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Keep your public wifi sessions secure with Hotspot Shield
Windows and Mac. Even password-protected and encrypted public wifi connections aren’t as secure as you think. There remains the potential for a 12 year old prodigy to steal your passwords and credit card details. Also, with ISPs being forced by government agencies to publish details of your surfing habits, you may want to think about securing all your browsing and downloading habits. With this simple secure VPN solution from Hotspot Shield, you can be sure your browsing and socialising is secure from prying eyes, your ISP, and even your employer. More >
The best free software download sites
In this post I’ve rounded up the very best sites on the internet to download free apps giving you access to over a 1000 free applications. These download sites for free software contain really good lists of tried and tested applications. The download sites below have links to the very best free applications, utilities, system tools and online apps. If you can’t download the free app you need from these lists, it probably doesn’t exist.
The best free Sticky-Note apps
Throw the post-it notes away and replace them with virtual sticky-notes on your desktop. Sticky-notes complement your to-do list by nagging you to do the tasks you really need to do today. I give you five of my favourite free desktop sticky-notes tools. More >
Mount compressed files as virtual folders
If you have some large archive files (zip, rar, iso), and just need to extract or update one single file, it can be a little painful to have to extract the whole folder. However, with this free Windows tool you can easily mount the archive file as a folder, and explore or write to it just like any normal folder.
Pismo file mount allows you to mount ZIP, ISO, CISO, CFS, ISZ, DAA, and PFO files as virtual folders within Windows. More >
The Best Bulk-Installers for Free Windows Apps
The Best Bulk Installers
Bulk installers simplify the process of downloading and installing all your favourite free applications. Bulk-installers often work by providing all the necessary installation files in a neat package which can be installed on different PCs. You can also select precisely which applications you want in the bulk install package, and make sure you have all your favourite freeware. More >
Set free your photos with PhotoJoy Free
PhotoJoy is a beautiful program to set free your photos bringing them to your desktop using a choice of striking collages and desktop gadgets. No longer will your pictures be confined to the My Pictures folder. Use them to brighten up any Windows Desktop. More >
Reduce night-time eye strain with f.lux
Relieve tired eyes and eye strain with F.lux
If you’re staying up on the laptop too late, and developing square eyes syndrome, you could try installing f.lux on you PC, Mac or Linux based system. F.lux makes the colour of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day – warm at night and like sunlight during the day. More >
Find out passwords hidden by asterisks
Many Windows applications which contain usernames and passwords to accounts such as email, and web sites only show the password back to you as a series of asterisks. Once you’ve typed in the password you won’t be able to see it again. However, for the occasions where you need to see the password again, this cool little tool can help you. More >
MyLifeOrganized released for Blackberry Beta
There was some good news this week for users of one of the best GTD tools. MyLifeOrganized has been released for Blackberry Public Beta test. MLO has always been one of our favourite GTD tools, but it’s lack of mobility was always an issue, so we’re delighted to see this step forward. More >
Realtime Disk Defragging to speed up your PC
Windows only. It’s difficult to get too excited about disk defraggers, although a highly fragmented drive is significantly responsible for the slow down of a PC. Free download Smart Defrag automatically and continuously analyses and defrags the files you use. It does this in complete real-time so it doesn’t become a resource hog as experienced with many other defraggers. And you won’t need to defrag your disk ever again.
Download SharePoint content with Colligo Reader
Colligo Reader is free software to easily download content from SharePoint sites to your laptop so you can access the content offline, rather than having to copy files one by one through a browser. It’s completely free for non-commercial uses, and very simple to install and use. It’s ideal if much of your project work is stored in Sharepoint and you’re forever downloading one file at a time. With Colligo you can download entire sites to you laptop for offline reading. Ideal for the mobile consultant.
Sync files across many devices with Microsoft Live Mesh
This latest beta service from Microsoft promises to allow you to synchronise files across Windows PC, Mac OS (coming soon) and mobile devices (coming soon). You’ll need a Windows Live account to access the 5GB of storage you’re provided. This appears to be Microsoft’s latest iteration of SkyDrive which we always found clunky. Things seems to have improved, a lot.
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