101 great things
And they are free.
PC World has put together a list of their
101 Fabulous Freebies, a collection of computer utilities and online resources that are useful and free.
The front page for the 17 page article is
here -- it describes what these are and why they are worth checking out.
They do list a few of my favorites but they missed one biggie: -
the MVPS Hosts file. This puppy contains a list of all the egregious adware pushers and when it is installed, it redirects each reference to them to the bit-bucket. You will see a sub-window with the following text:
Action canceled
Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you requested. The page might be temporarily unavailable.
Looks like this:
Whenever you see this, you will know that the website you were accessing was selling advertising and that you are not spending the time to download it. This file is a text file so you can edit it in notepad and add your own 'favorite' sites...
Good stuff!
Posted by DaveH at May 24, 2006 8:29 PM