Freeeraser

Freeraser is a file shredder software for securely deleting sensitive data from your hard drives. Freeraser is a portable app and you can run it from your USB stick

Once you install it to your removable media it shows up as a trashcan icon on your desktop. you can drag and drop files to freeraser. The dropped files are destroyed completely. Right clicking on the icon will show the options, there are three modes of deletion are available. Fast will overwrite the file location on the disk with random data, forced will do three rounds of filling according to DoD standard, and ultimate destruction will do 35 rounds of filling with data according to Guttman algorithm. The ultimate round will take some time for deletion based on the data you want to delete.

Freeraser is a freeware for windows and works with XP/Vista.

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vLite - Vista Lite

vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.
source: http://www.vlite.net/about.html


Main features are:

* hotfix, language pack and driver integration
* component removal
* unattended setup
* tweaks
* split/merge Vista installation CDs
* create ISO and burn bootable CD/DVD


Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. vLite provides you with an easy removal of the unwanted components in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking.

This tool doesn't use any kind of hacking, all files and registry entries are protected as they would be if you install the unedited version only with the changes you select.

It configures the installation directly before the installation, meaning you'll have to remake the ISO and reinstall it. This method is much cleaner, not to mention easier and more logical than doing it after installation on every reinstall.

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CPU-Z 1.50

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system
Source : http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

CPU

* Name and number.
* Core stepping and process.
* Package.
* Core voltage.
* Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
* Supported instructions sets.
* Cache information.

Mainboard

* Vendor, model and revision.
* BIOS model and date.
* Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
* Graphic interface.

Memory

* Frequency and timings.
* Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.

System

* Windows and DirectX version.

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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.
source: Notepad++



This project is mature. However, as you can see it's a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums. As well, if you have any feature requests, you can always make the demand, but there's no guarantee that I'll implement it.

You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ (if it is not present in the Download Section) and/or to translate the Notepad++ official site into your native language.

I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.

Here are the features of Notepad++ :
Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding

Supported languages :
C C++ Java C# XML HTML
PHP CSS makefile ASCII art (.nfo) doxygen ini file
batch file Javascript ASP VB/VBS SQL Objective-C
RC resource file Pascal Perl Python Lua TeX
TCL Assembler Ruby Lisp Scheme Properties
Diff Smalltalk Postscript VHDL Ada Caml
AutoIt KiXtart Matlab Verilog Haskell InnoSetup
CMake
WYSIWYG

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GIMP 2.6.6 release

GIMP 2.6.6 released on 2009-03-17

GIMP 2.6.6 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. This release contains an important fix for compiling GIMP against the recently released GTK+ 2.16.
source : The GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Features

- Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
- Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
- Supports custom brushes and patterns
- Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
- Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
- Full alpha channel support
- Layers and channels
- Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
- Editable text layers
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
- Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
- Transformable paths, transformable selections.
- Quickmask to paint a selection
- A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
- Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
- Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
- Over 100 plug-ins already available
- Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
- MNG support
- Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
- Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
- SVG path import/export

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Paint.Net (Image Editor)

Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation software.

Paint.NET started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. It is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems.

Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. We welcome any suggestions, and provide the source code for final releases under the MIT License.

Paint.Net requires the .NET Framework 2 in order to run.
Web Suite : Paint.NET
License :Free

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youTube 2 mp3

Add links to convert and download Youtube videos in MP3. This addon uses the free service of youtube2mp3.wmn.eu.
http://www.video2mp3.net

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Remove File Type ociations

Remove File Type ociations In Windows Vista
With Vista, for some unknown reason, you can only associate file types, but you can not unassociate (delete) a file type completely. The only option allowed is to associate the file to another program or application.

To remove (delete) a file type association, you can use a great utility found on winhelponline.com to unassociate file types.

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What is 1-Wire

1-Wire bus is a communication system developed by Dallas Semiconductor. It is quite similar to I2C, except for the data rate, which is lower, the costs, which are very low, and the range, which is higher. The 1-Wire protocol allows the communication among several devices produced by Dallas Semiconductors/Maxim, such as:

  * temperature, humidity, and pressure sensors, thermocouples
  * LCD, counters
  * eeprom and rom memory, encryption (IP protection)
  * identification devices (electronic keys)

The main applications of 1-Wire devices are as follows:

  * Print Cartridge ID
  * Medical Consumable ID
  * Rack Card Calibration and Control
  * Printed Circuit Board (PCB) identification and authentication
  * Accessory/Peripheral Identification and Control
  * IP Protection, Secure Feature Control, Clone Prevention
  * Consumer electronics
  * Access control
  * Electronic cash
  * Gaming devices

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Microsoft has cut the price of leasing software by as much as 25 percent

One special promotion is 'Simplify and Save', which offers savings of 15 percent for those who consolidate at least two existing license agreements into an Open Value agreement. Microsoft said the discount will run for the entire length of a three-year license deal. 

Another offer is for between 15 percent and 25 percent off the price of the licence and the Software Assurance costs of running Exchange Server, Office Communications Server, SQL Server, Office SharePoint Server, Visual Studio, Office Project and other Microsoft software.It is a condition of some Microsoft licence agreements that companies take out schemes such as Microsoft Software Assurance in order to keep their software properly licensed, and therefore eligible for upgrades and promotions. Industry estimates suggest this situation can add as much as £100 a year per PC to the cost of running applications.
The cuts are similar to those that Microsoft has made on the cost of licensing specific products. The Microsoft Office Project Assurance Pack's price has been cut by 25 percent, and Microsoft Project Server 2007 has seen a similar price fall.

According to one analyst, when it comes to special offers, Microsoft does not tell enough people about them. "This is good news for users but Microsoft should be shouting about offers like this," said Tony Lock, analyst with Freeform Dynamics. "Software Assurance is not widely recognized and deals like this, which seems pretty much across the board of Microsoft software, should be better known."

Lock said that, while Microsoft has good market share, it is "not nearly as good as it could or should be, given offers like this".

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10 Windows7 features

One of the big themes in Windows 7 for the corporate user is allowing easier access to information no matter where it's located. The big push here is for a unified interface for any given search, with results brought in from a variety of locations into one convenient window. Out of the box, Windows 7 allows users to search beyond their own computers.

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The Intel® Core™2 processor family

Intel 64 architecture improves performance by allowing systems to address more than 4 GB of both virtual and physical memory.

Intel 64 provides support for:

• 64-bit flat virtual address space
• 64-bit pointers
• 64-bit wide general purpose registers
• 64-bit integer support
• Up to one terabyte (TB) of platform address space

Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition

• 3.20 GHz core speed
• 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
• 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
• 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

Number	Intel® Smart Cache	Clock Speed	Intel® Quick Path Interconnect Speed	Memory Type/Speed	Integrated Memory Controller	Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology±	Quad Core	Intel® 64Φ
45 nm
i7-965	8 MB	3.20 GHz	6.4 GT/s	DDR3 800/1066 MHZ	3 Channels, 2 Dimms/Ch	8 Processing Threads

Intel® Core™ i7 processor

• 2.93 GHz and 2.66 GHz core speed
• 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
• 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
• 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

Processor Number	Intel® Smart Cache	Clock Speed	Intel® QuickPath Interconnect Speed	DDR3 Speed	Integrated Memory Controller	Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology	Quad-Core
45 nm
i7-940	8 MB	2.93 GHz	4.8 GT/s	800/1066 MHz	3 channels, 2 DIMMs/Ch	8 processing threads
i7-920	8 MB	2.66 GHz	4.8 GT/s	800/1066 MHz	3 channels, 2 DIMMs/Ch	8 processing threads

Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor

• 12 MB of total L2 cache
• 1600 MHz front side bus
• For gaming, digital photography, or video editing
• Intel® Virtualization Technology
  

Processor Number	Cache	Clock Speed	Front Side Bus	Cores	(Intel® VT)◊	Intel® 64◊	Execute Disable Bit◊
45 nm
QX9775	12 MB L2	3.20 GHz	1600 MHz	4
QX9770	12 MB L2	3.2 GHz	1600 MHz	4
QX9650	12 MB L2	3.00 GHz	1333 MHz	4
65 nm
X6800	4 MB L2	2.93 GHz	1066 MHz	2
QX6850	8 MB L2	3 GHz	1333 MHz	4
QX6800	8 MB L2	2.93 GHz	1066 MHz	4
QX6700	8 MB L2	2.66 GHz	1066 MHz	4

Intel® Core™2 Quad processor

• Intel® quad-core technology
• Intel® 64 architecture

Processor Number	Cache	Clock Speed	Front Side Bus
45 nm
Q9650	12MB L2	3 GHz	1333 MHz
Q9550S	12MB L2	2.83 GHz	1333 MHz
Q9550	12MB L2	2.83 GHz	1333 MHz
Q9450	12MB L2	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz
Q9400S	6MB L2	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz
Q9400	6MB L2	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz
Q9300	6MB L2	2.50 GHz	1333 MHz
Q9100	12MB L2	2.26 GHz	1066 MHz
Q9000	6 MB L2	2.00 GHz	1066 MHz
Q8300	4MB L2	2.50 GHz	1333 MHz
Q8200S	4MB L2	2.33 GHz	1333 MHz
Q8200	4MB L2	2.33 GHz	1333 MHz
65 nm
Q6700	8MB L2	2.66 GHz	1066 MHz
Q6600	8MB L2	2.40 GHz	1066 MHz

Intel® Core™2 Duo processor

• Intel® dual-core technology
• Intel® 64 architecture

Processor Number	Cache	Clock Speed	Front Sides Bus ..................	Cores	(Intel® VT)	Intel® 64
45 nm
E8600	6 MB L2	3.33 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E8500	6 MB L2	3.16 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E8400	6 MB L2	3.00 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E8300	6 MB L2	2.83 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E8200	6 MB L2	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E8190	6 MB L2	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E7500	3 MB L2	2.93 GHz	1066 MHz	2
E7400	3 MB L2	2.80 GHz	1066 MHz	2
E7300	3 MB L2	2.66 GHz	1066 MHz	2
E7200	3 MB L2	2.53 GHz	1066 MHz	2
65 nm
E6850	4 MB L2	3 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E6750	4 MB L2	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E6700	4 MB L2	2.66 GHz	1066 MHz	2
E6600	4 MB L2	2.40 GHz	1066 MHz	2
E6550	4 MB L2	2.33 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E6540	4 MB L2	2.33 GHz	1333 MHz	2
E6420	4 MB L2	2.13 GHz	1066 MHz	2
E6400	2 MB L2	2.13 GHz	1066 MHz	2
E6320	4 MB L2	1.86 GHz	1066 MHz	2
E6300	2 MB L2	1.86 GHz	1066 MHz	2
E4600	2 MB L2	2.40 GHz	800 MHz	2
E4500	2 MB L2	2.20 GHz	800 MHz	2
E4400	2 MB L2	2.00 GHz	800 MHz	2
E4300	2 MB L2	1.80 GHz	800 MHz	2

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