Bob Helmer

Informer We love this one -- A text string on your desktop dynamically showing your current system load. And it shows you every time a program executes, and a lot more. You can place it at the desired location on screen, change font and color. ... Process list window shows you full list of running processes. About system window shows what's inside of your computer: main board, video, network, drivers, sound, processor, memory etc. In Settings window you can tune Informer appearance and behavior. Fonts, colors, events, hotkeys are controllable. Events window tells about events selected in settings ... (view more)

Folder Iconizer An easy three steps wizard to change the computer folders identity, by adding icons or de-iconizing them according to the user's desire. http://users.spark.net.gr/~stamatb/freesoft/index.htm 6 Dumbest Ideas In Computer Security What ... are they? They're the anti-good ideas. They're the brain damage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible -- which is another way of saying "trying to ignore reality." Frequently those misguided ... (view more)

Graphic Shell Extension This is a very handy application that extends Windows Explorer User Interface with 3 useful commands for graphic files. ShellExtension adds an option to context menu that allows you to view a thumbnail of an image, convert it ... to any of supported formats and print them. (Note -- we had a lot of trouble making the conversion work until I looked at the FAQ on the site It does work. You just have to give the file a new name apparently). http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/ 20 Secret Tweaks 20 unexpected ways to unleash the true potential of the technology ... (view more)

Winext Desktop Bar Customize your desktop with a horizontal bar that gives you easy access to all your programs and documents. WinExt is not an alternative to the windows shell, but a good expansion which gives your shell at set of new features. By ... letting you customize appearance, content, and features makes your desktop environment more personal and suited for your needs. http://winext.hulubulu.dk/ Quicktime Alternative QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports ... (view more)

Deskcon Intercepts the minimizing of applications to the taskbar and instead minimizes them to the desktop. The icon representation of the application on the desktop is a scaled version of a screenshot of the window for the application. Deskcon also ... provides system menus, as well as restoring the windows on double click. http://aquaria.za.net/ Win Dowse WinDowse shows any window's internals -- text, caption, resource ID, process ID, application instance handle, window handle, parent handle, function address, menu handle, coordinates in parent, coordinates in screen, size, client area size, ... (view more)

Lcars 24 Fast, smooth, powerful, and handsome 32-bit, TrueColor Starfleet-standard GUI with many LCARS games, applications, and utilities, the real thing, programmed from scratch in C, not Visual Basic or Flash. http://lcars24.sourceforge.net/ Data ... Recovery Freeware List Freeware for your data recovery needs. http://www.s2services.com (view more)

10 Real Pc Games You Can Download For Free Presented here are 10 games you can have for free. For one reason or another--often to promote upcoming sequels, for instance, or simply out of karmic generosity--these games have been released as free ... downloads by their respective publisher, developer, or creator. And each title listed is a complete game--there's not a demo, an expansion pack, or a browser-based Flash game among them. So what's the catch? Many of these titles are old (some are downright ancient), some lack a single-player component, and others are notoriously buggy! http://reviews. ... (view more)

Refresh Force Fed up of getting 60Hz or 75Hz in your favourite OpenGL/Direct3D/DirectX games (e.g. Quake 1/2/3, Half-Life, Unreal, or Deus Ex) instead of the 120Hz your display adapter ... (view more)

Live Kd LiveKd, a utility that allows you to view the local system as if it were a crash dump using the standard Microsoft kernel debuggers. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Livekd.html Sky Fex SkyFex Remote Assistant is a free service that ... allows seeing what is happening on the remote computer desktop in real time. This is a secure service, does not require additional software installation and configuration and works transparently through proxy/firewall and NAT networks. SkyFex is Windows based and requires Internet Explorer to run it. No special knowledge is necessary to work with the ... (view more)

Real2go Run Windows XP from CD. Reatogo's fully configured download bundle for a bootable Recovery-CD with BartPE+XPE. burn your first CD within a few minutes and enjoy the comfort of a full XP environment for your recovery needs! One click setup, ... all included fully configured and ready to go. http://www.reatogo.de/index.htm Last Minute Auctions This isn't our usual fare, but someone sent us the link and we really liked it -- just try the computer accessories category! Finds stuff for less than 1 dollar, with less than 1 hour left. Constantly updated! http://www.lastminute-auction.com/ (view more)