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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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As you would already know, Meebo is rapidly becoming webs most popular web based messaging client.Best of all it supports all of your favorite instant messaging clients which includes Yahoo Messenger, MSN / WLM (.net messenger), Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber. Now think about bring all these intregration straight into your desktop! won’t that be cool. Meebone is an Adobe Air application that brings webs most coolest  web based multiprotocol (multi client) messaging website.

Most of us will say, pidgin supports more messaging protocols and have better functionality, but not much of a looker. Meebo has file transfer built in, and supports webcams! MeeBone is a free download, requires the Adobe Air platform to run.

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]

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.

Although the new Firefox 3 is able to load up website much faster than previous version of Firefox, there is still scope to speed up and optimize Firefox 3. Tweaking Firefox 3 can be a challenge using the about:config advance settings, Instead of manually changing each of the settings, here is a very useful free software that is able to optimize the latest Firefox 3 with just a click.

FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x / 2.x / 3.x is a very easy way to optimized and fasten your browsing experience with Firefox. Its just a software with bunch of the well known optimization tricks that most experts recommended.

Firetune will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance, to your specific computer speed and internet connection speed. I won’t go into the details of optimizing Firefox using Firetune. Just make sure before using Firetune, backup your profiles.

Windows update can be a real pain in the ass if you have set Windows to automatically install updates as soon as they’re available for download. Great if you don’t want anyone using loopholes and getting access to your files. But god save you from the constant reminders for it telling you to restart your PC. In fact every 10 minutes it will pop up a reminder until you finally decide enough is enough and restart your PC.

Brad Isaac’s free utility called Leave Me Alone! allows you to temporarily turn off the restart nag window until you actually do restart, thus allowing you to complete what you are doing and restart afterwards.

Leave Me Alone! is available for both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Ever wonder how to make your iPhone and iPod Touch’s decent storage capacity for something worthwhile. DiskAid enables owners of iPhone and iPod touch to use them as an external hard drive. Just install DiskAid and plug in your iPod touch or iPhone and after detecting your device it lets you copy files. Other cool features include renaming of files and folders, creation of folders. A very handy application as it makes your iPhone and iPod into a very reliable external drive.

DiskAid does not require you to jailbreak your device. DiskAid is a freeware download for Windows and Mac OS X.

DiskAid via Lifehacker