Net Sieve

Sick of aggressive advertising that takes over your computer and bogs you down with crap? Worried that spyware is tracking your every move and worse?

Then it’s time to download Ad-Aware Free, a tool that scans your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known adware and spyware data-mining, tracking components and much more. When the tool finds malware it lists the results and lets you choose to remove or quarantine the components. It’s a lot more powerful than this review suggests, but the free version has limited real-time protection, only processes are scanned and scans can’t be scheduled

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If you’re selling online you probably are familiar with PayPal – and the gouge they take out of your incoming income. With the PayPal Fee Calculator you can avoid the aftershock by knowing what your fees will be in advance. That way, you can adjust your price to have the buyer absorb some of the cost. Cool.

This is a free tool – so enjoy freely.

Here’s an easy-peasy way to create a favicon from any perfectly square (for example 100 pixels x 100 pixels) image on your computer. Yes, even your sweet mug. Wait – you don’t know what a favicon is? No shame, read on:

A favicon (short for “favorites icon” and also known as a page icon), is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage that is displayed in the browser address bar next to a site’s URL.

So obviously you must have one. Go here now –> FaviconGenerator and create t your heart’s content.

Need to up the position of your sites? Why do I ask these questions? Of course you do. Hop on the backlink bandwagon and boost yourself up, baby.

Simply use this Backlink Tools page, which has “links to the best Backlink Tools on the internet and these tools will help you to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher. The following Backlink Tools links are selected from the top SEO tool web sites. These Backlink Tools links are the best of the best.”

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.

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

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.

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.

Problems with Windows programs refusing to go away. Yeah, we all do. Got your answer here – for free.

Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from “Windows Add or Remove Programs” control panel applet.

With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application’s data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program’s regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application’s data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry keys so you can delete them.

Your prey awaits as you go into “Hunter Mode” Revo Uninstaller’s powerful approaches to manage (uninstall, stop, delete, disable from auto starting) and to get information about your installed and/or running programs. Go tiger!