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iTunes 8 is here and is still a memory hogger like previous versions, instead of decreasing the bloat Apple seems to be adding more and more supporting services to the player further increasing the memory consumption.

Today, I will be sharing two free iTunes alternative's for managing your Apple devices with ease without consuming resources like iTunes.

There exist quite a few different Windows XP to Vista transformation theme packs for changing Windows XP interface and behavior similar to Vista, Today I will be sharing one of the best free vista transformation pack, allowing Windows XP users to get the exact look and feel of Windows Vista Ultimate.

Vista Skin Pack 5.0 is one of the smallest and lightest resource consuming Vista transformation pack, the skin pack makes more then 120 file changes to get Vista styled icons, animations, pictures, menus and behaviors on your Windows XP SP1/SP2/SP3, Mediacenter Edition or Windows 2003 computer, the best part is unlike other transformation packs Vista Skin Pack 5.0 features an easy restore option for reverting back to the original Windows XP look without requiring XP installation CD.

After Google Chrome Themes the first ever Chrome extension is now available, Named GreaseMetal the free extension offers functionality similar to highly popular GreaseMonkey extension for Firefox and GreaseKit for Safari, the free extension lets you use existing GreaseMonkey scripts to modify webpages being displayed, this also means Google Chrome will now be able to block advertisements using ad-blocking scripts.

Since, Google Chrome does not provide any method to develop or support browser addons, Greasemetal has found the way around by using an inter-process communication channel called AutomationProxy, which is used for automatic testing of web browser functions, After installation, and launching Greasemetal will start hooking Google Chrome to insert userscripts achieving the desired behavior.

Media corruption, virus attacks, unexpected system crash or shutdown are few of the most common reasons you can end-up having corrupt Microsoft Word Documents, In this case Microsoft Word would display garbage content or won't let you open the file displaying one of the following errors:

• "This file is not in a recognizable format."
• 'XYZ.doc' cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding.
• "The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions. Check the file permissions for the document or drive. Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document."
• "Word cannot open the document."
• "Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges."

In such situation's free utility "Repair My Word" can come handy to recover corrupted data from Microsoft Word files (.doc) with ease, the software is designed to recover text from damaged or corrupt Word files (.doc files), The recovered text can then be saved as an new error free Microsoft Word document.