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Free desktop widgets and gadgets
 Widgets are miniature programs that sit on your desktop. They're one-task wonders that don't hog your computer's resources. With simple designs, widgets don't leave you sifting through countless menu options.
Widgets are called gadgets in Windows Vista. You can load gadgets into Vista's new Windows Sidebar. If you're not using Vista yet, don't worry; there are ways to put widgets on older systems as well.
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Windows only: Freeware application Zorro aims to take distractions like flashy ads out of your online video watching experience.
It does so by blacking out all content that isn't your video, including your browser window, so it's just you and your video. Zorro is brilliant in its simplicity: it's basically a see-through application window, so you launch it, resize it so whatever you want to isolate is inside Zorro's boundaries, and hit escape to black out everything outside the Zorro window. It could even work as a distraction-stopper for any application you want to bring focus to
www.gabrieleponti.com/software/index.html#zorro

HELP Read 0.92 Beta (Freeware) -
www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/HELP-Read.shtml

JotSpot Relaunches as Google Sites, Offers Similar Wiki-Like Collaboration [Collaboration] -

feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/242719334/jotspot-relaunches-as-google-sites-offers-similar-wiki+like-collaboration

FREELINK FREEWARE
www.freelink.org/free_ware