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Wikipedia DVD Selection Wikipedia for your hard drive. Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has ... about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). http://www.schools-wikipedia.corg Text Mining Tool Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files. The beauty of the program is that it works, extremely ... (view more)

Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note that the below software descriptions are provided solely from the developer and are absent from any guarantee or warranty. You are encouraged to ... review the Shell Extension Software Policy for more details. Caffeine If you have problems with your PC locking or going to sleep at undesirable intervals, caffeine will keep it awake. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your machine thinks you're still working at the keyboard. http://thefreewarejunkie.com USB Image Tool USB ... (view more)

Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note that the below software descriptions are provided solely from the developer and are absent from any guarantee or warranty. You are encouraged to ... review the Shell Extension Software Policy for more details. Change Analysis Diagnostic Tool This tool provides an easy way to track changes to certain parts of the operating system. The tool lets support professionals better understand modifications to users' computers that may have caused problems. http://support.microsoft.com Windows Vista ... (view more)

Goosh Goosh is the unofficial Google shell. This Google-interface behaves similar to a Unix-shell in that you type commands and the results are shown on the Goosh pag. Goosh is, not surprisingly, powered by Google . http://goosh.org/ Windows ... Inspection Tool Set It slices! It dices! The Windows Inspection Tool Set (WiTS) chops up Windows multiple ways providing you with cross-linked, filtered views into a Windows system. View operating system information, processes, services, users, network interfaces and connections, file shares, printers and more. Get notified of system resource status, new ... (view more)

Jesper Johansson, a former program manager for security policy at Microsoft and current MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional), has reportedly published a tool designed to detect and fix PCs that may be susceptible to "endless reboots" if they ... are updated to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have yet to issue a fix or a patch for the endless reboots that, as previously reported by our own Brandon Dimmel, primarily affects HP machines running Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors. Johansson posted a link to the tool (a small, 16K Visual Basic Script file ... (view more)

A New Zealand-based security consultant has released a tool that can unlock a Windows computer in seconds without a password. The hack, which involves Windows XP computers but has not been tested with Windows Vista, was first demonstrated by Adam ... Boileau at a security conference in Sydney in 2006. Microsoft has not developed a fix for it yet. (Source: com.au ) The tool released by Boileau can unlock Windows machines or login without a password by plugging in a Firewire cable and running a command. Boileau did not release the tool in 2006 because Microsoft was cagey about whether Firewire ... (view more)

APPLICATIONS USAGE MONITOR Applications Usage Monitor is one of those rare, useful applications that does just as the name says. It's a program that effectively logs the usage of apps on your system, saving them into a separate and handy file. ... http://www.geocities.com/kalvinau2003/aum.html Anti Snooping Tool Instantaneously hide all open windows with nothing more than a key press. With the punch of another key press the user can bring them all back to their original position. http://www.andrewshangout.com/aast.html (view more)

Xtra Windows Stability Xtra Windows Stability was designed to enhance Windows stability and to minimize loss of your work on Windows crash. This is done by forcing Windows to run its subsystems as separate processes. These subsystems are: Desktop, ... Explorer (Folders) and Internet Explorer. Using these enhancements can slightly increase memory usage while running several folders or Internet Explorer Windows. If you run only few of them, there should be no difference. http://excessive-software.eu.tt/ Infiltration Recovery Tool Infiltration Recovery Tool gives you the ability to recover some key ... (view more)

Windows Inspection Tool Set The Windows Inspection Tool Set (WiTS) provides you with cross-linked, filtered views in a Windows system. View operating system information, processes, services, users, network interfaces and connections, file shares, ... printers and more. Get notified of system resource status, new network connections, process starts and exits, service status and other system events. http://magicsplat.com/wits/ Regex Coach The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively. It has the ... (view more)

Net Jaxer Net Jaxer allows you to put 'web 2.0' applications on your desktop, including: gmail, writely, kiko, meebo and other ajax web applications. http://www.netjaxer.com/ Microsoft Xps Document Writer Removal Tool Windows Vista introduces the ... XPS Document format, a Windows spool file format, and a page description language (PDL) for printers. The Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) printer is already in place if you use Vista; however, if you don't want to use this printer to create an XPS document, you can uninstall it completely with the help of this XPS Removal Tool. XPS Removal Tool ... (view more)