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Sometimes a photo just begs to be framed vertically. For some reason, I tend to take a lot of photos that way, and vieweing with them afterward can be a bit of a headache. JPEG Lossless Rotator takes any uncertainty out of the equation and rotates your JPEG images properly in bulk, without quality reduction.

From Freeware Mission: "Songr is a Windows application that will search MP3 search engines for music. This simple tool allows you to search the web for your favorite bands and songs and download them straight to your hard drive. No complicated settings, no endless web browsing, no hassle."

It's a challenge to keep up in the Information Age. With countless quality sites and blogs, it's far too easy to spend a crazy amount of time just trying to stay up to date. Thankfully, news feeds (aka RSS) and news feed readers make the stream of information easier to swallow. Karoro is a "swift" reader - great looking, straightforward, and designed for usability.

You've probably heard of Hulu by now. But let's make sure you, Alec Baldwin, and I are on the same page. Hulu is a Flash-based online TV smörgåsbord, legally serving up many current TV shows and a good chunk of past ones too. With free content, unobtrusive (often 30 seconds or less) commercials, and other perks, you can start preparing the eulogy for TV torrents.

The excellent freeware site Gizmo's Freeware (you may have once known them as "Support Alert") has written a lengthy but informative article about the best free software to use on your new Windows 7 x64 rig. It's a worthwhile read for those of you still on 32-bit too, since almost all 64-bit software has a 32-bit flavor as well.

GSmartControl is a useful 'runs-on-anything' open source tool designed for the prevention of hard drive failure. Essentially a S.M.A.R.T. frontend client, GSmartControl will give you a close-up look at your disks, and predict 64% of failures before the drive fulfills its paper-weight destiny.

Fortinet's FortiClient is a free (for personal OR commercial use) complete security suite along the lines of Norton 360 and similar commercial products. The suite boasts an impressive set of features, even beyond the reach of traditionally expensive security software, and is offered in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.

ZeroRemote is a free, tiny (less than 300KB), portable, single-executable remote desktop application for Windows. With blazing speed, file transfer, audio playback, out-of-the-box Aero and alpha blending support, and minimal resource usage, ZeroRemote may be the best remote desktop app you've never heard of.