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Google releases lighter and faster Google Desktop 5.8

Google has released Desktop version 5.8 which seems to be entirely based on performance improvements. Based on the community feedback, Google has made several enhancements to the product and released lighter and a faster version of the product.
They claim that they have found a way to cut the memory utilization during startup by about [...]

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New Xobni plug-in takes MS Outlook to the next level of productivity

Mark this day! From today onwards the way Microsoft Outlook email client works will never be the same again. Xobni (inbox spelled reverse), the ultimate plug-in for outlook changes everything. Xobni turns Outlook into an ultimate email productivity client tool, something Microsoft hasn’t been able to do so far. Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that [...]

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Use Twitter from Outlook using OutTwit

Here’s an interesting piece of tool that can turn your Outlook client into a Twitter communicator. It’s called OutTwit (Outlook+Twitter). This small tool, only 550KB in size, lets you update your Twitter status and follow your friends from outlook itself. You don’t even need to open any other application to do any Twitter related activities. OutTwit [...]

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Dynamically manage CPU process priorities with Process Lasso [Windows]

Does your computer freezes up while working on an important task? Is there a process that eats up entire CPU cycle time and you can’t do anything about it? The software tool that we are going to discuss may solve your problems for ever.
Process lasso is a software utility that is capable of dynamically managing [...]

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KeePass: A free password manager utility

KeePass is a free, open-source and encryption supported password manager for Windows that stores all your passwords in an encrypted database using industrial strength encryption algorithms such as AES and Twofish that requires a master key password to access any of the passwords stored in it.

Key features of KeePass password manager utility are:

Strong Security - [...]

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RockXP: Free tool to recover Microsoft product keys and system passwords

RockXP is a free password recovery software that’s more like a swiss army knife with multiple password and product key recovery features. Of course, there are dozens of similar password recovery programs doing same job but this one seems to have gone few steps ahead of the rest.

Let’s look at the features of this [...]

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Restoration: A free file undelete utility

Restoration is one of the most simple data restoration tools that I have come across in a long time which not only recovers deleted files from hard disk drives but can undelete data from the memory flash cards of digital cameras also. Unlike many commercial and other file undelete freeware tools, Restoration does not has [...]

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