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Five Best Disk Defragmentation Tools [Hive Five]

Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or yo… Continue reading

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Five Best Disk Defragmentation Tools [Hive Five]

Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or yo… Continue reading

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Input Director – Software KVM to Control Multiple Computers

“Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers next to each other and find themselves regularly switch… Continue reading

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PdfMasher Turns PDFs into Ereader-Friendly HTML the Right Way [Video]

Windows, Mac, and Linux: PDFs are great, and while many ereaders do support them they’re just not optimized for viewing. There are also plenty of apps that convert PDF to HTML to help solve this prob… Continue reading

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Recover Windows and Microsoft Office Product Keys from a Broken Computer with ProduKey [Troubleshooting]

Windows: ProduKey is a handy utility we’ve mentioned previously for backing up and retrieving the software keys for Windows and Microsoft Office. But what do you do if your computer has already crashed… Continue reading

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PyInstaller

“PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 1.5, it builds small… Continue reading

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FTP Client Cyberduck 4 Brings Support for Windows, Enormous Files, and More Cloud Storage [Updates]

Windows/Mac: Today, the popular (and free!) file transfer application Cyberduck brings a big, important update. Version 4.0 provides the long-awaited native Windows support, while also adding new feat… Continue reading

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fre:ac – free audio converter

fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Continue reading

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LibreOffice 3.3 Final Gives the OpenOffice.org Suite a Fresh Start [Downloads]

Windows/Mac/Linux: The first finalized release of the OpenOffice.org spin-off, LibreOffice, has hit the web at version 3.3. It’s got a few unique features, an ever-so-slightly tweaked look, and the abi… Continue reading

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Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI)

The Secunia PSI is a FREE security tool designed to detect vulnerable and out-dated programs and plug-ins which expose your PC to attacks. Continue reading

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Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2010 [Best Of 2010]

We’ve featured quite a few Windows downloads throughout 2010. Here’s a look back at the most popular free applications to help you tweak, customize, and enhance your Windows experience More »
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PSA: Botched AVG 2011 update might be why your PC won’t start today

Did you update your free copy of AVG 2011 today, in the hopes of evading a nasty bug? In a set of mildly familiar circumstances, the antivirus company has inadvertently unleashed an even nastier one. Users running 64-bit editions of Windows 7 and AVG … Continue reading

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Tiny Watcher: keep your Windows clean

The way Tiny Watcher works is pretty simple: basically, it starts by taking a snapshot of important parts of your Windows system; then it tracks changes (every time you log in, or whenever you want to). When a change is detected, you are notified. Continue reading

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Action(s)

Action(s) lets you build workflows that accomplish manual chores quickly, efficiently, and effortlessly. You don’t have to know any scripting languages or write any code. Instead, you create and execute automation “workflows” simply by dragging a… Continue reading

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WhoCrashed, automatic crash dump analyzer

WhoCrashed shows the drivers which have been crashing your computer with a single click. In most cases it can pinpoint the offending drivers which have been causing misery on your computer system in the past. It does post-mortem crashdump analysis and … Continue reading

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WhoCrashed Tells You What Just Crashed Your PC

WhoCrashed is a freeware program that tells you what Windows component just crashed your computer.

This should help in diagnosing exactly what driver/program/plugin caused the ever so wonderful blue screen of death. Works with Windows 2000 and up.
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Create Synchronicity Is a Tiny, Portable Backup and Sync Utility [Downloads]

Windows only: Portable, open-source backup utility Create Synchronicity is a tiny but powerful way to run backups or synchronize folders on your system, an external drive, or to another PC on your net… Continue reading

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FreeFileSync

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces. Continue reading

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FreeFileSync

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces. Continue reading

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CintaNotes – A Free Personal Notes Manager

A free, lightweight and user-friendly personal notes manager. CintaNotes is your essential assistant in the daily task of organizing information, such as your own thoughts and ideas, article excerpts, blog postings, quotes from famous people, research … Continue reading

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