[IT}-- Free programs: Customize Google, Defraggler and DocPad
Customize Google
Version: 0.72
Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP
If you’re a big user of Google (and face it, who isn’t?), you’ll want to install this add-on. It customizes Google in just about any way you can imagine, and no doubt in many ways you’ve never imagined. For a starter, it will block Google’s ads as well as Google analytic cookies, which some people believe invades their privacy. Additionally, it anonymizes your Google userid.
–Preston Gralla
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Defraggler
Version: 1.02
File Size: 539k
Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
Piriform Defraggler will remove those pesky, tailed, Muppets from your hard drive once and for…oh wait. Well, it won’t do that, but it will defragment your hard drive, and it offers some features that the free defragmentation utility including in Windows does not.
First off, it’s faster and prettier. The latter is important since, with large hard drives, you’ll be staring at it–or any defragmentation tool–a while. Second, it has a number of nice features which can make disk maintenance…well, not fun, but easier and more focused.
–Ian Harac
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Defraggler
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DocPad
Version: 7.0
File Size: 3531k
Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 98
DocPad is a free text editor that looks to be designed for programmers and others who need to work with plain-text documents. Like Windows’ Notepad, you can open only one .txt or .xml file at a time; the program can’t handle .doc or .rtf formats.
Once you’ve edited or created a document, you can save it as a .txt, .ini, .log., or .bat file. DocPad has many more features than Notepad, however. In addition to the standard search-and-replace, DocPad’s Edit menu provides an "Alphabetize all paragraphs" function, bookmarks, a character map, a macro manager, a "Convert encoding" feature, and many other options that could be useful to programmers.
–Kim Saccio-Kent
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