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ViSplore ViSplore adds Vista's most popular features to the older Windows operating system, XP. Perhaps the most highly regarded feature of Vista is its glass user interface; ViSplore by default uses a Vista glass style skin designed by WindowsX. ... You can also quickly access your desired files with the QuickFind feature, which allows a user to simply begin typing the file or folder they are looking for and ViSplore will highlight it. http://lee-soft.com Unetbootin Unetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux or BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from ... (view more)

Install Linux On A USB Drive There are so many reasons why having a Linux distribution on a USB drive can come in handy. No matter what OS is on your machine, you can use your USB drive to boot into Linux without effort. From having a rescue OS on ... your key ring to being able to install a new distribution on your Asus Eee PC, a "thumb drive" Linux is extremely useful. This guide will help you get through the process of installing Linux on your USB drive. http://www.ghacks.net Copy Wipe CopyWipe is a utility for copying and/or securely overwriting (wiping/erasing) entire hard drives. CopyWipe ... (view more)

Power User Guide To Google Chrome Become a keyboard shortcut master, take a peek under Chrome's hood, and customize its behavior and skin with some of the best shortcuts, themes, add-ons, and functionality available for this fun and fascinating new ... browser from search giant Google. http://lifehacker.com Exploring Time Exploring Time is a two-hour, prime-time television event that reveals the unseen world of natural change and probes the deep mysteries of time. Each and every day, whether we notice it or not, an endless current of change occurs without pause, flowing relentlessly on the river ... (view more)

Bothunter BotHunter is a passive network monitoring tool designed to recognize the communication patterns of malware-infected computers within your network perimeter. Using an advanced infection-dialog-based event correlation engine (patent ... pending), BotHunter represents the most in-depth network-based malware infection diagnosis system available today. http://www.bothunter.net Cookie Clear Many excellent spyware removers scan through thousands of files, but then only suggest you remove a few cookies. This program removes all cookies, except those you may require in order to log into a forum ... (view more)

WhoCrashed WhoCrashed allows you to easily find out which drivers were responsible for crashing your computer. WhoCrashed is a comprehensible crash dump analysis tool; whenever a computer running Windows suddenly reboots without displaying any ... notice or blue screen of death, the first thing that is often considered is a hardware failure. In reality, most crashes are caused by malfunctioning device drivers and kernel modules. In case of a kernel error, most computers running Windows do not show a blue screen unless they are configured to do so. Instead these systems suddenly reboot without any ... (view more)

Registry Edits For Windows XP Interested in a Santa sack full of lots and lots of tips and tweaks for your Windows XP operating system this holiday season? Well, this program from Kelly's Korner is formatted for easy use and offers a boodlebag full ... of goodies. http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com Virtual Screen Maximizer Take any foreground window to maximum available virtual screen size with Virtual Screen Maximizer. This great program will even maximize across multiple monitors, making it particularly useful for web designers, researchers, and hardcore gamers! http://www.codeplex.com Today's ... (view more)

Flash Folder FlashFolder extends the file-related common dialogs (e.g. open/save dialog) seen in most Windows programs. A small toolbar docks onto these dialogs that provides menus for quick access to recently-used folders, favorite folders and ... more. http://zett42.de Disk Heal Disk Heal is a useful tool that fixes common computer problems. Initially, it was a program that fixed disk problems that occur after a virus has been removed, but a host of other, equally exciting features have been added. Click to find out more. http://www.computer-realm.net/ Today's fresh software picks were provided ... (view more)

Microsoft Web Platform The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the ... Web Platform Installer's user interface, you can choose to install either specific products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer. The Web PI also helps keep your products up to date by always offering the latest additions to the Web Platform. http://www.microsoft.com Fbackup FBackup is a free backup software for both personal and ... (view more)

Firefox -- 8 Untold Secrets With the ability to drastically expand Firefox functions using plug-in extensions and Greasemonkey scripts, many of Firefox 3's built-in features are overlooked. Here are eight handy things you can do with Firefox, ... ranging from tiny tweaks to more powerful functions, all with nary an extension to install. http://www.extremetech.com Adobe AIR SDK The Adobe AIR SDK provides the tools necessary to build and deploy Adobe AIR applications, including a framework for Adobe AIR APIs, a template for the Adobe AIR application install badge, a command-line Adobe AIR Debug ... (view more)

Emerge Desktop Emerge Desktop is a replacement Windows "shell" (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows 2000 and above. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, it provides a system tray (the area that ... collects the icons collected at the lower right corner in Explorer), called emergeTray. It will also provide access to the users programs (normally accessed with the Windows "start" button) via a right-click on the desktop. http://emergedesktop.org Starter Starter allows one to view and manage all the programs that are starting automatically whenever ... (view more)