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SoftPerfect Personal Firewall

SoftPerfect Personal FirewallThe SoftPerfect Personal Firewall is a free network firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks from the Internet or via a local area network. SoftPerfect Personal Firewall offers customizable security using user-defined rules for packet filtering. It works at a low level and also allows you to create rules based on non-IP protocols such as ARP.

The SoftPerfect Personal Firewall supports multiple network adapter configurations. This allows you to apply a rule, for example, for just a modem connection or you could apply separate rules for each system interface. With a flexible filtering system, trusted MAC address checking feature and separate network adapter configuration you can even use it on a router or a server.

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Please be aware that the SoftPerfect Personal Firewall is not designed for novices and requires some networking knowledge from you for a correct configuration.

Rating 3.00 out of 5

Aesus Data Recovery

Like the name says it is a program for data recovery

* Recover files from formatted partitions with original file names and storage paths.
* Recover files from lost or deleted partitions.
* Recover from dynamic disks.
* Recover from Linux file system partition under Windows.
* Free upgrade to Data Recovery Wizard.
The software is very intuitive and has a pretty good success at recovering deleted files. With this software you can recover up to 1 Gb of data, after which you must buy the software.

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Rating 3.00 out of 5

Mapmyrun

For those of you who are runners, I found this cool website designed to track the distance you are running.
By entering the information on the web page, which look like Google map, you drag a line following the chosen route and it will give you the distance in miles or KM. If you decide to create a free account, you can save your progress and running circuits.

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Rating 3.00 out of 5

UndercoverXP

This is a very simple, light weight program to print DVD / CD cover. Just download an image of your cover and import it in the program. You then select the kind of cover from a drop down menu and hit print.

UndercoverXP is a small program to easily print CD and DVD covers. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front + inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Digital Pictures and CD/DVD labels to the correct sizes. Other formats can be easily added via a graphical format editor. UnderCoverXP is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and doesn’t need a .NET framework or any other external libraries. And best of all… it’s free!
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Rating 3.00 out of 5

Dvdisaster

This is a tool to recover bad sectors on a DVD/ Cd / blue-ray disk.
This is important , the ecc data needs to be created before the medium goes defective. So if you have a defective medium but never created ecc data for it – sorry, your data is probably lost.


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Rating 3.00 out of 5