Rapidshare is a popular 1-click file hosting service. While it's free for anyone to download the files, if you don't have an account they apply certain restrictions which make downloading several files annoying. Not only do they make you wait more than a minute for the download button for a 100mb file to appear, but they also limit how much data you can download per hour. You'll have to wait 15 minutes to download a second 100mb file for example. This can get quite annoying, having to reload the pages, wait for the download button etc.

When we're working on our code - whether it's HTML, PHP, CSS, we use a text editor a lot. The standard notepad text editor that comes with windows can be used if there is nothing else available, but there are much better advanced text editors available. One excellent example of this is Notepad++, which has syntax highlighting, ability to have multiple documents open in Notepad++ tabs, and many other handy features.

Not everyone needs to go and buy Photoshop to edit their images and photos. There is a great free image editor called Paint.NET which can do pretty much everything most people need. It has many of the great tools and features like clone tool and image layers that Photoshop has, but it's totally free!

Here is a free online tool which will convert your PDF file into a Word Doc file. You just select the PDF you'd like to convert, and click "Convert and Download". Easy! The PDF to DOC converter is here.

This is a small php script to create a basic website contact form, which is secure and simple to setup. It's fully themeable with CSS, so you can easily make it look like the rest of your site.

Sometimes an AVI video file will be broken in such a way that it can actually be fixed quite easily and quickly. DivFix ++ is a free utility which does just that, repairs broken avi video files.

When we're working on our websites we'll often want to horizontally center a DIV containing some text/images, or both.

As most people know, MSN Messenger is a popular IM client. But it's also very buggy and it's common to get problems and errors which crash MSN, or fail to connect.

aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, which actually works really well. It's customizable, by default looking very similar to the new MSN client. It has smileys, supports webcam video chat, and virtually all of the useful and popular features of MSN Messenger. It's also quick to download, very easy to install, and intuitive to start using.

http://www.amsn-project.net/

We all know that every time we encode (or re-encode) an MP3 file, we lose some quality, as it is a lossy format.

But sometimes we'd like to be able to trim or crop an MP3 file, to get a segment of a speech or song for example, without losing further quality in the audio file.

This is a great little Firefox addon, which lets you quickly and easily grab either a specific portion of a webpage, or an entire webpage, and turn it into an image.