My site is now online for more than half a year and I have written many articles about freeware utilities and I thought it would be nice to have a list of all the freeware applications that i mentioned here at ghacks.net. The freeware collection contains only freeware applications, this means all free to use, no nag screens, no dial home features and all the other crap.

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Cirt.net provides an easy and fast way to search many sites that post security vulnerabilites. The search engine uses the databases of the following sites: Bugtraq, CVE, ISS, OSVDB, Secunia, Snort, Nessus, Packetstorm, Security Tracker, Bugtraq Mailing List and Full-Disclosure Mailing List. The latest security vulnerabilites are reported to those sites and you are able to check them all with this search engine.

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The article “Ten things every Microsoft Word user should know” is for those of you who are still using Microsoft Word (and not Open Office or similar freeware products). I think most companies still rely on the Microsoft Office productline, also many computers come preinstalled with an OEM version. You get a great explanation and guide for every tip that shows you how to use the feature described.

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I found a tutorial on the techarena forum that had some nice (standard) tips on how to speed up your windows operating system. You find tips that increase boot and shutdown speed, some that increase the overall performance by disabling certain services and features like indexing service and system restore. If you never tweaked your system before this article is for you.

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Some ISPs are beginning to throttle bittorrent traffic. There is a possibility to overcome this throttling by encrypting your bittorrent streams. Torrentfreak.com posted a guide which tells you how to encrypt your torrent streams with three popular clients: Azureus, Bitcomet and µTorrent.

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