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System Explorer gives you detailed informations about Processes, Startups, Explorer, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files. Action History for monitoring processes activities. Making of Registry & Files snapshots for easy comparing of system changes. Result of comparation is displayed in tree view and text list. Can be used for analysation of product installers/uninstallers (like Total Uninstall). Performance graphs for monitoring usage of system resources in time. Easy check of suspicious files via VirusTotal. Easy search details about file/process via online databases.

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Free media file converter FormatFactory is a handy all-in-one utility for taking one kind of audio, video, or picture file and converting it to another. The interface is a dead-simple drag-and-drop affair, and it’s meant for running batches of files through converters-FLVs to Windows Media, MPEGs to iPod-friendly video, DVDs to DivX files, etc. You won’t get a lot of options for quality control, compression rate, or other tweaks, but for some folks, that’s really a benefit. FormatFactory is a free download for Windows systems only.

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Rapishare Plus is a simple utility which aims to make the life of free Rapidshare users a whole lot easier. It is a Free Downloader or Download Manager for Rapidshare specially built for free users.

All you do is paste a list of Rapidshare links to be downloaded, select a download folder, hit the “Download” button and sit back and relax!

It will automatically start downloading the files without requiring you to generate the download links manually through the browser window.

This utility does not bypass the time-limit imposed upon by Rapidshare on free users between two consecutive downloads but it makes it easy for you to manage all download links at one place.

It has a progress bar to show status of your Rapidshare downloads and also works behind a proxy.

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How to match a color sample to a screen color? How to match a screen color to a print? Calibrize adjusts the colors of your monitor in three simple steps. It gives your system a reliable color profile and maintains color fidelity throughout the system. Calibrize matches results to expectations.

• Works quickly, easily and reliably, even if you don’t know the first thing …about screen calibration
• Works for CRT monitors, (flat) LCD monitors and even beamers
• Reads out the color data (EDID) from your monitor
• Produces an ICC monitor profile
• Installs the profile into the appropriate system folder
• Loads a set of adjusted values into the lookup table (LUT) of your video card
• Gives background information about the process
• Cooperates seamlessly with other graphical software

Calibrize can run on any Windows XP or Vista computer. There is no Mac version available.

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Sumatra PDF is a very simple PDF viewer that I find to be faster than other programs like Adobe Reader (an 80MB app to read PDFs?) and Foxit. It may lack a lot of features compared to Foxit, but if all you want to do is quickly read a PDF after you’ve downloaded it, this is the program for you. You can download it here. It is also usable as a portable application, as it’s just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive.

After you have it installed, go to Start -> All Programs -> SumatraPDF and click on SumatraPDF. It might ask you if you want to make it the default PDF viewer, in which case you should say yes. If it doesn’t, you can go to File -> Make SumatraPDF a Default PDF Viewer.

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