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Fantastic Contraptions is a fun online physics puzzle game you can play right in your browser. But be warned: It is highly addictive. The objective is to move a small object from one place to another place. To help you do this, you can construct machines out of wheels and rods. There are 21 levels [...]

Startup Control Panel is a small program for Windows to manager the programs and services that start automatically when you boot your machine. It works on all modern versions of Windows through Windows XP. (Windows Vista has its own mechanism for managing startup programs: Control Panel -> Performance Information and Tools, and then click on [...]

Version 3.0 of the free, multi-platform, multi-language office package OpenOffice.org has been released. The release has been long awaited. The OpenOffice.org website is so busy that only a bare minimum download page is available due to overloaded servers. I have been using previous versions of OpenOffice.org for a while, and I look forward to trying [...]

Spybot – Search and Destroy is a program that detects and removes spyware including adware, dialers, keyloggers, trojans, and usage trackers. It is updated quite often to keep up with the ever growing number of spyware programs. One of my favorite features is “Immunize”. It immunizes your computer against some 94,000 threats like blocking bad [...]

IrfanView is a fast and small picture and photo viewer. It handles just about every picture and photo file format available. Using IrfanView you can crop, rotate, enlarge, and otherwise manipulate pictures. There is a powerful batch processing feature that allows you to perform the same manipulations to many pictures at once. It will show [...]

BeCyPDFMetaEdit is a freeware program for Windows that lets you edit meta data in PDF files. For example, you can change the title and the author fields. There is a clear-all-fields button for removing all meta data. You can also set the security policies for the document to specify whether the PDF file can be [...]

Dealigg is a social barging hunting website. Members find and vote for the latest deals. Anyone can search Dealigg for the deals on anything from magazine subscriptions to computers. The deals can be organized by date, by popularity, or by store. There is also a section for freebies — stuff that is free after rebates. [...]

Upromise helps you save for college. You don’t have to do anything other than signing up for it. You give them your credit card numbers and you start earning college savings on the everyday stuff you buy. The savings automatically get deposited in your 529 college savings account. It really works: Just use your credit [...]

Many web pages offer RSS or Atom feeds, and that makes it easy to get notified about changes and updates to the web page. However, what do you do when there is no RSS or Atom feed? There are a number of web services available that will monitor web pages for you and alert you [...]

PBwiki is an online collaboration system based on the wiki model. There is no software to download. It works exclusively in your web browser. From there you can quickly create and modify pages. Each page has an “edit” button that takes you to a WYSIWYG editor, where you can make real-time edits to the page. [...]