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• Spybot
  Lifehacker's Best Malware Remover: "Spybot Search
  
• SnagIt
  Lifehacker's Best Screen Capture: "Snagit is as far removed from the classic Print Screen school of screen captures as possible. Snagit helps you capture both still images and grab frames from video."
  
• Comodo Firewall
  Lifehacker's best firewall: "The application's simple, clean interface belies its power, but make no mistake: Comodo is an excellent firewall packed with advanced options."
  
• HandBrake
  Lifehacker's best media converter: "HandBrake is a popular open-source media converter that encodes video from DVDs to many popular output formats. "
  
• Kayak
  Lifehacker's Best site for cheap tickets: "Kayak is a travel search aggregator, scouring over 140 sites to bring you the cheapest fares it can find. "
  
• Google Calendar
  Lifehacker best calendar apps: "GCal owes much of its popularity to its anywhere accessibility and for bringing the look and feel of a desktop calendar into the web browser."
  
• Firefox browser
  Lifehacker's Best browser: "Firefox takes home the prize for most beloved browser, thanks in large part to the enormous selection of extensions available for customizing your browsing experience."
  
• ImgBurn
  Lifehacker's Best DVD Burner: " It's fast, easy to use, and doesn't cost a penny."
  
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• FileZilla
  Lifehacker's best FTP client: " Users stick around because FileZilla is a fast, full-featured (it also has remote file editing), and reliable FTP client in constant development. "
  
• GIMP 2
  Lifehacker's Top photo editor: "GIMP is the most sophisticated free image editor around"
  
• Skype
  For chat, and also phone. From Lifehacker: Best Video Chat Program "Skype's cross-platform compatibility and generally smooth video are the key elements that keep users coming back to Skype for their video chat needs."
  
• LogMeIn
  Lifehacker's Best Remote Desktop Tool: "LogMeIn was one of the first popular remote desktop solutions aimed squarely at consumers"
  
• Recuva
  Lifehacker's Best Data Recovery Tool: "Recuva is a user-friendly Windows-based tool. When you run Recuva, you can resurrect missing files using either the file-recovery wizard or the application's manual mode."
  
• DownThemAll
  Lifehacker's best download managers: "one marquee feature of dTa is the ability to download every image or linked file on a page in one fell swoop"
  
• Windows Search
  Lifehacker's best desktop search: " a fast, extensive desktop search tool from Microsoft.... One little known feature that sets Windows Search apart: Support for natural language queries."
  
• Adobe Photoshop CS2
  For photo editing. Lifehacker: "When it comes to manipulating images, if you can't do it in Photoshop, there's a strong chance you won't be able to do it at all."
  
• 7-Zip 4.65
  Lifehacker's best file compression tools: " With support for most popular compression formats (and quite a few not-so-popular), this lightweight, open source option does the job quickly and without fuss. "
  
• TeraCopy
  Lifehacker's best alternative file copier: " easy shell integration and a set of features and user interface that are just complicated enough to get the job done without becoming a dashboard of options and toggles"
  
• Digsby
  Lifehacker Best System Tray Application: "If you're looking to cut down on the number of programs cluttering up your system tray and taskbar, Digsby combines the functionality of many separate applications into one. "
  
• KeePass Password Safe
  Lifehacker's best password manager: "KeePass secures your passwords with a single master password and/or a key-file on your computer. "
  
• Better Gmail 2
  Lifehacker's Best Lifehacker Extension: "Supercharge your Gmail experience with the Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension "
  
• TinyURL
  Lifehacker's best URL shrinker: " Because it's the first popular compactor of its kind, one major benefit of TinyURL is that most people understand what's happening when you send a TinyURL. "
  
• Final Cut Express (for Mac)
  Lifehacker's Best video editor: "Final Cut Pro has built quite a resume in a very short period of time. Several Hollywood movies have been edited using just Final Cut Pro"
  
• Pipl
  Lifehacker's Best People Search Engine: " Pipl returns all manner of things about the person you're searching for, including blog entires, photos, publications, donations on public record, profiles on social and business networking sites, and other overlooked sources. "
  
• Indeed
  Lifehacker's Best Online Job Search: "Job search engine Indeed is a meta-search engine that scours job sites, newspapers, and company career pages for jobs. "
  
• slickdeals
  Lifehacker's Best Site for Finding Deals Online
  
• Windows Media Center
  Lifehacker's Best DVR App: "It's easy to set up, has a fantastic, user-friendly interface, and comes packaged for free with several versions of Windows"
  
• Mp3tag
  Lifehacker's Best MP3 Tagging Tool: "Mp3Tag is a an MP3 tagging tool with a rather spartan interface which lends itself to easy use. "
  
• XBMC Media Center
  Lifehacker's Best Media Center Applications: "XBMC (aka Xbox Media Center) is a free, open-source media center application designed, in the beginning, for the original Xbox. XBMC has made serious progress over the past year or so and can now run virtually anywhere—including Windows, Mac, Linux, and Apple TVs."
  
• Ditto 3.15.4.0
  Lifehacker's Best Clipboard Manager: "Ditto is a portable clipboard manager with a hefty feature list. "
  
• RocketDock 1.3.5
  Lifehacker's Best Desktop Customization Tool: "RocketDock brings a Mac OS X Dock-style application launcher to Windows for free. "
  
• clonezilla
  Lifehacker's best free system restore tool: "it's powerful, versatile, and can easily grow with you as your disk imaging and backup needs expand."
  
• Ubuntu Server Edition
  Lifehacker's Best Home Server Software: "While configuring Ubuntu isn't going to be as easy as grabbing a pre-configured Windows Home Server off the shelf at your local Best Buy and plugging it in, there are a wealth of applications to help you integrate your Linux based home server with the rest of your network. "
  
• Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition
  Lifehacker's Best Portable App: "take your web browsing experience and all of the accompanying tweaks and extensions you've come to know and love with you wherever you go."
  
• RunKeeper
  Lifehacker's Best Exercise Planning Tool: "RunKeeper turns your iPhone into an exercise tracking tool. Once installed you can monitor your speed, how far you run, and track your route on a map. "