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1. Netvibes.com

lets you drag and drop moudles to build a flexible home page that combines RSS feeds, web mail. weather reports, and Flick photo streams. No log-in is required, and netvibes will remember the setup for future visits to the same computer.

2. reader.google.com

Welcome to Google Reader Spend your time reading what you care about most. To get started: In the search box above, enter the name of a news source or topic (e.g., new york times or college football) and click "Search for new content."

When you find something that looks interesting click on its title to preview. Click on a subscribe button to get new items from that site whenever it updates. If you know where a feed lives you can enter the feed URL. Or you can import subscriptions from other programs. You can export them as well. Take the Google Reader tour to learn more. http://www.google.com/reader/things/tour

3. Crispnews.com and reddit.com

These may represent the future of community news filters. Crispy News enables users to create their own mini-community filters that cover narrow topics. Reddit.com focuses on what is new and popular on the web, compliments its main pages with a recommendation service that learns your preferences and highlights stories that users with similar reading habits have voted for.

4. Digg.com

reader voting drives the immense poplularity of this social news site which votes in favor of the collective wisdom of its readers.

5. Schmap - http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_16_168_21214.html

The world’s first dynamic travel guides.

The Schmap Player opens a new world of flexibility for browsing, searching and customizing travel guide content (reviews, photos and maps). Once installed, simply choose from Schmap’s rapidly growing series of US and European destination guides, each with zooming, panning maps, useful links, playable virtual tours, top picks, plus photos and reviews for hundreds of sights and attractions, hotels, restaurants, bars, parks, theaters, shops, art galleries and museums.

Schmap Player functionality includes dynamic travel guide browsing, city search, virtual tours, trip planning features, plus ability to print your own full-color custom guide, complete with maps, reviews and photos, for a particular area of interest.

All Schmap Guides are available to download for free at www.schmap.com.

6. Medical Dictionary - http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_16_175_6416.html

Is there a doctor in the house? If so, they may appreciate this and if not, you can still enjoy browsing a comprehensive dictionary of medical terms. It’s all presented in a handy, easy to use application that includes a search engine with wildcard and incorrect spelling searches. The database of medical terms is updated weekly on the publisher’s Web site and the software features a function to easily download and add these updates.

7. 3 D Solar System -http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_16_168_8368.html

A rolling advanced 3D solar system with all the planets and some big moons orbit. If you have a very fast computer - set ´True Worlds´-option ´On´, and you will not be disappointed. You can manually select view of planet or moon and the camera takes you there. It includes options like ´Freeze All´, ´Height of view´, ´Orbit speed / Distance´, ´Light and Shadow on/off´, ´Atmosphere on/off´, ´Rotation speed´, ´Bank Angle´, ´Model scale´ and ´Zoom scale´. Support 800x600 up to 1600x1200 GFX resolution.

8. Buesoft Spanish -http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_16_177_2949.html

BuenSoft Spanish is a free innovative listening-based interactive program with 14 interactive games designed to give learners of all ages a fast and easy way to have fun and improve their Spanish.

9. EZ Pronounce - http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_16_177_21475.html

EZPronounce is a small and easy-to-use software to pronounce selected or highlighted word in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word, WordPad or Notepad.

10. Google Translator Boomerang http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_16_177_20326.html

s a silly little program that uses the Google Translation engine to translate your English text to foreign languages and then back again into English, for some amusing results.

Use it to generate zen poetry or examine how well the translation of your text really matches with your intentions. You might be surprised to learn how your words may come across in another language.

Updated: 7/18/06 at 4:19 pm