"FeedDemon - RSS News Reader for Windows

Thousands of web sites offer their content as RSS newsfeeds, but accessing this information has been cumbersome at best.

Until now, that is.

FeedDemon enables you to quickly explore the world of RSS from your desktop without having to visit hundreds of sites. Written by Nick Bradbury, creator of TopStyle and HomeSite, FeedDemon makes RSS as easy to access as your email.

FeedDemon is still under development, but a beta pre-release is available."

BabelFish for Outlook 2000/2002 - translate right in Outlook

"The 26 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

There are a lot of great freeware programs out there. Many are as good or better than their commercial alternatives. This list features my pick of the "best of the best."

All these utilities have been featured in past issues of Gizmo's free Support Alert newsletter. Subscribe now to stay up-to-date with the latest freeware and shareware programs.

Last updated August, 2003."

"MCSEworld by Daniel Petri

Unlimited free MCSE related knowledge - is that too much to ask? Here you can get it all. Read the Site's Profile for more info on my goals.

The past couple of months have brought more than 3 million hits per month to my site, making MCSEworld one of the highest ranking pages on Google and other search engines. This fact will not change my site's goals and features - clean, straightforward, guaranteed to remain nag-free, easy to read yet comprehensive knowledge resources.

I've received many requests for specific information and tips. I'm doing my best to keep up the flow of updates, but time is short and I do need to work for a living, so please try to be patient. The information you've requested will eventually be posted.

A note to people wanting to use content found on this site: Knowledge is free but words might be copyrighted. If you want to use articles found on my site - please ask me first, send me a link to your site, and give me credit for the hours and days of hard work I've put here."

DO YOU HAVE PARASITES?
Screen for Adware, Spyware, Scumware, Diallers, ’Jackers
and other unsolicited commercial software

This page allows you to check your computer for a hundred different parasites. Embedded is a script by Andrew Clover, made available from his web site at doxdesk.com. Please wait about 30 seconds for thes script to execute. You must be using Internet Explorer for this test to work. JavaScript must be enabled. Since new malware is being written and circulated all the time, you still may want to examine your system with Ad-Aware or another malware screener — but this script checks for quite a lengthy list! If you want to read excellent descriptions of each parasite screened for, go directly to Andrew Clover’s parasite page.

If the script does not execute (nothing appears between the two rows of stars), there may be scumware present that is fighting with the script. Click here to run the script from the AumHa web server — if it still hangs, presume there is scumware present on your computer that is arm-wrestling with the script.

Free Memory Diagnostic Tool

Dear Fred, Following your recent article on memory problems, my
laptop crashed on startup and the Microsoft Online Crash
Analysis kicked in and suggested a hardware/memory fault. It
recommended downloading the Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic
tool from http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp . Another
great utility for diagnosing memory (and solving my problem).
Thanks for LangaList Plus. Cheers, Dr. Martyn Sherriff

The free "Windows Memory Diagnostic" from Microsoft is actually a DOS- like low-level tool that runs on any system based on Intel Pentiums or Celerons; AMD K6s, Athlons, or Durons; and other "x86" compatible CPUs.
The download file contains both the tool and a kind of installer application that lets you automatically create a special-purpose boot floppy, or an ISO image you can burn to a boot CD. You then boot from the floppy or CD, and the memory diagnostic tool will run automatically.
The diagnostic test starts by filling your RAM with all ones, all zeros, and various regular patterns of ones and zeros. Any discrepancies between what is written into RAM and what is read back out indicates a problem with one or more RAM modules. The test can pinpoint the failure location, so you'll know exactly which RAM module is giving you trouble.

The test speed depends on the speed of your system (CPU and RAM speed) and how much RAM you're testing. The base test runs in a matter of minutes on most systems, but the thorough tests can take many hours--- it's *very* thorough.

RAM is usually quite reliable, but RAM problems, when they occur, can be very hard to pin down. Tools like this can help a lot.