Speedfan: Keeping things cool!

Speedfan is a free program for showing the information from the sensor chips in your windows system tray. It can sense and show voltages and the temperatures from your hard drive, CPU and graphics card. It can also sense and show the speed of your fans. It’s more advanced settings allow you to control the fan speeds, reducing power consumption and noise, but you need to know what your’re doing so your computer doesnt overheat! You need to register (free) from inside the program to check if it supports your motherboard type, but apart from that it’s totally free. It also supports S.M.A.R.T. drives (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology).

This program is most useful for advanced users who overclock or build their own pc’s, as for the rest of us, we don’t need to worry about this kinda stuff! But for more info, you can go check it out here.

Visipics: Detect Duplicate Pictures

If you save a lot of images to your hard drive or do a lot of graphics editing then you might wanna check this out. Chances are you have at least some unneeded duplicate images taking up diskspace and cluttering your hard drive, possibly a lot more than you might realise.

This program scans your drive for duplicates. It uses four image comparison filters to find duplicates and it’ll detect two different resolution files of the same picture as a duplicate, or the same picture saved in different formats, or duplicates where only small cosmetic changes have taken place.

You can adjust the similarity levels and it starts to display the results while scanning,so you don’t have to wait to delete em’. Quick and simple way to tidy up your “picture collection” ; )

So if this sounds useful to you, you can read more and download it for free by going here.

MaxType Lite: Free Typing Tutor

Maxtype Lite is a totally free program for teaching yourself how to touch type.
In my personal experience, it’s just as easy to learn how to type the right way as it is to learn the wrong way (a.k.a the two finger, search and stab method!)

All it really takes is a little self discipline and pretty soon it becomes a habit. After that, you’ll just get better and faster.

This program allows you to test yourself and gives you your W.P.M (words per minute)CPS and CPM(yeah i didn’t know what they stood for either! Characters per minute and per second). As well as the typing speed for each hand, altogether 20 (!) statistics on your typing. Also you can load any text file at all that you wish to practice with, so you won’t get bored!

You can grab it for free here and use those other 8 fingers! (Well 6 fingers and 2 thumbs).