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Darik's Boot and Nuke |
Have you ever upgraded
hard drives and given your old one away? Have you ever donated a
computer and were worried about your sensitive data? Well, formatting
the drive does NOT completely get rid of that data. In order to securely
remove any and all data, you need to use a utility such as Darik's Boot
and Nuke utility, which rewrites your drive in a manner that even the
U.S. Department of Defense considers safe. Best of all, it is freeware. |
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IrfanView is a very
fast, small, compact and innovative freeware (for non-commercial use)
graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
It has many basic
editing functions such as the ability to crop, rotate, flip, resize, and
increase/decrease colors. It also supports effects such as sharpen, swap
colors, and has palette and filter support. |
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Are you tired of
applications changing the way your system works without your permission?
Certain programs assume that you want to
associate specific filetypes with their application. Some programs, such
as older versions of Apple's iTunes, it attempts to change your .WAV and .MP3
file associations from your current player to iTunes every time you
launched the application. WinPatrol, by
BillPStudios, monitors such changes and allows to you stop them from
happening. The
FREE version of WinPatrol is fantastic, so if you want to support the
author, purchase WinPatrol Plus for $29.95 and get additional features
and support. |
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CCleaner, also known
as "Crap Cleaner", is a freeware system optimization tool that removes
unused and temporary files from your system, allowing Windows to run
faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. |
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Paint.NET is an image
and photo editing tool with an intuitive and innovative user interface
with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide
variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online
community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. This
tool is much more powerful than Window's Paint and has many of the same
features as Adobe PhotoShop, but is absolutely FREE. |
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Picasa is software
that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your
PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your
pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual
albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can
drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new
groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and
powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share
your pictures – you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs,
instantly share via Hello™, and even post pictures on your own blog. |
