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Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way.

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Device Doctor is a freeware Windows application that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for your devices. It also locates drivers for "unidentified devices" in the Windows Device Manager.

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Follow through this guide, and I'll explain how to rebuild a system from the ground up with Windows 7 and Ubuntu, with either a backed-up and cleaned-out hard drive (recommended) or Windows 7 already installed. When we're done, you can work and play in either operating system, quickly and conveniently access your documents, music, pictures, and other files without worry or inconvenience, and boot into either system without having to worry about whether Windows is going to get mad at you

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Bubbles is an application platform, based on Browser technologies. It detaches Web Applications from the classic Browser and offers them with the familiar accessibility, capabilities and always-on nature of Desktop applications

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There are a lot of excellent free Windows comprehensive repairing and fixing tools around the internet.
But there are times when you want just one quick fix for example when you are under a virus attack and you just want to enable the Task Manager or the Registry Editor so you can fight the virus back, or when some new installation changed your XP behavior and My Documents opens on every start up.

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Features:

* Build a lists of your favorite software and install all in 1 click.
* Hosts huge collection of popular and no so popular software.
* Search and browse by categories or alphabetically.
* Check out most popular and latest additions.
* Register to save your lists online.

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PureSync is a user-friendly file syncing and backup application. If you've been putting off messing around with syncing files, PureSync's simple profiles and smooth interface might just lure you into data safety.

PureSync walks you through creating your first profile on its first run. You can create a profile to sync folders, back up folders, or create a profile for your digital camera which—similar to the feature in Picasa—will ignore photos on your memory card you've already downloaded to your computer. You can set filters based on file type, and specify that the particular profile only be executed manually, when a device is connected or a folder found, when files have been modified, or on a user-defined schedule.

When in comparative view, as seen in the screenshot above, you can use the menus or hot keys to quickly force a file comparison based on file names or binary content, highlight the files that will be synced, and highlight file conflicts between the two locations. For those with web space or remote servers, PureSync can synchronize and backup to local drives or network folder and over FTP.

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1. Pick the apps you want.
2. Start your customized installer.
3. You're done!

Ninite works in the background 100% hands-free.

We install apps with default settings and
say "no" to browser toolbars and other junk.

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Whether you need to create rich-text word processing documents, share files across multiple computers, transfer files, create MS Excel compatible spreadsheets, comma-delimited database files, email your contacts, talk to your friends or co-workers on MSN, create pdf files, or securely encrypt or delete files - this is the perfect software package for you! When it comes to portable productivity, Tiny USB Office offers you the biggest bang for your buck - all under 2.5 megabytes of space! Hope you find it useful.

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So let’s work on not one but five ways to print folder and directory contents and get that file list.

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Whether you are a developer or a dabbler there is something for everyone at Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows.
There are several categories that have tons of useful information covering a large (did I say large? I meant amazing) range.
Here are a few of the categories; I'm not going to list all of them and my fingers would fall off trying to give you an overview - you really have to see them for yourself. Its that good.

- Launchers
- Things Windows Forgot
- Outlook AddIns and Life Organizers
- Browser Add-Ins/Extensions
- The Big Ten Life and Work-Changing Utilities
- Low-Level Utilities
- Websites and Bookmarklets
- A (.NET) Developer's Life
- Regular Expressions
- The Angle Bracket Tax (XML/HTML Stuff)

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Where does the time go? Whether you need to know for billing purposes or just want a better idea of how your work day is split up, you can always answer that question with a good time-tracking application.

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ISO stands for the International Organization for Standardization. You wouldn’t know it but it’s one of the most powerful non-governmental organizations in

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There may come a day that optical drives are as hard to find as 5.25 floppy drives are today.

WinToFlash starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can alsow do this with your LiveCD.

You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, as media is shifted to the cloud.

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Lacuna Launcher is a tiny, free app that can launch multiple programs and/or files with one click. It allows users to assign the order of the launched apps, to assign an optional delay before the apps start running (useful for programs launched on startup), as well as an optional wait time between each of the successive items launched.

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Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. This is still a work in progress (see details below), but so far it's proven quite useful and I feel others can also benefit from it.

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Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.

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Unfortunately, maintaining a multi-boot configuration like this can be a pain, especially if you later install an operating system which overwrites the GRUB boot loader you had in place (such as a version of Windows). If your boot loader is overwritten, you could be left with no choice but to boot the most recently installed OS.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to restore an overwritten copy of the GRUB boot loader by using a Linux live CD.

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Windows/Mac/Linux/Xbox: What could make the already awesome Xbox Media Center even better? An infusion of eye candy, of course. Read on to see some awesome XBMC skins and learn how to install them.

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A well tagged MP3 collection makes everything from organization to playback easier. Keep reading for a closer look at your fellow readers' favorite tools for cleaning up their MP3 tags in this week's Hive Five. Photo by Darin Barry.

Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite tools for tagging your MP3 files. We've rounded up the top six rather than five—thanks to a particularly close call among the top candidates—and we're back to share and help you pick a program to get your MP3s in order.

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