Here are 10+ Cool Windows Apps fresh from the bakery that you must check out! Even better, they are 100% Free!

1. Stardock Fences - Have a cluttered desktop? This beautiful piece of software lets you create little fences, or boxes around designated areas and name and customize them. You have to see the video and try it to appreciate it - it's much better than the name sounds!

2. Taskbar Shuffle - Don't underestimate these little add-ons, this is a big convenience when you like your task bar items arranged a certain way. Just drag and drop and move them!

3. Pidgin - This is the best instant messenger I've used. It supports Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Google Talk, and a few others.

4. RSS Owl - Simplify your RSS already!

5. VLC Media Player - The best media player for windows that plays every movie file rather than needing Windows Media Player, Realplayer, and Quicktime. All in One baby!

6. AbiWord - If you don't want to spend $90,000 on Microsoft Word just use this it's even better because the paper clip guy won't nag you!

7. Filezilla - Free FTP Client that does everything the expensive ones do.

8. Notepad++ - This is (IMO) the best text editor with Syntax Highlighting, Macro's, and about 25,000 other features. I've used a lot of them but I always come back to Notepad++.

9. DVD Flick - If you've never been able to burn DVD's now you can for free, this software will convert it too.

10. Paint.NET - Quite similar to photoshop but not as large Paint.NET is the best free replacement and the next best thing compared to Adobe Photoshop

11. Launchy - With this application you could greatly reduce the need for a start menu by just typing in a few letters and it searches your hard drive for applications or files you frequent. It's getting popular lately.

12. CCleaner - I've used CCleaner for 2 years now and it cleans up tons of garbage that is slowing your computer down.

13. PSPad - Another great editor, I place it one step behind Notepad++ but it's up to you to decide.

Noteworth WP Plugin: Take a look, http://www.wpreviewsite.com/

This has to be one of the nicest plugins I've seen released for Wordpress.

You've seen them all over the place, the CSS galleries and rating systems. Now you can make your own easily!
The going price is $97 for a single site license. With a CSS gallery site you could make that back easily in 1-2 months and continue to profit off it just by putting ad-sense on it.

If you are smarter you'll have people paying to put their ads on your site. CSS sites get ranked high and well because people are always looking for galleries. Updating your site is a breeze because you just post cool sites

I had used Aplus.net for almost 8 years, unfortunately I changed to another host because they did not have PHP5 and multiple domain management at the time I needed it. I checked back a few weeks later and they upgraded everything so I was disappointed I left.

I've used a lot of the lower end hosts with the default CPanel, but I have never once found a host as good as Aplus.net. They have been relentlessly reliable for all those years. I am already setup with several domains and have quite a bit installed and a few gigabytes uploaded, but once I saw their upgraded plans I already have planned to switch back to them even though it's going to take a few days to re-upload and re-configural several large sites.

I am not exaggerating, I don't work for Aplus (Im actually a freelance programmer), and I make no commission off posting this. If my clients dont have a host I refer them to Aplus because they are ridiculously good. They are about 2 dollars more than the average bottom-dollar host but everything about them is better from the control panel, ease of management, reliability, tech support, and even the individual domain name setup.

So if you are ever looking for a host and think the "unlimited everything" is the best, make sure to check Aplus. I don't often write about companies but I've always loved their services and they do things right so I might as well spread a good work about my experiences with them.

Remove Antivirus 2008, this is a fake program that infects your computer causing it to go extremely slow. Its a trojan, and it comes in by Internet Explorer as a fake update. Its very annoying, but here's how to get rid of it.
Okay to fix this here is how, I spent 5 hours on it.

Get "Malware Bytes" (it’s free) and do a quick system scan and you’ll have about 7 or more viruses. Then once you reboot to clear other viruses it will keep going slow again, scan again and reboot again. Also get “Process Explorer” to see if any weird system processes are running (PE is better than Task Manager). You should be good after that but use firefox not IE7, I am still solving how to fix IE7 which keeps getting the infection.

The infection will create a file with about 8-12 random characters in your Windows/System32 folder. It will come up when you scan with Malware Bytes, that is the file that keep's relaunching itself once it's erased, so if Malware doesn't erase it after 2 reboots and 2 scans go to the far right tab in Malware Bytes to use FileASSASIN and forcibly remove the file and reboot.

Here is what my scan returned:
NOTE: Your file names will be differently named, so don't look for them the same as mine, scan your own or you wont find them!

C:RECYCLERS-1-5-18Dc1.dll (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32awtULBRl.dll (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32bndfdibb.dll (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32geBtSKaA.dll (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:Documents and SettingsJESSELocal SettingsTempseneka343d.tmp (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:Documents and SettingsJESSELocal SettingsTempseneka5ad4.tmp (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:Documents and SettingsJESSELocal SettingsTempsenekaea90.tmp (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32senekamefiiwyk.dll (Trojan.Agent) -> Delete on reboot.
C:WINDOWSsystem32senekapvmicuwp.dll (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32senekadf.dat (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32seneka.dat (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32senekalog.dat (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32driversseneka.sys (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32driverssenekapjerohof.sys (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

I found this picture of Super Mario in 3D and it was a bit scary! It's weird seeing a person that looks real with huge eyes like this haha.

It looks like he's aged quite a bit! How old is Mario anyways?

Look at how much Mario has aged, it appears he's getting wrinkles, He's not even 30 years old yet is he??

For the icing on the cake here is the evolution of a few more video game legends!