Lopesoft's free utility FileMenu Tools lets you customize Windows Explorer context menu to provide advanced functions for file and folder manipulation like advanced renaming, shredding, split & join, register/unregister dll's and much more, these functions come handy at times and can be accessed in the most convenient way using FileMenu Tools.
FileMenu Tools Features:
Build-in utilities to perform operations like rename and delete operations over files and folders using specified criteria.
Add customized commands which let run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
Configure the "Send to..." submenu.
Enable/disable the commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.
These are just a few major functions of this wonderful utility.
Default Windows Task Manager provides a simple, easy to understand list of all the running process's on your computer, but if you are a power users and need to diagnose thing's out this information is not sufficient.
AnVir Task Manager is a free but powerful replacement for the default Task manager, loaded with all the tools you will ever need for advanced computer process diagnosis, the software provides detailed information about every process that is running, and about applications running automatically on Windows startup with all the hidden applications.
The interface looks cluttered and overloaded with information, but once you start using, its pretty easy. The main interface is divided into five tabs Startup, Applications, Processes, Services and Log, providing all the information you will ever need to know from the respected function, while loaded into the memory AnVir task manager displays detailed system information like CPU Load, Most CPU using process, disk load and temperature with process network usage statics via tooltips in system tray.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 is a well known professional partition manager for windows, the software allows you to create, edit, merge, backup and restore partitions on your hard-disk.
The software costs $49 to buy, However, a British computer magazine "Computer Active" offered free legal license to the software using a special link which was supposes to expire on April 11, 2007 but is still active and allows you to register your copy of Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 for free legally.
Low resolution videos taken using cellphones and lower-end digital camera's can now be improved to a much better quality using two free solutions FixMyMovie and FullPix as discussed below in detail.
TeraCopy is a must-have free replacement for default Windows copy/move operations, providing a much easier and faster way to copy/move files with advanced features not provided by Windows.
Digsby is a feature rich, easy to use free desktop client offering multi-protocol instant messaging with email and social networking integration aimed at bringing all major online communication services and social networks under one roof making things simpler to manage and use.
Currently Digsby supports:
Instant Messaging Services : AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
Email Services : Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts.
Social Networking Services : Facebook and MySpace (support for more services coming soon).
Digsby is in private beta now and you need an "Beta Invite Code" to use it (see end of the post for special invite codes for our blog readers).
We have written about DriveImage XML and Seagate DiskWizard as free alternatives to commercial hard-disk cloning software's like Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image, but both of them lack support for multicasting cloning (cloning many computers in a network simultaneously) as provided by Norton Ghost Corporate, so here it is not only free, but a open source solution for your unicast and multicast cloning needs - "CloneZilla" is based on DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux providing systemless environment for client machines), Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allowing you to do bare metal backup and recovery with ease.
CloneZilla supports ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, FAT and NTFS filesystems, providing you freedom to clone GNU/Linux or MS windows. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is also supported by Clonezilla.
Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla server edition. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla server edition was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!
Leaders in commercial video editing software Pinnacle launched their free video editing movie maker software "VideoSpin" targeted at home users.
VideoSpin is a brand new tool offering similar workflow as of professional Studio family of applications, allowing users to create their own movie clips in minutes using videos and pictures.
With this fully functional free video editor you can:
Mix videos, photos and music together
Add titles and transitions (with capability to create scrolling titles)
Upload directly to the web like YouTube
Export to Flash support
You can use VideoSpin to convert video formats and even extract audio from video files, if you are looking for a free, easy to use, feature rich replacement for windows movie maker this is the best thing available right now.
BootZilla is a free, simple to use bootable cd for computer technicians and advanced computer users, to perform advance computing tasks like removal of viruses and hardware tests to pinpoint hardware failures without booting into windows.
The toolkit provides common windows troubleshooting softwares into a easy to use package with bootable functionality and can come in handy while your computer is screwed up because of some malware, virus or hardware issue.
Nokia PC Phone is a innovative service currently under beta stages which lets you use and control your Nokia cellphone from a webbrowser, currently supporting Firefox 2.x and Internet Explorer 7.
You can call, SMS and manage contacts on your phone from your webbrowser, the service installs itself as a addon and can be launched from a toolbar button.
Default Windows Task Manager provides a simple, easy to understand list of all the running process's on your computer, but if you are a power users and need to diagnose thing's out this information is not sufficient.
Digsby is a feature rich, easy to use free desktop client offering multi-protocol instant messaging with email and social networking integration aimed at bringing all major online communication services and social networks under one roof making things simpler to manage and use.
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Leaders in commercial video editing software Pinnacle launched their free video editing movie maker software "VideoSpin" targeted at home users.
BootZilla is a free, simple to use bootable cd for computer technicians and advanced computer users, to perform advance computing tasks like removal of viruses and hardware tests to pinpoint hardware failures without booting into windows.
Nokia PC Phone is a innovative service currently under beta stages which lets you use and control your Nokia cellphone from a webbrowser, currently supporting Firefox 2.x and Internet Explorer 7.
