Text Stat is a small program for Windows that analyzes text files and html documents displaying a wide variety of statistics about it in the end. It displays figures about the amount of paragraphs, words, letters, sentences, printable characters, spaces, carriage returns, number of words per sentence, syllables per word and a word list with a specific word count.

Text Stat can be useful for quite a few users, let me give you one example. You can check out word repetitions with it easily. Say you are writing an article for a website and want to make it keyword rich, you do not want to add your main keyword to often, just often enough and use synonyms when the limit is reached.

You can check your text and get figures on how many times you have been using the main keyword. It still requires some quick calculation on your part about keyword density. If the figures are to high you simply exchange some of them with synonyms.

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If you are looking for a convenient way to download lots of videos from video portals like Youtube, Dailymotion and even, ehem adult related ones, you might want to try out the software Free FLV Converter by Koyote Soft. The tool offers a search box that pulls video results from the portal (or all of them) that you have chosen. Videos can be previewed, downloaded and converted into another format.

The process itself is explained in a few words. The user enters a search phrase, selects between all or a single video portal and defines the amount of results that he wants returned. A test with 10000 search results was successful, it`s probably safe to say that you can even use a higher figure than that safely.

All results are displayed in the main pane with information like name, video description, duration, age and views. If the user clicks on a video he gets to see a preview of it in the left sidebar with the option to play and download that single video. Multiple videos can be checked and downloaded together as well which is where the strength of the application lies.

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The Windows Task Manager is great for a first quick glance at the running processes and applications but it lacks functionality that is needed as well. If you wanted to check why an application or process is running you would have to check the startup settings which are not accessible in the task manager. This would mean to either look in the Windows Registry and open a system tool like msconfig or open a third party application like Autoruns from Sysinternals.

Another possible option is to replace the Windows Task Manager with a more powerful application that would load when pressing the CTRL ALT DEL keyboard shortcut. Anvir Task Manager Free is such a possibility. It adds much needed functionality to the Task Manager which reveals additional information.

The interface looks a bit overloaded at first glance but it’s rather easy to get used to it. The software has five main tabs: Startup, Processes, Applications, Services and Log.

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I had my first overclocking experience with my brand new Pentium 75 back then in the days when this was considered a fast cpu. A friend of mine actually introduced me to it to and we managed to make the computer a little bit faster that way. After that I never looked back and never tried to overclock again, rumors of reduced component life time and instablity kept me away. I also had no need to overclock the PC just to get a few percent in speed, figured it was not worth it.

Overclocking has changed over time though and it seems that the change is drastic when you look at video cards for instance. You can buy overclocked video cards right from the manufacturer and even the standard tools from Nvidia and Ati make it possible to overclock the GPU.

It’s only natural that the overclocking scene created tools to check if the changes were causing any instabilities on their system and that’s where OverClock Checking Tool [OCCT, via Neowin] comes into play. The startup window is displaying all kinds of information about your computer that are relevant to overclockers, e.g. voltages or cpu and bus clock settings.

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Fair Use Wizard [link, via Download Squad] is an easy to use DVD ripper that is provided as a free and commercial version. The free version has some limitations like a maximum target file size of 700 Megabytes or no multi core support but it does work pretty well nevertheless. The author is offering the full version of FairUse Wizard for free on his homepage which gives you all the advanced features of it.

Three other features that are only in the commercial version of FairUse Wizard are mentioned on his homepage: quality encoding modes, the possibility to remove unnecessary elements of the DVD and encoding profiles for a variety of devices like the iPhone or Apple TV that guarantee best quality. Installation is a breeze, after installing the main program you are asked if you want to install a toolbar. I would suggest to say no to this installation unless you want to try it out.

The main benefit of the software is that you can create DVD rips either from DVD or by selecting an DVD Iso image from the hard drive with just a few clicks that are heavily optimized. No need to fiddle around with performance and quality settings, it’s all there already and the defaults are working fine.

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