Best free PDF Converter

doPDF

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Best free A Powerful System / Hardware Information

HWiNFO32

http://www.hwinfo.com/index.html

Whats a good freeware for Mobile phone security - Antivirus , Antimalware/spyware ( especially for Nokia E63 - Symbian S60 OS )

since it proved a hit in the last few days

http://windirstat.info/

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants).

1000000% amazing app,

Foundstone








HoneyBOT - "HoneyBOT is a windows based low interaction honeypot solution."

BurnCDCC™ from TeraByte. Makes an iso image, with verification. Quick, light, free, no install required. Mentioned before by acooldozen, but worth mentioning again, maybe.

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whats a good alternative to Nero? I know quite a few freeware have been mentioned but most of them don't do DVD movies, apart from that whats really important is a quick backup ( update function) which most lack ! I tried the latest CD burner XP and its update function never seems to work!?

I need a complete solution, should do DVD/CD authoring, copying, backups, and Updating the backups! so one doesn't have to physically check for new files added to a certain folder and whether or not they're included into the new project...

Simply said I would like to remove Nero off my hard disk! too slow, too weighty and quite a resource hog...

This is Gizmo's list. Perhaps you can find something there. Also search YouTube. The place is loaded with tutorials and how-to's. Link: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-...ng-software.htm

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/08/12/a...ro-alternative/

Avast Anti-Virus
The home version is free to use after registration. They only use registration to alert you of their updates and your registration ending (1yr free registration, registerable for free every year).

http://www.avast.com

Programmers Notepad
A notepad replacement for programmers. Useful for HTML, ASP, PHP, and XML.

http://www.pnotepad.org

WriteMonkey
Fantastic notepad that blanks your screen. Just you and your words...
Also come with progress bar featuring time and word count trackers, and typewriter sounds when you type!
http://writemonkey.com/

YouTube Downloader
Lets you download any video of off YouTube and save it as a .swf
Converts media files to multiple extensions, including .mp3, .wmv, .swf...
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

ISO Recorder
Improved functionality of .iso burning capabilities
Will rip from CD to .iso, burn to CD (convenient for programmers)
Helpful in creating bootable ISO's
Freeware alternative to Nero
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

3D Color Changer - Shareware, but you can use it forever without limitations.

Google Sketchup. Its a free program for 3-D modeling of houses and building and stuff but does not have it all.

Now I have Vista Home.... nice and all, but it's a hog. Are there reliable progs to speed up this thing?
And.. ccleaner is a great prog, but I want to have a cleaner registry.. any tips anyone? (a lot of progs leave junk in there when I uninstall....)

I use trillian and am pretty ok with it, but there are prolly better alternatives. I use yahoo, aim, msn, icq (and maybe more) on there.. would like to keep using that... with little or no icons on the buddy list.. keeping it clean, simple, but not TOO basic. Can anyone recommend anything? (and also tell me why it's better)

Thanks.

Firstly, cleaning your registry will do little, and more likely nothing, to speed up your system. Check what programs are running in the background - any that are unneeded, any that are resource heavy like antivirus etc that may have lighter alternatives. How much RAM have you got?

For a chat client you may want to look at Miranda, especially from a performance point of view, as it uses next to nothing in terms of computer resources. It may take a little tweaking to get it looking and functioning how you prefer (eg some minor functions like smileys may require an additional plugin available from their site) but well worth the time.