND..........Renders Transparency to all Windows. Make them all transparent, or set individual windows to your liking. Thanks to our friends at Ghacks!.....(free).....GO THERE! SYNC TOY..........SyncToy is a free PowerToy that provides an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without added complexity. SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder .....(free).....GO THERE! TODDLER TRAP..........Disables mouse and keyboard input.....(free).....GO THERE! April 22, 2008 GOOGLE APP ENGINE..........Run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users. You can serve your app using a free domain name on the appspot.com domain, or use Google Apps to serve it from your own domain. You can share your application with the world, or limit access to members of your organization. App Engine costs nothing to get started. Sign up for a free account, and you can develop and publish your application for the world to see, at no charge and with no obligation. A free account can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month. This is a PREVIEW RELEASE of Google App Engine. For now, account registrations are limited to the first 10,000 developers, and applications are restricted to the free account limits.....(free).....GO THERE! UNHIDER.......... Small utility to hide or show any window on your desktop.....(free).....GO THERE! ZORRO.......... Zorro is a utility to completely blank the screen except for a rectangular area selected by the user. This is especially useful for watching videos on your computer without being distracted by other programs.....(free).....GO THERE! April 21, 2008 JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, we've just added HacknMod, Network Computing Magazine, InsanelyMac News, Really Rocket Science, and Silicon Alley Insider to our Recommended Sites on DAILY ROTATION.... Quick Loading Headlines from 300+ tech sites... And now for your Daily Update... NEXUS FILE.......... NexusFile is a file manager for Windows. You can manage many files very fast and easily. NexusFile will increase your computing performance. If you still use Windows Explorer, you must try this one. Main features: Basic Functions: Copy/Move To, Copy/Cut/Past, Delete/Shred, Rename, Change Attributes/Time, advanced Rename: Rename multiple files at once with many powerful options, Navigate Folders: Favorite Folders, Working Folders, Tabs, Smart Address Bar, Dual Panels: Open two folders at once, Archives: manages ZIP, ARJ, RAR, ACE archive files, FTP: basic FTP functions, File Join/Split: Split large file into many small files or Join small files into a large file. Merge several text files into a file, Save File List: Save file/folder list with many formats, Shortcuts: Most functions has a Keyboard shortcut so you can do everything fast, Multi-language: Multi-language supports with language files, Skin: you can change the look of a program, Disk Cleanup: Empty RecycleBin, Delete temporary files, Compare Folders: compare two folders, Unicode: Unicode file name supported, And many other useful functions with easy interface.....(free).....GO THERE! INCORPORATE TEXT FILES ONTO YOUR DESKTOP..........If you keep your daily worklog, grocery shopping list, todo's, project ideas or even your calendar in text files, you can embed that information right onto your Windows desktop. From our friends at Lifehacker! .....(free).....GO THERE! PREVIEW CONFIG ..........Make the Preview pane in Vista display contents of text based files .....(free).....GO THERE! STARTER..........A small tool designed to help you start your favorite or high-usage applications with one click. Click on Starter icon on Windows System Tray area and then click on necessary item in popped up window .....(free).....GO THERE! April 18, 2008 FILE MENU TOOLS..........Customize the context menu of the Windows Explorer. Add a large number of built in utilities in order to do operations over files and folders. Add customized commands which let you run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types. Configure the Send To submenu. Enable or disable the commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.....(free).....GO THERE! WINTAIL..........Sometimes you need to look at a very large text file, (like the 1GB log files on some systems) This program reads the last however many Mbytes of the file without creating a 1 GB swap file .....(free).....GO THERE! FINE RECOVERY..........FineRecovery 1.2.11 is a free and powerful undelete and data recovery software. It restore deleted files from hard disk. Typical hard drive can be scanned for recoverable files within minutes.....(free).....GO THERE! DYDELF..........Like every magician, a computer artist needs a few tricks up his sleeve. Image processing offers some excelent opportunities for conjuring up such magic. The techniques* used by Dydelf will allow you to perform some digital prestidigitation on an ordinary image and transform it into an outlined posterized graphic with artistic flair .....(free).....GO THERE! April 17, 2008 ANDLINUX..........Run Linux natively inside Windows. andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista; 32-bit versions only). andLinux uses coLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, coLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Xming is used as X server and PulseAudio as sound server. andLinux is not just for development and runs almost all Linux applications without modification .....(free).....GO THERE! COBIAN BACKUP..........Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload). Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary. Cobian Backup is not an usual backup application: it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as a "Scheduler for security copies". Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption .....(free).....GO THERE! EZ REBOOT..........EZReboot allows you to schedule regular reboots of your PC, with an easy to use interface. No complicated options or cumbersome menus, but rather a clean simple to use tool that can AutoStart with Windows, sit in the system tray, and reset the PC at regular intervals .....(free).....GO THERE! ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE..........Get rid of confirmation messages. Thanks to our friends at gHacks! .....(free).....GO THERE! April 16, 2008 USER PROFILE HIVE CLEANUP..........From Microsoft, User Profile Hive Cleanup helps with slow log off and unreconciled profile problems ensuring that user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off when using Roaming Profiles or locked profiles as implemented through the Shared Computer Toolkit.....(free).....GO THERE! HPOBSERVER.......... hpObserver is a small program that allows you to monitor networks and websites (or IPs if you prefer). Current features include: Monitor HTTP or UNC path - Continuous or single pass monitoring - Comparison validation - hpHosts inclusion status - Obtain Servers IP - Obtain webpage size (in bytes) - Print/Save results - Send URL to vURL Desktop Edition or vURL online edition - Send URL to SiteAdvisor - Send URL to TrustedSource - Server response code (i.e. 200, 404, 501 etc).....(free).....GO THERE! ROBO TASK..........RoboTask enables you to automate any combination of tasks on your computer, ranging from simply launching applications, to checking email, moving or backing up files to uploading or downloading, sending email and much more. The program allows to easily create simple task, as well as highly complex automations, involving conditional IF/ELSE statements, loops, custom variables and other advanced options. Lite version is free .....(free).....GO THERE! COOKIE INFO.......... Cookie Info is a relatively small and simple application that allows you to monitor for and selectively delete or view, newly created cookies (and delete or view cookies already present on your computer).....(free).....GO THERE! April 15, 2008 FREENET.......... Freenet is a global peer-to-peer network designed to allow users to publish and consume information without fear of censorship. To use it, you must download the Freenet software, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and other operating systems. Once you install and run Freenet, your computer will join a global, decentralized P2P network. You will be able to publish and consume information anonymously, either through your web browser, or through a variety of third party applications.....(free).....GO THERE! SYSTEMOMETER.......... Systemometer is a freeware monitoring tool that shows system performance and resources in a spider chart. Different shapes of monitoring polygon draw visual patterns associated with normal or critical system states. This snapshot view helps to read the overall system status at a glance. Systemometer records the history of counter values to the log file in either HTML or CSV format. It can be also configured to run as a screen saver.....(free).....GO THERE! REDMOND PATH..........The purpose of Redmond Path utility is to make easier the process of editing search path in Windows environment. It provides interactive way for adding, deleting, verifying, and reordering directories .....(free).....GO THERE! MY PC HELL..........Site devoted to great tweaks .....(free).....GO THERE! April 14, 2008 SLAX.......... Slax - your pocket operating system - Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators. The modular approach gives you the ability to include any other software in Slax easily. If you're missing your favourite text editor, networking tool or game, simply download a module with the software and copy it to Slax, no need to install, no need to configure. If you are a beginner or you're just too busy to make it yourself, follow a few steps to build your own customized operating system by using web-based interface here.....(free).....GO THERE! PROCESS SCANNER..........This free application will give you a complete analysis of all the processes running on your PC, along with a risk analysis of each one! .....(free).....GO THERE! CAP TRUE.......... CapTrue is a Windows software for creating desktop screenshots very easily. It behaves just like your Print Screen button, but allows you to do more in a single keypress.....(free).....GO THERE! FINDING REGISTRY KEYS THE EASY WAY IN VISTA OR XP..........You've seen your share of registry hacks. Here's how you can easily find registry keys, and even create a shortcut or hotkey to immediately drill down to the correct key by copying it to the clipboard. Thanks to The HowToGeek! .....(free).....GO THERE! April 11, 2008 IDLE BACKUP.......... Very easy to use backup program. Backs up in the background without affecting your computer use. The first backup is a full backup, then each next backup will copy only changed files, add only, no files are deleted. This is also called incremental backup. Manual or Automatic backup (at a set interval time) during idle time of the computer. In Automatic mode Idlebackup will work invisibly in the background, and only if idle (no keys,mouse actions detected). Status is visible by icon color in sytem tray. Also backs up mail data of Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express.....(free).....GO THERE! IRCLEAN.......... IRClean is a standalone, compact, and easy-to-use yet very powerful anti-worm system designed to specifically combat worms that target or use IRC chat networks to propagate. It has been released into the public domain for free to help stem the growing tide of IRC-propagating worms.....(free).....GO THERE! DELETED FILE RECOVERY.......... EASEUS Deleted File Recovery is a fully functional freeware designed to recover deleted files from all types of media such as Hard Disk Drives, Floppy Drives, Smart Media, Compact Flash, Memory Sticks, and other types of removable media. Go to Products.....(free).....GO THERE! ISPRING..........PowerPoint to Flash converter creates web friendly Flash movies from your PowerPoint content keeping its visual parameters and animation effects. Generated Flash slideshows will look as if they have always been a Flash movie .....(free).....GO THERE! April 8, 2008 BTPROX..........Bluetooth Proximity Lock Utility. Locks your computer when you walk away from it by locking on one of your Bluetooth devices which are paired to the the machine. When you walk away from the computer the device is disconnected as soon as your cellphone or bluetooth device gets out of range, and the computer is locked after timeout. It is possible to run a single application together with the lock. This application may be your favorite script dismounting network drives, erasing those dirty files from the desktop or anything else. Thanks to our friends at Lifehacker! .....(free).....GO THERE! AMIC EMAIL BACKUP.......... Amic Email Backup is a handy software tool for Microsoft Windows based PCs designed to save emails, address book, settings, mail and news accounts, message rules, blocked senders lists and signatures to a single, compact, compressed backup file that can be easily restored when necessary.....(free).....GO THERE! UNASSOC..........Helps you unassociate a file type quickly in your Windows Vista computer. Windows Vista does not provide a GUI option to unassociate file types .....(free).....GO THERE! ROOT QUEST..........Rootkits can be able hidden on computers and remain undetected by anti-virus software, this freeware will find and remove any rootkit that is hidden on your computer using advanced rootkit detection systems. It also can prevent the installation and infection of many rootkits.....(free).....GO THERE! April 7, 2008 5 LIGHTS BROWSER..........5 Lights is a browser that combines a host of new features. These include: picture Tabs, Tracers (Image maps) that outline the path you have taken to browse the web, Multi-tab searching that allows you to find a word or phrase within multiple tabs, Add all or selected tabs to favourites and open them as a group to allow for more productive research. Preview tabs without clicking on them! .....(free).....GO THERE! PHOTOSHOP EXPRESS..........Free online version of Adobe Photoshop. Apparently only available for U.S.A. residents .....(free).....GO THERE! WIN WARDEN..........Automatically control how to display a window. Features: Move, maximize, minimize, restore, enable, disable, hide, show, ontop, bottom, alwaysontop, clip, transparent, transparent color, move relative to another window, stick to the edge of the screen, center, run a program. Doubleclick trayicon to center the active window. .....(free).....GO THERE! ZONE SIZE.......... Define zones that autosize windows dropped on them.....(free).....GO THERE! April 4, 2008 TOR ANONYMITY ONLINE.......... Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.....(free).....GO THERE! SHELL TOOLS.......... Shell Tools is a collection of free Windows shell extensions and utilities. This package contains updated versions of our old shell extensions FontLoader, FileNote, RegisterEx, CopyURL and new ones, including nice control panel that allows you to control all the extensions in one place.....(free).....GO THERE! TWEAK NOW WIN SECRET..........In TweakNow WinSecret, the authors have gathered the most popular Windows registry settings and provide them for you in an easy and safe user interface.....(free).....GO THERE! PANDA 3D.......... Panda3D is a 3D engine: a library of subroutines for 3D rendering and game development.....(free).....GO THERE! April 3, 2008 TINY USB OFFICE..........Small, portable productivity software suite which offers a collection of unique standalone free software applications. If you find yourself working on different machines and like the idea of having portable software that you can access hassle-free from any computer, then this is the package for you. Whether you need to create rich-text word processing documents, share files across multiple computers, transfer files, create MS Excel compatible spreadsheets, comma-delimited database files, email your contacts, talk to your friends or co-workers on MSN, create pdf files, or securely encrypt or delete files - this is the perfect software package for you! When it comes to portable productivity, Tiny USB Office is under 2.5 megabytes.....(free).....GO THERE! FIND MAC ADDRESS..........This tool is an easy way to find the MAC address of a local or remote computer on the network. Select the target and method and find the MAC address of a remote computer on the network. The software can not only find the MAC address of a computer, but also detect the manufacturer of its network card. Free for non-commercial use.....(free).....GO THERE! TASK SWITCH 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. TaskSwitchXP also has a powerful process and window management capability that allows you quickly to close/minimize applications and their groups. The unique capabilities of TaskSwitchXP make it useful for tracking down multitudinous windows, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.....(free).....GO THERE! April 2, 2008 SHUT DOWN WINDOWS IN AN INSTANT ..........A typical PC shutdown takes forever. Here are a bunch of Registry tweaks that reset Windows to close shop like it's late for the bus ride home. Keep in mind, any changes to the Registry can be troublesome, so you may want to make these alterations one or two at a time just to make sure they don't futz up the works (it'll also be easier to diagnose any problems that may arise). And for sure back up the Registry by creating a restore point before you begin.....(free).....GO THERE! RIGHTLOAD..........Rightload is a small program that allows you to quickly upload files directly from a Windows folder to your server. Instead of using complicated software just to upload a few pictures, you just right-click on the files, select the server and target folder and Rightload will do the rest for you .....(free).....GO THERE! UNOS..........A completely new approach to an embeddable, scalable and distributable multitasking operating system. µnOS has been developed from scratch and is not related to any other existing operating system. It is based on the SPHERE real-time microkernel, whose innovative architecture is the solid basis for the operating system. .....(free).....GO THERE! PLSCSI..........PLScsi makes talking SCSI to your storage as easy as typing AT commands into a dial-up modem. But be careful with this. Potential side effects include kernel panics, destroyed discs, destroyed devices, and even imperceptibly subtle forms of data corruption. Storage devices differ from modems first by being designed to record your mistakes permanently, and second by defining some commands or sequences of commands to mean self-destruct.....(free).....GO THERE! April 1, 2008 PISMO FILE MOUNT AUDIT PACKAGE..........Windows application that allows users to mount the contents of ZIP, ISO, and Private Folder files to the file system as virtual folders .....(free).....GO THERE! NOTEBOOK HARDWARE CONTROL.......... Notebook Hardware Control with CPU Speed Control, CPU Voltage Control, Battery control, Hard Drive control and monitoring, ATI Clock Control. Helps you to control the hardware and system power management - customize the notebook (open source ACPI Control System) - prolong the battery lifetime - cool down the system and reduce power consumption - monitor the hardware to avoid system failure - make your notebook quiet .....(free).....GO THERE! PROXY SWITCHER..........The Proxy Switcher is a small tray icon type utility that allows you to select whether Windows and Mozilla Firefox should use a proxy server for Internet access .....(free).....GO THERE! MCAFEE SITE ADVISOR - SPAM QUIZ..........Are you spam savvy? Can you tell which sites will respect your personal information? Can you tell which ones might sell or rent your e-mail address to spammy third parties? Take our Spam Quiz and find out. Can you spot the spammy Web sites? .....(free).....GO THERE! March 31, 2008 JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, we've just added Beyond Search, heise online, Workers' Edge, and Hulu to our Recommended Sites on DAILY ROTATION.... Quick Loading Headlines from 300+ tech sites... And now for your Daily Update... K-MELEON..........The Browser You Control - an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the Win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License. .....(free).....GO THERE! LOCAL COOLING..........For greener computing - LocalCooling is a power management tool, from Uniblue Research Labs, that allows users to optimize their pc energy savings in minutes.....(free).....GO THERE! MAKE YOUR XP LOGON LOOK LIKE VISTA.......... Change the default Windows XP logon screen and make it look like Windows Vista instead, or whatever you want. From our friends at How To Geek!.....(free).....GO THERE! March 28, 2008 FLY A KITE OSX..........FlyakiteOSX transforms the look of an ordinary Windows XP system to resemble Mac OS X. The installer simply automates the process of replacing critical system files, setting registry tweaks, and installing extras such as cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc. FlyakiteOSX DOES NOT contain any spyware or ad-ware of any kind. All files needed for FlyakiteOSX are stored in the Windows directory in a folder named 'FlyakiteOSX' that is hidden by default. All registry values for FlyakiteOSX are written to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FlyakiteOSX .....(free).....GO THERE! HAXE..........haXe is a high-level object-oriented programming language mainly focused on helping programers develop Websites and Web applications. haXe has been designed to be easily portable across several platforms. The haXe compiler supports the following platforms: JavaScript, Flash, and Neko.....(free).....GO THERE! EXACT AUDIO COPY..........Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. It works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that can’t be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player .....(free).....GO THERE! IDENTIFY COMPUTER HACKERS..........The top ten signs that your son is a hacker. I advise any parents to read this list carefully and if their son matches the profile, they should take action.....(free).....GO THERE! March 27, 2008 ZIPHONE..........Jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch in less than a minute. Thanks to our friends at Lifehacker! .....(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! CUSTOMIZE GOOGLE.......... CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). .....(free).....GO THERE! BOX.NET..........Box.net is a web-based service that lets you store files online, share with other people, and collaborate on projects. Only first gig is free .....(free).....GO THERE! March 26, 2008 2HOTSPOT..........Create your own wireless hotspot in 10 minutes .....(free).....GO THERE! PEN DRIVE LINUX.......... Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick USB.....(free).....GO THERE! AUTOGK..........Tool for DivX - XviD backup. With support of DVDs, MPEG2 (such as DVB captures and transport streams), MPEG1 sources along with AVI - DV sources, encode into your favourite MPEG4 format .....(free).....GO THERE! WHY THE FUTURE DOESN'T NEED US..........Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species .....(free).....GO THERE! March 25, 2008 XNEAT WINDOWS MANAGER.......... XNeat Windows Manager adds additional features to the Windows taskbar and system tray, that enables you to minimize any window to an icon in the system tray (instead of the taskbar), keep any window on top, set a custom transparency level, and also hide any window or tray icon, furthermore the program allows you to re-arrange the order of the taskbar buttons by simply dragging them around. XNeat Windows Manager integrates into the right-click menu of the taskbar and system tray. It also allows you to change the taskbar appearance by hiding the Start button, system clock and other elements.....(free).....GO THERE! RECUVA..........Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses .....(free).....GO THERE! EXIF SORTER..........AmoK Exif Sorter is the easy but powerful solution for renaming your photos. All pictures of a digital camera can be renamed by AmoK Exif Sorter based on the pictures' metadata (EXIF and IPTC). Meta data are stored in every picture automatically by the came .....(free).....GO THERE! SCIENCE IN THE NEXT MILLENNIUM.......... Remarks by Stephen Hawking.....(free).....GO THERE! March 24, 2008 JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, we've just added AppScout, Earth2Tech, and Techlog to our Recommended Sites on DAILY ROTATION.... Quick Loading Headlines from 300+ tech sites... And now for your Daily Update... SPEED UP WINDOWS VISTA..........If you're unhappy with the speed of Vista on a machine where Windows XP used to scream, these tips will help .....(free).....GO THERE! LAUNCH APPS USING THE SCROLL WHEEL BUTTON ..........Registry Hack! Assign any applications to scroll wheel button .....(free).....GO THERE! TEXT MINING TOOL.......... Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files of the next types: pdf, doc, rtf, chm, html without need to have installed any other programs like Word, Arcrobat, etc.....(free).....GO THERE! EDIT USER REGISTRY OF OTHER USERS..........When you make changes in the Windows Registry you normally can only make them for all users or the user account that is currently logged in. But what if you want to make them in another user account ? There is an easy way to do that by loading the Registry hive of the user. Thanks to our friends at gHacks .....(free).....GO THERE! March 21, 2008 Tonight we're presenting an additional number of apps from Skrommel, one of our favorite developers from Donation Coder! We obviously think highly of him and his very large body of work.... Here you go.... DESKLOCK..........Prevents the moving of desktop icons .....(free).....GO THERE! HIDE DESKTOP..........Hide the desktop icons when the mouse is elsewhere .....(free).....GO THERE! RUN SAVER.......... Screensaver that runs a command.....(free).....GO THERE! CACHESORT ..........Automatically move files from Internet Explorer's cache into folders based on the files' extensions .....(free).....GO THERE! March 20, 2008 PASSWORD SAFE.......... With Password Safe, a free Windows utility designed by Bruce Schneier, users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination--just one thing to remember--unlocks them all. Password Safe protects passwords with the Twofish encryption algorithm, a fast, free alternative to DES. The program's security has been thoroughly verified by Counterpane Labs under the supervision of Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography and creator of the Twofish algorithm.....(free).....GO THERE! SUPERCHARGE YOUR WIRELESS ROUTER.......... Consumer-grade wireless routers -- your standard Linksyses or Belkins -- do their job well enough much of the time. But there are some juicy features offered by high-end commercial routers that just don't come with the home package. We're talking features like quality of service (QoS) management, adjustable transmission power, and support for IPv6. If you need (or just geekily crave) these features, you can shell out cash for a pro-grade router, or you can get them for free by installing new firmware on a cheap home router.....(free).....GO THERE! FOLDER TWEAKER.......... This software gives you a chance to change the icon and the background image of your folders within seconds. Thanks to our friends at Donation Coders!.....(free).....GO THERE! SOLID COPY..........SolidCopy is an industrial-grade FileCopy utility with safe result previewing, extensive logging and fail-over retry mode for unstable media or network conditions. Jobs/scripts may be defined and automated. Extra cleanup options allow for removing named or partially named files, removing files by filespec, removing files that exist in the target folder but not the source, and removing files after a successful copy (move operation). Safety features include a preview window prior to batched overwrites, complete atomic logging details (with stats and ComputerName of executing machine), and a NoCopy mode where a job can be tested without actually copying, or if only delete operations are wanted. SolidCopy is lightweight. It comprises about 1mb in a stand-alone executable, perfect for keychain drives.....(free).....GO THERE! March 19, 2008 LINA..........With LINA, applications written for Linux run with native look and feel on Windows, Mac OS X and UNIX operating systems. Binaries are now available, though still in beta. LINA is a thin virtual layer that enables developers to write and compile code using ordinary Linux tools, then run that code on a variety of operating systems. For users, LINA runs invisibly in the background, enabling them to install and run these Linux applications as if they were native to that users' operating system. NOW: The Official LINA Release. The full Open Source includes the LINA source code for compiling on different platforms, including Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, OpenSUSE 10.2, WindowsXP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003, and Mac OS X. This release includes all the source code necessary to compile LINA. A large number of Open Source tools developed by third parties are also needed for the build. They have bundled these tools together into two compressed files which also need to be downloaded in order to build LINA from source .....(free).....GO THERE! JS FOLDERVIEW..........In Windows XP there are no options to improve or customize folder views for all folders. jsFolderView + is a multi-function add-on made to work in all Windows versions, providing several useful functions and options in all folder windows. What does jsFolderView + do? jsFolderView + has four separate views, like tabs, in the one side panel. In addition to providing numerous useful functions, one of the views is a customizable Webview panel which derives from a webpage that can be edited, rewritten, or replaced. In other words, the Custom View brings back the customizing options that were lost when Webview folders were removed in Windows XP.....(free).....GO THERE! MOJO PAC..........Take your Digital Mojo (your software, settings and data) with you on ANY device, and run on ANY PC. MojoPac is a technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC. Just install MojoPac on any USB 2.0 compliant storage device, upload your applications and files, modify your user settings and environment preferences, and take it with you everywhere. Every time you plug your MojoPac-enabled device into any Windows XP PC , MojoPac automatically launches your environment on the host PC. Your communications, music, games, applications, and files are all local and accessible. And when you unplug the MojoPac device, no trace is left behind – your information is not cached on the host PC. Carry data files and your applications - such as Outlook, games, IMs - on a USB storage device or iPod. Run them on any PC - at home or at work. Don't lug your laptop around.....(free).....GO THERE! HOW TO MAKE A CHEAP LIE DETECTOR.......... Here's how to make a fun, cheap lie detector that really works! Find out if your friend or spouse is lying. Great for parties. Video.....(free).....GO THERE! March 18, 2008 INSTALL UNSIGNED THEMES IN WINDOWS XP..........Make your computer is capable of running nearly any visual style that you can find on the Web. .....(free).....GO THERE! HD VIEW FOR INTERNET EXPLORER..........HD View is a new viewer developed by the Microsoft Research Interactive Visual Media group to aid in the display and interaction with very large images .....(free).....GO THERE! GIVE AN OLD LAPTOP NEW LIFE..........Like a famed race horse or a classic book, you don't just throw away a laptop because it's banged up a little. Even if it seems outdated and underpowered, most any laptop is still small, quiet, and relatively low on power consumption, making it a seriously valuable spare to keep handy—even without a working screen. With some free software, a little know-how, and some creative thinking about your home network, nearly any old laptop can find its second wind .....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE BOMB AN ENEMY..........Google bombing involves manipulating search engines' contextual search methodologies to cause a certain search phrase to point to an unexpected page, usually for comedic or satirical purposes. For example, run a search for "miserable failure" in Yahoo Search. You'll see prominent links to President George W. Bush's biography at whitehouse.gov at or near the top of the list .....(free).....GO THERE! March 17, 2008 DEMOCRAKEY..........A portable security suite to protect you while using different computers. Includes a virus scanner, secure web browser, and secure e-mail clients. Secure web browser has feature to hide your web browsing patterns from anyone tapping your web connection. The site provides IPOD directions, but install it to a USB stick for the same functionality. Thanks to our friends at Lifehacker .....(free).....GO THERE! DESKTOP OK.......... Save and restore the positions of icons.....(free).....GO THERE! SYSTEM PROTECT.......... System Protect represents an essential supplement of security programs. Extend your Extend your security programs, Prevent accidental file removal. Guard system files, Keep your system stable. Protect personal files, Avoid losing important data. Get deletion attempt alerts, Safeguard protected files/folders. .....(free).....GO THERE! DISCUSSING THE SINGULARITY.......... Vernor Vinge begain speaking on his singularity concept in the 1980s, and collected his thoughts into his first article on the topic in 1993. Since then, Vinge has continued to give talks, and has elaborated on his concept in several media interviews. This is an open discussion of the concept. For those who have never heard of the concept, it has been described as the "techno rapture," by David Victor de Transend, an event of technical change so great that the future beyond it cannot be predicted......(free).....GO THERE! March 14, 2008 HOTSPOT SHIELD..........Most public wi-fi hotspots are not secure and make your computer and communications vulnerable to hackers and security breaches. Hotspot Shield gives you a simple solution to maintain your anonymity and protect your privacy when accessing free wi-fi hotspots. Hotspot Shield helps secure your computer, your anonymity and your online communications when using free wi-fi. Hotspot Shield... Ensures your computer remains anonymous and private when logged on to free wi-fi hotspots. Auto encrypts and protects inbound / outbound Internet traffic (email, instant messaging, VoIP calls, web surfing, etc.) as it's transmitted thru the air, using wi-fi. Thwarts wireless hackers keeping your personal data locked down while using an unsecured hotspot. Provides professional security and protection without expensive or complex requirements .....(free).....GO THERE! ADOBE AIR..........Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash, and Flex technologies to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. Adobe AIR allows developers to use familiar tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Flex Builder 3, Flash CS3 Professional, or any text editor to build their applications and easily deliver a single application installer that works across operating systems .....(free).....GO THERE! SETTING UP AVG WITH GMAIL AND AN EMAIL CLIENT..........Here are the settings that work for Outlook Express 6 ot Thunderbird, so that you can use AVG to scan and certify GMail, both incoming and outgoing .....(free).....GO THERE! 7-ZIP.......... 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.....(free).....GO THERE! March 13, 2008 Today we're presenting a number of apps all from one of our favorite developers, Skrommel, from Donation Coder! We obviously think highly of him.... And we'll be showing you lots more of his apps from time to time. TRANSOTHER.......... Make all windows but the active one transparent.....(free).....GO THERE! MINIMOTHER ..........Endlessly minimizes all windows except the active one .....(free).....GO THERE! UNDER COVER ..........Automatically hide a window's buttons and other controls .....(free).....GO THERE! LABEL CONTROL.......... Overlays buttons and other controls with a Number for direct access via Ctrl-Number.....(free).....GO THERE! March 12, 2008 HULU..........Hulu finally opens its beta to everyone today. Watch recent current TV and movies on the internet, free, legitimately. This is a great step ahead, as you know if you've looked at Open Hulu, a site presenting some Hulu content to everyone over the last few months .....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE LABS..........Google's technology playground. Showcases a few of their favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can improve them. Play with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them .....(free).....GO THERE! March 11, 2008 HIDDEN 3D BENCHMARKS IN VISTA..........There's a utility built into Windows Vista used for benchmarking your system called the System Assessment Tool. What most people don't know is that you can call this utility from the command line and view some cool 3D benchmarks. From our friends at How-To-Geek.....(free).....GO THERE! WINDOW HIDIE.......... Small utility to hide windows with a key press.....(free).....GO THERE! WIRELESS KEY VIEW..........Recover lost WEP-WPA key stored by Wireless Zero Configuration service in Windows. WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the 'Wireless Zero Configuration' service of Windows XP and by the 'WLAN AutoConfig' service of Windows Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard .....(free).....GO THERE! VISTA CODEC PACKAGE..........When dealing with codecs, more does not equal better. Having the least amount on your system is the best configuration. This is exactly what the Vista Codec Package does for you. You will no longer be restricted to using a specific player. Windows MediaPlayer and Vista MediaCenter will be able to play all your files .....(free).....GO THERE! March 10, 2008 SUPER ANTISPYWARE..........SUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough AntiSpyware scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones .....(free).....GO THERE! TINY SPELL..........Occasionally you need to check spelling in an application that does not include a spelling checker and you don't want to launch your word processor just for that. This is when tinySpell becomes handy. It is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check and correct the spelling in any Windows application. tinySpell can watch your typing on the fly and alert you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It can also check the spelling of text that you copy to the clipboard. tinySpell installs itself in the system tray for easy access. It comes with an American-English dictionary containing more than 110,000 words .....(free).....GO THERE! WIN BUBBLE..........WinBubble will help you to Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista easily. Its features cover Customization, Security and Optimization .....(free).....GO THERE! PACKET TRAP PRO..........We don't normally run shareware here at Shell City, but our friends at Packet Trap have just released their new pro version, and we're making an exception. And if you've used their free tools, you know this is worth looking at. The PacketTrap pt360 Tool Suite Professional takes the design of the free pt360 and expands it, offering Cisco configuration management, higher levels of server and application monitoring, more open source and third party integration, more network management tools, more robust credential store management, more ability to save and flow results between tools, deeper network discovery (with network mapping) and syslog server capabilities - all wrapped up in the pt360 Dashboard. Networks are complicated. Network Management doesn't have to be.....(free trial).....GO THERE! March 7, 2008 UPSIDE DOWN TERNET..........Cause neighbors who are stealing your wireless internet to view the net upside down.....(free).....GO THERE! CLUTTER BUSTER..........Put all your desktop shortcuts into a menu, then delete them from the desktop. ClutterBuster is an application that will hold the shortcuts to software that you have on your desktop. Each button can be set by right clicking and selecting the .exe file you want to associate with it. The button will show the image, from the icon found in the .exe file. If it has no icon, the button will show blank. When you close ClutterBuster it will store all of the info in an .ini file. Once you set it, you can then delete all the clutter from your desktop and use ClutterBuster to access your programs instead.....(free).....GO THERE! DIE.......... dIE (damn IE) is a small lightweight IE based browser, totally lacking in features. For old computers. Without all the extras, there isn't anything to slow it down.There are no buttons on it other than the "Go" button and the usual min, max/restore, and close buttons in the top corner. There isn't even an icon on the titlebar.....(free).....GO THERE! PACKET PROTECTOR.......... PacketProtector is a Linux distribution for wireless routers, built on top of OpenWrt. The goal of this project is to transform the router into a unified threat management device. Here's what you get- a stateful firewall (iptables), WPA/WPA2 Enterprise wireless (802.1X and PEAP with FreeRADIUS), intrusion prevention (Snort-inline), remote access VPN (OpenVPN), content filtering/parental controls (DansGuardian), web antivirus (DG + ClamAV), anti-phishing (OpenDNS), automatic updates (for Snort and ClamAV), a local certificate authority (OpenSSL), secure management interfaces (SSH and HTTPS), advanced firewall scripts for blocking IM and P2P apps, IP spoofing prevention (Linux rp_filter), basic protocol anomaly detection (ipt_unclean), Each of these services is automatically bootstrapped and configured with sensible defaults. A secure web interface makes common configuration tasks as simple as a point and click. All you need is a Linksys WRTSL54GS or ASUS WL-500g (Deluxe or Premium) router, and a USB 2.0 drive with 100MB of free space.....(free).....GO THERE! March 6, 2008 Sorry we missed the update yesterday - tech problems... CUSTOM FOLDER.......... This handy utility adds a highly customisable New Folder function to the context menu to the Windows Explorer. Using a single dialogue to manage user-defined templates, Custom Folder facilitates the creation of custom dated and time-stamped folders and even deals with incremental naming in case there is already a sub-folder with the same name.....(free).....GO THERE! REBOOT SERVICE.......... KutinSoft Reboot Service is a freeware for keeping control over your server or working station. It was designed in order to reboot a server distantly or in case of memory overflow.....(free).....GO THERE! VISTA START MENU.......... Vista Start Menu is the convenient alternative to the plain Start menu you find in Windows XP and Windows Vista. The program uses your cognitive abilities (visual memory, reflexes,etc.); however, while it is easily understandable for beginners, it is also highly efficient for experienced users. Go ahead and try replacing your Start menu right now! It is safe because Vista Start Menu does not change your system settings, thus making it easy to install, as well as simple to remove.....(free).....GO THERE! HOTKEY SEARCH TOOL.......... Suppose you are reading mail and come across a phrase you want to research on the Internet. Usually, you have to start a browser and type the phrase you need, which is not always convenient. With Hotkey Search Tool, you just select the phrase and press the hotkey, which will open a browser window with the search results for the selected text. This saves time as the search results are just a hotkey away.....(free).....GO THERE! March 4, 2008 SIDE SLIDE.......... SideSlide is an advanced, portable, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, instantly accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension. Get instant access to everything you have. Dock SideSlide to any screen edge; browse through your favorite RSS news feeds, keep shortcuts to files, folders and URLs you frequently visit; execute various commands quicker than ever; add multiple notes; multiple, sizable, pictures; schedule reminders; save web snippets and more...Customize it to emphasize the things you use the most and make more information accessible without occupying precious screen space. By using containers you can shrink and fold, linking containers to actual folders on disk, launch groups that allow you to start multiple programs at once, shortcut tags, zooming in and out of shortcuts, news feed reader, keyboard navigation, different skins, different size pictures, picture containers and colored notes; SideSlide is designed to make a great deal of content instantly accessible. SideSlide is portable and you can use it from your USB drive.....(free).....GO THERE! NOVA BENCH..........Windows benchmark program. Test your computer and compare the results online .....(free).....GO THERE! ONE QUICK TRICK..........The AutoRun function in Windows can launch installers and other programs automatically when you insert a CD or flash drive, but this convenience poses a serious security risk. Unfortunately, simply turning off AutoPlay, a separate feature, isn't enough to prevent AutoRun from introducing a rogue program into your system .....(free).....GO THERE! MICROSOFT DREAMSPARK..........Professional Developer and Designer tools for students at no charge. Great stuff, if you qualify. Check it out .....(free).....GO THERE! March 3, 2008 JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, we've just added The Onion, AboveTopSecret, and Digital Inspiration to our Recommended Sites on DAILY ROTATION.... Quick Loading Headlines from 300+ tech sites... And now for your Daily Update... LET ME TYPE..........Like Microsoft's AutoComplete, LetMeType helps you enter text, but regardless of the program you use. Running in the background, it analyses what you type. After some time it has collected enough information to guess a word after you have typed the first two or three letters. A list of the most probable words is displayed, and you can select one with a single keystroke or just continue typing .....(free).....GO THERE! IMAGE PROPERTIES FOR CAMERA PHONES..........This is a utility designed to read EXIF information of JPEG images captured by camera phones. Several information that can be read using this utility are: file name, file size, phones brand, phones model, date and time, orientation, exposure, exposure program, Fstops, shutter speed, aperture, iso speed, pixelXdimensions, pixelYdimension, X resolution, Y resolution, metering mode, metering method, light source, flash mode .....(free).....GO THERE! HYDRA BROWSER..........An IE based browser with a huge number of features.....(free).....GO THERE! WHAT IS THE SINGULARITY?..........Explication of a meme anyone involved with current tech should be familiar with - the evolutionary next step. Some 20 to 140 years from now--depending on which evolutionary or systems theorist, computer scientist, or futurist you happen to agree with--the rate of self-catalyzing, self-organizing technological change in our local environment will undergo a "singularity," becoming effectively instantaneous from the perspective of current biological humanity.....(free).....GO THERE! February 29, 2008 FORUMWARZ..........Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the Internet. In fact, Forumwarz is the Internet...in game form. Magical dragon-faeries? Flaxen-hair'd elflords? Dank scary dungeons, reminiscent of Grandpa's basement? Kids' stuff. In Forumwarz, you can pwn trolls in ridiculous web forums...buy hacked warez from shady Russian websites...or upgrade your skills with breast implants, malt liquor and antidepressants. Assume the role of one of three Internet personas: Camwhore, Troll or Emo Kid, each with their own special attacks, abilities and personalities. Play in story mode and pwn your way through a dense world of mystery, intrigue and Internet idiocy. Or test your skillz against others in various player-versus-player challenges. It's kinda hard to explain. Easier to just give it a test drive...you don't even need to sign up.....(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! FIREFOX THROTTLE.......... Firefox Throttle is a small plug-in for your favorite Web Browser, that allows you to cap download/upload rates and monitor current bandwidth utilization. IE version available too. Scroll to bottom of page. Limit download and upload rates for all open Firefox windows/tabs and downloads. Bursting mode (allow short rate "bursting" after inactivity). Preset and custom limits. Exclude lists for IP addresses and domains that should not be throttled. Automatically excluded LAN IPs. Traffic stats (for current session and historic since last reset). Status panel with current bandwidth utilization indicators (or traffic counters). Quick throttling on/off toggle on status panel. English and Russian User Interface. Possible use: By Web Masters - to monitor real page weights, page load times at different connections speeds, etc. By small offices with simple network configuration/router - to limit/prevent shared internet connection bandwidth hogging by some individual......(free).....GO THERE! SCREENCLEAN..........Best screen cleaner we've seen. Try it out.....(free).....GO THERE! February 28, 2008 ICON ANY FOLDER..........App makes Windows use the icon you place in a folder as the icon for the folder (Go to Reply 12 for the download) From our friends at Donation Coder!.....(free).....GO THERE! FIND AS YOU TYPE.......... Find As You Type for Internet Explorer adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer where you can type search terms, and it will find them, as you type. .....(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! DELUGE.......... Deluge is a lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client. Full Encryption, WebUI, Plugin System, Much more.....(free).....GO THERE! February 27, 2008 ENABLE VISTA HIDDEN ADMINISTRATOR..........This back-up administrator account can come in handy if you encounter some problems logging into or otherwise using Vista .....(free).....GO THERE! FINE RECOVERY..........Data recovery tool. Undelete files. Recover deleted hard drive. Restore folders. FineRecovery is a free and powerful utility to restore deleted files from hard disk. Typical hard drive can be scanned for recoverable files within minutes.....(free).....GO THERE! RCYPHER..........RCypher is an easy to use encryption utility that runs on windows or Linux, that uses Military Grade Advanced Encrytion Software Algorithm choosen by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as the new industry standard in Encytption. RCypher works on any file type and file size, its quick and easy to use, you just select the file you want to encrypt, enter a password, do the same to decrypt a file. An important thing to note is that RCypher does not store any encoded or clear passwords on disk, so its very, very secure .....(free).....GO THERE! CONVERT HD TO BLU-RAY..........Convert Your HD DVDs to Blu-Ray - Wired How-To .....(free).....GO THERE! February 26, 2008 FIND MORE..........Integrated search function for Windows. Three times faster than the Windows search and offers smart search options .....(free).....GO THERE! MJPEG SURVEILLANCE..........New features to the program, including motion detection with highlighting! New Video Converter, to convert the MJPEG files to Divx, WMV, MPEG4, and more! Very Nice IP Camera program which records video in mjpg format, includes a video player with chase playback! Basic video editing features, and automatically can recycle video recordings weekly, monthly, yearly, ect! Extremely Low Processor and Memory Usage! Supports Hundreds of IP cameras simultaneously .....(free).....GO THERE! BULK TINY URL..........Mass convert URLS to smaller tinyurls .....(free).....GO THERE! TINY HEX EDITOR..........Its TINY, does all the HEX editing stuff you'll every need, and best of all... its Free! Supports BIT modification, Inserting, Overwriting, Pasting, Copying, etc.... .....(free).....GO THERE! February 25, 2008 JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, we've just added Vista 123, Schneier on Security, Web Worker Daily, and Greg's Cool Thing of the Day to our Recommended Sites on DAILY ROTATION.... Quick Loading Headlines from 300+ tech sites... And now for your Daily Update... ANDLINUX..........Run Linux and Linux apps inside Windows. A bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, Kind of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Runs almost all Linux applications without modification. andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista; 32-bit versions only). .....(free).....GO THERE! BACULA..........Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. In technical terms, it is a network based backup program.....(free).....GO THERE! DVD SHRINKER.......... AmoK DVD Shrinker shrinks DVDs up to one fifth of the original size without any noticeable quality reduction. Due to the smaller file size the copy can be burned on a "normal" 2.5 or 4.7 DVD-R. The DVD's menus, subtitles, audio tracks etc all stay preserved.....(free).....GO THERE! LANSWEEPER..........Lansweeper is a powerful freeware solution to make a complete software, hardware, asset inventory of your windows network. Lansweeper does not need to install a client on your workstations, all scanning is done through the use of WMI, fileshares and remote registry access. This free software is used in many universities, schools and companies. New features in Lansweeper 3.0. Over 75 hardware, software, network & server reports included. Export all data to excel from the reports in the web interface. Software and operating system licensing reports and cost calculation. Launch custom commands and programs from the web interface to support your clients (remote control, ping, event viewer, remote screenshot, ...). Optional scheduled scanning.....(free).....GO THERE! February 22, 2008 VLITE.......... vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it. Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. vLite provides you with an easy removal of the unwanted components in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking. This tool doesn't use any kind of hacking, all files and registry entries are protected as they would be if you install the unedited version only with the changes you select. It configures the installation directly before the installation, meaning you'll have to remake the ISO and reinstall it. This method is much cleaner, not to mention easier and more logical than doing it after installation on every reinstall.....(free).....GO THERE! SHOCK 4 WAY 3D..........4 virtual screens in cool 3D .....(free).....GO THERE! SHOCK CAPTION..........Minimize Windows into their caption bars .....(free).....GO THERE! LIQUID RESCALE GIMP PLUGIN.......... The Seam Carving procedure aims at resizing pictures non uniformly while preserving their features, i.e. avoiding distortion of the important parts. The plugin supports manual feature selection, and can also be used to remove portions of the picture in a consistent way.....(free).....GO THERE! February 21, 2008 DMEX BAR..........DMEXBar adds a new toolbar to the explorer with many new features like: Arrange explorer windows side by side, rename multiple files at once, quick change to favourite folders, quick create directory, split files, calculate directory size and some more .....(free).....GO THERE! UNXUTILS..........Port of the most important GNU utilities to Windows .....(free).....GO THERE! SCITE 1.75 PLUS SHELL EXTENSION..........Shell extension for text editor SciTE (Open with SciTE) for 64-bit windows. For SciTE itself that is not a problem since the 32-bit version runs fine under XP 64. The problem is that the 32-bit shell extension does not work, it just doesn't show up in the 64 bit explorer. Shell extension by Andre Burgaud recompiled it for x6 .....(free).....GO THERE! February 20, 2008 FIREFOX PRELOADER..........Firefox Preloader is a utility that is designed to load parts of Mozilla Firefox into memory before it is used to improve the its startup time .....(free).....GO THERE! PUTTY CONNECTION MANAGER..........PuTTY Connection Manager is a free PuTTY Client Add-on for Windows platforms which goal is to provide a solution for managing multiple PuTTY instances. This is one of the most important missing feature of PuTTY.....(free).....GO THERE! FAT 32 FORMAT..........Fast format Fat32 disks more than 32 gigs in size. XP's formatting tool won't let you format anything larger than 32 gigs but this little tool will. Note that the 32GB limit is a limit of the formatter in Windows XP. FAT32 itself should be OK to 2TB,.....(free).....GO THERE! DUAL DHCP DNS SERVER.......... DHCP Server allots addresses and DNS Server first try resolving from DHCP allotted names then from Cache then forwarding to External DNS. Relay Agent, PXEBOOT & BOOTP, Zone Replication, Auto Config and Dynamic DNS update.....(free).....GO THERE! February 19, 2008 SHOCK DESKTOP..........Arrange your desktop icons any way you want - very cool (Go to downloads) .....(free).....GO THERE! SHOCK AERO 3D..........Windows task switching in 3D (Go to downloads) .....(free).....GO THERE! SHOCK BOOKMARK..........Gives you a context menu Favorites menu for use in Windows Explorer (Go to downloads) .....(free).....GO THERE! SHOCK SEARCHLIGHT..........Everything on the screen except the selected window is dimmed (Go to downloads) .....(free).....GO THERE! February 18, 2008 LCLOCK..........Nice substitute for the Windows systray clock program. We particularly like the calendar options. LClock is a modified (stripped down) version of Kazuto Sato's TClock Light. LClock also comes with a simple but configurable popup calendar that opens when the systray clock is clicked. No more double clicking on the clock just to view the calendar in the "Date and Time Properties" dialog box. The calendar also contains reminder feature found in Rainlendar .....(free).....GO THERE! MPLAYER.......... The award-winning OpenSource Linux media player available for Windows now.....(free).....GO THERE! GUI GALLERY.......... Various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones. .....(free).....GO THERE! MAGIC FOLDER ICON.......... Magic Folder Icon allows you to give an icon for all your folders on your computer,making every folder different. The simple and cool interface makes it easy to change the look of an individual folder.It is a powerful software and easy to use. You can change icons of all your folders quickly and freely.Also you can extract an icon from any type of resource files like .exe files.Aren't you bored with the way the standard Windows folders look?Make your folders different, make them lovely with Magic Folder Icon.....(free).....GO THERE! February 15, 2008 INACTIVE USERS TRACKER..........A good practice is to disable active user accounts after a certain period of inactivity. Inactive Users Tracker automates the management of inactive user accounts. The program periodically checks all user accounts in specified domains and reports to you all accounts inactive for more than a specified number of days. This product has two important features: Checks all users and reports those that have been inactive for a specified number of days. Automatically disables inactive user accounts.....(free).....GO THERE! DYNAMIC HTML EDITOR..........A number of folks in our forum recommend this - Dynamic HTML Editor is a graphical WYSIWYG editor for WEB pages; it allows you to create your own site without writing HTML code. You have simply to position objects applying graphical effects, shadows, insert images, events and you'll obtain a dynamic cross-browser site! Let's start to make your personal or business web site. It only takes minutes .....(free).....GO THERE! INSTANT STORM..........InstantStorm is a Windows freeware tool for creating Flash based screensavers with many advanced features. All you have to do is to choose a SWF file, set screensaver parameters and compile an executable installer. All 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows are fully supported, including Windows 95 and Windows Vista. And the best of all—there are no nag screens or other annoying stuff. Unlike many other tools, InstantStorm allows you to fully customize your screensaver's about box, installer and uninstaller including all texts .....(free).....GO THERE! KATAMARI DAMACY..........Off the web for a while, but now back on. Our favorite game.....(free).....GO THERE! February 14, 2008 GOOGLE EXPERIMENTAL SEARCH..........Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience. Take one for a spin .....(free).....GO THERE! BELVEDERE..........Keep your desktop or any other folder on your hard drive organized and under control with Belvedere, an automated Windows file management tool. Use Belvedere's friendly interface to create advanced rules to move, copy, delete, rename, or open files based on their name, extension, size, creation date, and more. Sets up rules for taking actions on files based on the name of a file, it's extension, size, age, and more. Belvedere is a Windows knock-off of the Mac-only Hazel, and Gina has already guided you through setting up a self-cleaning Mac with Hazel, so for a few good ideas for how you might get started with Belvedere, check out her guide. Belvedere's not quite up to par with Hazel yet, but in time I'm hoping to implement as many of Hazel's features as I can for Windows users. Thanks to our friends at Lifehacker!.....(free).....GO THERE! FREE AUDIO DUB..........The fastest way to edit audio files! Free Audio Dub is the free audio editing software that lets you delete unwanted parts from audio files without re-encoding. And "without re-encoding" means without loosing original quality!!! This is a lossless conversion, which is very fast. Supports many audio formats: MP3, WAV, AAC, AC3, M4A, MP2, OGG, WMA .....(free).....GO THERE! GO TO API..........gotoapi.com - Quick reference navigation for web and application developers covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, XSL, XPath, Schema, PHP, MySQL, ActionScript, ColdFusion, Java and more.....(free).....GO THERE! February 13, 2008 WINDOWS INSTALLER CLEANUP UTILITY..........With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program's Windows Installer configuration information. You may want to remove the Windows Installer configuration information for your program if you experience installation (Setup) problems. For example, you may have to remove a program's Windows Installer configuration information if you have installation problems when you try to add (or remove) a component of your program that was not included when you first installed your program .....(free).....GO THERE! LIQUID RESIZE..........Resize images free of distortion without maintaining the original geometry or aspect ratio. Re-targeting or content aware image resizing by seam carving or seam removal .....(free).....GO THERE! FILE TYPES MAN.......... FileTypesMan is an alternative to the 'File Types' tab in the 'Folder Options' of Windows. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer. For each file type, the following information is displayed: Type Name, Description, MIME Type, Perceived Type, Flags, Browser Flags, and more. FileTypesMan also allows you to easily edit the properties and flags of each file type, as well as it allows you to add, edit, and remove actions in a file type.....(free).....GO THERE! ELECTION 2008 - CNET..........What the U.S. presidential candidates have to say on all things technology .....(free).....GO THERE! February 12, 2008 CAIRO..........A Windows Shell Alternative. Cairo is a revolutionary desktop environment for Windows. The goal is to develop a desktop experience that increases productivity and advances current technology standards. With a focus on stability, performance, and productivity, Cairo is sure to turn a few heads. In the next week or so the Cairo Development Team will be releasing the first milestone build of Cairo, tentatively named Cairo Milestone 1. Sign up to be a tester before the release is widely available.....(free).....GO THERE! CHICKENFOOT..........Chickenfoot is a Firefox extension that puts a programming environment in the browser sidebar so you can write scripts to manipulate web pages and automate web browsing. In Chickenfoot, scripts are written in a superset of Javascript that includes special functions specific to web tasks .....(free).....GO THERE! QUICK MEDIA CONVERTER..........Converts all video and audio media to and from numerous video and audio formats and much more .....(free).....GO THERE! CUSTOMIZE WINDOWS EXPLORER TOOLTIPS..........Tooltips can be customized in the Registry to display the information selected by the user. It is possible to remove information and add new as well. Windows uses a general setting for all files that do not have their own tooltip information. Those tooltips display the Type, Author, Title, Subject, Comments, last Write access and the Size. From our friends at Ghacks! .....(free).....GO THERE! February 11, 2008 SAFARI FOR WINDOWS..........Apple's Mac browser ported to Windows. Try the beta .....(free).....GO THERE! ASPHERE.......... Edit web.config files. ASPhere is a freeware tool that helps to create and modify configuration files for ASP.NET.....(free).....GO THERE! BEN EDELMAN..........Ben Edelman analyzes methods and effects of spyware, with a focus on installation methods and revenue sources. Ben has documented advertisers supporting spyware, advertising intermediaries funding spyware, affiliate commission fraud, and click fraud.....(free).....GO THERE! CHEAT BOOK..........CheatBook is cheat-code tracker with cheats and hints for several popular PC Action and Adventure Games. For the most part, the CheatBook Issues focuses on newer cheat releases.If you need help with the latest and greatest games, the monthly Issue´s of CheatBook should be a big help .....(free).....GO THERE! February 7, 2008 INSTANT MEMORY CLEANER..........Front-end for Microsoft's command line ClearMem ( Windows XP ) and FreeMem ( Windows Vista ), which force pages out of physical memory and reduce the size of running processes’ working sets, to a minimum .....(free).....GO THERE! MOVE LATER..........Console mode application to set copy, rename, or delete operations to occur at the next system boot. It can also enumerate pending delayed file operations. Works with all win32 flavors. Visual C++ source code included .....(free).....GO THERE! TWEAK SCHEDULER.......... Tool to tweak scheduler settings in Windows 2000 / XP / 2003.....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE CODE..........Interesting open source projects from Google .....(free).....GO THERE! February 6, 2008 MULTIPLE APPLICATOR.......... Windows GUI for some of the best Command Line applications. Multiple Applicator adjusts the power of some from the best command line applications, under the Windows environment and according to the simple user needs. With Multiple Applicator you can proceed to: 1. Defragment. 2. Files Compressing and Extraction. 3. Icons Management. 4. Text Files Joining. 5. Files Shreding. 6. System Tray applications morphing. 7. File Splitting.....(free).....GO THERE! UNLIMITED MENUS.......... Create Unlimited Menus to launch almost everything in your Computer and Internet. Create Unlimited Collections of one mouse-click multiple launchings on everything of your Computer activities. Launch a huge Collection of System or Hidden Windows applications and commands, having also the ability to create a Desktop Shortcut of them with just a mouse right-click.....(free).....GO THERE! ULTIMATE RUNNER..........Create unlimited lists of Windows commands that you want to be executed as groups. Execute unlimited commands or programs with a simple mouse double-click .....(free).....GO THERE! TWEAKLITE ASSORTED.......... Clever Tweaks not to speed up Windows, but to enhance the Current User's computer working.....(free).....GO THERE! February 5, 2008 VISIBLE BODY..........Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model. Detailed models of all body systems with dynamic search capability. Easy-to-use, 3D controls. Seamless compatibility with Internet Explorer. Argosy's Visible Body is the most comprehensive. human anatomy visualization tool available today. This entirely Web-delivered application offers an unparalleled understanding of human anatomy. The Visible Body includes 3D models of over 1,700 anatomical structures, including all major organs and systems of the human body.....(free).....GO THERE! REFRESH IE..........Timed page reloads for Internet Explorer. Reloads page into Internet Explorer at user-defined intervals. Monitor forums, share prices, auctions etc .....(free).....GO THERE! UNLOCKER..........Unlock locked files on the fly .....(free).....GO THERE! GRAPE BACKUP.......... GrapeBackup is a backup program with following features: extremely fast, easy to use, supports incremental backups (multiple versions of a directory are saved in a repository and may be retrieved independently). Create your backups daily or even twice a day. Only changed files will be stored. This is also very useful if you want to be able to access different stages of your work. Allows you to limit I/O throughput (it is limited to 1 MB per second in the basic version). This unique feature allows you to continue to work during a GrapeBackup run. Your computer will not become unusable just because you run a backup. Uses ZIP format for storing files or single file repository (If you want to burn the created file on CDs? or similar and it is bigger than 650MB you can use 7-zip File Manager to split the file in smaller pieces), runs on multiple platforms. It was tested on Windows XP and Kubuntu (Linux) but should also run on any platform that supports Java. Command line interface lets you automate your backups.....(free).....GO THERE! February 4, 2008 RAID 2 RAID.......... Unlock your native RAID array! Stop depending on the system board chipset to support your RAID configuration! Mount RAID arrays and Dynamic Disks created with all current Intel, nVidia or VIA chipsets on any other chipset and on all versions of Windows with free Raid 2 Raid software.....(free).....GO THERE! TRUE CRYPT..........Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux .....(free).....GO THERE! EXPLORER CANVAS.......... Firefox, Safari and Opera 9 support the 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! TWO INVALUABLE BUTTONS FOR FIREFOX..........The Fire FTP button that will let you access ftp from any toolbar. The clear cache button lets you, guess what, clear private data.....(free).....GO THERE! February 1, 2008 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! SIMON..........Speech regognition software, developed for the handicapped, but usable by anyone. The project provides a ready-to-use interface for the julius CSR engine for a handicapped child which is not able to use the keyboard well. It integrates into X11 and Windows Alpha - neither stable nor feature-complete, but it should give you a pretty good overview of what simon will be like.....(free).....GO THERE! LOCK IT.......... Keep your information safe from onlookers with LockIt. Keep valuable files safe from prying eyes. With LockIt you are able to encrypt and decryt files with a unique encryption method. Each encryption allows the assignment of a unique password......(free).....GO THERE! REPAIR XP..........A number of very specific tips for repairing and tweaking XP.....(free).....GO THERE! January 31, 2008 MAKE NEW FOLDER..........Create folders the easy way. A fast way to create multiple new folders in Windows Explorer. Put it on a hotkey for instant access. Stays open, so you can create more folders without repeated File / New / Folder menu selections. WARNING: May not work with non-English versions of Windows .....(free).....GO THERE! YOUR CPL.......... Put anything you like in Control Panel. Some of the items in your Start menu really belong in Control Panel. YourCPL puts them there. Anything you can run from a command line can be added.....(free).....GO THERE! LOCK IMAGE..........With LockImage you protect an image by converting it into a password protected executable with an embedded viewer. It consists of exactly one file and does not need any installation. This software tries to the implement the concept of Steganos LockNote for images .....(free).....GO THERE! HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT TOOL..........For low-level hard disk drive formatting. Supported interfaces: S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI, USB, FIREWIRE. Big drives (LBA-48) are supported. Supported Manufacturers: Maxtor, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, IBM, Quantum, Western Digital. The program also supports low-level formatting of FLASH cards using a card-reader. This freeware Low Level Format utility will erase, Low-Level Format and re-certify a SATA, IDE or SCSI hard disk drive with any size of up to 281 474 976 710 655 bytes. Will work with USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures. Low-level formatting of Flash Cards is supported too. Low Level Format Tool will clear partitions, MBR, and every bit of user data. The data cannot be recovered after using this utility. The program utilizes Ultra-DMA transfers when possible. WARNING: After running this free low level format tool, the whole disk surface will be fully erased. Therefore, data restoration will be impossible after using this utility.....(free).....GO THERE! January 30, 2008 PC LOCK..........Makes your Pen Drive a device to lock your PC or notebook .....(free).....GO THERE! MAKE BOOTABLE..........Makes your Pen Drive bootable .....(free).....GO THERE! FREE MUSIC ZILLA.......... Free music zilla, the first tool specialized for social music downloading, enables you download free music from IMEEM, Last.fm, Pandora, Myspace, eSnips, Mog, iJigg, Radio.blog.club and almost all social music services.....(free).....GO THERE! DESKTOP WALLER.......... Desktop Waller is an application that allows your desktop backgrounds to be changed according to a specific time period that you can define. It was inspired from a recent product I saw online.....(free).....GO THERE! January 29, 2008 IE SURFGEAR.......... IE Surfgear is designed to remove a few of the most wide-spread design glitches which make web pages difficult to read. Now it can remove the following problems: Tiny unsizable fonts. Poor text colors. Background textures. IE Surfgear adds three additional buttons on Internet Explorer toolbar (see screenshot). Each one of them removes one of the problems described above. So, you can make most web pages readable in a single click on toolbar.....(free).....GO THERE! RED HAND..........Red Hand is a basic security camera application written in C Sharp that makes use of a webcam for survilance purposes. It essentially takes pictures then constantly compares them (pixel by pixel). If even a pixel is different from the previous picture it labels it with the date and time and saves the picture in the 'Captured Photos' folder .....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE MYSQL TOOLS ..........Various tools for managing, maintaining, and improving the performance of MySQL databases, originally written by Google. This includes: mypgrep.py - a tool, similar to pgrep, for managing mysql connections, compact_innodb.py - compacts innodb datafiles by dumping and reloading all tables, patches - patches to add features to MySQL 4.0.26 and MySQL 5.0.37 .....(free).....GO THERE! GOOGLE VIDEO LECTURES..........A set of video-taped lectures from Google Video on various technology areas. These videos are great opportunities for students and faculty to hear directly from some of the current pioneers in high-tech .....(free).....GO THERE! January 28, 2008 JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, we've just added Demo Girl and Modders-Inc to our Recommended Sites on DAILY ROTATION.... Quick Loading Headlines from 300+ tech sites... And now for your Daily Update... FONTSPACE.......... FontSpace is an online community of font designers and enthusiasts. All the 7433 free typefaces have been hand-categorized for you to use in your graphic design, scrapbooking, or document purposes.....(free).....GO THERE! BLACK BOX.......... Black Box is a Steganography application, basically hiding a hidden message in plain sight, read more.... BlackBox makes use of a single Bitmap to hide any written message. This secret message can be concealed within the image without any obvious changes to the Bitmap image, ie File Size and Image look identical to the orginal. So the viewer of the Bitmap image will not thing twice when reviewing the image. However just in case all Stego-Images may be locked using a password.....(free).....GO THERE! DISK SIZER..........An unusual app that illustarates to you graphically of the distribution of your files on any attached hard drive, including Flash Drives and mobile storage devices. Anything that is recognised by Windows .....(free).....GO THERE! CPU-Z.......... CPU-Z gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.....(free).....GO THERE! January 25, 2008 AUTORUNS FOR WINDOWS..........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 .....(free).....GO THERE! 3D RAD.......... Rad is a collection of intelligent objects you can combine in virtual space to create interactive 3d worlds. What you get depends on the nature of the objects you add and the relationships you establish between them.....(free).....GO THERE! ALL ABOUT SYSTEM RESTORE..........A life saver if your system goes bad .....(free).....GO THERE! AJAX VIEW..........Remotely Monitor Web 2.0 Applications. The goal of the Ajax View project is to improve developer's visibility into and control over their web applications' behaviors on end-user's desktops. The Ajax View approach is to insert a server-side proxy (or web server plugin) in-between the web server machines and the end-user's browser. This proxy captures the web application's JavaScript code as it is being sent to a browser and rewrites the code to insert extra instrumentation code. The injected instrumentation code runs with the rest of the web application inside the end-user's browser and can capture performance, call graph, application state and user interaction information, providing visibility directly into the last hop of the user's experience.....(free).....GO THERE! January 24, 2008 KDE FOR WINDOWS AND MAC..........This is big. The very popular KDE Windows manager, long used by Linux lovers, is now ported to Windows and the Mac. If anything pulls Windows and Mac users to Linux, this will do it. Get the feel of Linux right inside your own OS. Alpha release .....(free).....GO THERE! YOU GET SIGNAL.......... YouGetSignal.com is a collection of network tools, all web based. The name of the site, YouGetSignal, is a nerdy play on a line of broken English from the infamous "All your base are belong to us" cut scene.....(free).....GO THERE! YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER .......... Download videos from YouTube and many other sites and convert them to other video formats.The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button! It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone.....(fre