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The new recommended freeware list is now hosted at:
The 88 Best Freeware
Here are some of the freewares I used before.

GIMP
Quick Media Converter
Picasa
CamStudio

Today Joojen from Nanjing introduced Sogou Pinyin - a popular Chinese character input method editor developed by Sogou, a Chinese search engine.

I have been using Microsoft default pinyin and recently has just switched to the Google Pinyin. However, Sogou Pinyin impress me much! The speed and precision is really excellent!

Recently I faced the following when installing Google Talk in my Vista machine:
“The new version of Google Talk cannot be installed because you are running an older version of Google Talk that is not compatible with Windows Vista. Please uninstall Google Talk as Administrator to remove the incompatible version and re-install Google Talk from http://www.google.com/talk.”

Have [...]

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is one of the most popular TCP/IP protocol uses today. It is used by networked devices to obtain information required to operate on an Internet Protocol network.

These information may include

IP address
Default gateway
DNS server address

and so on.
When a DHCP client is first switched on, it sends a [...]

Clustering is the connection of multiple devices together in such a way that to the outside world, the cluster appears to be a single system. Each device in a cluster is referred to as a node.
If critical service is unavailable, business will suffer. A properly installed and configured cluster provides continued operation during hardware and [...]

Google has just released an open source browser - Google Chrome. It is now available at http://www.google.com/chrome. As with other Google application, it is available freely to the public.

In my tests, Chrome performed excellent in access to Gmail, Blogger page and so on. Each time launching a new tab, Chrome will show a customised homepage [...]

Found this new service from Microsoft the other day. This is really what I search for so far. Like Google toolbar that save my bookmark which I can use whenever access to the Internet, SkyDrive offer free diskspace for me to access from anywhere of the Internet using web browser!