CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature.

• Supports a part of external USB/IEEE 1394 disks
• Monitoring health status and temperature
• Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information
• AAM/APM Control
• Graph of S.M.A.R.T. Information
• Resident icon with temperature alarm

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BurnAware Free is a free CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning software. It is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, MP3 music, DVD-Video discs and burning disc images. Free, easy to set up, it enables you to save your files to disc quickly and provides clean, flexible interface to help you complete your burning tasks much faster.

Features:

With Free Video Joiner you can join several videos into one large video file, it is a powerful tool and easy to use, works fast and keep the quality of video, supports video formats include: AVI ((Divx,XviD,MPEG4), WMV, MPEG (MPEG1 and MPEG2), MP4, MOV, DVD, VCD and other formats.

This free tool does not require any technical experience and is very easy to use, you just need click “Add” button to add your video files in same or different formats, then click “Join” button, you will get one single file of these video files. Free Video Joiner includes all video encoders and decoders; it can be used as AVI Joiner, MPEG Joiner, WMV Joiner, RM Joiner, MP4 Joiner and Movie Joiner.

Features:

• Quickly join and without any quality loss
• Support join AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG files
• Support save as AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4 video format
• Support save as DVD, VCD compatible mpeg
• Support save as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP video format
• Join unlimited number of video files in different formats
• Includes all video encoders and decoders
• Simple and very EASY to use
• FREE software

Startup Control Panel is a nifty control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. It’s simple to use and, like all my programs, it’s very small and won’t burden your system. A valuable tool for system administrators!

Startup Control Panel is compatible with all modern versions of Windows through Windows XP. Windows Vista, after all these years, finally has a very good startup manager built-in; go to Control Panel > Performance Information and Tools, and then click on Manage Startup Programs on the left.

You can use Control Panel application (.cpl) or stand-alone .exe file.

I have used DTP (Desktop Publishing or page layout software) software like QuarkXPress, PageMaker and InDesign more than 10 years and always looking for any freeware alternative. And there is one – It’s called Scribus and has a lot of the features InDesign boasts. It should also be great for making PDF files (just like InDesign).

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.