20 essential Freeware and Open Source programs
Since I started blogging two years ago I came upon thousands of essential, ultimate and top freeware lists but only few really had a lasting impact on the inter
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Windows Vista Drivers
It is rather unfortunate that Windows Vista has problems to provide correct drivers for many "not so popular" devices.
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Detect and Delete Duplicate Bookmarks in Firefox
If you have hundreds of bookmarks in different folders like I do you might know the problem that bookmarks are added from time to time that already exist in you
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Free WMA to MP3 Converter
Several software music players and mp3 players do not support WMA files at all.
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Forget the Windows Start Menu: use Toolbox instead
The Windows start menu is not really excellent when you want to find something fast.
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Photoshop MultiTouch Image Editing
I do like futuristic looking demonstrations of technologies that will play a big role in the coming years.
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Create tiny cool looking wallpapers
Many users tend to use wallpapers to customize the look and feel of their operating system.
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Website banned? Try the encrypted url to bypass it
There are many ways to ban a website from a network.
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10 must-see Opera Widgets
Firefox has its extensions, Internet Explorer its plugins and Opera has Widgets.
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Weekend Game Naac
Naac reminds me a little bit of Smash Tv.
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Recover accidentally deleted files
I disabled my trashbin by default which means that deleted items bypass the trashbin and are deleted immediately.
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NZB Leecher
Newsgroup indexing sites such as binsearch.
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Firefox Image Batch Downloader
It is not that easy to download all images from a page with many images in Firefox.
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Search for and download mp3 with Clickster
Using p2p networks such as Emule or Bittorrent to download mp3 files is not as dangerous as the Music Industry tries to make it appear but there is still the ch
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Optimal Bittorent Settings
If you search the internet for tips to improve your download speeds with bittorrent clients such as Azureus and uTorrent you do find many tips that have one thi
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European Playstation 3 compatibility list
Europeans get a weaker software emulation of Playstation 2 and Playstation 1 titles compared to the hardware emulation that Japanese and American Playstation 3
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Free Audiobooks from the Gutenberg Project
Gutenberg was a German inventor most famous for inventing movable type printing around 1450 in Germany revolutionizing European print-making.
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EZTakes DRM Free DVD Downloads
EzTakes is a movie store that offers DRM free DVD downloads.
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Free Version Tracking with File Hamster
Version tracking is extremely useful if you work with files that change very often.
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Optimize WordPress loading times
I'm using Wordpress as the blogging software of choice for Ghacks and all of my other blogs.
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Partypoker Windows Vista Fix
One of the first programs that I installed on my new notebook that is running Windows Vista is the Partypoker application.
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Look it up userscript opens Wikipedia pages in the browser right away
I'm currently taking a look at Greasemonkey scripts in general.
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Superfast Shutdown for Windows
It sometimes takes ages to shutdown Windows XP and Windows Vista, most of the time when you are in a hurry.
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Display websites next to each other in Firefox
Did you ever have the problem that you needed information from two websites at once and had to switch between them all the time to access them ? I usually have
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Video Wallpapers for all Windows Vista editions
Vista Ultimate has a feature called Dreamscene that can be downloaded as a preview version including a Dreamscene content package which was released just a few
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Monitor your traffic
If you want to monitor your network traffic either because you have an account that gives you only a limited amount of bandwidth each month or because you simpl
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Is your ISP selling your clickstream data?
David Cancel, the CEO of Compete Inc revealed at the Open Data 2007 conference that (some) ISPs are selling so called clickstream data of their users to marketi
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10 must-see Internet Explorer 7 Addons
Microsoft tries to compete with its Windows Marketplace against the addon dominance of Firefox.
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Sideload download free mp3
Moby, James Blunt, Metallica, Jack Johnson and Madonna.
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Weekend Game Streets of Rage Remake
I loved to play games like Streets of Rage and Final Fight in the arcades with a friend.
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Extend Vista Activation Period to 12 Months
It is getting better and better.
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Apple Trailers Downloads
I visit Apples Trailers website occasionally to take a look at the newest upcoming movies and get a first impression that helps me decided whether I want to see
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Copy all songs from an iPod
You can use iTunes to copy to your iPod but not to copy them back to your hard drive.
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IE7 pro Add-on for Internet Explorer
I'm not using Internet Explorer 7 at all but I know some guys who like it so much that they might ditch Firefox for it.
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Reduce Hard Drive Noise with Hitachi's Feature Tool
Many modern hard drives support a function called AAM - Automatic Accustic Management.
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Securely share large files with Pando
Pando is a free online service that utilizes p2p technology to share large encrypted files by email and instant messenger.
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Add a Calendar to Thunderbird
A friend of mine is still using Outlook at home and I was wondering why he did not switch to a more secure email client such as Thunderbird.
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Can't delete virus? Try Killbox
You might have come upon this problem during scans for viruses and Trojans on your system.
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Use Onlywire to drive traffic to your website
I'm normally not writing that many articles with webmasters in mind but I sometimes come upon a remarkable service or site that I like to much that I have to wr
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How to detect Advanced Spam Mails
Spammers tend to use more advanced spam methods to avoid the dreaded spam filters that become better and better.
