With a new beta version of Yahoo Yahoo Messenger 9 software (download it for Windows) users have new options for reconstructing networks of friends and contacts they’ve built elsewhere.

The new beta of Yahoo Messenger 9 can help users invite contacts on AOL, Google’s Gmail and Orkut, Microsoft’s Hotmail, MySpace, and other online services to connect through the Yahoo service. There’s also Brand new skins and emoticons.

How many folders do you have on your computer? Hundreds? Thousands? They are probably all alike: yellow! yellow! yellow! With this FREE tool you can change folder icons and colours with just one mouse click, which makes organizing your files that much easier. Check out foldermarker.com

Version 3 of the popular Firefox web browser has just been released, and Firefox developer Mozilla is attempting to set a record for the most downloads over 24 hours.

Download your copy from firefox.com
Alternative Download site: softpedia.com
Direct Download link: download.mozilla.org

Firefox aims for download record
Behind the scenes of Firefox 3.0
Firefox 3: New front in the browser war

After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, Firefox 3 will be available for download on Tuesday. With over one million pledged users ready to participate on Download Day, Tuesday 17 June, it’s fair to say expectations are high for the latest version of the Web browser.

I’ve been testing out the Preview Release, and can confirm that Firefox 3 is the best browser yet, with dozens of new and improved features. You can get a preview of the all the features and updates that are included by taking a look at “A Field Guide to Firefox 3″ by Debra Lynn Richardson.

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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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!