Vista Start Menu Vista Start Menu is the convenient alternative to the plain Start menu you find in Windows XP and Windows Vista. The program uses your cognitive abilities (visual memory reflexes, etc.); however, while it is easily understandable for beginners, it is also highly efficient for experienced users. http://www.vistastartmenu.com/index.html   JetStart Tired of digging into crowded Start Menu? JetStart offers you a quick access to categorized Start Menu shortcuts, recently launched programs and system commands. http://www.codesector.com/jetstart.php   Open Menu+ Open Menu+ is an open source and free alternative to the Windows® Start Menu. A Vista / Mac Spotlight style quick search let's you use Vista Start Menu and Mac Spotlight features on XP, which allows you to quickly find the application or file you need. http://www.sciactive.com/main/shell-enhancements/26-open-menu-156   ObjectDock ObjectDock is a program that adds a skinnable dock to your Windows desktop.  It is one of the most popular desktop enhancement programs available. http://www.stardock.com/products/ObjectDock/information.asp   MobyDock DX MobyDock DX is a freeware launchbar / taskbar program that allows you to control your applications and folders while displaying some cool mouse-over animations. http://oxyx.oxygen-inc.com/   RocketDock RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. http://rocketdock.com/   Defraggler It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool! http://www.defraggler.com/   GIMP GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. http://www.gimp.org/   T r u e C r y p t Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux http://www.truecrypt.org/   Plaxo Plaxo remains the gold standard online contact-manager. Plaxo syncs with Outlook, Google, Yahoo and others, automatically updates contacts’ information, has an integrated task list, and keeps everyone in contact. http://www.plaxo.com/   Retaggr Your Portable Interactive Web 2.0 Profile ·         Consolidate your online presence into an interactive online business card ·         Display content like recent tweets, blog posts, and photos right in your card ·         Appears alongside your interaction across the web and on your site/blog ·         Create a great first impression when people discover you online http://www.retaggr.com/   Twuffer Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release. http://twuffer.com/   ajaxWindows ajaxWindows is a virtual operating system that lets you store, edit and share your files using only a browser. 180+ sites supported, or add your own content from anywhere. http://www.ajaxwindows.com/apps/windows/content/index.html   eyeOS eyeOS is a new kind of Operating System, where everything resides on a web browser. With eyeOS, you will have your desktop, applications and files always with you, from your home, your college, your office or your neighbor’s house. Just open a web browser, connect to your eyeOS System and access your personal desktop and all your stuff just like you left it last time. http://eyeos.org/en/   Dock Library Dock Library is an application that takes the headache out of managing styles for your Leopard dock. http://www.dativestudios.com/docklibrary/   Shock Desktop 3D Shock Desktop 3D is a fresh and engaging new way to interact with your windows desktop. http://www.docs.kr/entry/Download-Shock-Desktop3D-en   PeopleBrowsr PeopleBrowsr is a simple visual dashboard that adds more power to Twitter, and your other online identities and those of your friends. http://www.peoplebrowsr.com/   OpenDNS OpenDNS is a totally free service that lets you use their DNS servers. Find out why millions of people have already made the switch to a better Internet with OpenDNS. Taking a few minutes to unbundle your DNS service from your ISP's Internet connection means a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable Internet experience for everyone in your household. https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/solutions

Zylom Play the Best Online Games for Free at Zylom, including Sudoku! http://www.us.zylom.com/play/   Albino Blacksheep Wide variety of great games. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/   Newgrounds Check out the games http://www.newgrounds.com/game/   OpenArena OpenArena is a violent, sexy, multiplayer first person shooter based on the ioquake3 fork of the id tech 3 engine. It has many game types beyond deathmatch and a lot of characters. Due to violent and racy content, it may not be suitable for children under 17. http://openarena.ws/   Nexuiz Nexuiz is a fast paced 3d deathmatch game project created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/index.php   Urban Terror Urban Terror™ is a free multiplayer first person shooter that (thanks to ioquake3) does not require Quake III Arena. It is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php   Sauerbraten Sauerbraten (a.k.a. Cube 2) is a free multiplayer/single player first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS. http://sauerbraten.org/   Alien Arena Alien Arena is a fast paced, furious frag fest with arenas ranging from the small, to the massive. With a large built-in player base, it's never hard to find a good match going on, at any hour of the day. The community is friendly, as well as prolific. Dozens of maps, models, and various accessories have been created by community members to add on to the game experience. http://icculus.org/alienarena/rpa/index.html   Vyew Vyew makes it easy and affordable to start collaborating online With Vyew you can give a presentation to a hundred people online or post a document you've been working on for review by your colleagues at their convenience. Vyew is extremely flexible allowing you to bring online collaboration and conferencing into your workflow on your terms. http://vyew.com/site/   OfficeZilla With OfficeZilla your organization can share calendars, files, forums and more in a secure and private web place with no limits, ads, or fees. Anyone can use OfficeZilla! http://www.officezilla.com/   Pixlr Pixlr is a free online photo editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter. It's just what you imagine! Jump in n' get started! http://www.pixlr.com/   Emurse This online resume creator allows you to create very detailed and well-organized (and more traditional-looking) resumes. http://www.emurse.com/   Twine Twine is a semantic web application and a new type of social network. The idea is to have one central place where you can collect, organize, discover and share anything you find relevant; with the semantic side of the tool tracking your interests and helping you discover more things you may like. http://www.twine.com/   Recipe Matcher Recipe Matcher allows you to match dishes to what you’ve got standing on the shelves. Look like a cooking genius, when you use your half-empty fridge to mash up some wonderful dishes. http://www.recipematcher.com/   OpenDNS OpenDNS is a totally free service that lets you use their DNS servers. Find out why millions of people have already made the switch to a better Internet with OpenDNS. Taking a few minutes to unbundle your DNS service from your ISP's Internet connection means a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable Internet experience for everyone in your household. https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/solutions   "Can you run it?" This site provides a One-Click solution that looks at your computer's hardware and system software to determine whether or not your current system can run a product. Each of your computer's components is evaluated to see how well it meets the minimum and recommended requirements for specific products. Recommendations are made on how to update or upgrade each component which does not meet the listed requirements. Sometimes, a simple, free software download is all that is needed. Sometimes you'll find that you need a different video card to fully experience what the game has to offer. http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest   SlideRocket Introducing SlideRocket. With professional authoring tools, intelligent asset management, market leading analytics and the new SlideRocket Marketplace, SlideRocket puts everything you need to make great presentations at your fingertips. Create and collaborate with your peers, integrate dynamic data, and share securely online or offline, with consistent results every time. SlideRocket redefines what presentations can do and what they can do for you. http://www.sliderocket.com/   Hittery.com - your custom search dashboard » Create a personal search dashboard with your favorite search engines » Add, remove, drag and drop search boxes » Choose from over 130 search engines » Use our custom search engines or popular search engines http://www.hittery.com/index.php?cc=yes   Searchme Is most unique and impressive. Instead of showing a list of links with short excerpts of the text on the site, it displays a whole page preview for each result and the user can scroll through the pages in a 3D animated interface. The search terms are highlighted within the preview and on top there is a list of possible categories to click for more specific results. A site heavy on system resources, but absolutely beautiful and useful! http://www.searchme.com/   ATUNN Futuristic, yet simple interface. From the interactive menu above the search field you can select a category and eventually define a specific search engine. http://www.atunn.com/index.html?atunn_language=English%20(USA)   Sputtr Query a specific search engine, instead of hitting enter, click the respective symbol in the list. http://www.sputtr.com/   PDF Search Engine A PDF or eBook search engine. http://www.pdf-search-engine.com/   Deligio Deligio should be your first stop when looking for software. http://www.deligio.com/   Browzmi Browzmi is a web app which takes things a step further and intends to make the basic process of casual surfing on the internet an interactive and engaging one, where you can have your friends see what you are surfing and vice versa. It’s simply exploring the web with your friends and getting involved in a healthy discussion about your likes and dislikes about a particular website. http://www.browzmi.com/browzmi/   Yahoo Live Broadcast Your Own Live Video Channel On Yahoo. If you have a webcam, a fairly fast internet connection and some spare time on your hands, Yahoo gives you the chance to set up a free live video channel on the net and the ability for others to view your channel. Go to Yahoo Live, sign in with your Yahoo account, and then click on “My Channel” http://live.yahoo.com/   Whoisi Follow your friends on the Internet. http://whoisi.com/   YoName People search across social networks, blogs and more. http://www.yoname.com/   Explode Explode is an easy way to find friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or service they use. http://ex.plode.us/   FlauntR Powerful online image editing program. FlauntR, let’s you apply various effects to your images and you’d be surprised to see the variety and the vast collection of effects. There are literally thousands of effects which you can apply to your images. http://www.flauntr.com/

Usniff Torrent search made easy. http://www.usniff.com/q/movies   YOUTORRENT The world's largest LEGAL torrent search engine. http://www.youtorrent.com/   PizzaTorrent The fastest way to search all the popular torrent sites. http://www.pizzatorrent.com/   Bitlet Bitlet is a web-based torrent client that makes it easy to download torrents in places where you can’t install your own programs (work, college labs etc.) http://www.bitlet.org/   uTorrent uTorrent (Windows) - Tiny, fast, user-friendly and extremely popular torrent client. Probably the best torrent client for Windows PCs. Suitable both for beginners and advanced users. http://www.utorrent.com/   TransmissionBT TransmissionBT (Mac, Linux) - An equally good resource-friendly torrent client for Mac and Linux users. Simple, intuitive and absolutely free. http://www.transmissionbt.com/   ted ted can find episodes of any TV show you like to watch. Just add your favorite shows to ted and he will search for the newest episodes and downloads them for you. ted uses bittorrent and RSS technology to get you the newest episodes as fast as possible! http://www.ted.nu/