LiLi USB Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.
This software also offers an exclusive option of automatic virtualization to directly run Linux in Windows without any configuration nor installation. Create bootable Live USB of Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux and many others.
CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature.
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html
SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden).
In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range. It supports remote shutdown and Wake-On-LAN.
Looking for a fix to a simple problem in Windows Vista or Windows 7? FixWin offers one-click solutions to dozens of Windows problems. Run the program and look through its menu for a description of your woe. When you find it, click a button, and your problem should be fixed. I used it to restore my Internet Explorer icon, for example, and it worked without a hitch.
FixWin doesn’t actually look into your system and uncover problems. Instead, it lists several dozen potential problems in five categories: Windows Explorer, Internet & Connectivity, Windows Media, System Tools, and Additional Fixes. It lists all the problems you might have, not ones that it knows that you do have. So, for example, it lists “The Recycle Bin icon is missing from your desktop,” even if the icon is there. You have to know you have a problem, and then use this program to fix it. It won’t uncover problems for you.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/repair-fix-windows-7-vista-problems-with-fixwin-utility
You will be able to enter just about any query for a music group or artist, where it will be followed by a playlist that pops up alongside a thumbnail video and a description of the band. This is still an experimental product, so expect a number of kinks to be worked out still before it is polished as a final product.
Saving something as a PDF file is a great way to preserve it for future reference or for sharing with others, without risking the site changing before you look at it again. PDFMyURL makes it easy to convert sites to PDF.
Point PDFMyURL at a website URL and it will convert the site into a PDF document. Not only can you do a simple conversion just by plugging in a URL but you can also modify the PDF with a wide variety of flags—see the advanced menu for a full list—that let you set the page orientation and size, header information, print orientation, and more. PDFMyURL also has a bookmarklet you can drag to your toolbar for easy access to the PDF creation service.
A great resource for figuring out what needs to be done regularly around the house is the home maintenance and repair. It’s packed with checklists broken down by month.
1. Pick the apps you want.
2. Start your customized installer.
3. You’re done!
Ninite installs apps with default settings and says “no” to browser toolbars and other junk.
Ninite checks your PC’s language and 64-bit support to install the latest, best version of each app.
Ninite runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background 100% hands-free.
All Ninite does is install the apps you choose. Not even Ninite is installed.
inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn’t work well with Vista and 64-bit XP, we built an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for the current generation of Windows operating systems.
John’s Background Switcher collects images from Web sites like Flickr, Picasa, and more–or pictures from your own folders–and displays them as desktop wallpaper at intervals that you define. You can even subscribe to image sites that use RSS feeds.
Though you can access only one image source at a time–you can’t, for example, set the program to feed from both Flickr and your own My Pictures folder simultaneously–John’s Background Switcher gives you a tremendous amount of control over what you do see. Right-click the program’s icon in your system tray and you can jump to the next image in the queue, go back to a previous one, “blacklist” images you don’t like, browse the pictures that have been downloaded so far (though I couldn’t get this function to work), save images to your hard drive, and much more.
SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders.
Free for personal use and $31.96 for professional use, Easus Partition Manager is a great alternative to Symantecs “Partition Magic”. The main features of Easus Partition Manager are the ability to format, resize, delete, add, copy, set active and change drive letters. It can even be used as a Bart-PE plugin.
If you’d like to save a web site for posterity without the mess of saving the page and all its files, the web-based HTML to PDF Converter can crank out a PDF.
The service is pretty straightforward, with a spot to plug in the link to website you want to convert, then click Make PDF and either save or open the file. Out of curiosity I tried non-HTML files from the web, including TXT files and image files like PNG and JPG. The site will convert all of them to PDF, but with mixed results for image files—it appears if an image is larger than an 8.5×11 sheet when “printed” at its native resolution, it gets chopped up. HTML to PDF Converter is a free service and the PDF files it produces are not watermarked or labeled.
Using PDF-to-Word conversion technology, you can quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect.
CalendarLabs is the one stop destination for all the needs of calendars. We provide different kind of free calendar for year 2008, 2009 and 2010. Here you can easily find and customize your desired 2009 calendar. Online calendar and holiday calendar are available for your quick reference. Calendar holidays are also available in iCal calendar format for different countries including United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Romania, India, Italy, Philippines, Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Malaysia. Year calendar and month calendar for any desired month and year can also be generated. You can download or print different varieties of printable calendar or blank calendar. You can download printable calendars template on Microsoft Word format, which can be customized for any month and year. Blank calendars are provided with calendar grid in different style for your easy use. If you are looking for PDF calendars, this is the perfect place to download one. Astrology Calendars are the best free daily horoscope calendar available online from CalendarLabs. Specific horoscopes like love, health, career, travel, money etc. are included into astrological calendar. Photo calendars are well formatted and can be generated easily. You can create your own calendar by choosing different photos and print from any browser easily.
Spreadsheet Templates, Calculators, and Calendars. Vertex42 is a leading provider of Excel templates, financial calculators, and calendars. We also host The Excel Nexus – The ultimate directory of 3rd-party Microsoft Excel resources, including add-ins, templates, tutorials, and consulting services.
Dropbox instantaneously backs up and syncs your files over the internet and to any computer. After you install the application, it will create a Dropbox folder on your hard drive. Any file you put inside that folder will automatically be synced and monitored for changes, and each time a change is saved, it backs up and syncs the file again. Even better, Dropbox does revision history, so if you accidentally saved a file and wanted to revert to an old version or deleted a file, Dropbox can recover any previous version.
Seagate DiscWizard is an OEM version of Acronis True Image, a popular disk imaging, cloning and backup software utility for computers. The full version of Acronis True Image Home edition will cost its user a hefty $49.99 for puchasing, while Seagate DiscWizard is free of charge.
Seagate DiscWizard is essentially same piece of software which is an OEM version of Acronis True Image 10 Home edition version 10.0.0.5077. The label of OEM edition means that it’s strip down version from full product of Acronis True Image with lesser functionality and features. But this fact does not reduce the usefulness and value of Seagate Disc Wizard, and can be used to complement the free Acronis True Image 8 Personal edition to provide disk cloning function from within Windows without having to use trick of Acronis True Image plugin for BartPE.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard
One of the most boring parts of reinstalling the operating system is having to find and install all drivers again. What if you don’t have the Driver CD that came with the computer or you have lost it or they are unavailable online? It can be quite difficult for example to find drivers for hardware installed in a notebook if the operating system has to be setup again. Luckily Double Driver can now lend you a hand with that and save you a lot of time!
Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers simply and reliably.
Double Driver analyzes your system and lists the most important driver details such as version, date, provider, etc and offers you the chance to update to the latest version. All drivers that are found can easily be backed up the application and easily restored at a later point in one go.
A couple javascripts I wrote that countdown the days remaining to Federal and Other holidays.
Hundreds of papers you can download and print for free. We’ve got graph paper, lined paper, financial paper, music paper, and more.
Apple iphone / touch mobile web sites. Excellent resource for iphone webapps, tips, tricks, links and iphone / touch friendly websites.
The world’s largest social music platform. Show off your taste, see what your friends are listening to, hear new music, get personal radio, recommendations, and downloads, all for free.
thesixtyone is an experimental game that transforms listening to new music into a fun, massively multiplayer adventure.
Despite the incredible wave of creativity that’s happening in music, most people have a difficult time overcoming their underlying “musical inertia” — why bother with the typical tediousness of music discovery when you can fall back into the comfortable familiarity of your iTunes collection?
Tired of seeing great music fade into obscurity, we wondered if we could harness our experience designing video games to make something that could challenge music geeks and attract average people to the exciting frontiers of new music.
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
Mailinator is a disposable email service that helps you avoid putting your real email address into spam databases. Mailinator solves the problem of giving your email out to just anyone by allowing you to give them something different, something you make up on the spot, something that will work right away. With Mailinator, you’ve always got a new email address ready-and-waiting.
Mailinator is meant to be used by people when they need a new email address right now – an address that they know they won’t need later. We know it works since it’s basically something we wrote to use ourselves. As far as we know, Mailinator was the first service of this kind, and it’s available to everyone. Why not use it? Go ahead. Mailinator is free, it never asks anything about you, and is always ready to go. It fills a real gap.
Mailinator lets you choose who you are. Be Anyone.
RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use the numbers to run lotteries, draws and sweepstakes and for their games and gambling sites. Scientists use them for random sampling and as input to modelling and simulation applications. Artists use them to make art and music. The service has been operating since 1998.
RetailMeNot.com is an easy way to find online coupon codes. Enter these codes at the checkout page of participating merchants for instant discounts. Â
Find and share logins for websites that force you to register.
MagicDisc is a very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. For anyone who deals with CD-based programs – it is a MUST. MagicDisc allows you to use almost all CD/DVD image without burning them onto CD or DVD in order to easily access your favorite games, music, or software programs —- It works like a real CD/DVD-ROM: You can run programs, play games, or listen to music from your virtual CD-ROM. Allowing you to run your game images at over 200x faster than from a conventional CD/DVD-ROM. MagicDisc is a powerful utility that uses a unique combination of options to ensure a perfect back-up every time.
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm
AutoIt is a freeware Windows automation language. It can be used to script most simple Windows-based tasks (great for PC rollouts or home automation).
This is what iTunes should be like. An easy to use, uncluttered, lightweight program, which will convert most people to it after seconds of use. The plugins that are available will make for an easy transition, like being able to grab ratings from iTunes or Windows Media Player and import them to MusikCube.
A free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.
This is the one of the most essential programs ever – if you know how to use it. With AutoHotkey, you can write scripts that automate keystrokes, which can save you a lot of time. You can make it automate annoying internship jobs, like copying and pasting a bunch of text from one place to another, to more complex applications like Lifehacker’s Texter. The beauty of it all is that it very easy to learn and master.
PC WIZARD 2007 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It’s able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. PC WIZARD 2007 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.
CDBurnerXP is an easy to use CD/DVD burning software, that can write CD-R and CD-RW discs. The program can also write disks directly from an ISO image file, and save image as an ISO image file (*.iso). You can create data and audio CDs, and it supports Burn-Proof technology, multi-session disks, import of ISO images and more. In addition to CD burning, you can also rip audio CDs, normalize WAV files, encode MP3 files, erase disks, and more. CDBurnerXP Pro does not require ASPI when used under for NT/2000/XP. The program can also convert .bin and .nrg (Nero) images to .ISO format.
ImgBurn is great tool to create image files from discs and burn images to discs. It even supports HD DVD and Blu-ray. There is no need to use an high cost programs for images.
Tech and programming cheat sheets and quick reference guides
Well, that’s a convenient initiative allowing you to get the best commercial software titles – for free. Every day we offer licensed software you’d have to buy otherwise, for free! Yes, we are giving away software, and you can download it from our site, right now and right here and our goal is to give away every good piece of software, sooner or later.
High-Resolution wallpaper in various sizes.
Last freeware versions of popular software.
Because newer (software) isn’t always better.
OmniFormat is a free document conversion utility which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG.
SIW (System Information for Windows) performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for:
– Software: Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Installed Codecs, Licenses.
– Hardware: Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, – Disk Drives, CD/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers.
– Network: Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections, Open Ports.
– Tools: Password Recovery, Reveal passwords hidden behind asterisks, Product Keys and Serial Numbers (CD Key), MAC Address Changer, Shutdown / Restart.
Real-time monitors: CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.
SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode (for PC Auditing and Inventory).
SIW is a standalone utility that does not require installation – one less installed program on your PC as well the fact that you can run the program directly from a USB flash drive (Portable Freeware).
GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
Create PDF files from any Windows program.
National traffic and road closure information.
Official US weather, marine, fire and aviation forecasts, warnings, meteorological products, climate forecasts and information about meteorology.
http://weather.gov
GB-PVR is a fully featured home media center application, allowing you to easily use a remote to watch tv, schedule recordings, watch videos, watch DVDs, listen to music, view photos etc.
MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more. You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.