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Unknown Devices – find Device Manger unknown devices

http://halfdone.com/ukd

Unknown Devices helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are.

By checking Device Manager for unknown devices and extracting information from it, this program attempts to figure out what the device is. You might not have to open your case or look up random numbers off of PCI cards to figure out what they are.

Program supports Win95, 98, 98se, Me, 2k, XP and 2003 but not NT. It also attempts to support future OSes.
It runs fine from a CD or floppy. It's free for personal and (especially) business use. The program contains no adware, spyware, malware, popups, or whatever is the latest name for junk software. If you want to add it to a cd collection or magazine that is fine, just drop me an email.

ePic ScreenSaver

http://www.epicreal.com/epic-screensaver.htm

Your photos have never become so live. Photos of your family, your best friends, all your moments of lif come to life on screen. ePic ScreenSaver – absolutely free for you and your friends.

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool

http://www.codeplex.com/PAL

Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (provided). The tool generates an HTML based report which graphically charts important performance counters and throws alerts when thresholds are exceeded. The thresholds are originally based on thresholds defined by the Microsoft product teams and members of Microsoft support, but continue to be expanded by this ongoing project. This tool is not a replacement of traditional performance analysis, but it automates the analysis of performance counter logs enough to save you time. This is a VBScript and requires Microsoft LogParser (free download). 

Mouse Gestures for Internet Explorer 8

http://ieaddons.com/en/details/other/Mouse_Gestures_for_Internet_Explorer/

Associate mouse gestures with Internet Explorer operations like opening/closing windows, search for selected text etc.. Support is also included for more complex actions via the built in scripting (VBScript or JScript) environment.

Disktective-disk-space reporting tool for Windows

http://www.disktective.com/

Running out of disk space? Don't know what's eaten it? Then run Disktective, our award-winning disk-reporting tool, to trace used-up space on your system. With Disktective you can find out the real size of your directories and distribution of used space inside them. Each directory may contain hundreds of subdirectories each containing many files. Simply run Disktective and let Disktective create a complete report displaying the real sizes of all directories and their containing subdirectories. 

Instant Mask-remove backgrounds from photos

http://clipping-path-studio.com/instantmask/

Instant Mask is a quick and simple to use background remover.

JumpLaunch-windows 7 jumplist quick launcher

http://jumplaunch.codeplex.com/

Did you ever wondered where is the quick launch bar in Windows 7? JumpLaunch is a missing link between taskbar and user. It is a simple program that can display quick launch shortcuts in a jump list. Just "pin" it to the taskbar and it is ready to use.

on-screen ruler- semitransparent onscreen ruler

https://sites.google.com/site/rulerhelp/welcome

on-screen ruler- semitransparent onscreen ruler. This program is a semitransparent on-screen ruler with keyboard shortcuts to help you lay out GUIs, Web pages or measure anything in 5 units. The ruler saves its settings upon exit and is safe for work, since it does not modify the registry.

IIPImage – Open Source light-weight streaming client-server system

http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/

IIPImage is an Open Source light-weight streaming client-server system for the web-based viewing and zooming of ultra high-resolution images. It is designed to be bandwidth and memory efficient and usable even over a slow internet connection. The system can handle both 8 and 16 bit images, CIELAB colorimetric images and scientific imagery such as multispectral images. The fast streaming is tile-based meaning the client only needs to download the portion of the whole image that is visible on the screen of the user at their current viewing resolution and not the entire image. This makes it possible to view, navigate and zoom in real-time around multi-gigapixel size images that would be impossible to download and manipulate on the local machine. It also makes the system very scalable as the number of image tile downloads will remain the same regardless of the size of the source image. In addition, to reduce the bandwidth necessary even further, the tiles sent back are dynamically JPEG compressed with a level of compression that can be optimized for the available bandwidth by the client.

Math Practice – Basic and advanced Math

http://www.mathpractice.co.cc/

Don't let basic maths drag down your marks, cause you to make careless mistakes in test or generally stand in your way. Purchase Math Practice and surprise the world with your new skills!

    * Get to grips with addition, subtraction, multiplication and your times tables using the Basic Math feature.
    * Use the worksheet feature to practice tons of different types of sums. More than 20 worksheets are provided with Math Mractice as well as help on how to do the sums in the worksheets. The worksheets include worksheets on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions, converting fractions to decimals, roots, exponents and more! If this is not enough you are able to create your own worksheets which generate an unlimited amount of a certain type of sum.
    * Math Practice also comes with a handy memorising tool where you can test yourself in any area – from spelling to geography to science.

Math Practice is compatible with all operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris etc.) that have Java installed. If Java is not installed on your PC follow this link to install Java now.

T3Desk-3d Desktop Manager

http://tehnif.com/T3Desk.aspx

T3Desk lets you manage your applications more easily in a 3D desktop adding the third dimension to your Windows screen. "3Dmized" windows will appear in three dimensions and transparent on your screen and have the ability to be flipped, zoomed, moved, swiveled in almost anyway you want. T3Desk is lightweight on your resources, unlike most applications of its kind.

XMind – Free Mind Map

http://www.xmind.net/

XMind is the world's coolest brainstorming and mind
mapping software and the best way to share your ideas.

Free PDF to Word Converter

http://www.free-pdf-to-word-converter.com/

Free PDF to Word Converter is an easy to use utility that does swift conversions from PDF to Word. You just need to add the file which you intend to convert into the program and click Convert. It is that easy! This program will create an exact copy of the PDF file. It will retain all graphics, fonts and formatting. It supports all versions of MS Word so that you would not have any troubles editing the converted file. The program works on all Windows systems.

Converber-unit converter

http://www.xyntec.com/converber.htm

Converber is a unit converter. It is a powerful software utility that will help make easy conversions between 1324 various units of measure in 38 categories. Converber converts everything from length and force to flow and temperature. See some of the features listed below.

Monitor Off Utility

http://www.dekisoft.com/mou.php

Now you can tell your monitor to immediately go into energy saving mode with the click of a button. Monitor Off Utility is a free program that allows you to take control of your monitors built-in energy saving features. You can setup your own custom keyboard shortcuts or setup a shortcut on your desktop or system tray. The utility supports multiple monitors and is very flexible. It even allows you to use a command line interface if you want to incorporate the utility into your own scripts.

Mouse Extender

http://www.codeplex.com/me

MouseExtender is a cosy utility with shortcuts to programs, folders and system functions (Control panel, Restart and Shutdown).
This program allows you to improve your productivity. It is extremely simple and fully customizable.
Detailed description of all features you can find here.
Release details and new features you can find here
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DVD Knife-extracting DVD clips from your DVD

http://www.vcsoftwares.com/dk.html

DVD Knife is a simple tool for extracting DVD clips from your DVD's.The clips will be stored in VOB format only. This is the simplest and fastest tool in its category which has ability to extract long VOB clips in few seconds.Its so simple that only three steps can extract the clip ie "Select start" – "Select end" – "Save". So get your favorite movie or film scenes stored seperately now.

SE-TrayMenu – Free tray launcher and hotkey manager for Windows

http://se-soft.com/TrayMenu.aspx

Use SE-TrayMenu to gain quick access to most frequently used applications and system commands via a customizable popup menu.

Version: 1.4.1.24
Release Date: 9 December 2009
Supported OS: Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/Win7

Main features:

    * Add any elements to your Windows system tray: programs, documents, folders, internet links and more
    * Specify global hotkeys to access everything you want with one click
    * Quick add of applications and links using drag and drop
    * Quick add of frequently used applications and installed programs
    * Completely customizable view with lots of pre-defined layouts and color schemes
    * Clear multilingual interface: English, Deutsch, Russian, Hungarian, Svenska and Japanesse
    * Portable version is available

MOOS Project Viewer-free Microsoft Project viewer

http://www.ms-project-viewer.com/

MOOS Project Viewer is a free Microsoft Project viewer software application that allows you to open, view in a dynamic way and print any Microsoft Project file. It is running on any Java enabled platform including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. There are many Microsoft Project viewers on the market, some freeware and others commercial. MOOS Project Viewer is not the best Microsoft Project viewer but it is the best choice in ter

Goodnight Timer-reduce volume then shutdown computer

http://www.immortalsoftware.com/goodnight.html

Like listening to music or audiobooks in bed? Then this is for you! Goodnight timer reduces the sound volume of your computer in a given amount of time and speed and then shuts down your computer.Features- Set shutdown time by timer or at a specific time- Volume reduction – choose between a linear and an exponetial profile, set reduction start time and duration. Start and end volumes can be freely choosen.- Restores your normal sound volume after next system start.Download
You can download Goodnight Timer ver 1.1 for Windows here:

HD Tach-low level hard drive benchmark

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible.

The trial version of HD Tach measures the sequential read speed (at various points on the device), the random access speed, interface burst speed and CPU utilization of the drive. The registered version adds sequential write testing.

EQATEC Profiler.NET

http://www.eqatec.com/tools/profiler

app run fasterIt's powerful, easy, and freeDownload33,000+ downloads since May, 2008Good news, everyone: Version 3.0 is out now! (Nov 11th)
 
Spot slow code

Are you a .NET developer? Would you like your application to run faster? Then use our free profiler to spot you app's slow code.
Point and go

No source code changes are needed. Just point the profiler to your app, run the modified code, and get a visual report.
Speedup any .NET app

As the only code profiler in the world, our profiler can even handle Compact Framework applications.

SlimTune is a free profiler for .NET

http://code.google.com/p/slimtune/

SlimTune is a free profiler and performance analysis/tuning tool for .NET based applications, including C#, VB.NET, IronPython, and more. It provides many powerful features, such as remote profiling, real time results, multiple plugin-based visualizations, and much more. The source code is available under the terms of the MIT License.

SlimTune is currently in the prototyping phase of development, but a preview release is available for testing and feedback is welcome. Both x86 and x64 targets are supported, but only sampling based profiling is available in the release.

Taskix - Reorder taskbar tabs and more

 http://taskix.robustit.com/

• Reorder taskbar tabs
• Scroll tabs with mouse wheel
• Close tabs with middle-click
• Supports UltraMon taskbars
• Quick access to Desktop
• Small – Simple – Effective

DebugDiag – Debug Diagnostic Tool

http://www.microsoft.com

Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process. The tool includes additional debugging scripts focused on Internet Information Services (IIS) applications, web data access components, COM+ and related Microsoft technologies.