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  • Making bootable USB Drives from ISO Images in Minutes with Rufus (Video)

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    Rufus – Create bootable USB drives the easy way      Ever been stuck in a situation where you didn’t have a CD-ROM available and needed to install an OS? Rufus is a free tool that makes creating bootable USB drives from images incredibly fast and more importantly easy. In just a few minutes you can be…

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  • OpenOffice.org

    Link: OpenOffice.org One of the first things I hear people complain about after just purchasing a new Windows PC, is the fact that it didn’t come with Microsoft Office. Then you tell them how much that costs, haha. This is why I thought it would be useful to talk about OpenOffice.org. Open Office is a…

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  • No-Script (Firefox Add-On)

    Link: No-Script (Firefox Add-On) Add-on for firefox allows you to disable Javascript on websites you don’t trust. With this add-on you can securely browse websites that you do not trust and prevent them from running JavaScript code and potential exploits.

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  • Firefox

    Link: Firefox One of the best Web Browsers out there. Not to mention it free, open source, and more secure than Internet Explorer. This is always one of my first recommendations for Windows users. It’s a simple quick download, that will improve your web experience all around.

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  • Notepad++

    Link: Notepad++ Fantastic open source (Free!) code editor. This is my code editor of choice for HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript. I like it for it super lean and clean style, along with it’s many advanced features you commonly see in high end pay for code editors.

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  • DIVX

    Link: DIVX DIVX Codecs are a must install on any pc.

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  • VLC

    Link: VLC Video Lan Media player is a nice light weight all around good media player. I use this freebie to replace Windows Media Player on all of my Windows boxes. Video playback is far superior to WMP especially on older hardware.

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  • Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider 1.3b

    Link: Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider 1.3b Sign your own drivers and Enable “Test Mode” on Windows 7 x64. See Installing unsigned drivers under Windows 7 x64 for more info.

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  • I8KFanGUI

    Link: I8KFanGUI This utility is used to manually control the fans on Dell laptops. With it you can set the fans to high, low, or even set it to come on and off at a certain temperature. In my opinion, keeping your laptops temperature as low as possible is the key to a long life…

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  • WinDirStat

    Link: WinDirStat This tool can visually show you where you hard drive space is going. Uses bar graphs and others to show you where your space is going. If your running out of hard drive space and need to quickly know where it’s going, this is the tool for you. And it’s completely free.

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