Good Morning, Good Afternoon or Good Evening, Here is today's post, i thought this to be a very interesting one for all you windows users. Again id like to point out this is taken directly from

http://lifehacker.com/5713569/most-popular-free-windows-downloads-of-2010

But my aim here is to provide chess.com members with articles that are interesting and beneficial , basically i sift through all the junk online and put all the interesting "good stuff" here in one centralised location for your viewing pleaseure.

When i get time i will write up my own posts too.

For now, just enjoy :) and please leave comments if you wish:)

 

 

 

Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've featured quite a few Windows downloads throughout 2010. Here's a look back at the most popular free applications to help you tweak, customize, and enhance your Windows experience

Photo remixed from an original by Matt Katzenberger

The following applications, like all the articles in our Best Of series, are selected by the amount of traffic each article gathered over the course of the year. Some of the applications are brand new, some are reincarnations of older tools, and some are updates and enhancements to existing applications. Here's a look back at the 16 most popular free Windows applications of 2010.

Soluto Is an Awesome Tool to Speed Up Your System Boot, Fix System Slowdowns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soluto tracks your boot time and gives you the break down on what applications are causing hang ups-including grouping them into "No-Brainger" and "Potentially Removable" groups for easy weeding.

LookInMyPC Is a Must-Have Tool for Computer Troubleshooting

 

 

 

 

 

LookInMyPC is an at-a-glance tool that puts all your system information-in detail-right in front of you. You can find all this information by digging through your computer with various Windows tools, of course, but it's extremely convenient to have everything in one place.

Snow Transformation Pack Makes Your Windows Desktop Look Like Mac OS X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You like the look of Mac OS X but you want to stick with windows-for work, for gaming, for a deep seated sense that Steve Jobs is out to get you. Snow Transformation Pack overhauls the Windows interface to look like OS X. This isn't just a lame icon pack, this is a total transformation.

FlashHacker Keeps Flash Videos in Full Screen on Your Dual Monitors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You wouldn't think it would be so hard to enjoy flash video in full screen on your secondary monitor, but without tools likeFlashHacker it's quite a headache. Enjoy South Park in full screen on your extra monitor while working in your primary.

CCleaner Enhancer Makes CCleaner Even Better, Now Cleans 270 New Apps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What could make the popular computer cleaning and tweaking application CCleaner even better? CCleaner Enhancer extends the reach of CCleaner by expanding its database of programs and the digital debris they leave behind.

ZeuApp Downloads 82 Awesome Open Source Apps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you love open source apps and you want an easy way to download them in bulk (or introduce a friend to the gift of open source), ZeuApp makes it dead simple to batch download 82 great open-source applications.

Google Map Buddy Generates High Resolution, Full Size Area Maps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google Map Buddy is a free and portable application with a singular focus: leaching high-res captures from Google Maps. If you've ever wanted to wallpaper your office with a map of the downtown, now's your chance.

 

Steam Mover Relocates Applications to Free Up Space on Your Primary Drive

 

 

 

Steam Mover is a handy application, originally designed for gamers, that makes it dead simple to move infrequently used applications from your primary drive to a secondary drive. It's not 100% foolproof but it works really well for most applications.

 

Ei.cfg Removal Utility Lets You Use Any Product Key With Your Windows 7 Disc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Windows 7 install discs are edition specific-unless you use Ei.cfg. If you've got a valid disc but the wrong edition key you can still use the disc to install the right edition for the key you have. It's an invaluable tool when you've got valid discs, valid keys, but not in matching editions.

ToneCheck Stops You from Sending Passive Aggressive (or Plain Aggressive) Emails

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ToneCheck is an Outlook plug-in that checks the tone and word selection of your email and warns you before you fire off an email you might regret. Although the idea is promising our testing yielded mixed results-human emotion and intention are, after all, quite difficult for a computer to analyze.

HTC Home Brings the HTC Weather Widget to Windows 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you're a big fan of the HTC mobile phone interface HTC Home puts the clock and weather widget from HTC phones right on your desktop.

uTorrent 2.0 Brings Performance Updates, Bandwidth Control, UDP Support, and More

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

uTorrent is a wildly popular BitTorrent client, earlier this year it updated to version 2.0 and brought a host of new features including bandwidth management, UDP support, and other improvements.

Pale Moon Is a Faster Firefox Clone for Windows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you love Firefox but you'd like it to be a little snappier,Pale Moon is a Firefox clone optimized for speed. It's a Windows-specific build and it clocks in at 25% faster than a stock Firefox install.

 

Disk Space Fan Analyzes Hard Drive Space with a Dash of Eye Candy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your hard drive is full again and you're not sure why. Out of control temp files? Overly complete Hello Kitty collection? Disk Space Fan gives you a quick and dirty visual analysis of your hard drive usage. Once you scan a drive you can drill down quickly to see what folders and sub-folders are sucking up what disk space.

Freemake Is a Remarkably Simple, Yet Feature-Filled Video Converter and Editor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are a lot of video conversion apps floating around. Freemake stands out thanks to a dead simple interface that guides even the greenest video converting newbie through the process without a hiccup. Whether you're converting for your iPod, your cell phone, or burning to a DVD, Freemake has a simple workflow you can follow.

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