New, unknown ‘friends’ with chat requests must now answer a challenge question in order to reach you. No more insidious IM invitations to become texxxxy1212’s buddy. From the friendly OSS folks at SourceForge. It does in fact work with Vista and 7.
Make a Shortcut to Close “Not Responding” Applications
Tired of your applications locking up, and having to open up task manager and kill them? You can make a quick-kill shortcut that will just whack any application that isn’t responding. Make a new shortcut with this path:
taskkill.exe /f /fi "status eq not responding"
Find That Long Lost TV Episode with epguides
With thousands of past and current shows in its database and numerous sorting options, epguides.com is the first choice in TV reference.
Use Awesome Looking Fonts on Your Website using Typekit
Tired of using the same boring fonts on your site? Or maybe you are sick of having to create images whenever you want to use fancy looking text? Typekit is a subscription-based service that hosts fonts in the cloud and lets you link to some of the best fonts in the world for your web pages. Neat!
Quickly Setup a HomeGroup in Windows 7
With Windows 7 comes a new feature called a HomeGroup. It’s basically an easy way to quickly share files and printers on a home network. So if you have a lot of pictures, videos, MP3s, or documents that you want to be able to access on any computer in your home, setup a HomeGroup!
Stop Annoying Websites from Moving or Resizing Your Browser Window
Tired of going to pages that move your window around, resize it, replace the context menu and change the status bar? You can prevent it easily in Firefox by heading to Options, Content Tab, and clicking Advanced on the right of the "Enable javascript" checkbox.
Organize Your Desktop using Fences
Are you one of those people who has tons of icons on their desktop? If you find yourself wasting a lot of time searching through icons, Fences might be a program for you. It’s a free app that lets you create containers on your desktop to organize your icons, files and folders. Very useful!
McAfee Avert Stinger – Scan Your System For Specific Viruses
Since 2002, the standalone Stinger program has been hunting down both common and esoteric viruses. With a database of over 900 signatures, Stinger can scan, report and delete some of the harder to find threats. A tiny 4MB, Stinger is a great on-demand tool.
Need to Send a Large File? Check out Fileai!
Want to send someone a file, but it’s too big? Fileai is a free service you can use to send large files to others securely. It works by creating a direct peer-to-peer connection between two computers through your web browser. No need to upload files! Just make sure you leave your browser window open.
Goodnight Timer Slowly Reduces Volume, Then Shuts Down Your PC
Do you like to listen to music or watch movies on your PC to help you get to sleep? If so, you might want to check out Goodnight Timer, which will automatically lower the volume slowly, and then turn off the PC when it’s done. Windows 7 / Vista users might need to use compatibility mode to make it work.
