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GMABooster
http://www.gmabooster.com/index.htm

GMABooster, the world's first and only perfomance boost solution for Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator series (currently supported chipsets: Intel® 945GM/GME/GMS/GSE and 943/940GML/GU Express featuring GMA 950).

Offering up to an astonishing 2.4x of extra processing power for Your computer's integrated graphics engine, the GMABooster is a must-have tool for every user interested in advanced 3D gaming, truly flawless Windows® Vista and Mac® OS X experience, smoother operation of Google® Earth, improved video playback, and perfomance gain in a variety of professional applications!
virtualwin
http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

VirtuaWin is designed to be simple and elegant to use yet still be highly configurable and extensible.
5 months later
TeraCopy

http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

* Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
* Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
* Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
* Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
* Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
* Full Unicode support.
* Windows 7 x64 support.
3 months later
Hello

I read about this application months ago, but didn't have the chance to try it until last week. It's an app that make your win7 turn into a hotspot wifi to share your internet connection in just one click. Super fast, no configuration to do no nothing. I actually used it in a lab to share the internet connection that was only working on my pc to 10 other people I guess or maybe a bit less.

You can go check it out on http://www.connectify.me/
4 months later
mozy backup

http://mozy.com/home/free

Get 2 GB of 100% free online backup for your photos, music, and other files. No setup fee, no credit cards, no monthly payments or fees, and no hassle.
http://www.opendedup.org/

The main features of SDFS are:

* Reduced Storage Utilization - SDFS Deduplication can reduce storage utilization by up to 90%-95%
* Scalability - SDFS can dedup a Petabyte or more of data. Over 3TB per gig of memory at 128k chunk size.
* Speed - SDFS can perform deduplication/redup at line speed 290 MB/S+
* VMWare support - Work with vms - can dedup at 4k block sized. This is required to dedup Virtual Machines effectively
* Flexible storage - deduplicated data can be stored locally, on the network across multiple nodes, or in the cloud.
* Inline and Batch Mode deduplication - The file system can dedup inline or periodically based on needs. This can be changed on the fly
* File and Folder Snapshot support - Support for file or folder level snapshots.

OpenFiler

http://www.openfiler.com/

Openfiler is a powerful, Linux-powered, intuitive browser-based network storage management appliance. It delivers file-based network attached storage (NAS) and block-based storage area networking (SAN) in a single framework.
17 days later
synfig
http://synfig.org/

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based open-source 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can.
6 months later
Synergy
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.
a month later
openBTS
http://openbts.sourceforge.net/

OpenBTS is an open-source Unix application that uses the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) to present a GSM air interface ("Um") to standard GSM handset and uses the Asterisk® software PBX to connect calls. The combination of the ubiquitous GSM air interface with VoIP backhaul could form the basis of a new type of cellular network that could be deployed and operated at substantially lower cost than existing technologies in greenfields in the developing world.
7 months later
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WinDirStat
http://windirstat.info/

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows.On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

* The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
*The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
*The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

The treemap represents each file as a colored rectangle, the area of which is proportional to the file's size. The rectangles are arranged in such a way, that directories again make up rectangles, which contain all their files and subdirectories. So their area is proportional to the size of the subtrees. The color of a rectangle indicates the type of the file, as shown in the extension list. The cushion shading additionally brings out the directory structure.
a year later
ReNamer
http://www.den4b.com/?x=products&product=renamer
This little app helps you rename lots of files all at once instead of renaming them one by one.
You can use it to organize your pictures, music, videos, anything!
You set rules and it will rename the files automatically. It's a great lightweight app that did wonders for me and I hope it helps you out aswell :)
ConvertXtoDvd
a tool that allows converting any video format to a dvd ready to be burned and played in any dvd player,it also allow adding subtitle and adding dvd menus creating chapters and many other features.
10 days later
SyncToy 2.1 : This app keeps folders synchronized between 2 PC's without the need of an internet connection.For example I can keep my huge music library up-to-date between my netbook and my PC. If I add new songs on my netbook , those songs will be added on my PC aswell without me manually copying them. This tool can work with any folder. It can be pictures, documents, anything.
3 months later
Bluestacks
BlueStacks App Player lets you run apps from your phone fast and fullscreen on Mac and Windows.
a year later
http://offliberty.com
Offliberty lets you access any online content without a permanent Internet connection. Today many websites offer nice content but most are difficult to browse offline. If you have limited access to the Internet you can use Offliberty to browse any content later - being offline.
I mostly use it for youtube videos when IDM doesn't recognize the video