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Many laptops and desktop computers are being built without the old handy floppy drive. But there are still some times when you need to use it. Some older programs still need to use a floppy drive and even some windows recovery features make use of a floppy drive.

This is also very useful for virtual machines such as VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC.

This free very useful program is called Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1. - website

Here is a quick overview and some screen shots.

Open the program, choose a drive 0 or drive 1.

Click on Open, the browse to where you want to store your floppy disk image.

Once you have the file name and location set, choose “Create”.

There you have it. You now have a virtual floppy drive. You can also set the drive letter with the “Change” button.

If you have any trouble, just stop and start the driver to “reset” things.

To download the software visit.

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

Enjoy!

Handy free eraser tool. The download comes with a full install, so it’s a snap to setup.

Here is the main interface.

One of the best things, is the handy options when you right click on a file.

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Looking for a very nicely featured and free image editor and creator. Paint.net is your answer. One of the nice features is that it really updates itself. When you start the program it will check for new versions and then download it right from the interface without having to open any browser.

Want an easy way to submit your new blog to almost 200 of sites and rss directories? Here is your answer, RSS Submit. A free download for windows. Enter your site information and go. A log file is created for each submission to show you exactly where your information was entered.

RSS Submit

Did you miss your favorite show? Need to catch up on a few episodes? Visit tvrss.net, then use a bit torrent client to get a nice high quality download of the show. You can easily watch it on your PC using about any media player.

Now if you want to burn this to a DVD to watch on your TV, it doesn’t get any easier than DVD Flick. (free and open source)

A straight forward easy list maker. Have a thought in your head and want to quickly get it down so you don’t forget. Here is a simple 40k no-frills program to quickly manage a list. All data is written to a text file for easy printing or copying.

The text file where the list is written. The text file is always created in the same folder as the program.

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This is so very simple, it can hardly be called a program. But sometimes simple is better. I had a need for a one task only program, to copy a file from one location to another, remembering the locations for easier use. This is the result. A free copy program. Uses .NET framework, so be sure you have that installed first. Sorry, nothing more to say about it.

Download copyfile.zip

Ever wanted to convert your access database to mysql? This excellent piece of free software will do it for you quickly with an easy to use interface.

Bullzip Access to MySQL�

The program takes your access database and creates an SQL file that can then be imported into a MySQL database. The program has worked perfectly for me each time. This has been a huge time saver for me as I used to hand write scripts to pull the data out of access and create .sql files. Now it all happens in only a few clicks.