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Comodo System-Cleaner - Speed Up That Sluggish Computer (Win) April/May 2009 Any Video Converter - Input your current video and convert to different file formats depending on your needs. (Win) February/March 2009 Anti-Spyware Anti-Virus Audio/Video Tools Browsers Chat/Instant Messaging Clocks Email Firewalls Games Imaging Internet Telephony Media Players Miscellaneous Office Photography Privacy/Security Readers Screen Savers/Wallpaper System Utilities Toolbars/Newsbars Webmaster Resources Zip Tools Anti-Spyware: Spyware Terminator - Effectively remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers and other malware threats. (Win) November 2006 Microsoft Antispyware (Beta) - Help protect your PC from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. (Win) February 2005 Ad-aware - Comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known data mining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components. (WIN) June 2003 Anti-Virus: PC Tools AntiVirus Free - Protecting you against the most nefarious cyber-threats attempting to gain access to your PC. (Win) May 2007 McAfee AVERT Stinger - A stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. (Win) May 2006 AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition - Well known anti-virus protection with updates. (Win) April 2005 Audio/Video Tools: MediaCell Video - Convert your video files to fit on your mobile devices. (Win) November 2007 Juice - Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere. (Win/Mac) February 2006 Lame - MP3 encoder/decoder. Convert your wav files. (WIN/MAC) StreamRipper32 - Rips Internet MP3 files by the carload. (WIN/MAC) The REAL MP3 Finder - MP3 music locator, player, +. (WIN) Browsers: Cooliris - Browser search plug-in that displays search results in a 3D wall where you can speedily scroll through thousands of images, videos. (Win) November 2008 IE7Pro - Jazz up your IE browser. (Win/Mac) Sept/Oct 2008 Opera - A worthy alternative to Internet Explorer. (Win/Mac) July/August 2006 Maxthon - A super version of the Internet Explorer browser. With tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, super drag & drop, skins and more. (Win) July/August 2005 Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR - A speedy, full-featured browser for Microsoft Windows. (Win) October 2004 ieSpell - Internet Explorer browser extension for spell checking text on Web pages. (Win) July/August 2004 Chat/Instant Messaging: Windows Live Messenger - Connect and share instantly on the world’s most popular IM network. (Win) Dec/Jan 2006/07 Trillian - The Swiss Army Knife of Instant Messaging. Supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. (Win) May 2005 AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 - Chat, video conference, play games, and share files with your family and friends in real-time. (Win/Mac) June 2004 Clocks: Alarm Clock Version 1.3 Beta - Easy to use desktop alarm clock. (WIN) April 2004 Banshee Screamer - Industrial strength alarm clock for your computer. (WIN) NIST Internet Time Service - Keeps your computer on time, every time. (WIN/Maybe MAC) -- (Pocket reader Jo Pfeffer suggests trying Atomic TimeSync.) Email: eprompter - ePrompter automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves your email messages from up to sixteen password protected email accounts. (Win) December 2005 MSGTAG - Message tags notify you the moment your email messages are opened. (WIN) March 2004 IncrediMail - Fun-filled email program. (WIN/MAC) Mr. Ed's Simple E-Mail bracket (>) stripper. - What it says. (WIN/MAC) Firewalls: Zone Alarm - A free firewall providing security for your Internet connected PC. Blocks hackers, spyware, and Trojans from communicating with the Internet. (Win) October 2005 Games: Eclipse Crossword Puzzles - Create your own crossword puzzles. Print them out or place them on a Web page for interactive play. (Win/Mac) July/August 2008 America's Army: Operations - "Earn the right to call yourself a Soldier, letting the enemies of freedom know that America's Army has arrived..." (WIN) Pinball - Microsoft Pinball Arcade Trial Version. (WIN) BlockCAD - Lego-like software. (WIN) Roll 'm Up - Play Pinball. (WIN) Hypervisual Blockworks - Virtual construction set. (WIN) Imaging: FastStone Capture Version 5.3 - Capture and manipulate images off your monitor. Much more useful then the old "Print Screen" button. (Win) December 2007 Google Sketchup - An easy-to-learn 3D modeling program. (Win) June 2006 Google Earth - Fly around the globe and zoom in using satellite images. (Win) September 2005 Google Earth and Sky - Use Google Earth to explore outer space. (Win/Mac) September 2007 RenderSoft CamStudio 1.61 - "A tool for recording screen activity into standard AVI video files." (WIN) XnView - A multifaceted graphics viewer, browser and converter. (WIN/OTHERS) Internet Telephony: Sightspeed - Quality video and voice calling. (Win) June 2007 Skype - Free software that enables you to make free computer to computer calls anywhere in the world in minutes. (WIN 2000 or XP) February 2004 Media Players: Quintessential Player - A full-featured digital jukebox, with straightforward interfaces for playing, recording, and organizing your digital music collection. (Win) April 2006 Nullsoft Winamp 5.06 - Media player that can play all types of audio and video files, free Internet radio and video, and much more. (Win) December 2004 Miscellaneous: Answers.com - This is an update to Guru.com. This free software allows you to click on any word or phrase on your screen to learn more about that topic. (Win/Mac) June 2008 YouTube Downloader - Download YouTube videos and convert them to Mpeg, AVI, iPhone, WMV, MOV and other formats. (Win) April 2008 Tubes - Make sharing, publishing, and subscribing to content easy. (Win) October 2007 PortableApps Suite - A collection of portable apps including a Web browser, email client and more. (Win) April 2007 Copernic Desktop Search - Search your PC fast and easy. (Win) October 2006 Google Desktop - Search your email, files, Web page history and chats instantly. (Win) November 2004 Lycos Music Search Web Page - Use search box for free music downloads (MP3s) from the Internet. (Win/Mac) May 2004 GuruNet - Look up any word or name in any program with one click. (WIN) December 2003 Hot Chime - Create your own keyboard shortcuts. (WIN) October 2003 Sean's Magic Slate - A coloring program for the child in all of us. (WIN) Splitter - Divides then reassembles large files. (WIN) NetZero - A Free ISP. (WIN) Office: EverNote - Organize and search your notes. (Win) Feb/Mar 2007 Post-it Software Notes Lite Version 3.0 - Place those wonderful yellow sticky notes on your desktop. (WIN) January 2004 eFax - Incoming fax and voice mail. (WIN/MAC) metapad - Text editor that beats Notepad. (WIN) TextExtract - Extracts text from a variety of files. (WIN) Photography: Rostrum Camera - Pan and zoom still images. (WIN) September 2003 Kodak EasyShare software - Digital photo editor. (WIN/MAC) April 2003 Exif Reader - Image data file analysis tool. (WIN) Privacy/Security: SiteAdvisor - Helps you stay safe while you search the Web. (Win/Mac) March 2006 PhishGuard - A free service that detects and rapidly disables Internet Phishing or Spoofing attacks designed to steal critical financial data. (Win) June 2005 4T Hit Mail Privacy Lite - Send and receive private data securely in images. (WIN) January 2003 BCWipe - Serious file deletion program for paranoids, adulterers and drug dealers. (WIN) Pop-Up Stopper - Halts pop-up and pop-under ads.(WIN) Readers: ReadPlease 2002 - On-screen text reader. Offers four human-like voices, two male and two female. (WIN) Adobe Digital Editions - Acquire, manage and read eBooks and other digital publications. (Win/Mac) July/August 2007 Screen Savers/Wallpaper: Simpson's ScreenSaver - A series of still images from The Simpsons. (Win) May 2008 Game Wallpapers - Seemingly endless choice of wallpapers. (WIN) System Utilities: Advanced WindowsCare Personal 2.6 - A comprehensive PC care utility that takes an one-click approach to help protect, repair and optimize your computer. (Win) Feb/Mar 2008 Tweak UI - Windows control tool. (WIN) Toolbars/Newsbars: Google Desktop Sidebar - A panel on your desktop which provides convenient, one-glance access to all sorts of personalized information. Email, news, weather, photos, note pad, RSS feeds and more. (Win) November 2005 My Yahoo! Ticker (Beta) - Makes it easy to track your favorite information, by bringing the news and opinions you've subscribed to in My Yahoo! directly to your desktop as they're published. (Win) March 2005 Free Stock Ticker - See stock quotes from US and world markets. (Win) September 2004 Ask Jeeves Toolbar - First Google then Yahoo! and now an Ask Jeeves toolbar. (WIN) November 2003 NewsDesk - Keeps an eye on up to 4,500 channels of news in 25 languages. (WIN) July/August 2003 Yahoo! vs. Google Toolbar - Battle of the search engines. (WIN/MAC) May 2003 Dave's Quick Search Deskbar - Taskbar search tool and bookmarks. (WIN) February 2003 CNET SearchBar - I.E. toolbar helps you quickly access and search your favorite CNET.com sites. (WIN) Weatherbug - Local weather on your desktop. (WIN) Webmaster Resources: Reptile 2 - "Application that lets you create funky backgrounds." (WIN) Zip Tools: WizUnZip - For unzipping compressed (.zip) files. (WIN)

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