Delicious Library 2 Not your ordinary library.

Mac Only:  Imagine just holding a CD or DVD or video game or book or whatever up to your webcam, and it magically reads the UPC and downloads that item’s cover and all pertinent information about it, and displays all my stuff on photo-realistic shelves?  Wake up cause its now better than you imagined.  Whether for insurance purposes, inventory management, or just plain organization Delicious Library 2 seems like a great program to help catalog those hundreds of cds, dvds, books and a whole lot more.  Loaded with many features it is no wonder that Delicious Library 2 was rated Best Mac OS X Leopard Application. Unfortunately this one is a Conducive Technology rarity, as it will set you back $40.  For you mac heads out there let us know how you like it.

Top Tech Tools Collection

Diagnostic Utilities

Hitachi Drive Fitness Test:
Use this to test the integrity of you Hard Disk Drives.  Works with most but not all drives.  This file is in iso format and will need to be burnt onto a CD.  This is used by booting from the cd.

Windows Memory Diagnostic
Use this to test the integrity of your system Ram.  If you are running Windows Vista this utility is built in. Simply type in memory into the start menu, and you should see the first option will say Memory Diagnostics Tool.  If you are not running Vista or need a bootable version, download the file above and it will create a bootable CD for you.

SIW
An advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.  I mainly use the secrets function to find saved passwords that have been forgotten.

Ultimate Boot Cd
UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem.

DASBoot
Mac Only: Do you have a shiny new flash drive in your pocket ? Or perhaps a small portable hard drive ? Now you can turn it into a Mac OS X diagnostic, repair, and maintenance tool. DasBoot allows you to take any third party boot CD and quickly create a bootable diagnostic device that contains any of your own utilities you may wish to install.

Data Recovery
This one is not free but highly recommended.  Out of all the data recovery software I have used this one is by far the most successful.  I have had success recovering files from some pretty bad drives and flash devices.  Before you spend thousands on clean room recovery try this first.  True story I used this to recover files off of my backup drive that was physically failing and in bad shape.  Note:  If your drive is not recognized by the bios then most likely this will not recognize it either.

CD/DVD Burning Utilities

Burnaware Free edition Note: The free version is no longer available after being sold
BurnAware covers all of your most common burning tasks, from burning audio CDs and video DVDs to disk images (like ISO files) and regular data discs. (Windows Only)

BURN
Mac OS X only: Free, open source application Burn lets you burn almost any kind of CD or DVD on your Mac.

Spyware & Virus Removal Software and Tools

Note:  Virus and spyware removal can be a time consuming and tedious task.  I am a professional and yet a full manual cleaning af a system can take me anywhere from 30 min to an couple hours.  Most of the utilities noted below are most effectively used on a clean system for preventive proactive protection.

Webroot Spysweeper with Antivirus
Out of all the security suites, freeware applications and online scanners.  Webroot Spysweeper by far has been the most effective in prevention and protection against malware.  It for the most part compared to other security suites is very lightweight.  It can conflict with other security suites so remove any existing security software.