BatteryBar is a simple, straight-forward, battery meter that monitors the status of your battery and displays your battery's status in the taskbar.

BatteryBar constantly monitors the status of your battery as you use your laptop. As it monitors your battery, it keeps historical data on your battery and provide you with a very accurate estimate of how much time is remaining on your battery.

BatteryBar is free.  http://osirisdevelopment.com/BatteryBar/index.html

BatteryBar is a simple, straight-forward, battery meter that monitors the status of your battery and displays your battery's status in the taskbar.

BatteryBar constantly monitors the status of your battery as you use your laptop. As it monitors your battery, it keeps historical data on your battery and provide you with a very accurate estimate of how much time is remaining on your battery.

BatteryBar is free.  http://osirisdevelopment.com/BatteryBar/index.html

1. It, Checks for Missing Attachments
2. Checks for Blank Subject Line before you send a mail
3. Allows Printing of Selected Portion of Mail (Outlook 2003 had this feature)

Got a query the other day about how to keep Bcc field as a permanent field in Outlook 2007 when composing new email,

• Simply go to new message,
• Select Options at the top of the screen,
• Select Show Bcc

What is myVoice?
myVoice enables you to record, hear, share and search voice messages with your friends or private/public social groups using your mobile and its Internet data connection. myVoice enables a new world of personal social and business networking without the need for texting or reading – at a fraction of the usual cost!

Pre-Release Promotion!!

During the month of June 2009, we are allowing a test group of individuals to use myVoice for FREE. This period will be used to test the myVoice system, and to iron out any bugs that may surface.

You can become part of this exclusive group, by signing up to participate in the Pre-Release Program (see below). Once signed up, we will SMS you where to download the myVoice application on 1 June 2009.

All they request from our pre-release users, is that they report back on any bugs they might find, and complete a survey every once and a while about their experiences with using myVoice.

All pre-release test users will automatically get 100 FREE Kudos when myVoice goes live, for their efforts.

If you have any questions about the Pre-Release program, please check out FAQ section, or email them at beta@myvoice.mobi.

Reinstalled my laptop (HP550) the other day and it took a while to collect all of the working XP drivers for the notebook. After finally having all of the correct drivers i though id upload them and make them available to anyone looking for the same drivers. Save you some time :-)

Follow this link for all the drivers for this notebook, which include;

• Audio
• BT (Bluetooth)
• Chipset
• Ethernet
• Graphics
• Modem
• Mouse Touchpad
• Quick Launch Buttons
  
• SD
• Wireless

The following is my ultimate collection of software that is either Free, Free for non-commercial use or Open Source.

Below I list the tools and their respective websites, take the time to follow this link to a download a copy of each of the utilities, i have thrown them in my Dropbox account for you to use. Theres a link to download each individually or one compressed archive that includes all.

(Those wondering how im sharing a public link from Dropbox that lists more than just one file in the link, please checkout my post Sharing multiple private files on one Dropbox link)

The categories and software in my list:

• Antivirus
• Antivir - Free Antivirus Application
  
• Audio
• Audiograbber - Free CD MP3 Ripper
• Quintessential - Free Audio Player
• Audacity - Free Audio Editor
• Media Monkey - Free Audio Organizing
  
• Browser
• Firefox - Free Browser
  
• Burner
• CDBurnerXP - Free CD/DVD Writer
  
• Compression
• 7Zip - Free Compression Tool
  
• Defrag
• Defraggler - Free Defragging Tool
  
• Desktop Search
• Google Desktop - Free Tool
  
• Dvd
• DVDFab - Free DVD Decrypter
• DVDFlick - Free DVD Creation
• Handbrake - Free DVD File Convertor
  
• Encryption
• Truecrypt - Free Tool
  
• FTP
• FileZilla - Free FTP Client
  
• Imaging
• FSViewer - Free Picture Viewer
• Paint.NET - Free Image Editing
• Picasa - Free Image Organizing
  
• Office
• OpenOffice - Free Office Suite
  
• Optimisation
• CCleaner - Free OS Optimisation Tool
  
• Pdf
• PrimoPDF - Free PDF Printer
• FoxitReader - Free PDF Reader
  
• Remote
• TeamViewer - Free Remote Assistance Tool
• UltraVNC - Free VNC Tool
• OpenVPN - Free VPN Tool
  
• Screen
• Jing - Free Screen Recording and Capturing
  
• Spyware
• Spyware Terminator - Free AntiSpyware
  
• Storage
• DropBox - Free Online Storage
  
• Video
• Media Player Classic - Free Video Player
  
• Virtual
• VirtualCloneDrive - Free Virtual Optical Drives
• Windows Pager - Free Virtual Desktops
• VirtualBox - Free Visualization Software
  

Again, follow this link to a download a copy of each of the utilities
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/644061/Must%20Have/index.html

I love Dropbox and use it religiously for online storage as well as public file sharing (Their photo sharing and folder sharing for collaboration purposes are two other very good services offered by Dropbox) 

But one issue ive found is that your public link sharing only gives you a url to share for each file, and not for a whole folder. So if you want to share 100 files in a public Dropbox folder, currently, you need to share 100 individual public urls!

Some clever guys from Dropbox have come up with a workaround and it solves this problem effortlessly and makes the Dropbox experience complete. Its not a feature included in the solution available for download but im sure it will be soon. Heres what you do,

• Download and install Python
  
• Download the following file pyndexer.py
• Copy file to any folder you want to share in your Dropbox Public folder
• Double click pyndexer.py
• Right click and copy public link if the index.html file created in your public folder

Finally - Send this link to anyone you want to share the particular public folder contents with!

Note -  You will need to re-run pyndexer.py whenver the contents of the folder changes, so that the html files are generated again to show the changes.

Fast and user-friendly free tool for drivers's backup, restoration and removal with command line options, automatic restoration from CD\DVD and path formatting. DriverBackup! includes also an interactive command line builder.