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CheckDisk 1.10 Similar to Microsoft's ScanDisk tool or CHKDSK.exe, "CheckDisk" is a tool for searching and repairing disk errors. Select either standard or full tests; the full test additionally performs a sector check and is capable of finding bad ... sectors on your disk and marking them as such. The download link for CheckDisk is listed approximately 1/2 way down the page using the link below. http://www.paehl.de/home.htm PSPad Editor 4.5.5 Build 2395 Beta PSPad is an editor that supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and ... (view more)

Microsoft has unveiled a beta version of their latest software offering called 'WebMatrix'. The free tool is intended to simplify application-based development on Microsoft's ASP.Net web platform. Among its many features, "the (WebMatrix) tool is ... free, provides core coding and database support, integrates with an open source web application gallery and includes support to easily publish and deploy sites and applications to web-hosting providers" according to a recent blog post written by Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president in the Microsoft Developer Division. (Source: computerworld.com ) ... (view more)

Maxthon Browser Maxthon Browser is a powerful tabbed web browser that offers basic browsing functionality plus a rich set of features. Maxthon's Smart Acceleration caches the sites you visit most to speed up your browsing and page display. ... http://www.maxthon.com AkelPad 4.4.5 AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast. It offers support of DOS/Windows, Unix and Mac newline formats and plug-in support (syntax highlighting, folding, auto-completion, scripts execution, keyboard macros and much more). http://akelpad.sourceforge.net This freeware ... (view more)

MediaMonkey 3.2.0.1297 Beta Manage a music library consisting of small to very large collections (50,000+) of audio files and playlists, whether they're located on your hard drive, CDs, or a network. Organize, browse, or search music by Genre, ... Artist, Year, Rating, etc., and never waste your time trying to find mp3s you know you have. http://majorgeeks.com ProduKey 1.42 ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007), Windows (including Windows 7 and Windows Vista), Exchange Server, and SQL Server ... (view more)

Sync Your iPod Without iTunes There has always been one universal constant for purchasers of an iPod -- that they would be using Apple's iTunes to sync it. Apple's iTunes has been downloaded millions of times and is adored by many, but what if ... you're looking for an alternative? http://www.makeuseof.com Prime95 26.1 Beta For overclockers, Prime95 has a feature called "Torture Test" that allows maximum stress testing on the CPU and RAM. There are several options allowing the stress test to focus on the memory, processor, or a balance of both. Usually Prime95 will detect an error ... (view more)

A public beta of Microsoft's highly-anticipated Windows Live Essentials will be made available today, and promises to lure many curious onlookers with Office Web Apps and new social networking and media sharing options. Many of the programs which ... were part of Windows XP have been taken out of Windows 7 and re-branded into Windows Live Essentials. Programs included are: Messenger, Photo Gallery, Mail, Movie Maker, Writer, Family Safety, and Toolbar, plus Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, Office Live Add-in, and Microsoft Silverlight. (Source: microsoft.com ) Windows Live Internet Integration ... (view more)

Real Temp 3.59.3 Beta Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core, Quad Core and Core i7 processors. Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data ... relative to TJMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU. As your CPU heats up, your Distance to TJMax will decrease. If it reaches zero, your processor will start to thermal throttle or slow down so maximizing your distance away from TJMax will help your computer run at full speed and more reliably too. http://majorgeeks.com ... (view more)

Opera 10.54 Final Opera is a full-featured Internet browser that includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, plus email, RSS newsfeeds, and IRC chat. You can also customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few ... clicks of the mouse. http://majorgeeks.com Sylpheed 3.1 Beta 1 Sylpheed adopts 3-paned display similar to the popular e-mail clients for Windows such as Outlook Express and Becky! Internet email. The user-interface is comfortable, operational, and stable. http://majorgeeks.com This freeware software program is brought to you by MajorGeeks.com: The ... (view more)

SpyBHORemover 2.1 SpyBHORemover (previously called BHORemover) is the advanced tool to explore and eliminate malicious Browser Helper Objects (BHO) from the system. BHOs are plugins written for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser originally ... designed to enhance capabilities, but are often exploited by malware authors and used to send advertisements to your PC. http://majorgeeks.com Wireshark 1.4.0 RC1 Beta Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development ... (view more)

Sandboxie 3.45.09 Beta Tired of dealing with rogue software, spyware and malware? Have you spent too many hours removing unsolicited software? Worried about clicking unfamiliar Web links? Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which ... prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer. Sandboxie requires neither the disabling nor blocking of functions available to Web sites through the browser. Instead, Sandboxie isolates and quarantines the outcome of whatever the Web site may do to your computer, including the installation of unsolicited ... (view more)