Forecaster is a simple weather forecasting tool that provides weather information right from your Windows 7 system tray. Of course, Windows 7 has its own weather gadget, but Forecaster can display weather information of different locations of the world or region just with a click.

WinUtilities Process Security is a powerful Task Manager for Windows that can be used to detect dangerous process on your computer. It displays all active process, their security level, priority, etc in a very easy to understand way.

Working or playing for hours before a computer creates problems to your health. You need to develop a habit of resting your eyes and body regularly, but the difficulty lies in scheduling a regular break and keeping to it. Here is a simple tool for Windows called Fadetop to help you do so.

Free Opener is a free software that helps you view, edit, and print different types of file formats including MS office files, PDF, Photoshop file, image files and media files, without needing to download and install any special software. Currently, it supports over 70 different file formats.

Some applications or virus activities in your PC sometimes eats-up more CPU resources. High CPU usage slows down all background processes and your PC turns into unresponsive at times. So the question is, how do you get to know when there is a high CPU usage and what programs are causing this high CPU consumption?

MacX Video Converter Pro is a feature-rich video converter software for Windows and Mac that brings users an all-in-one video converting solution with top quality, easiness, speed and efficiency. It supports a host of video formats including MKV, M2TS, AVCHD, H.264/MPEG-4, MP4, H.264, MOV, FLV, etc, and helps you converts them to a suitable video format for your computer, handhelds or for YouTube.

Here is good news for Mac users. Avast has unveiled a free antivirus solution (public beta) for Mac users to detect and block malware that targets computers running the Mac operating system. It is true that the amount of malware infections are comparatively less in Mac OS, but its popularity now attracts more and more cyber criminals onto it.

As you may know, just deleting files or formatting the hard drive will not sufficient to delete data permanently. There are powerful tools to recover all deleted data from your hard drive. If you want to wipe all data permanently from the hard drive, especially if you decide to discard your hard drive or resell your PC, you can consider the free tool Secure Eraser.

RefreshPC is an easy to use, freeware utility that can help you reset your computer’s registry settings and all services to their default state. It is quite useful to fix the issues caused by wrong registry settings or service settings. For example, you can use it, when you have changed something in Windows registry or services that caused problems to your PC, and find that you can't fix it anymore.

A timer application has many uses. It can be used to track time and keep to deadlines or can be used for cooking, meditation, etc. If you are looking for an easy to use, feature rich, intuitive, and free timer application, certainly you love Aero Timer Plus.

Recently we had posted an article about Google Chrome’s new Compact navigation feature, which gives more browsing space for Chrome and is useful for small screen sized devices like netbooks and tablet PCs. Here is similar feature from Mozilla for its browser Firefox. The LessChrome HD Firefox extension gives more browsing space for the browser.

As you type something in the address bar (or Awesome bar), Firefox displays a drop down list of suggestions. By default, this list includes 12 suggested matches. However, you can easily decrease or increase the number of results for your needs.

Usually, to uninstall a software in Windows, you need to go to Control Panel, select Add/Remove or Uninstall program option and then choose appropriate software. But if you can add an uninstall option into the context menu of each application, you can save this long process.

You might have come across such a situation that your folders or files stored on your USB Flash drive vanished without your knowledge. This is because, certain malware can hide all folders and files in a USB Flash drive.

BitDefender Security Scan is a free tool designed to give information on the speed, stability and security issues which may affect your Windows system. It presents information in a way that makes it easier for you to take appropriate action.

Google Chrome has so many features that make it a must-have browser. I love its sleek design and simple-to-use interface, which makes you realize how cluttered other browser pages are. To make it even more compact, Google has added a new experimental feature to Chrome called ‘Compact Navigation’, which is certainly useful where screen size is a matter, for example netbooks and tablet PCs.

The Firefox 4 browser has undergone a complete design change and now it looks more beautiful and compact. However, if you love Google Chrome’s minimalistic style, you can easily implement it to your Firefox browser.

An exciting feature of Google Chrome browser is its Integrated PDF reader, which helps you view PDF files online without downloading them to your computer or you can use it as your default PDF Viewer for your PC to read PDF files saved in your computer - no need to install bulky Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, etc to view PDF files.

WinLockr is a tiny and portable Windows utility that can help you quickly lock your computer in your absence. It is useful, for instance, you can use it at your working environment to prevent others from accessing your data when you are not in front of your PC.

PickMeApp is the perfect tool if you are planning on upgrading to a new PC or reinstalling Windows, because it makes easy to transfer installed programs along with its settings and customization from one PC to another. Also, it is much more than an easy copy and paste of installed programs.

All browsers have built-in option for deleting browsing history, temporary files, and cookies from your computer, but this option will delete all such data stored on your computer. However, on some occasions, you may want to clear traces of just opened web site. Here is how you can do that in IE9.

Syncdocs is a free app designed to be an easy to use tool to sync files between your desktop and Google Doc. You can use it for online storage and backup needs (Google Doc offers 1GB of free storage), accessing your files from any computer and Smartphone, and for accessing your Google Docs offline.

ClipCube is a tiny clipboard history tool that keeps copied text for later use. You can keep the copied text for a week, month or infinitely and view saved items and re-copy them to the clipboard at any time.

News coming from the internet reveals that the upcoming Windows 8 has several cool features. For example, it can change Aero Glass Color automatically with the Color of the Wallpaper. If you like this Windows 8 feature, you can implement it to your Windows 7 or Vista with a small tool called Aura.

The Windows 7 Power Users Guide is a worth to read eBook that covers a whole host of topics like installing and configuring Windows 7, guide to all new features and step-by-step tutorials, securing and maintaining your system, etc in 16 chapters.

Of course, you can minimize (and restore) all active windows and applications to system tray just by using the shortcut key Win + D. But the small utility HideIt helps you hide any active applications or windows to system notification area just by a right click.