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You heard it.

Tired of finding out you don’t have the correct codec for whatever application you’re trying to run? Goes without saying. Here’s relief in a free package: Windows Essentials Codec Pack

Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of the most essential Audio and Video DirectShow Codecs and Filters for Windows, that enables you to play and view almost all music and video files downloaded from the Internet. It adds support for (S)VCDs and XCDs as well as 3GP, AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1/2, M4A, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, XviD, XM, WV, UMX and many other formats. Essentials Codec Pack also includes Windows Media Player Classic. An integrated auto-update can automatically check for updated codecs.

Gets 5 Stars from 5 reviews. No adware or spyware. Sweet. Download your essentials at Snapfiles.

Everything online – all the time. That’s our goal.

Here’s another opportunity to take care of your finances without stepping foot outside your house: SecureLoanConsolidation.com is an online resources for people looking for debt relief solutions. You can get all the information you need on loans right there – whether you’re searching for debt consolidation, payday and/or cash advance loans, home loans and mortgage refinancing, or if you’re just feeling the crunch of tax time.

You can even search out state-specific resources like Texas loans or city-specific like Austin loans. Could it get any easier?

I don’t think so.

… or lack of actually. No one is gonna fight over this one, especially not the Big Softie. According to techcrunch.com:

Flash Lite for mobile phones might not be good enough for Steve Jobs, but Microsoft is less picky. It is licensing Flash Lite for Windows Mobile. This is an acknowledgment of two things: there are a lot of developers and existing Websites out there that work with Flash, and the mobile version of Microsoft’s own competing Silverlight software is nowhere near ready to be deployed.

Bitmap Font Writer is a free program that let you draw text using a font where each character is drawn in a bitmap file.

If you’ve drawn your own bitmapped font in for example Photoshop, you are forced to manually Copy & Paste each character in order to combine them into a word. This gets pretty tedious if you’re doing buttons for a website, as an example. The purpose of Bitmap Font Writer is to make this procedure smoother.

By arranging your font in ASCII order and put markers to define the width of each character you may load the image into Bitmap Font Writer which the combines the characters for you. Then you simply copy everything to the clipboard to get it back into your painting program.

Sweet! Download it now: Bitmap Font Writer

You know I’m a fool for free samples and when I get an offer to try something with both “naked” and “natural” in the name – you know I’m signing up for that one!

So the company naked naturals offers a natural shampoo and conditioner with Keravis. (Yeah, I’d never heard of it either.) But clinical trials prove Keravis increases hair strength – the company says it makes hair up to 7 times stronger from the shampoo and 3 times stronger from using the conditioner. Sounds great. Naked naturals also steers clear of most of the crappy chemicals and sulfates. And they are animal-friendly.

I’d like to tell you that my bounteous locks are stronger and more nakedly natural already, but my girlfriend snatched the product out of my hand before I even got it through the door from the mailbox. I know one thing for sure, her free sample grabbing strength is at least 7 times stronger than mine.

So here’s her result: “Hair feels healthier and a good clean. Any company that doesn’t test on animals rules. Definitely buy this stuff for you and yours.” Seriously, I wanted to give her shiny, shoulder-length hair a good yank to see if it was in fact stronger, but that would be uncool. Or so she said.

Give it a try. I know I will as soon as I can pry it out of her hands …

Can’t say I’ve seen this freeware before – hope you have some bitchin’ use for it:

The program “Satellite Antenna Alignment” is used to calculate the angles necessary for installing satellite dishes. The main difference from similar software is the possibility to calculate the position for all satellites at once. Thus, you get a clear picture about what satellites can be physically visible from the location where the dish will be installed. It should be kept in mind that the program makes a purely theoretical calculation according to formulas and in real circumstances a lot of additional factors should be taken into account when a satellite dish is installed. These factors include various obstacles (buildings, trees), the landscape, the altitude, transponder orientation, polarization, etc.

Anyone may use this software free of charge for private, non-commercial usage. Knock your satellite selves out.

OK, I’ve written before about the Monex companies and their opportunities for you to invest in gold and/or silver. I’ve recently learned about Monaco Rare Coin, which is a member of the Monex companies. This is your chance to get your hands on some cool rare coins without having to dig out your metal detector or learn how to scuba dive for shipwrecks.

Monaco Rare Coin offers the finest rare coins available, but doesn’t expect you to venture into this field all alone. They have many experienced professionals to assist you and they offer a broad range of investment programs and products to fit your budget. Not only can you buy through Monaco, if you’re already a collector, you can sell as well.

If you have any interest in rare coins at all – and who doesn’t? – you should check out their unique offerings.

Want to see yourself as others see you? Or at least how search engines see your pages? SEOmoz’s crawl test tool is open to the public.

This tool is used to test how accessible your site is to search engines and can help you quickly diagnose potential crawling issues and give you an overview of your site’s search friendliness.

To run the crawl test tool you just need to register for a free SEOmoz account. Basic members are limited to one report per 24 hour period and the tool will only test 5 pages at a time. Premium Members can run as many reports as they like and the crawl test will test 50 pages at a time.

Knock yerself out.