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Application

Adblock Plus- Save your time and traffic
AlternativeTo- Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you suggestions on great alternatives!
CrossOver- CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications on your Mac or Linux computer. You can think of it as an emulator, but it's different, because there's no Windows OS license required. Your applications integrate seamlessly in OS X or Linux; just click and run. No rebooting, no switching to a virtual machine, and no Windows Operating System license required!
CSSeasy- Learn CSS the modern way...
Web2PDF- Web2PDF Converter helps Internet users, website publishers and bloggers to save their content to PDF and then share, print or archive it. Web2PDF Converter is fast, powerful and easy to use. Even better, it's free!
Password Haystacks- If every possible password is tried, sooner or later yours will be found. The question is: Will that be too soon . . . or enough later?
Microsoft Tag- Linking Real Life with the Digital World
Windows SteadyState
Lemon POS- an open source Point of Sale software targeted for micro, small and medium businesses.
Ninite- The Easiest, Fastest Way to Update or Install Software
GnuPG- GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories.
RoboSizer- RoboSizer offers fully automatic, on-the-fly image optimization that completely eliminates the need to manually resize your photos. Unlike other resizing applications, RoboSizer works in real-time and automatically resizes images when they need to be resized!
Fences- Your tool for a clean desktop
Bins- Taskbar organizer for Windows
K2pdfopt- K2pdfopt optimizes PDF/DJVU files for mobile e-readers (e.g. the Kindle) and smartphones. It works well on multi-column PDF/DJVU files. K2pdfopt is freeware.

Anti-malware

MVPs Hosts- Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File
hpHosts- for your protection
Rootkit
Microsoft Malware Protection Center- Threat Research and Response
Spyware Warrior
Google Safebrowsing Diagnostics- test sites for malicious content
TeMerc Internet Countermeasures
Microsoft System Sweeper- it is meant to be used in situations where you cannot start your PC due to a virus or other malware infection
Microsoft Safety Scanner- The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your existing antivirus software.

Hard Drive Utilities

SpinRite- SpinRite is the most capable, thorough, and reliable utility that has ever been created for the long term maintenance, recovery, and repair of mass storage systems.
Drive Savers- Claim an industry-leading 90% success rate!
OnTrack- Ontrack Data Recovery is the world leader in data recovery services and data recovery software offering the fastest, most convenient and cost-effective solutions to clients who have experienced data loss.
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows- UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem.
Ultimate Boot CD
TestDisk, Data Recorvery- TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
Photorec- PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.
GParted- GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.
Windows Directory Statistics- WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows.
Data Recovery - Zero Assumption Recovery- Zero Assumption Recovery provides a suite of highly effective and thorough data recovery software for Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
Bitdefender QuickScan- Bitdefender QuickScan is an online tool which uses .in-the-cloud. scanning to detect malware running on a PC very fast, usually in less than 60 seconds.

Hardware

Default Password List
CPU World
Linux on Laptops
Yubico
Ironkey- The World's Most Secure Flash Drive
Power Supply Calculator
eXtreme Power Supply Calculator Lite v2.5
HP Printer Memory- HP Printer Memory Upgrade Designed to boost the performance of your printer especially useful for printing multiple copies as well as demanding files.
Coreboot- is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers.

Network

Sender Policy Framework
PORT Forward
Sam Spade
Sectools- Top 100 Network Security Tools
Country IP Blocks- Security Solutions With Searchable IP Block Database
DNSstuff
Wireshark- The world's foremost network protocol analyzer
Internet Health Report
PingPlotter
GetNetWise
What Is My IP- The fastest, easiest way to determine your IP address.
Untangle- Multi-Functional Firewall Software
OpenDNS
ICSI Netalyzr- Debug your Internet.
URL X-Ray- Find out where shortened URLs lead to without clicking
Total Network Monitor- a free software for continuous monitoring of local network, individual computers and services that require careful attention and thorough control.
Network-Tools
Wayback Machine- Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.
CloudCracker- A password cracking service for penetration testers and network auditors who need to check the security of WPA2-PSK protected wireless networks, crack password hashes, or break document encryption.

Organization

New Order
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Internet Archive
National Vulnerability Database
Open Security Architecture (OSA)- OSA distills the know-how of the security architecture community and provides readily usable patterns for your application. OSA shall be a free framework that is developed and owned by the community.
Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA)- States Cell Phone Driving Laws
SANS Institute
Stay Safe Online
Stop Badware
The Freesound Project- The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.
W3C- World Wide Web Consortium

Support

Computer Hope- Free computer help for everyone
Microsoft Knowledge Base
Experts Exchange
Bleeping Computer
SuperUser- Super User is a Q&A site for computer enthusiasts that's free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away.
Tech Support Guy
HowtoForge
GetNetWise
Microsoft Answers- Real people. Real answers.
Technibble- Technibble is for Computer Technicians (or soon to be techs) who are looking to get into the IT industry, start their own computer business or improve their existing one. We frequently write about ways for you to get clients, deal with problem clients and introduce you to some great computer repair tools and software.

System

Microsoft Password checker- Test the strength of your passwords
How secure is My Password?
WSUS Offline Updates
BlackViper
Windows Vista Resource Kit, Second Edition (free)
Live CD List
InterfaceLIFT- Free High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpapers
Bootdisk
PCmover
Prio- Process Priority Saver
HiJackThis- Trend Micro HijackThis is a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file settings from your computer. HijackThis makes no separation between safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to selectively remove items from your machine. In addition to this scan and remove capability HijackThis comes with several tools useful in manually removing malware from a computer.
HijackThis.de Security- HijackThis opens you a possibility to find and fix nasty entries on your computer easier. Therefore it will scan special parts in the registry and on your harddisk and compare them with the default settings. If there is some abnormality detected on your computer HijackThis will save them into a logfile. In order to find out what entries are nasty and what are installed by the user, you need some background information. A logfile is not so easy to analyze. Even for an advanced computer user. With the help of this automatic analyzer you are able to get some additional support. Just paste your complete logfile into the textbox at the bottom of this page.
Hijack This! Analyzer- This system has been designed to help you quickly find information about everything contained in your HJT logs. We tap the greatest information databases we've been able to find to help you figure out which items in your log are OK and which ones are bad! Any information we have on the items will be displayed when you run your mouse over that line. Wherever possible you will be linked to a specific thread for help on that item.
Windows Sysinternals- Sysinternals utilities help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications.
Process Library
WinAudit- The programme reports on virtually every aspect of computer inventory and configuration.
WinKeyFinder- Win keyfinder retrieves your windows Xp, win 2000, windows me, 98, 2003 and .NET Product keys from the registry and display it for you.
ONYX- OnyX is a multifunction utility for Mac OS X which allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc. tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, Mail, iTunes, Login window, Spotlight, and many of Apple's applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, and more.