Most motherboard and PC manufactures say the best way to flash a bios is using a clean booting 1.44 MB floppy disk. But as you might know most PC systems build today are sold without a floppy drive. If your computer lacks a floppy drive and your system is capable of booting up from a bootable cdrom this utillity might be the answer for you. The FlashCD Creator utillity creates a 2.88 MB floppy which is emulated when booting from the cdrom.

If you’ve ever purchased a second hand USB flash drive from a friend or even a new one from eBay and alike you might want to verify it true capacity. Even though Windows might seem to be reporting the correct capacity of the drive, that information might not be sufficiently enough to prove that it is truly a USB flash drive of the advertised capacity.

URL Guard is a free and useful website uptime/downtime monitoring application. Website downtime does not mean to much to normal people but it can be especially important  for hosting companies and webmasters who depend on their websites uptime. A short period downtime means potential loss of income for hosting companies and webmasters. If the downtime is too long, it will affect and might cause lose of customers. Monitor your websites uptime/downtime, URL Guard is here to help!

Firefox Throttle & IE Throttle are FREE plug-ins for the two most popular browsers and of no interest to most people, but might be interesting to webdevelopers to monitor real page weights, page load times at different connections speeds, etc.

The (freeware) Hash .NET Component uses industry-standard checksum algorithms to get a unique fingerprint of a file or string. This component is a must to prevent storing duplicate files in the database or to encrypt sensitive user data like passwords before storing them in the database. This component can be used in environments that support COM such as Active Server Pages (ASP), ASP.NET, Windows Scripting Host, Visual Basic, etc.