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I have been using AVG combinded Antivirus and Firewall for some time. When it was time to renew I decided to opt for free alternatives. First I tried AVG Free 8.0 but it messed up (as I see it) and installed addons in Firefox I could not remove without uninstalling AVG Free.
My choices of free [...]

I have posted about using coloured labels in Gmail which makes labels more visible and useful. But I was still not too fond of labels as they are applied in Gmail.
Then I came across Folders4Gmail which is a terrific script for Firefox with Greasemonkey installed. Suddenly your labels show up in a folder-like hierarchy. You [...]

Chris Garrett writes about Top Software Tools: Readers Recommendations where he lists software for Windows, Mac, Linux and cross-platform.
DailyWritingTips has PC Vitals for Every Freelance Writer, actually it is great advice for anyone using a computer.
DailyBits has a post about The Worst PC Disasters and Their Solution.

Firefox 3 is finally released, the Mozilla site - Getfirefox.com - is overladed at the moment. Mozilla Zine writes about Mozilla Firefox 3 Released.
CNET has a review at Firefox 3. In summary they say:
The good: Firefox 3 touts faster rendering, vastly reduced use of system resources, clever new data-mining tools for your bookmarks and browser [...]

DailyBits has a post titled 10 Best, Free Programs to keep Windows Protected.
Windows isn’t secure as you might have known. You’ve probably faced threats and trojans on your computer. There are loads of programs that are targeted at keeping your Windows computer safe from intrusions, here’s a pick of the best of them.
This post covers [...]

During the weekend I worked with an idea of mine and wanted to create a new website. I have tried Joomla before but wanted something smaller and decided to try Drupal. It turned out to be a small, flexible yet powerful system. I had a site in production status up and running in around two [...]

When I first read The next evolution of labels I was not much impressed since I could see no immediate benefit with coloured labels. But I decided to give it a try and it improved readability and overview a lot.
I created some filters that put coloured labels on certain incoming mails. This makes it easy [...]

Songbird has released version 0.3 and I have downloaded and installed it. This time I changed feathers (layout) since the original is all black. I decided to use iBird which looks great. It is an iTunes lookalike which is OK, I like the colours. I use Song Notifier which shows an alert slider when the [...]

PermaTabs is a great add-on for Firefox. PermaTabs adds the ability to turn tabs into permanent tabs, they will stick around between sessions. It is very useful for keeping URLs you use often (I use it for my Gmail) always available and they stay from session to session. And it is useful for picking up [...]

Foxit Software has a great free PDF document viewer and printer. The reader is small and very fast, the opposite to Adobe Reader that gets bigger and slower with each new release.

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