Recuva, from Piriform (makers of CCleaner), is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.

This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players.

It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
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Sleipnir is designed to be a highly customizable browser that you can configure to suit your individual needs. With Sleipnir, you can create your ideal browser by changing the design, skin, and visual appearance.

You can also add custom functionality to Sleipnir with a wide range of plugins and user scripts. Currently the most popular browser in Japan, users love Seipnir for it’s unique blend of high-performance and customizability!

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Converber is a unit converter from Xyntec Automation Inc. It is a powerful software utility that will help make easy conversions between 1208 various units of measure in 32 categories. Converber converts everything from length and force to flow and temperature. Convert millimeters, centimeters, inches, miles, kilograms, pounds, ounces, angles, decimal, binary, hex, megabytes, gigabytes, petabytes, currency, flow, force, frequency, luminance (light), mass, power, pressure, temperature, time, volume and thousands of others – you name it – this program will convert it!

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Freeware Alternative for: Norton Partition Magic

If you are looking for an external hard disk drive solution that can be used interchangeably between Windows XP, Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, there is only one way to prepare the hard disk and SwissKnife, from CompuApps Inc, does it for you. You can create, delete and format partitions on your hard disk drives in one smooth, simple process.

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Ultrastar Deluxe is a free and open source karaoke game inspired by the Singstar™ game available on the Playstation®. It allows up to six players to sing along with music using microphones in order to score points, depending on the pitch of the voice and the rhythm of singing.

UltraStar Deluxe allows to create and use your own songs, and does offer an easy way to manage your collection of songs.

You can customize its look & feel through themes and extend it with more game modes via plug ins.

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Freeware Alternative for: Adobe Acrobat Professional

PDF Split & Merge is a simple tool designed to split and merge pdf files.

With it’s simple and intuitive interface you can split your pdf documents into chapters or single pages, merge many pdf documents or subsections of them, and, extract sections of your document into a single pdf document.

PDF Split & Merge is available in two different versions: Basic and Enhanced. The enhanced version supports encryption of your pdf files, the ability to add a cover page, headers and footers. It also enables you to mix separate pages from multiple pdf documents and combine into a single pdf file.

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Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn’t take much space on your desktop. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.

Rainlendar uses the standard iCalendar format to store its events and tasks so you can easily transfer them between applications.

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SimpleD Budget is personal or household financial management software.

Manage your money easily without all the clutter of “extra features” that you’ll never use. You can keep track of your expenses for each month by allocating your income into categories such as Mortgage, Entertainment, etc.

As you spend money it will let you see how much you have left, or see how fast you are spending.

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Yawcam is a short for “Yet Another WebCAM” software, and that’s exactly what it is…

Yawcam can stream video, or grab stills at regular intevals and upload them directly to your website using the inbuilt web server. Superimpose text and details such as date, time, etc to your video stream or stills. Yawcam even has a basic Motion Detection system built in!

Yawcam was designed to be have a full feature set but also to be simple to use.

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Audiograbber is software that grabs digital audio from cd’s. It copies the audio digitally, not through the soundcard which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect.

Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders or even some internal MP3/WMA encoders for automatic creation of MP3′s.

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