You can search books by author name, title and even search within the contents of the book. Or if you are not sure where to start then you might want to check out top 100 most downloaded books for the previous day.

Features:

• Search books catalog by author name or title.
• Advanced search: Filter books by subject, language, category, filetype, etc.
• Browse books by popularity, book author, title, language or recently posted.
• Download ebooks directly from the website or via FTP.
• Download certain ebooks in HTML, plain text, plucker (mobile) or audio format (human-read).
• Read ebooks on your Palm, PDA or smartphone.
• Books available in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.
• Get RSS feeds for recently added books.

Please keep in mind, while the service is leagl in the United States it may not be the case for the some other countries. So make sure to check the copyright laws of your country before downloading a book.

IZArc

IZArc can be configured to run your preferred Anti-Virus scanner when you open any archives. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support. With IZArc you can open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO).

If you need to send large files to your colleagues, friends or customers who may not have archiving tool you can easily create self-extracting archive that can be extracted by simple double click. IZArc is integrated in Windows so you can perform all archiving operations by using right-click menus in Windows Explorer. If you have broken archives IZArc can help you to repair them with ease.

IZArc allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, view and write comments and there is an integrated password detector, allows you to find the passwords of one password protected zip file.

1. Adblock Plus: Adblock Plus (ABP) is a content-filtering extension for Mozilla Firefox. ABP, a forked version of Adblock, allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed.

2. FlashGot / DownThemAll: The default download manager built into Firefox is very handy; however, there are many occasions that you’ll find that you need more flexibility with your downloads. This is where Flashgot or DownThemAll comes in handy. The features of Flashgot and DownThemAll have their differences; however, they generally provide finer-grained control of your downloads.

3. Download Statusbar: Download Statusbar manages your downloads in the status bar instead of the Firefox Download Manager. Default download manager tucks your download progress bars into the generally unused status bar of Firefox. This extension lets you download care-free without the Firefox Download Manager popping up and interrupting you.

4. Gspace: Gspace is a content management extension that lets you turn your Gmail account into an online mass storage device. Gspace integrates nicely into your browser and lets you drag and drop files into Gmail for backup or storage purposes without interrupting your work flow.

5. FoxyTunes: FoxyTunes Firefox extension allows you to listen music while surfing the Web, and control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser. The extension supports the normal media player functions and displays currently playing track information. Additionally, the extension allows searching various Web sites to get images, videos, biographies etc. related to the music being played.

6. Customize Google: Customize Google is a very robust extension that lets you customize many features of the services provided by Google. Customize Google lets you block advertisements on pretty much any Google page (including Gmail). It remaps Google Images search results to point directly at the images (no longer will you need to click through the originating site). Customize Google lets you add links from other search engines directly into your search results. It can also block Google click tracking and allows you to connect to Google Calendar and Gmail securely (https).

7. Firefox Sync: Firefox Sync allows users to synchronize bookmarks, browsing history, preferences, passwords, filled forms, and last 25 opened tabs across multiple computers. Firefox Sync keeps user data on Mozilla servers, but the data is encrypted in such a way that no third party, not even Mozilla, can access user information.

8. URL Fixer: URL fixer will replace the common typos you enter when typing a Web site into the URL bar (i.e., http://www.lifehack.rog, htp://lifehack.org). The auto correct feature of URL fixer is very helpful. “[URL Fixer] will correct common misspellings of .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, and .mil, as well as the protocol (http:, https:). It will also correct errors in country code TLDS such as .com.XX, .net.XX, and .org.XX.”

9. Scrapbook: Scrapbook is extremely useful for researchers and students. Scrapbook saves blurbs from Web pages to your hard drive along with the URL of the originating Web site. It allows you to organize and categorize your blurbs in a format similar to your bookmarks so that when it comes to creating a bibliography or works cited, you won’t waste any time. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support.

10. Open IT Online: Open IT Online allows you to open documents and images online without the need of any software to be installed. It supports Google Docs, Zoho, View Docs Online, Vuzit to edit/view documents and Snipshot, Pixlr, Sumo Paint, etc. to edit/view images.

That needs to change! So, here is the Pale Moon project. Pale Moon is a custom built and optimized Firefox-based browser.

The Pale Moon project is the work of a single individual, using contributed Open Source code to create a full-featured, speed optimized version of the popular Firefox browser.

Features:

*Highly optimized for current processors.
*100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
*Uses less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code.
*Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing.
*Support for SVG and Canvas.

This is a great working program. Its definitely faster than Firefox and as smooth.You can also use all addons that Firefox provides.

During the install a diagram of hard disk let you assign a drive letter to Linux partition. It has lots of features:

• Supports both the 32 bit x86 and the 64 bit x64 platform.
• All operations you would expect: Reading and writing files, listing directories, creating, renaming, moving and deleting files or directories, querying and modifying the volume’s label.
• UTF-8 encoding.
• Files larger than 2 GBytes.
• Full plug-n-play functionality. When a drive is removed, the corresponding drive letter is deleted.
• A global read-only option is provided.
• File names that start with a dot “.” character are treated as hidden.
• Paging files are supported. (A paging file is a file “pagefile.sys”, which Windows swaps virtual memory to.) Users may create paging files at NT’s control panel at Ext2 volumes and more.

“IFS Drives” is installed at the computer’s control panel, which allows you to assign drive letters to Ext2 volumes. If you wish to uninstall the software, select “Add/remove Software” from the Control Panel.

1. Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows XP: It is basic and simple utility compact in size.

• Download a small utility called Virtual Desktop Manager from Microsoft’s PowerToys download page.
• Install the utility.
• To enable it right click on your taskbar, go to the Toolbars menu, and select Desktop Manager.

Virtual Desktop Powertoy

It is lacking in some of the features found in most other applications. Microsoft currently offers a utility called Desktops which allows users to run applications on up to 4 virtual desktops.

Desktops

2. VirtuaWin – The Virtual Desktop Manager: VirtuaWin is designed to be simple and elegant to use yet still be highly configurable and extensible. It is fairly easy to configure and run VirtuaWin in your system.

3. Dexpot: It is another virtual desktop manager for Windows. It will allow the user to create up to 20 virtual desktops. It has attractive interface, ease of use, various language versions and features list. Different icons, wallpapers, start-ups, and much more can be configured for each desktop.

4. Virtual Dimension: Virtual Dimension is a free, fast, and feature-full virtual desktop manager for Windows platform. It is fast, small in size utility and easy to install, configure and use. It has numerous features like unlimited number of desktops, optional preview window, allowing to select the desktop to switch to, and to access many of the functions, specific settings for each desktop (wallpaper, desktop background color, …) etc.

5. MicroDesk: It is another virtual desktop program, which can create up to 99 virtual desktops that help you organize the current open applications and they’re afferent windows. It comes with more standard features, configuration of each desktop, an attractive interface and a configurable transparent menu.

Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

1. You need to connect your USB Storage device to your computer. Right-click on My Computer from the desktop and choose Manage.

2. Click on “Device Manager” and expand out “Disk Drives”.

3. Right click on USB drive and select “Properties”. After that, click on the “Policies” tab and choose “Optimize for performance” radio button. Finally click OK and you are done!

4. Now open “My Computer” and select Format on the Flash Drive, choose NTFS in the file system drop-down box, and Click Start.

Important: To remove a device safely without data loss use a “safely remove hardware” procedure or Eject function from Windows Explorer.

Here are some free and useful tools for Windows:

1. K-Lite Codec Pack:

K-Lite (Mega) Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video components for Microsoft Windows that enables the operating system and its software to play back various audio and video formats generally not supported by the operating system itself. K-Lite Codec Pack also includes several related tools, including Media Player Classic, GSpot Codec Information Appliance and Codec Tweak Tool.

2. BurnAware Free:

BurnAware Free is one of the most popular free CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning software available for Windows. Using this program you can easily create and burn Audio and MP3 CD, Data and DVD-Video disc, ISO and Cue Image, erase or format rewritable disc, copy your CD or DVD to ISO image.

3. IrfanView:

IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting capabilities.

IP Messenger allows you to send messages via the IP number of computers within designated blocks of addresses. If you own thousands of IPs, you can send messages to thousands of computers. This product is only designed for use within your IP scope allocated to your corporation. Real-time stats show you successes and failures.

Pros:

• Simple, lightweight, and compact size.
• Very easy installation and configuration.
• File and folder transfer.
• RSA/Blowfish Encryption of communication data.
• Multi platform (for Windows, Mac and Unix).
• Command line support (eg: ipmsg.exe [port] /MSG [/LOG][/SEAL] <hostname or IPaddr> <message>
  example: – C:\> ipmsg.exe /MSG /SEAL localhost Hello.

Cons:

• Little help.
• No smileys supported in messages.

This product is recommended for small and large business having own LAN and WAN.

It comes pre-installed in Windows Vista (SP 1), Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008. But exFAT isn’t native to Windows XP (Windows Server 2003 also) – which the vast majority of you are probably still running. Microsoft has released KB955704 to address the issue. You can simply download the package and install to get exFAT support installed in your XP machine and you’ll be able to seamlessly work with exFAT partitions in XP.