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TrayIt is a free software which enables users to minimize any running application to Windows system tray.

SkyDrive Explorer is a freeware which brings Microsoft SkyDrive to your Windows Explorer. You can use SkyDrive as another disk on your computer.

Microsoft Security Essentials, the upcoming free Antivirus and Antispyware program from Microsoft, is going to release publicly soon.

Ultimate Links to download stable, beta, developer (alpha) and old versions of Google Chrome. Also, links for downloading Offline Installer of Google Chrome and Chromium browser.

Remind Me In is a free desktop reminder tool for Windows.

List of top 10 websites for downloading free softwares for Windows.

CopyPasteTool is a wonderful handy tool recommended for every computer user.  It is basically a clipboard tool, which remembers the previous data and provides an easier way to use them.

QtWeb is a wonderful web browser with a lot of features and powerful capabilities. It is a must software for your computer.

Looking for free alternative of Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X? Try Inkscape.

Inkscape is Free (and OpenSource) Vector Graphics Editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.You can get all features of above softwares in Inkscape.
The Vector graphics is a resolution-independent description of the actual shapes and objects that you see in the image. A rasterization engine uses this information to determine how to plot each line and curve at any resolution or …

We use different softwares to access Online Contents offline. We love FeedDemon for accessing feeds offline, ThunderBird for mails and here is HTTrack : the FREE software to access websites offline.

HTTrack saves entire websites to your harddisk and hence, you can surf the web whenever you need, without worrying about the Internet Connectivity.
According to the official website of HTTrack : “It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server …

Till now, I was using the bulky Oxford Compass dictionary on my Window PC. But, I have got a lighter alternative of it – WordWeb.

I have tried many other dictionaries, but  found this freeware tool super cool. WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works offline, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Features of the free version include:

Definitions and synonyms
Proper nouns
Related words
Pronunciations ( Using Windows Speech – So, No extra …

JIT Scheduler is a task scheduler for Windows. It provides the easy way to create and launch tasks at specified time or day.

JIT Scheduler supports 4 types of tasks: Application, Document (ofcourse songs and videos), System Shutdown or just Message (Reminder). This means, that you can open document (e.g. picture, text or Web – page link etc.) as well as launch an application (.exe) at a certain time.
You can also turn off your computer at the desired time and show text messages which remind about some important events.
It is …

Here is a nice freeware tool to convert your favorite images to a classic screensaver, without any technical skill. Just Import your images, set the time interval and hit the “Build” button.

The best thing about this freeware tool – FoxArc Screen Saver Builder, is that it creates screen-savers as self-contained single .SCR files. You can find created files in a separate folder in “My Documents”.
Hence, you can share those screensavers with friends, relatives and customers. The  FoxArc Screen Saver Builder is a freeware tool (size : 1.3MB).

Download FoxArc Screen …

I was missing the new “tag” feature in the Prince newspaper style of FeedDemon 2.8 Beta 2, and so requested Nick Bradbury to add the tags to my favorite and default style. And, he promised to add this feature in next update. Today, with the release of Beta 3, the Prince has got the tags.

I love Prince style because of its simplicity.
Here are some other changes in beta 3 :

Added: “What’s New” page now displays at startup after upgrading
Added: Support for GIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP and truecolor ICO favicons …

We offered OpenOffice.org 3.0 CDs for FREE last week and got an overload response (75+ CDs sent so far). The most disappointing side of the story is that the some of the users have reported that they were unable to install the free office suite using these CDs. We are sending them another working CD with an apology very soon. I am very thankful to Mr. Manish Singh for helping me in dealing with this giveaway. He did the entire job of Writing, Packing and Posting the CDs. Thanks Manish!
Another …

BJP : The Bhartiya Janta Party, largest political party of India, is now the most high-tech political party in the country. The Party is using Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS) to computerised its offices across the country.

According to an article by Marco Fioretti on Linux.com, BJP says it plans to implement Wi-Fi connectivity in all its headquarters plus nationwide IP video telephony and unified messaging networks.
Prodyut Bora, national convenor of BJP information technology cell, says, “We have found that it is possible to create an entire enterprise IT ecosystem using only …

I am a true lover of SnagIt and it is my default screen capture tool for long. I have seen many high profile techies using and promoting this tool. You can read reviews of SnagIt anywhere on the web, but the most disappointing side of this popular software is : It is not Free. There are several Free powerful screen capture tools, but none of them can be a true alternative of SnagIt, except PicPick.
PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It has an intuitive …