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A1 Free Sound Effects
This fun resource serves up over 700 free WAV sound effects that include everything from breaking glass to creaking doors to sirens to crackling thunder. The site also accepts requests, if there's a particular sound effect you're looking for.
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Valentine Desktop Themes
A marvelous resource for free Valentine's Day themed desktop themes. There are dozens of titles to choose from, to give your desktop (or your sweetheart's desktop) a romantic makeover. New themes are added here daily.
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The Christmas Spot
This festive site offers a good roundup of various Christmas-themed freebies, including wallpapers, jokes, digital cards, screen savers, fonts, recipes and more.
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CatchySoft
This site offers a number of fun, freeware games. Here, you'll find Four Bricks (a Tetris clone), as well as challenging Japanese puzzle games. (For Windows).
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EvilLyrics
Automatically searches and displays lyrics to current song in Winamp, Windows Media Player, Foobar, iTunes, Real Player, MusicMatch or QCD
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Artist for Hire
Graphics guru Bruce Stawicki's site is a fast-growing roundup of original images, suitable for using on personal Web sites. Images on tap here include textures, lines, animation, buttons, page sets, balls & bullets, interfaces and more. If you would like a custom graphic made, send in your request to Bruce: he'll make one for you in exchange for a linkback on your personal Web site.
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EZskins
A fun site to browse, EZskins is updated daily with dozens of new free screen savers in many categories. Topics here include anime, fantasy, games, holidays, horror & occult, movies, music, nature, religious, schools, sci-fi, TV and more. EZskins also offers truckloads of free themes and skins (which let you customize the look of your desktop).
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X-Ray Mail Assistant
X-Ray Mail Assistant is an email header filter and POP/SMTP server switching tool. It runs as a local POP/SMTP relay server and scans your incoming and/or outgoing mail.
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Word Extractor
Word Extractor is a hacking tool that extracts (human) words from binary (machine) files. Is suitable for many purposes like finding a cheat in a game, finding hidden text or passwords in a file (exe, bin, dll), text extraction from corrupted files..
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MP3Nut
A fine resource for music seekers, this searchable site offers a large, categorized MP3 sound file section, as well as a comprehensive lyrics archive. MP3s here range from classic tunes to the latest Top 40 hits. There's even a small, but growing, guitar tabs archive here. A big plus to this site is that, (unlike most MP3 sites), you don't get bombarded by annoying popup ads.
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