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| ESSENTIALS | ||||
| App | Description | Cost | Link | |
| COMODO Firewall | World's #1 ranked free Firewall *A powerful firewall finds threats and protect your PC *Manages traffic activities on your PC *Provides fast and hassle-free online experience *Monitors all inbound and outbound connections *Secures all connections when you are online *Blocks all unwanted Internet attacks |
Free | http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/firewall.php | |
| Microsoft Security Essentials | Use Microsoft Security Essentials to help guard against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It provides real-time protection for your home or small business PCs. | Free | http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/security-essentials-download | |
| Spybot Search & Destroy | Finds and Destroys spyware, malware, adware and other malicious software. | Free | http://www.safer-networking.org/ | |
| Macrium Reflect | *A free disaster recovery solution for your home computer. *Protect your personal documents, photos, music and emails. *Clone your hard disk and create image files in the safe knowledge that everything is securely saved in an easily recovered backup file. |
Free | http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx | |
| TuneUp Utilities 2013 | Your ultimate PC cleaner, optimizer, and trouble-shooter *NEW! TuneUp Disk Cleaner 2013: Cleans up system-clogging clutter from 150 programs and Windows® *NEW! TuneUp Browser Cleaner 2013: Removes data traces from 25 browsers *NEW! TuneUp Live Optimization 2.0: Stops performance-sapping programs *Future-proof: Fully compatible with Windows® 8 Upgrades are £17.99 for 3 PC's if you already have it. |
29.99 | http://www.tune-up.com | |
| LiberKey | This is awesome! 292
applications available in a few clicks!
This is my top choice for any PC because it is so usefully and you can
update it so easily with the update menu option. I use at least one of the apps every
day. The best thing about Liberkey is
that it does not install the software, instead it uses stand-alone (portable)
versions off these great apps. In all areas : Audio, Video, Graphics, Internet, Games, Security, Education, System, etc. *Ready to use *Portable applications *Automatic online updates *Synchronization with the online catalo |
Free | http://www.liberkey.com/ | |
| Team Viewer | TeamViewer - the All-In-One Software for Remote Support and
Online Meetings. Remote control any computer or Mac over the internet within seconds or use TeamViewer for online meetings. Find out why more than 100 million users trust TeamViewer! |
Free | http://www.teamviewer.com | |
| Acronis True Image Home | ONLY BUY THIS IF MACRIUM REFLECT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU AND YOU
WANT TO PAY FOR MORE OPTIONS *It's a whole new vision for backup. It’s the latest sync technologies. It’s cloud storage. It's a new True Image supporting new devices. And it's easy to try now — whether you're installing it for the first time, or upgrading from a previous version. *True Image 2013 by Acronis protects your photos, documents, music, mail, programs, contacts, calendars, and more. It stores your content in a secure online location and syncs it with your devices. True Image 2013 is safe, reliable, easy. |
39.95 | http://www.acronis.co.uk/ | |
| JustCloud.com | Store All Your Files In The Cloud Access Your Files From Anywhere At Anytime, From Any Device. Professional Cloud Storage from JustCloud is Simple, Fast and Unlimited. Just Cloud will automatically backup all your documents, photos, music, videos and more to the cloud so you are never without files again. *Free Cloud Storage *100% Automated Service *Sync Multiple Computers *Unlimited Cloud Storage *Access Files Anywhere *Share Files with Friends Great if you don't want a local backup with a NAS. If you want to backup a NAS then be aware that a Network Drive Backup costs more. Fine if you have it connected via USB though ;-) |
£6.95/Month for the 2 year deal | http://www.justcloud.com | |
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| INTERNET | ||||
| App | Description | Cost | Link | |
| CyberGhost VPN | Best Free Anonymous Surfing Service for Windows *What's it for? - Anonymity services safely transmit information with little risk of local interception, making them ideal for surfing on open Wi-Fi networks or in hotels while traveling. *"A VPN (Virtual Private Network) based in Germany, providing a basic, attractive, and user-friendly design. It uses 128-bit AES encryption on all connections to ensure a high level of anonymity, and uses data compression to make connections faster. *The free service allows 1 GB a month, which is enough for normal surfing. You must register in order to use this service." |
Free | http://cyberghostvpn.com/en/surf-anonym.html | |
| HMA! Pro VPN | If you are travelling and need a UK based IP address to watch
BBC iPlayer from abroad then this is the app for you. Apparently also works with Netflix to get
US content in UK. Speed and customer
support is better than the rest for streaming this type of content. * Pro VPN - Anonymously secure your internet connection and encrypt your sensitive web traffic from hackers, network spies, and insecure networks. * Free web proxy - Surf websites anonymously, hide your online identity and internet history. Our free proxy works from inside of your web browser. * IP:PORT proxy lists - The largest database of public open proxies, updated 24/7 with an up to the minute auto-updatable checking system. * Anonymous email - Receive emails anonymously, especially useful for when websites or persons you do not trust ask for your email address. * Privacy software - Protect your online privacy with our free software, tools and browser extensions. * File upload - Securely upload large files with advanced privacy features, ensuring you control who can and can't download your files. * Anonymous referrer - Hide your website address from being shown as a referrer when linking to third-party websites. |
Free & Paid | http://www.hidemyass.com/ | |
| Chrome Browser | Still my favourite! Google Chrome runs websites and applications with lightning speed. | Free | http://www.google.com/chrome | |
| Firefox Browser | The free, non-profit browser for desktop and mobile. | Free | http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ | |
| LastPass | LastPass is a password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure. | Free | https://lastpass.com/ | |
| BBC iPlayer | With BBC iPlayer Desktop you can download your favourite shows. | Free | http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/install | |
| Skype | *Free video calling *Why just talk when you can see each other face-to-face? Video call your family in Australia, your friends in Spain or your colleagues in Japan, for free. It’s the next best thing to being there. |
Free | http://www.skype.com | |
| Blinkbox | The best way to watch the latest movies and TV shows without
subscription *Pay for what you want to watch, when you want to watch *Rent a title and you have 30 days to start watching it *Buy it, and it’s yours to enjoy forever *blinkbox is proud to be a part of Tesco, which also means you can collect Clubcard points for every £1 you spend First use will give you the option to install the download manager which is a good idea if you have a poor internet connection and want to watch it when its all downloaded. |
Free | http://www.blinkbox.com | |
| Netflix | £6.00 per month. Leading UK film and TV content streaming. |
£6 / month | http://www.netflix.com/ | |
| eBay Turbo Lister | List multiple items and upload to eBay in bulk! *eBay Turbo Lister is a FREE listing tool to help you create professional-looking listings and upload thousands of items in bulk. Try the new eBay Turbo Lister, the next generation listing tool. If you already use Turbo Lister, you'll appreciate the improvement in speed and reliability that you'll get with this new version. It's still free! *Easier listing and editing capability *Sleek new design *Same bulk listing benefits as the original Turbo Lister |
Free | http://pages.ebay.co.uk/turbo_lister/ | |
| Free Download Manager | I used to recommend EagleGet but it has become very unstable
recenty and requires a huge number of updates/ I am back to Free Download Manager. Increase your download speed and resume broken downloads. FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously. As a result download speed increases up to 600%, or even more! FDM can also resume broken downloads so you needn`t start downloading from the beginning after casual interruption. |
Free | http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm | |
| ThinkBroadband tbbMeter | tbbMeter is a bandwidth meter we have developed to help you monitor your Internet usage. It allows you to see how much your computer is sending to and receiving from the Internet in real time. It also shows you how your Internet usage varies at different times of the day. It does not record what you do on the Internet (i.e. it doesn't know what web pages you visit). | Free | http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tbbmeter.html | |
| Trusteer Rapport for Online Banking | Trusteer Rapport for Online Banking prevents Man-in-the-Browser and Man-in-the-Middle attacks. It disables key logging and screen capturing of credentials and personal information used to perpetrate account takeover and cross-channel fraud. Additional protection layers stop endpoint infection via drive-by-downloads and automate malware removal from infected devices. And, Phishing of login credentials and payment card data is blocked while fraud teams are notified of threat activity and compromised credentials. Trusteer Rapport for Online Banking software can be installed on any end user platform including Windows, Mac OS and Virtual Desktops. | Free | http://www.trusteer.com/support/ | |
| SkyDrive | SkyDrive from Microsoft is a secure, online space that allows you to store and share up to 7 GB of documents, photos and other files. | Free | https://skydrive.live.com/ | |
| DropBox | Your files, anywhere *Any file you save to Dropbox also instantly saves to your computers, phones, and the Dropbox website. *2GB of Dropbox for free, with subscriptions up to 100GB available. *Your files are always available from the secure Dropbox website. *Dropbox works with Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. *Works even when offline. You always have your files, whether or not you have a connection. *Dropbox transfers just the parts of a file that change (not the whole thing). *Manually set bandwidth limits -- Dropbox won't hog your connection. |
Free | https://www.dropbox.com/ | |
| K9 Web Protection | My first choice for family safety when browsing. * Block web sites in more than 70 categories, including pornography, gambling, drugs, violence/hate/racism, malware/spyware, phishing. * Force SafeSearch on all major search engines. * Set time restrictions to block web access during designated times. * Configure custom lists for "always allow" and "always block". * Override a web page block with password. *Trust the enhanced anti-tampering, even children can't break. * View easy reports to monitor and control web activity. * Real-time categorization of new adult and malicious sites. * Best free parental controls software/internet filter available. |
Free | http://www.k9webprotection.com/ | |
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| OFFICE & EMAIL | ||||
| App | Description | Cost | Link | |
| Libre Office | LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. | Free | http://www.libreoffice.org/ | |
| Opera Mail | I used to recommend Thunderbird but have found Opera Mail to be more reliable especially with Outlook.com. It's a very fast and lightweight email client with loads of advanced features. Definitley my email client of choice now. | Free | http://www.opera.com/computer/mail | |
| GuerrillaMail | I use this service to register for software downloads etc where
I don’t want to give out me real email address and risk a flood of spam! Very simple and easy to use. Avoid spam and stay safe - use a disposable email address! |
Free | https://www.guerrillamail.com/ | |
| Edit Pad Lite | EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use
EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. EditPad Lite has all
the essential features to make text editing a breeze: *Large file and long line support. *Full Unicode support, including complex scripts and right-to-left scripts. *Direct editing of text files using Windows, UNIX, and mac text encodings (code pages) and line breaks. *Tabbed interface for working with many files. *Unlimited undo and redo for all open files, even after saving. *Automatic backup and working copies prevent data loss. *Powerful search-and-replace with literal search terms and regular expressions that can span multiple lines. |
Free | http://www.editpadlite.com/ | |
| AceMoney Lite | Free Personal Finance Software AceMoney Lite, home budget, free personal financial software, is the best Microsoft Money or Quicken alternative. It makes managing multiple accounts a breeze. You can manage your budgets, track multi-currency finances, analyse your spending habits, make transfers between accounts, and do on-line banking. You can start instantly without any prior accounting experience |
Free | http://www.mechcad.net/products/acemoney/free-personal-finance-software-quicken-alternative.shtml | |
| iMindMap | iMindMap Basic is our FREE Mind Mapping software which will get you Mind Mapping quickly and easily. A simple tool to help you start thinking in a clear and creative way, iMindMap Basic uses a process that has been enhancing the way people think for decades. | Free | http://www.thinkbuzan.com/uk/products/imindmap/basic | |
| PDFill PDF Tools | PDFill PDF Tools are FREE PDF functions to merge, split, reorder, delete, encrypt, decrypt, rotate, crop and reformat PDF pages, to add information, header, footer and watermark, to convert images to PDF, PDF to images or PostScript to PDF, to delete, flatten and list form fields, to scan to pdf, to create transparent image, and more. | Free | http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html | |
| PDF Password Remover | PDF Password Remover is a free tool to unlock PDF documents and remove passwords and restrictions on printing, editing, copying, form filling, and others. It removes unknown owner passwords and known user passwords from PDF files. It is very easy to use. | Free | http://free-pdf-password-remover.en.softonic.com/ | |
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| MUSIC & MULTIMEDIA | ||||
| App | Description | Cost | Link | |
| iTunes | With iTunes in the Cloud, the music, apps, and books you purchase automatically appear on all your devices. Or you can download only the stuff you want — including movies and TV shows — to just the devices you want. | Free | http://www.apple.com/itunes/ | |
| VLC Media Player | VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. | Free | http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ | |
| NaturalReaders | I use this to listen to documents or news articles while I work
on something else. Voice quality and
pronunciations are a lot better than other similar apps. NaturalReader is a text-to-speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy-to-use software can read to you any text such as Microsoft Word files, webpages, PDF files, and E-mails. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV. |
Free | http://www.naturalreaders.com/ | |
| FairStars CD Ripper | FairStars CD Ripper is a free powerful software for ripping audio CD tracks to WMA, MP3, OGG, VQF, FLAC, APE and WAV formats files on-the-fly. Free CDDB is supported(Querying & Submitting). It supports normalization when ripping, and also support ID3 tag. FairStars CD Ripper also supports playback with its built-in player. | Free | http://www.fairstars.com/cdripper/ | |
| WinX DVD Ripper Platinum | This is the all in one solution that I think is worth the
money. It decrypts, rips, and outputs
to your chosen format all in one motion and very, very quickly too if you
have a fast pc. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is a Windows-based DVD ripper software capable of ripping any DVD (even latest encrypted DVD discs/ISO images) to mainstream videos, such as rip DVD to AVI, DVD to MP4, H.264, MPEG, WMV, MOV, FLV, 3GP, etc. It can also help users faultlessly convert DVD to Apple (incl. iPhone 5, iPad 4/Mini, iPod Touch 5, Apple TV, iTunes), Android (HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, Kindle Fire), Microsoft (WP8, Surface), PSP, etc. This DVD ripper brings No.1 fast DVD ripping solution thanks to the cutting-edge tech to support Multi-core (up to 8) CPU and Hyper-threading. |
$39.95 | http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper-platinum/ | |
| MP3Tag | I uses this after using WinX DVD Ripper or FairStars CD Ripper
to put a cover pictures, art or artist info into the files so that when you
browse them you can see the Album or DVD cover art. Don't click the big download button on the
page as its for another promotional app.
Click the filename a bit further down ;-) Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library. |
Free | http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ | |
| Zoner Photo Studio FREEView | Zoner Photo Studio 14 FREEView, edit, manage, and share your
photos *Powerful but easy to use *Correct red eye, blurring, and other defects *Organize photos—all information is stored in pictures, you can freely use it in any other program *Create 3D pictures, contact sheets, calendars, greeting cards and more |
Free | http://free.zoner.com/ | |
| Photools iMatch | ONLY BUY THIS IF ZONER PHOTO STUDIO FREE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU
AND YOU WANT TO PAY FOR MORE OPTIONS Since 2001 IMatch is the Image Management Solution of choice for photographers, graphic artists, librarians, scientists, insurance companies, the health-care industry and police, military and governmental users in over 60 countries. All need a reliable, powerful and flexible software for their daily image management. IMatch delivers. I use this. |
40 | http://www.photools.com/imatch-3-overview/ | |
| PhotoMe | PhotoME is a powerful tool to show and edit the meta data of image files. Thanks to the well organised layout and intuitive handling, it's possible to analyse and modify Exif and IPTC-NAA data as well as analyse ICC profiles - and it's completely FREE! | Free | http://www.photome.de/ | |
| FastStone Image Viewer | FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, retouching and colour adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, ARW, SR2, RW2 and DNG). | Free | http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm | |
| FastStone Photo Resizer | FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter and renaming tool that intends to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change colour depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported. | Free | http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm | |
| Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) | Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. The stitched panorama can be shared with friends and viewed in 3D by uploading it to the Photosynth web site. Or the panorama can be saved in a wide variety of image formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by Silverlight's Deep Zoom and by the HD View and HD View SL panorama viewers. | Free | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ | |
| Screenshot Captor | Screenshot Captor is a best-in-class tool for grabbing,
manipulating, annotating, and sharing screenshots. It supports multiple screens, full screen, window, rectangular area, and fixed area captures from either hot keys or from the programs menu. The cursor can be included or excluded. It's the only capture facility that can take a self-portrait. The software can acquire images from a scanner. |
Free | http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor/ | |
| Lightbox 2.0 Free | Lightbox 2.0 Free version is a limited version of Sagelight
2.0. It features the same UI and
easy-to-use Quick Edit Mode controls. *If you just want to adjust your picture and make it look great without all of the extras of Sagelight, then Lightbox 2.0 free version is a good choice. *Lightbox 2.0 Free version has earned awards (see the main page), and contains the same core real-time engine of Sagelight, allowing you to control many different aspects simultaneously, giving you an intuitive feel for editing your image. *Lightbox is free, with no strings attached. It is no longer updated, however. |
Free | http://www.sagelighteditor.com/downloadfree2.html | |
| VideoPad Video Editor | Video Editing Software Anyone Can Use * Designed to be intuitive, VideoPad is a fully featured video editing program for creating professional looking videos in minutes. Making movies has never been easier. * Drag and drop video clips for easy video editing Apply effects and transitions, adjust video speed and more One of the fastest video stream processors on the market. |
Free | http://www.nchsoftware.com/index.html | |
| Kristal Audio Engine | A powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer - ideal for anyone who wants to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio. According to their website, "It is designed as a modular system. The main application provides a mixing console, while the audio sequencer, live audio input and so on are loaded as separate Plug-Ins". It supports an ASIO audio driver, which may be appealing to those who are concerned with latency during multi-track recording. It's based on a 32-bit floating-point audio engine that can handle sample rates of 44 to 192 kHz with word sizes of 16, 24 or 32 bits. It comes with a three-band parametric EQ and supports WAVE, AIFF, FLAC, and OGG Vorbis file formats. It can only handle a maximum of 16 audio tracks, though the web site mentions an upcoming version 2 that will handle more tracks and provide support for MIDI, virtual instruments, and a wider range of VST plugins. Like all media-editing programs, Kristal requires a modern fast PC. Don't even think about using it with a sub-1Ghz machine. | Free | http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/ | |
| DownloadHelper | DownloadHelper is a way to discover many sites showing Web
videos from all around the world. DownloadHelper is also a free Firefox extension for downloading and converting videos from many sites with minimum effort. Install the extension ! |
Free | http://www.downloadhelper.net/ | |
| TurboCollage | I bought this and can confirm that for collages there is nothing
better. Create stunning picture collages on your Windows PC in 5 amazing collage styles. |
$4.99 | http://www.turbocollage.com/ | |
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| UTILITIES | ||||
| App | Description | Cost | Link | |
| ImgBurn | ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning
application that everyone should have in their toolkit! It has several 'Modes', each one for
performing a different task: *Read - Read a disc to an image file *Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc *Write - Write an image file to a disc *Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct *Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing |
Free | http://www.imgburn.com/ | |
| 7-Zip | 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. | Free | http://www.7-zip.org/ | |
| MagicDisk | MagicDisc is freeware. It is 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 favourite 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. | Free | http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm | |
| MiniTool Partition Wizard | MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager software designed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. Our partition manager supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Functions include: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Extend Partition, Split Partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery. | Free | http://partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html | |
| HandBrake | HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. | Free | http://handbrake.fr/ | |
| TrueCrypt | Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux | Free | http://www.truecrypt.org/ | |
| Microsoft Rich Copy 4 | Microsoft RichCopy is a file management tool, designed to help you copy multiple files at the same time, in order to increase the overall speed of the process. | http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/Microsoft-RichCopy.shtml | ||
| Microsoft PageFileDefrag | One of the limitations of the Windows NT/2000 defragmentation
interface is that it is not possible to defragment files that are open for
exclusive access. Thus, standard defragmentation programs can neither show
you how fragmented your paging files or Registry hives are, nor defragment
them. Paging and Registry file fragmentation can be one of the leading causes
of performance degradation related to file fragmentation in a system. PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop). |
Free | http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx | |
| WinImage | WinImage is a fully-fledged disk-imaging suite for easy
creation, reading and editing of many image formats and fileystems, including
DMF, VHD, FAT, ISO, NTFS and Linux. The disk image is an exact copy of a
physical disk (floppy, CD-ROM, hard disk, USB, VHD disk, etc.) or a partition
that preserves the original structure. With WinImage in place, you can
recreate the disk image on the hard drive or other media, view its content,
extract image-based files, add new files and directories, change the format,
and defragment the image. All this and more is delivered in one intuitive
user interface that enables imaging right out of the box. 30 DAY EVALUATION DOES NOT RUN OUT |
Free | http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm | |
| Classic Start 8 | Get the Start button functionality back on your desktop for
Windows® 8! Classic Start 8 is a free application which adds a traditional-style start button to the Windows® 8 desktop taskbar. With full functionality just like in Windows® 7, Classic Start 8 brings back all the familiar features of a traditional start menu into Windows® 8, including quick access to the search box, control panel, documents, all programs and more! Designed specifically for use with the Windows® 8 graphical user interface, the Classic Start 8 start button is seamlessly integrated into your system, making it appear and function as an integral part of your desktop taskbar. Classic Start 8 is completely free of charge without any hidden payments or fees, unlike most other start menu solutions for Windows® 8. Download it free today! |
Free | http://www.classicstart8.com/ | |
| Hawke ChairGun Pro | Pellet trajectory app for zeroing airguns. For those who wish to delve a little deeper into airgun or rim-fire ballistics, we present ChairGun Pro. Based on the highly successful ChairGun2 and 3, the interface has now been redesigned to make it more intuitive and easier to use. ChairGun Pro uses modern, accurate ‘modified point-mass’ ballistic functions to instantly give you the essential data that you need. |
Free | http://www.deben.com/hawke.html | |
| Atomic Clock Sync | Love this simple utility!
I update every 3 days. Atomic Clock Sync offers an easy way to configure how often your computer will check in with an atomic clock server to keep your local system clock adjusted for accuracy. The default in Windows is to sync every 7 days, but you can easily change this to be more often if you find your computer clock gets behind or ahead too quickly. Atomic Clock Sync can even help repair the Windows Time Service if your computer is no longer able to check for Internet Time updates as it normally would. |
Free | http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/ | |
| ZoomIt | If you have ever seen Microsoft do a presentation which zooms
into areas of the screen or draws on it to highlight parts, then this is the
tiny app they use. Very handy to
quickly zoom into parts of the screen even if you are not presenting. ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. The author wrote ZoomIt to fit their specific needs and use it in all of their presentations. |
Free | http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx | |
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| App | Description | Cost | Link | |
| Bio Digital Human | Learn about the makings
of the human body without having to resort to boring textbooks or a lab. With nothing more than a web browser and a decent internet connection you can browse the virtual skeleton. You can choose between male and female, zoom and rotate the skeleton, and turn on/off the display of specific bodily systems such as reproductive, cardiovascular and so on. You can also view the location and symptoms of hundreds of common diseases. Whether you're a wannabe surgeon or merely an interested bystander, this site really is something special. A truly excellent educational resource. |
Free | https://www.biodigitalhuman.com/ | |
| Flight Radar 24 | Commercial aircraft constantly broadcast details of their
location, altitude, speed and other statistics to air traffic
controllers. This data can also be
picked up by anyone with the necessary receiver and decoded. Flight Radar 24 is a web site operated by a group of volunteers from around the world, who pick up the signals and feed them back into a central system that displays the data in a friendly form overlaid on a map. |
Free | http://www.flightradar24.com/ | |
| Essentials | Office & Email | Utilities | GPS & Mapping | |
| Internet | Music & Multimedia | Educational | Handy Sites | |
| GPS & MAPPING | ||||
| App | Description | Cost | Link | |
| Garmin Base Camp | Use BaseCamp to plan your next hiking, biking, motorcycling,
driving or off-roading trip. You can view maps, plan routes, and mark
waypoints and tracks from your computer and then transfer them to your
device. *Track Draw feature lets you trace your planned route and view elevation changes, helping you estimate the difficulty of a hike or bike ride. *Plan the perfect scenic route, making sure your navigator takes you through certain waypoints, for your next road trip. *Play back your routes and tracks over time and save and share your adventure. Survey the Terrain BaseCamp displays your topographic map data in 2-D or 3-D on your computer screen, including contour lines and elevation profiles. Load map data from your handheld device, or import maps you’ve downloaded or purchased on DVD or microSD™ card. Consider our TOPO series maps, which offer detail on a scale of either 1:100,000 or 1:24,000. Geotag Photos BaseCamp lets you geotag photos, associating them with specific waypoints. |
Free | http://www.garmin.com/us/products/onthetrail/basecamp | |
| Essentials | Office & Email | Utilities | GPS & Mapping | |
| Internet | Music & Multimedia | Educational | Handy Sites | |
| HANDY SITES | ||||
| Site | Description | Link | ||
| Gizmo's Freeware | Probably the best site I've found which hunts down and rates the best windows applications. Biased is towards free. | http://www.techsupportalert.com/ | ||
| Hope this is useful. | ||||
| Cheers, Dave | ||||