I didn't even think about the possibility of such utilities but i can certainly see why they would be useful when moving servers:

As written up on the ilovefreesoftware.com site:

http://www.ilovefree...pogation-status.html

Here are 5 DNS Propogation Checkers to check DNS propogation status of your website. These tools are helpful if you have recently setup a new domain, or have changed nameservers of an existing domain. DNS propogation normally takes 24-48 hours, but these DNS Propogation checkers will tell you exactly what is the current status of DNS propogation

Although I have expressed in the past my skepticism about Google, I have a serious and honest question that occurred to me:

Google is spending millions (?) of dollars advertising and promoting its "Chrome" browser.

Why?

Actually let me simplify this question -- I don't want to get into a debate about true motives and conspiracies, so let me rephrase the question:

Why does GOOGLE say it is spending such huge sums to advertise and promote and try to get people to switch to their Chrome browser?

I honestly am curious about the answer to this question.  They must be telling someone somewhere why they are spending such huge amounts of money trying to get people to switch to Chrome -- what are they saying the reasons are?

BM-productions has a list of small but very useful freeware programs for Windows. I use several of them myself.

http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/

SmartClose
   SmartClose is a system utility that automates the process of closing all running programs and restoring them at a later time.

Windows Media Player Plus!
    A plug-in that adds various user interface and playback enhancements to Windows Media Player, such as a new tag editor.

WMP Tag Plus
   A plug-in that allows Windows Media Player to read and write MPEG-4, FLAC, Vorbis and WavPack tags.

WMPCDText
   A plug-in for Windows Media Player that finally adds support for reading CD-Text.

Windows Media Player Import for Winamp
    A Winamp plug-in for importing the Windows Media Player library, including all metadata such as ratings and play counts.

Downloads Context Menu
   A simple but useful Firefox add-on that shows the Explorer context menu of downloaded files in the Firefox Downloads list.

WinLIRC plug-in for jetAudio
    This jetAudio plug-in adds WinLIRC support, allowing you to control jetAudio with a remote controller.

WabMail
   A small tool that shows a list of all the e-mail addresses in a Windows Address Book (.wab) file.

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DC member sgtevmckay writes:

"Two years ago, an abandoned, virtually unknown piece of open-source software was suddenly embraced by a small team of designers and programmers with a vision of its potential. Since then, Rainmeter has become the premier desktop customizing platform for Windows PCs, and with over 3 million downloads*, its passionate and supportive user community is growing by the day. The result is a gallery of hundreds of creative skins, gadgets and plugins, and an app that just keeps getting better.

To commemorate the second anniversary of Rainmeter's "rebirth," we've decided to surprise our users with the big jump to 2.0. A whole-number jump may not mean much at Google anymore, but it's still a big deal for us. Here's the gist of what Rainmeter users can expect:

Scrivener is a tool for writers.

It's basically an rich text outliner with a very nice gui, and the ability to show/edit summaries of a folder's content (the corkboard), and of course the ability to export/compile all those entries as one document (images not supported)

It is still in beta. Initial impressions are good, but I have been able to crash it by importing an image (I have yet to see can I reproduce that), and I have found a bunch of minor bugs. In general it seems well behaved though and very usable.

Application	WinButtons
Description	Display a window with large buttons to allow applications to be started, commands sent to applications, submenu's to be shown, useful for a touch-screen equipped computer

Features
Display a set of large buttons, with descriptive captions, that can open a sub-menu, start an application, send keystrokes to another application (using WinSendKeys), or whatever can be done using a windows command-line. The window can have enabled/disabled a border, close button, taskbar button, different colors and sizes per button, display a bitmap or icon instead of a text-caption, hide itself (and optionally a preceding chain of WinButtons instances) during execution of a command, wait for completion of the command, or exit after starting a command.