good portion of these are freeware. great to download for a laugh (or in the case of cave story, complete obsession).

out of curiosity, i searched google for a spam call. one of the first results was this site. lots of existing numbers and comments from users about who's scamming. a few articles on how to file complaints for not paying attention to the "do not call" mandate, as well.

open source acrobat reader replacements. get rid of the bloat! windows users - my personal favorite is foxit, which is not on this list, but still very free and very fast.

self-explanatory. if only stopping junk e-mail were this easy.

while directed at windows users, this is pretty much what i'd do to a brand-new computer from the get-go - with a few exceptions - written in a very polite way to a new user.

keeping this one in the pocket for when i separate. and so should you, if this is your gig.

sometimes google just isn't enough. use these to find those really elusive questions.

this one takes the cake.

all the sysinternals freeware utilities for direct download in one spot - run directly from any windows machine connected to the 'net.

yet another excellent place for free fonts.

highly recommend pretty much everything on here, especially the crapware section. it's sad that articles like this have to exist, but taking control of your box is paramount to not hating it.

including the top of the white house and multiple military installations...

and other http status codes, too!