MyDefrag may be the most and least flexible defragmentation tool I have used. The most flexible, in that everything it does can be determined by the user to a very fine degree. The least, because all of this must be determined before you start it off.

• Version: 1.16
• File Size: 11745
• License: Free
• Operating System: Windows Vista

When you mouse over a taskbar icon in Windows 7, you get a pop-up thumbnail preview of the program (if it’s running). And if you’re running multiple instances of a program you’ll see multiple thumbnails. To get the same effect in Vista, install EnhanceMyVista Free. 

Snackr puts a real-time news ticker on your desktop, delivering up-to-the-minute news from any RSS feed on the Web. The ticker positions itself along any border of your monitor–top, bottom, left, or right–and displays headlines, sources, and thumbnail pictures from every news item that it pulls from the Web. Click the item for a preview, and head to the original post if you see something that really catches your eye.

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Snackr

When professional photographers shoot a wedding or other events or projects, one of the products they offer their clients is a top quality photo book. And one of tools that some pros like to use for creating these coffee table-type books is AsukaBook Maker. AsukaBook Maker is a free layout program that generates an Acrobat PDF file. Its primary purpose is to help Asuka clients prepare the files needed to order books from Asuka, but you can also output the generated PDF to your desktop printer.

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AsukaBook Maker

This tiny download quickly creates an index database of all your files (but not their contents) and displays them in a simple, no-nonsense search window. Search results display as you type, and techie types can construct advanced searches using wildcards, Boolean operators, and regular expressions. Non-experts can still get plenty of use out of basic searches such as “family*jpg”–which will quickly display any file that starts with “family,” ends with “jpg,” and has anything in between (represented by the “*” wildcard).

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Everything Search Engine

BumpTop takes your flat, two-dimensional Windows desktop and converts it into a 3D “room.” BumpTop is fun to use, and its piles could help organize an unruly desktop. But it uses a fair bit of memory–about 110MB on my medium-powered test laptop–to maintain its 3D display, and will also use a good amount of your CPU when you move items around.

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BumpTop