Firefox Split Browser

Firefox only: Open multiple windows within each tab with Split Browser, a new Firefox extension.

Once installed, you simply right-click, select “Split Browser to” from the context menu, and then choose a direction: above, below, left or right. Each new window is like a mini browser, complete with its own address bar and navigation controls. You can drag links into any of the windows and even move windows around. However, there’s one rather annoying glitch: When you load a favorite, it appears only in the original window, not the window that last had focus.

Even so, this comes in really handy if you want to keep certain snippets of information visible at all times, like an eBay auction or a calendar. It’s an especially great way to take advantage of those widescreen monitors, which have all that extra screen estate. Split Browser is free and works wherever Firefox does. — Rick Broida

Split Browser

Launchy

Windows only: Open source application Launchy is a quick, lightweight application launcher (and then some).

We’ve covered Launchy in the past, but they’ve since added a few very useful features and recently updated to an even 1.0 release. Yesterday, I poo-pooed Enso and it’s high price, claiming that other app launchers, in particular Launchy, are just as good, if not better. Launchy 1.0 is better.

The new release has added support for plug-ins, which bring lots of nifty new functions to Launchy. The most notable (pre-installed) plug-ins are:

• Web search: has searches for Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, and more built-in. To search Google, for example, hit Alt-Space to invoke Launchy, then start typing goo… until you have a match, hit Tab, then type your search terms.
• Firefox: indexes all your Firefox bookmarks, including keyword searches that work just like the default web searches above.
• Explorer navigation: Type c:, hit Tab, and you’ll see the folders below C:\. You can continue to do this as you navigate through your file system. You can even use shortcuts like my doc... + Tab to jump right into your My Documents folder.
• Calculator: Simple math can be performed right inside Launchy. Just type it in and instantly see the results.

As you can see, you don’t need to shell out any cash to get all kinds of great functionality out of what is primarily an app launcher. You done good, Launchy – real good. Launchy is free, Windows only. — Adam Pash

Launchy

ImgBurn

Windows only: Free utility ImgBurn writes any disk image to a CD or DVD quickly and easily.

I’d previously recommended ISO Recorder for this task, but ISO Recorder only supports DVDs on Vista and it only burns .iso images. Aside from DVD support across the board, ImgBurn can handle other disk images types, and it’s the tool used in DVD Flick, which I’ve been very happy with. ImgBurn is free, Windows only. — Adam Pash

ImgBurn

sTabLauncher

Windows only: Freeware app sTabLauncher adds a customizable, tabbed dock to your Windows desktop.

Similar to your Quicklaunch bar or Mac OS X’s Dock, sTabLauncher is sort of a shelf for applications, files, and folders. You can arrange your items in customizable, skinnable tabs, and adding a new tab or item to a tab is very simple. sTabLauncher is an unobtrusive alternative to the Windows Quicklaunch bar. If you’re looking for a different way to launch apps and other favorites, and keyboard launchers like Launchy aren’t for you, this could be what you’re looking for. sTabLauncher is freeware, Windows only, requires .NET 2.0.

download from: http://www.stablauncher.com/

Symantec Removal Tool

Use the Norton Removal Tool to remove a failed installation or a damaged Norton product.

download this tool from:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

BitThief Torrent Client

BitThief is a BitTorrent client developed by the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory in Zurich that manages to download torrents without uploading. Overall the downloads rates are a bit slower than with other clients, but on well-seeded torrents the performance of BitThief is comparable to any other client.

BitThief is based on the mainline client and Azureus, and is written in Java. The client uses some simple alterations that make it possible to download torrents without uploading. It constantly pretends to be a newly arrived peer that doesn’t have anything to offer itself.

Additionally, the client re-announces itself many times during the start of the download, and it ignores the 30 minute announce interval. The goal is to establish as much connections with other peers as possible. BitThief then exploits other peers, and opens up a lot of simultaneous connections, 500, compared to 80 on default by the mainline client. One of the downfalls of this aggressive approach is that it will instantly crash a lot of routers. It took less than 4 seconds before my router gave up when I attempted to download a popular Ubuntu release.

more info at: http://dcg.ethz.ch/projects/bitthief/

download from: http://dcg.ethz.ch/projects/bitthief/download.php