CDBurnerXP: Versatile CD Burning Freeware

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jZip – a free alternative to WinZip

jZip is an easy to use and fast archiving software. It creates, extracts and manipulates Zip, RAR, TAR, GZip, 7-Zip and other file archives. It’s FREE for everybody, home and enterprise users.

Drive Snapshot – Simple Disk Imager in a 250kb download!

Although I prefer Acronis TrueImage as disk imager for our company, there is a nice little alternative available in SnapShot. It is disk imaging software that enables the user to back up (while working), restore and view backed up hard disk data, easily and safely. It runs on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/PE/x64/Vista, offers a 30day trial (licenses for €39 and up).

The software looks a little ugly and outdated (see the screenshots), but seems to work fine and has just recently been updated.

Yuuguu – another free desktop sharing solution with built in telephone conference

Yuuguu lets you interact with your colleagues and friends as though
they were sat right next to you… no matter where in the world they are. Still in beta and no with full functionality yet.

ClickTale :: Record – Watch – Understand

ClickTale: Record visitors’ every action as they browse your website. Watch movies to understand visitor behavior, gain valuable insights and improve your website’s usability. Free trial.

“You convert it”: Convert Files online – without installing software

You convert it (www.youconvertit.com) converts documents, images, audio and video files among many formats.

Simply fill out the form, choose the file to upload from your disk and select an output format. A few minutes later you will receive an email with a link to the results.

Google Custom Search Business Edition – Google for your website without ads

Finally Google has listened: The new Google Enterprise: Google Custom Search Business Edition offering (starting at $100 per year for 5000 documents or less) can now be configured NOT to show any ads on the search results page. So now you can use this service and offer a site search on your site without the risk of your visitors being distracted from your site by Google Ads.

Quote: “The Business Edition turns off ads and allows you to access search results through an XML API. This means that you can create your own user interface for search results and have your search engine fit in seamlessly with the rest of your website. Custom Search Business Edition starts at $100 per year for searching less than 5,000 web pages. “

Here is a Comparison Matrix of the free and the new paid-for service.

the electric sheep screen-saver

the electric sheep screen-saver shows phantastic animations as your screensaver. The animations are computed by a virtual network of collaborative computers that run the Electric Sheep screensaver software.

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers “sleep”, the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep”.

This 21 MB sample video shows what you will get.

A N I M O T O: Create cool slideshows online

Simply upload your photos to A N I M O T O and they will create a cool video with music and animation from it!

How to specify the font for your signature in Outlook – Even for replies

If you use Outlook as your email client and you reply to an HTML mail you usually get your message footer in “Times New Roman” font – regardless of what your settings in Outlook are.

For example, if you have chosen Arial as your common font for all correspondence (see fig.1), the signature text will appear in Times New Roman (Microsoft’s preferred default font).