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Most laptop owners have experienced the frustrations of an unpredictable cursor when your wrist grazes the touchpad. Free, open-source utility TouchFreeze disables your touchpad as soon as you start typing, re-enables it when you stop.

Users of some torrent clients have been able to preview video downloads for quite some time. Millions more are about to get that ability, thanks to the arrival of streaming in the uTorrent 2.1 beta.

The new interface in Office 2007 has a great new look but finding your favorite feature can be a little difficult at first. Microsoft Office Labs offers a helpful utility called Search Commands that brings search to the ribbon. Can’t find a specific feature? Just search for it!

Gaming is fun. Organizing all your personal video games isn’t. Sisimizi takes the hassle out of managing your collection so you can get back to raiding villages and killing zombies.

Planning an upgrade soon? Save yourself the web searches for your specs and download Speccy. Speccy does a quick scan of your machine and gives you a complete rundown of every piece of gear that’s in your computer.

Firefox 3.5.4 fixes the following issues:

Several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Added the ability to re-submit crash reports (bug 378528)
After using Clear Recent History some SSL sites [...]

Open-source system tray utility Aerofoil helps keep your Windows notebook running longer by automatically turning off Aero Glass and other battery-sucking preferences when you disconnect from a wall outlet.

LiberKey doesn’t have the polished menu found in the PortableApps suite, but its menu is functional and conveniently arranged by program type.

You’ve always been able to grab uTorrent’s program folder and drop it onto a thumb drive for portable BitTorrent handling. Now the PortableApps.com suite has packaged our favorite torrent client and integrated it with their application menu.

If you have already downloaded – or plan on downloading – a purchased copy of Windows 7, you may need a tool to help you turn the bits into something bootable so you can actually start installing your new OS.