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If you are using Windows, then I have some free software for you to try today.

NetLimiter Monitor Free is software that will watch to see how much of your internet speed is being used by each program on your computer. For example, you can see how many megabytes you downloaded with Mozilla Firefox on 21 September 2009. You can also see what is using all of your download speed or upload right now. Remember, each college’s VSAT has only 3kiloBytes per second to send data for all users to share! (between 30 and 200kiloBytes per second to recieve data: much bigger)

Paint.NET is a program that can help you to make simple diagrams and to clean photos or screenshots such as the one above. It is simple to use like Microsoft Windows Paint but much stronger. You might need the “.NET Framework” in order to use it, this is like downloading Java (or Adobe Flash for your web browser).

VLC (“VideoLan Client”) is a powerful movie player than can play any kind of movie.

Google Picasa is a good program to manage your digital photos.The version 3.5 will even find faces in your pictures so that you can quickly see all the digital pictures from one person.

WinDirStat is a good program to help you find what is taking up all of your hard disk storage space on Windows. It makes an interactive graphic of all of your files and their sizes.