Have you ever wanted to be online on Google Talk and at the same time appear idle to your friends? Google Talk does not provide built-in functionality to allow you to control your idle status but by installing a simple program called gAlwaysIdle you can be always idle as well as never idle to other Google Talk users.

Once you have installed the program, right click on Google Talk on the taskbar and you will be able to see three new options- ‘Normal Idle’, ‘Always Idle’ and ‘Never Idle’.

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Do you take a lot of time to write a blog post? A lot depends on how well you can type. If you don’t type well, you should try out some freely available Typing Tutor softwares to improve yourself. The better you get at typing, the lesser time you need to spend on writing the post.

While there are many softwares available that teach you to type faster, the freeware that I liked the most so far was TypeFaster that teaches you how to touch-type and improve your typing speed.

This program has been designed to teach people to touch-type. Touch-typing is a skill that can be learnt with practice and perseverance. Touch-typing is a method of typing which uses 8 fingers and one thumb. Touchtypists do not have to look at the keyboard to find the keys they want to type.

When you first start TypeFaster, it introduces you to the software and gives you basic info like what are homekeys and which keys each of your finger should rest on. Once you are ready you can start the tutor.

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With Windows Media Player 11 installed, searching your entire music library just got better. Windows Media Player 11’s capable search modifiers can help you search your music effectively. For example, you can just narrow down to tracks from a particular artist by using the ‘Artist’ Search Modifier.

For example, Artist: Akon will search and list only the songs by Akon. Similarly, you can use the ‘Album’ operator to search for songs from a particular Album.

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Have you ever deleted a file accidentally and then realized it to be an important one? You do not have to worry about deleted files again if you use Handy Recovery, which is an easy-to-use data recovery software designed to restore files accidentally deleted from your PC. The program can also recover files damaged by virus attacks, power failures and software faults and even files from deleted and formatted partitions.

It can also recover files moved to Recycle Bin after it has been emptied and if some program does not use Recycle Bin when deleting files, Handy Recovery can restore such files too.

Handy Recovery supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives. It can also recover compressed and encrypted files on NTFS drives.

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Stardock LogonStudio is a freeware that allows Windows XP users to apply new logon screens and also comes built with a visual editor to make it easy to create your own logon screens. You can download logon screens for Windows XP from here.

Download LogonStudio for Windows XP

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TuneUp Utilities is a software for Windows with a very nice interface that will help you fix PC problems and improve performance and let’s you easily customize your computer to suit your needs. It helps you make your system faster, more comfortable and more secure in a matter of minutes.

The new TuneUp Utilities 2007 will make Windows even faster, more comfortable and more secure than ever. Configuring the system, making backups and performing maintenance can be easily carried out using the intuitive user interface - all easily done in one program at a single glance.

TuneUp Utilities 2007 is one of my favorite softwares but was not Vista compatible until now. You can download a 30-day trial version from here.

Those of you who are not using Windows Vista but still wish to get the Vista-style look on your Windows XP, should try out the Vista Transformation Pack. This freeware will help you transform your Windows user interface to look like Windows Vista.

Vista Transformation Pack will replace many of the resources in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003.

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Democracy Player is a freeware that can play videos in many formats like Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, etc and is also available for Mac and Linux platforms apart from Windows.

Democracy Player let’s you search and download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and other video sharing web sites. The software also let’s you pause and resume video downloads.

Democracy Player lets you save videos on Del.icio.us, Digg and Reddit right from within it’s interface and also lets you subscribe to any video RSS feed, podcast, or video blog.

The player lets you easily download any BitTorrent file and watch it from within the player itself.

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I have mentioned earlier on how to download YouTube Videos and how to rip audio from YouTube videos. Here is a easy to use software called Biennesoft YouTube Downloader that can help you download video clips from YouTube and convert them to iPod, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid or MP3 from your desktop.

To download a YouTube video with this tool just select ‘Download video from YouTube’, enter the video URL and click Ok. The video is downloaded with file name ‘get_video’ and without extension.

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Having multiple copies of the same file takes up unnecessary space on your hard disk and even creates confusion. Duplicate File Finder is a simple to use freeware that helps you eliminate these duplicate files on your PC by locating them in one or more selected search paths.

It quickly scans the files and compares them based on Byte for Byte Comparison, which ensures 100% accuracy. You can then choose to delete all the selected duplicate files.

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