There are many Microsoft Windows apps out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The Lesser Known (But Very Cool) Windows Apps You Might Be Looking For. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.

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DriveImage

DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.  Image creation uses Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe “hot images” even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools.

Rightload

Rightload is a small program that allows you to quickly upload files directly from a Windows folder to your server. Instead of using complicated software just to upload a few pictures, you just right-click on the files, select the server and target folder and Rightload will do the rest for you. Rightload supports Facebook, Flickr, Tinypic and Imageshack as well as FTP and HTTP servers.

Recuva

Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. Even if you’ve formatted a drive so that it looks blank, Recuva can still find your files on it.

AxCrypt

AxCrypt is free and easy to use open source strong file encryption for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7, integrated with Windows Explorer. You can encrypt, compress, decrypt, wipe, view and edit with a few mouse clicks.

SyncBack Freeware

SyncBack is a freeware program that helps you easily backup and synchronize your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive.

ADRC Data Recovery Tool

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools contains a collection of DIY data recovery tools that supports a wide variety of drives and file systems. The software incorporates extremely simple GUI with novice users in mind. The software zooms in to do only critical recovery functions with minimum complexity so one could recover the data easily. It gives you full control to undelete files, disk image back up, restore a backup image, copy files from hard disk with bad sectors, disk cloning, backup, edit and restore your boot parameters.

Fences

Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop, and can hide your icons when they’re not in use. A “Fence”, a term coined by this program, is an icon group on your desktop. Fences is an add-on to your desktop, not a replacement.

The aim of a website owner is not only to get maximum traffic per day, but also to develop a loyal viewership. There might be many people who visit your website for the first time. However chances of the second visit depend entirely on the first visit’s impression.

Identify The Most Impactful Elements On Your Website With ClueApp

As a site owner you need to know what it is on your site that leaves an impression on the visitor. Usually, for this purpose, heatmaps are employed by site owners. These maps highlight the site regions of most activity. But they do not reveal what about your website left an impression on the visitor. For that, you could use the brilliant web service ClueApp.

ClueApp is a free to use web service that helps you determine what about your website a visitor remembers. The procedure is fairly simple. You pass your site’s URL to ClueApp’s interface. The service then takes a snapshot of your website and hosts it online for 24 hours. The URL of the image can be shared amongst users and friends. The URL shows image for five-and-a-half seconds and then asks the visitor the top 5 thinks he / she remembers about the site. Later you can view what visitors to the URL had typed in as those 5 memorable things.

For example, suppose Yahoo! wanted to find what was memorable about their Yahoo! News page. Yahoo! News could be passed through the ClueApp interface which is located on the site’s homepage. Clicking on the “Create Memory Test” button will initiate the snapshot taking process. With the image created, a URL is provided for the image.

You can copy the URL and share it with others or use the provided buttons to directly share via emailing, Facebook, or Twitter. The “Report URL” is where the results will be aggregated – this is the URL you will visit yourself.

Visitors to the URL will first get a message that they are about to look at a screenshot.

The screenshot remains for about 5 seconds.

After the time is up, visitors fill in the form.

The results are then listed alongside the website’s screenshot.

In conclusion, ClueApp helps site owners identify the most impactful elements on their pages.

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TimeStamp is a simple time reporting utility to keep
track of time spent at work. It can export the time
data to either a comma separated text file or MS Excel. (in Business and Productivity)

The Vision Board Builder is a completely free Windows
application that’s designed to make building attractive
image collages a snap. A vision board is essentially
a collection of images and ideas that reflect what
you hope to achieve or acquire in life. Visualizing
your goals is a powerful motivator– and with the free
Vision Board Builder, it’s simpler than ever before. (in Graphics)

Peekabot is a distributed real-time 3D visualization
application specially designed for robotics researchers
and developers and written in C++. Its purpose is to
simplify the visualization needs faced by a roboticist
daily – using visualization as a debugging aid or making
fancy slides for a presentation, for example. goal
is to provide a flexible tool that will cater to the
vast majority of a roboticist’s visualization needs,
yet is easy to use. (in Graphics)

AVS Antispam is a handy and easy to use application
that allows you to block spam emails. AVS Antispam
uses a combination of intelligent methods to analyze
content of incoming messages and detect spam among
them. Select among three aggression levels to adjust
filtering parameters. (in Internet)

UpdateIt! is an application designed to synchronize
the contents of a source folder with the contents of
a target folder on a local computer and/or an FTP server.
It searches all files in the source folder for ones
that are modified after a specified date/time. (in System Utilities)

Are you looking for some cool and handy jQuery Plugins, you landed at right place. Below we are presenting 45 most useful and handy plugins that you can use in your next project and make it stand out.

jQuery is the most well-known and open source JavaScript library which is being used all around the world because it simplifies the client-side scripting of HTML. You can also create marvelous effects by using these plugins. Enjoy!

HoverFade

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jQuery-Notes 1.0.2

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gMap – Google Maps Plugin For jQuery

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jQuery Menu Style

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Contextual Slideout Tips With jQuery & CSS3

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Growl

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Animate Panning Slideshow with jQuery

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jQuery Masonry

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jQuery Quicksand

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Jquery Plugin MopSlider 2.4

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jQuery color plugin xcolor

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jQuery Image Scroller

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Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider

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Horinaja

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Slide Deck

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Automatic Image Slider w/ CSS & jQuery

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Create a Slick and Accessible Slideshow Using jQuery

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Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery

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Coda Slider Effect

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Micro Image Gallery: A jQuery Plugin

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Image Highlighting and Preview with jQuery

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Textarea Words, Characters counter and maxlength plugin

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GOOGLE CHARTS

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IdmgAreaSelect

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jQuery Bookmark

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Poshy Tip

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jqPlot Charts and Graphs for jQuery

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jQuery MegaMenu Plugin

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FullCalendar – Full-sized Calendar jQuery Plugin

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jQuery Canvas Loader

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Meerkat

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jQuery PhotoShoot Plugin 1.0

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jqFancyTransitions

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jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style)

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jTextTranslate: A jQuery Translation Plugin

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xBreadcrumbs (Extended Breadcrumbs) jQuery Plugin

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Get TopUp!

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FireQuery – Firebug extension for jQuery development

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ImagineMenu

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Jquery AjaxSuggest

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Ajax File Uploader

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3d Tag Sphere

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(MB)Extruder

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jQuery Simple Multi-Select

Demo | Download

Fancy Box

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Well guys, there’s very rare chance that any body of you do not know about Apple’s iPad yet. Yeah! it’s very popular around and the reasons are specially the weight and size of this device. This is little bigger as compared to smartphones that can give you an amazing experience to browse the web, email, photo, video on your hand. Recently, I found an interesting comparison picture that will help you understand the way to find out if a person has an iPad or not. It’s funny impression of Rongen Robles which he conveyed via this illustration about the new technology product.

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Bloggers around the world are continuously on the search for tools which help do their work more easily. These include writing and proofing tools, publishing platforms, blog management tools and much more. Today we have a lineup of six of the best tools which you, as a blogger might not know about and must know about in order to enhance your blogging experience. Here they are:

Write Maps

Write Maps is a free web app which allows its users to create, edit and share sitemaps online. With sitemaps, a blogger can easily plan the layout of their newest website according to its topic and for people who like to work in teams; the ability to collaborate and work on a project on a centrally stored sitemap through Write Maps is a great way to get the job done.

Hit Stat Counter

Monitoring website traffic is critical for any webmaster especially for a blogger since often it results in the amount of revenue generated. Hit Stat Counter is a great and free way to monitor your website traffic. It provides a highly flexible and configurable hit counter along with real-time detailed web stats. This includes the pages visited by website visitors, their navigational history, location and much more.

Hit Stat Counter is a must try for any conscious blogger today.

Blungr

Domain names are one of the most critical factors in affecting the popularity and following of a blog. Blungr is a free service which lets you search for that perfect domain name to keep for your great idea. With Blungr, you can simply type in the keywords on the topic you want your weblog to be and it will ingeniously generate some great domain names for you. Not only this, you can also check for availability and purchase those domain names generated if you’re satisfied.

Social Scan

Sharing blog updates with your social network contacts is a great way to increase the traffic on your blog. Tweeting the latest blog updates is commonplace these days. Social Scan is a free web app which scans for you how much is your website link popular on social networks. It supports many social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, Digg etc. and works by simply the input of the URL of a blog link of yours.

Flisti

A good weblog can never be without an online poll. Flisti lets you create free online polls for your blog without even the need for signing up! All you need to do is type the poll question with possible answers and then you can either share the poll on a social network like Twitter or post the poll on your blog by just a simple click.

Zemanta

Zemnata is a text enhancement tool which enriches the text by adding relevant images, smart links, keywords, and even text to make the blog article have a greater appeal. The great thing about Zemanta is that it works automatically and can be deployed in almost all content publishing platforms (WordPress etc.) via a simple plugin and does the job on its own from there on. Creating stories with more glamour, impact and smartness is now possible with Zemanta.

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