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McAfee SiteAdvisor
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 06/12/2006 11:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]
SiteAdvisor was founded in April 2005 by a group of MIT engineers who wanted to make the Web safer for their family and friends. Having spent one too many holiday breaks trying to clean a mess of spam...
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SPAMfighter Standard (5/5) Stars
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 08/18/2004 11:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]
SPAMfighter, based in Denmark, was founded and is still owned by Henrik SГёrensen, Martin Thorborg and Martin Dyring. The SPAMfighter Team is located in such diverse places as Denmark, USA, Canada an...
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Ad-Aware
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 08/09/2004 11:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Lavasoft was established in Germany in 1990 and incorporated in 2002. They are an industry leader and respected provider of anti-trackware solutions. They are famous for their free spyware removal too...
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Spy Sweeper
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 05/12/2004 11:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Webroot is a privately held company based in Boulder, Colorado, that creates innovative privacy, protection and performance solutions for Internet users. Founded in 1997, the company provides a suite ...
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SpywareBlaster
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 05/09/2004 11:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]
SpywareBlaster comes to us from a small company called Javacool Software. Their mission statement says that they are all about helping people protect their privacy and security simply because they val...
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TuneUp Utilities
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 04/04/2004 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
TuneUp Utilities 2004 comes to us from TuneUp Software GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. They previously had other versions of this software dating back to 1997 selling over 300,000 copies of TuneUp 97 alon...
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ClearTweak
Posted by: Tim on: 02/19/2004 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
If you own an LCD monitor, you need to tweak the contrast setting of the ClearType setting for Windows XP. Basically this means you can adjust the way fonts are displayed to make them more clear. Once...
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WinLock
Posted by: Jim Losi on: 01/23/2004 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Most of us at some point in our computing experience have had computers that we wanted to lock down for various reasons. It could be a nosy roommate or a sibling that likes to be dangerous enough on y...
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GreenBrowser
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 01/15/2004 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Third party browsers that use the Internet Explorer engine have become quite popular. They allow you to use the IE engine, but block pop-ups, use tabbed browsing and many other additional features Int...
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Google Toolbar
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 01/15/2004 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
It seems that many larger websites now offer toolbars for quick access to their features, so it was a nobrainer when Google, the most popular search engine out there, released their own toolbar with m...
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HDCleaner
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 01/04/2004 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Over time your computer gets loaded up with un-needed files. Many people schedule their computers for scandisk and defrag, but not always the drive cleanup. Windows built in drive cleanup does not do...
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Your Uninstaller! 2003
Posted by: Jim Losi on: 12/10/2003 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
As a systems admin, gamer and curious user, I tend to try out quite a bit of software in attempts to find utilities that will help me with my job, system performance or general use. After installing ...
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FAST Defrag Standard
Posted by: Jim Losi on: 12/04/2003 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Memory management is something some of us have to deal with on a daily basis. Not all of us have PC’s with loads of RAM installed and not everyone’s work PC is a beast either. Trying to multitask on ...
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X-Setup
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 11/30/2003 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Over time as you use Windows little things may start to bother you, like the shortcut arrow on desktop icons, the splash screen in Outlook Express, programs that hang for a while before closing or the...
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ObjectDock
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 11/25/2003 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
It's very easy to have become accustomed to the Windows taskbar. While Windows XP offers a slightly different way of using the taskbar, it is still the same old taskbar that has been there since Windo...
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O&O Defrag Professional Edition
Posted by: Jim Losi on: 11/23/2003 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Most of today’s performance talk revolves around CPU and graphics card performance and little is discussed about how optimizing disk I/O (Input/Output) can offer performance gains. In the world of per...
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Startup CPL
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 11/23/2003 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Removing some of the clutter in your bottom right taskbar not only saves screen space, but also frees memory that is used up, often before Windows even loads. This can make for a faster computer by fr...
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XP-Antispy
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 11/17/2003 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Windows has some well known "features" that are not needed and, when disabled, can save you bandwidth, help Windows run better, protect your privacy and be more secure. If you know your way ...
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Avant Browser
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 11/13/2003 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Internet Explorer remains one of the most used browsers out there, yet lacks many of the features found in some of the competition. Many simply use it because it came with their machine, while others ...
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Network Probe
Posted by: Jim Losi on: 11/10/2003 12:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Lets face it, we live in a networked world, an insecure and abused world at that. Most of the network administrators would agree. We also live in a world where the term “Acceptable Use Policy” is comm...
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Acronis True Image
Posted by: Tim Tibbetts on: 07/02/2003 11:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Ever lost your hard drive and spent hours reinstalling Windows, all the updates, personal preferences and all your favorite programs? What if you could have restored it in minutes? Acronis TrueImage c...
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