Free Software

Omega Messenger
Omega Messenger is the only tool you'll need to chat online using your MSN or Yahoo! Account, and best of all, it's free!

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Free Command Line Tools
100% Freeware Networking Command Line Tools (URL response, TCP/IP Port response, REXEC, SSH, SQL Query, UnixInfo). All commands can run in unattended mode with password or key files supplied by parameters.

Free Backup Software Lab
Download BackupMill: Easy Backup Utility. BackupMill: Easy Backup Utility is an easy-to-use program designed for an automatic backup of your critical data virtually. Target: a folder mirrors the source folders via hard links (must:NTFS). The files are stored in separate dirs with history. Long paths supported. Network supported. Multiple settings. Easy to use.

FSPro Labs
Select folders of your choice to hide. In one mouse click your selected folders became invisible. Free version allows to hide up to 2 folders. Pro version allows to hide and password protect up to 16 folders at the same time.

FileLink
Unix users know and love it, now Windows users have the ability to give a single file multiple names. Make C:\HELLO.TXT and C:\TEMP\THERE.TXT point to the same data. Changes to one affect both. NT2000 or higher.

KJV Bible
Freeware popup KJV Bible program. Superfast lookup. Both Old and New Testaments. Totally free - no nags. Works with all versions of Windows. Super small footprint.

Emsa DiskCheck
Emsa Disk Check is a freeware dual-purpose utility, for disk surface checking (prescan and full disk reading) and also real conditions benchmarking; it scans the entire contents of a disk, CD, DVD or hard drive, and shows any disk errors.

BlogJet
Desktop blogging application that will greatly simplify posting to your blog. It is user-friendly, easy to use and elegant. Contains WYSIWYG editor and automatically uploads pictures. Supports most of blog services (Blogger, TypePad, MovableType,...)

OutWit Technologies
Now available for Firefox 3, OutWit is the Web collection engine for everyone. It runs on your Windows, MacOS or Linux machine and allows you to browse through and easily grab information, collect media, contacts or files from the Internet, in a few clicks. Find pictures in galleries and search engines and download them to your hard disk or display online full screen slideshows in a single click. Have the program guess the structure of data you want to extract and export it as a clean spreadsheet to Excel... The Hub is the very first tool based on the OutWit platform. A free collection application and a complete Web harvesting environment in a single interface, OutWit Hub gathers a large series of recognition and extraction features to ease your Web searches, sort and organize your collections, make your own mashups. With or without programming or technical knowledge, you can create automatic agents to gather and format the information you seek. Automatically browse through pages, collect and format the information you seek. This free Firefox add-on is composed of a kernel, containing the library of functions and of an API, which will allow advanced users to build and distribute their own original tools -called outfits- using the features of the kernel for specific applications. Each outfit is a small XUL extension, with its own user interface, features, scripts, scrapers, directory of Web sources... The first outfit, OutWit Hub, is a multi-purpose development tool, meant to showcase a large number of the kernel's features, to cover a large spectrum of needs. It will keep evolving and become an indispensible tool, both for data collection and for developing scripts, scrapers etc.

WaitForFile
Try to open a file with exclusive access. This can be very useful in a bat-file if you want to process a specific file that may be opened in another program (word for example). WaitForFile will block until it is able to open the specified file.