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CCleaner has been one of my most used (and most trusted) apps for years. The same goes for Defraggler. There’s no denying that the crew at Piriform really knows how to make useful little programs.

Saving a webpage as a PDF shouldn’t be as hard as it is. If you’re on a Mac, you’ve got the built-in print-as-PDF function, but what of other operating systems? PDFmyURL is a web-based tool that converts any page to PDF format, on any operating system, and with hardly any fuss.

Credit Karma, a site that looks to help consumers understand, track, and improve their credit scores, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by QED Investors, with participation from SV Angel, Aydin Senkut, and Founders Fund, via FF Angel.

The WinVistaClub forum walks through a simple registry hack to empty a folder right from the Windows context menu-a time saving tweak for cleaning up your clutter.

CentralOps.net This site is a collection of Internet utilities developed by Hexillion using its HexGadget components. Most of the utilities have ASP or ASP.NET source code available.

Ever want to run Google Docs or Zoho from your desktop? Unfortunately for travelers, web apps by nature are shackled to its internet connections. Now, you can cut the ethernet cable and free web apps from the web using Fluid and Google Gears.

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). [...]

A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need, and getting things done–or having a tech meltdown.

Here is one more reason NOT to use your internet service providers DNS. The reason I learned about this was because MY service provided was blocking some websites by removing them from their DNS. So when I typed in the site address all I got was a Host provided DNS error page can not be [...]

Would you like to read faster? No I mean really super fast. The idea is that it feeds you one word at a time super fast and your brain takes it in and processes the results better then seeing words in a row and your brain tries to make a structure…
Give http://www.spreeder.com/ a try. Have [...]