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Downloading and installing your Windows Updates can be a real pain in the ass. But this free utility Windows Updates Downloader comes as a god sent gift who seriously keep reinstalling his Windows every now and then.

The software works in sync with Program Files Update Lists (ULs) which are also available in its official website. Once the list is loaded, you can grab any of Microsoft’s current updates as executable packages, easily slipstream or run by themselves on a system that needs it. It saves you endless hours of downloading those nagging updates, that will popup each time you reinstall your updates. The website hosts nine English Update lists for operating systems like Windows XP, Windows Vista and even Microsoft Office and Microsoft Exchange. Unfortunately the + signs seems to be not working, which is quite annoying as you have to go to the website for updated lists. Other then that a great application and a must have for system builders and tweakers.

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Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager is a very useful desktop utility that lets you backs up and restores data from USB storage devices.You can select files and folders to backup with the Flash Drive Manager. If you juggle your flash drive for variety of purposes and need to rotate the data on it frequently, the USB Flash Manager can create backup profiles so that you can easily make backups.Microsoft isn’t known for creating useful applications but this truly change their image.

The USB Flash Drive Manager is a free download for Windows XP only. Make sure you have Microsoft .net Framework 1.1
Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager [via gHacks]

Not so long time ago videomakers would never have foreseen the possibility of editing videos online and getting good results without having to buy expensive software. However with innovation in technologies and the availability of highspeed broadband has lead to explosion of this video editing sites that allow editing of your videos within your browsers, without the need of specific software on their workstations.

Usually video editing tasks are highly sophisticated, but these sites have done a great deal in making it as easy as possible for the non experts.Most of them have great sets of editable options. Now especially because of these online video editing sites, huge video communities are thriving because it lets people to remix each others stuff, create video mashups.

Here are 5 of the best online video editing websites, I hope you like it.

Tired of seeing the Outlook splash screen each time each time you click on something emailish. gAttach is a free program that integrates Gmail into your system not just your browser as your default email service. It make gmail the default email handler for all your gAttach is a free program that integrates Gmail into your system

Usually we see that the email integration that is built into your operating system or other local apps by default use a local client to send email, typically being  Outlook Express or Outlook. But our Gmail addictiveness doesn’t allows Outlook exposure.

The typical examples of things gAttach lets us do. Many news sites,blogs feature “mailto” links to send email that opens the default email client and pre-populate the email and subject . gAttach will make sure these open in Gmail rather than a local client such as Outlook Express. If you right click on any file, go to the send to menu, and click on “Mail Recipient” then by default gAttach will open the Gmail and the file will be uploaded as an attachment.

Every now and then we create folders for sorting our stuffs, and there’s never been an efficient way to create new folders in Windows without having to use that mouse. Time for some nirvana, mdAxel is a tiny application that can create a new folder just by using the assigned keyboard shortcut. It even triggers a folder creation dialog box which includes a pull-down menu from which you can reuse or edit previous names. Gone are the days when every weekend I used to sit back hours cleaning up the mess that accumulated during the week. MdAxel is a free download for Windowsonly.

mdAxel [via Skyrocket Concepts]

Do you have a problem remembering all those passwords from different social networks and websites that you visit daily. Assuming that you aren’t an psychotic alien, you won’t remember each and every password  thats why we use Firefox’s built in password manger lets you save your entered user ids and passwords and retrieve them later when you visit that particular website thus make it whole lot easier to login.

But for some reason Firefox tends to corrupt itself and thus I normally end up loosing all those credentials, thus i have to meticulously enter each of them again and again. Password Export, a Firefox addon, is a useful addon that lets you export your saved passwords or say back them up,  so that you can retrieve them later.

Wondering how to upload all your office documents in your mac to Google Docs at one go! Gdocsuploader is tiny little application that lets you upload your office documents to the cloud in one click. Gdocsuploader is awesome because of the cool drag and drop documents. It snuggly fits into your Dock, Finder sidebar, or desktop. Gdocsuploader is still new and as expected quite buggy. Except some trial and errors before it works properly. Gdocsuploader is a free download for Mac OS X only and its certainly not OS X Tiger friendly.
gdocsuploader [Google Code via VinodLive]