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UltimateDefrag is revolutionary defrag software that not only lets you defrag, but also considers a more important phenomenon, and that is, the placement of files and folders on your hard drive.

With UltimateDefrag you can place the files you want the best performance from onto the faster areas of your hard drive and also get all of your unused data right out of the way and repositioned onto the slower areas. The software lets you specify defrag routines right down to the individual file and folder level. No other defragger has previously enabled you to do this to this extent and with this kind of power and flexibility.

UltimateDefrag can speed up your entire system by about 150%.
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Thanks to NASA’s Swift satellite, astronomers have seen a star actually blow up.

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Supernova sighting leaves astronomers agog
NASA’s Swift Satellite Catches a Star Going ‘Kaboom!’

Here’s one of the most compelling and sad stories I’ve ever read. Proving that the Internet can still come up with great gems like this:

“Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. So, naturally, I started looking through the photos. I was stunned by what I found …”
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In February, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced the little understood phenomenon sometimes called the “Overview Effect”. He describes being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness … Read the rest of this fascinating piece from The Daily Galaxy.

MediaMonkey is a great FREE application for organizing and playing all your music files. Media Monkey will automatically search your drive for music in most popular formats. Music can be arranged by title, artist, date, genre or your own personal rating.

The monkey can also normalise all tracks to a similar volume level, go online to retrieve track information and missing album art, create palylists, convert files into other formats, copy music to CDs and record music from CDs. I’ve been playing with this application over the weekend, and absolutely love it!

The Helicopter Game is one of the most challenging games I’ve featured so far. It’s also one of the most frustrating. Use your mouse to make a helicopter go up and down, avoiding obstacles. This is without doubt one of the most addictive games on the Net. Some say it’s worse than crack!

Click here for my selection of the best FREE games on the Net.

Vanessa Amorosi is a 26-year old rock-soul singer from Melbourne Australia, where she has had several hit songs. She is best known in the UK for her second single, a dance anthem titled Absolutely Everybody. Two singles Shine and The Power became major Australian hits, and her album The Power reached number one on the Australian album charts. Vanessa’s new album Somewhere in the Real World, features her latest single Perfect.

Musical Influences: various rock and soul

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