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"The best things in life often actually are free. Here, a list of 173 of the best things in life-free software, for launching apps, networking, backup, synchronization, entertainment, and more"

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MahTweets is a free, open-source, extensible Twitter + Facebook (& more) client for Windows Vista/7. It's out of this world...

Generally, to save power, we sleep or hibernate our computers when not in use. But if you want to keep your computer awake at specific times or when certain programs are running, free program SmartPower will schedule it for you. There are a number of ways to keep your computer awake with SmartPower. The easiest is a simple time schedule: for example, the screenshot to the left shows a schedule of the computer waking up at 10:00PM and staying awake until midnight. You can also tell it to stay on when certain network devices are connected, when your network throughput is above a threshold (say, if you're seeding or downloading torrents), when your CPU is above a threshold (say, if you're encoding video), or when certain processes are running (for pretty much anything else). Thus, no longer do you have to manually tell your computer to avoid hibernation every time you have a lot of tasks that take a long time to complete-you can just set it to stay awake when it's working, and then it will go back into sleep or hibernation when it's done.

SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders

"Windows only: Text substitution app Texter saves you countless keystrokes by replacing abbreviations with commonly used phrases you define. Unlike software-specific text replacement features, Texter runs in the Windows system tray and works in any application you're typing in. Texter can also set return-to markers for your cursor and insert clipboard contents into your replacement text, in addition to more advanced keyboard macros. Did we mention it's free?"

UltraDefrag is a powerful disk defragmentation tool for Windows. It is the first open source defragmenter with full support of system locked files defragmentation. Actually all files including registry hives and paging file can be processed by UltraDefrag during the Windows boot process. Also one of the primary goals of the UltraDefrag design is doing the job as fast as possible. UltraDefrag is fully compatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and all of the 64-bit editions of Windows.