Lucid Tips

Ask any Linux/Unix administrator if they could perform their daily tasks without ‘grep’ and their answer would be an emphatic NO!!!. Windows lacks many of the unix commands/utilities that are very simple yet highly efficient. Luckily there is a collection of GNU Unix-like utilities that are available for Windows.

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The new PCs today from all major manufacturers come preloaded with a bunch of trialware. In addition to being annoying and clutering the desktop these trialware also slow down your computer.

The PC Decrapifier helps you uninstall these unwanted trailware (What it can remove). Using it is a very simple 4 step process.

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Ever feel frustrated that you cannot use your favorite email application to access your WebMail? FreePOPs might help you.

FreePOPs is a small utility that allows you to use email applications like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Evolution to download email from most famous WebMail like Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo, Mail.com etc. It also is very handy if you are behind a firewall that closes port 110. FreePOPs allows you to tunnel through using proxy server to read your mail.

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If you work on multiple operating systems like me you would have run into a situation where you might need to open a Linux/Unix compressed file on Windows machine. The default zip handler that is built into Windows XP/Vista does not support TAR or GZ formats and the most popular Windows compression utility WinZip does not support it either.

7-Zip is a nifty utility from 7-Zip.org that supports packing and unpacking of ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR files.

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