Neat screensaver if you like ‘em…

Free from www.screenomania.com is a nifty, fun program for use as a screen saver that displays real time views of mother earth.

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Defrag for free…

Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startups and shutdowns.  Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of modern hard disks and its free!

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Another free tool to manage your Windows resources…

As many as 20 to 30 processes may be running invisibly, silently in the background on your PC. Some hog system resources, drastically slowing down your computer. Others are a threat to security and privacy. A few may be harmless.

Get the latest definitions and exhaustive advice on all the processes running on your Windows PC.  Download and install ProcessQuickLink 2, run it, and then open the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) to see icons to the side of each task that is running.  Click on any icon and you’ll browse to ProcessLibrary.com to learn more about that running program.

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What the heck is running on my PC?

Ever wondered which program is hogging all your system resources or has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which programs are running.  It’s free.  Look for another tool to help with managing your Windows system resources in my next post.

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Convert any video to iPod video…free!

Videora iPod Converter is a free iPod video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD’s so you can play them on your iPod.

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Let Belarc advise you – for free…

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser.

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Stop that SPAM…

Spambayes is a free, open source, anti-spam program thats been in use for several years.  It works with (and has been tested with) all Outlook mail clients and GMail.  It also seems it may also work with Windows Live mail, Incredimail, Yahoo mail, MSN Hotmail, and AOL mail.

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2 “F’s” as in FREE and floola for you iPod management…

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It’s a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Windows Vista is supported). You can get it here:

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