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MusikCube is an Free mp3 player for the modern generation. It helps you just listen to what you want to hear, while offering innovative features not seen elsewhere. For the technical user, MusikCube is based on an embedded SQL database engine known as sqlite. For the non technical user, that means its fast. Really fast. “Dynamic playlists” allow fully automatic, randomized playback of songs based on your observed listening habits. The more you listen, the smarter it gets. It also features browsable, user reorderable playlists.

MusikCube also makes transferring audio between home and work very easy with its unique support for removable storage devices. A “removable storage device” is any flash memory, thumb drive, or portable mp3 player that acts as a hard disk when you plug it in.

Download MusikCube here

Instant Eyedropper is a free software tool for webmasters (or the casual web-designer) that will identify and automatically paste to the clipboard the HTML color code of any pixel on the screen with just a single mouse click.

Identifying the color code of an object is a task web-masters have to repeat many times during the course of a page design and usually takes a few steps to accomplish. With Instant Eyedropper, what normally be a multi-step process can now be done with one-click of the mouse.

Check out a step-by-step description here

Download Instant Eyedropper here

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is an anti-virus protection tool available free of charge to home users. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability.

According to the download statistics on Download.com, AVG Anti-Virus Free is neck-and-neck with Avira; another popular free anti-virus application recommended here on The Smiling Pirate.

The one complaint we hear about the Avira application is that it has an annoying pop-up ad that appears quite often. But we give you step-by-step instructions of how to disable that ad from coming up here.

Ultimately, what we don’t want you to do is waste time contemplating which one you should download. Don’t think about it too long. Get either one of these applications on your system before it’s too late.

Download AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition here

Untangle has been protecting people in schools and businesses from online risks and hazards since 2003. They are now providing an easy way to get that same protection at home.

Untangle Home Edition uses proven Untangle technology now made available on a standard Windows PC.

• Easily Protect, Control and Monitor the online activities of the rest of your home’s computers, from your Windows PC.
• No need to install software on any other computers – just yours.
• No additional computer equipment nor special technical expertise is required.
• Affordable subscriptions plans are available to suit your personal budget, starting at Free.
• Already proven, protecting over 1 million computers every day.

 


Download Untangle Home Edition for free here