Learn 12 languages for free

Ever wanted to learn a foreign language but neither had the time or money? Didn't want to buy those expensive CDs and cassettes and didn't want to join the courses that you couldn't find time for?

So here's the answer for you. Mango is a site that's providing  Spanish, Russian, Greek, German, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian and Polish courses for free!!! Yeah that's right no hidden costs, its absolutely free.

All you have to do is register and you can jump right in. There are 1110 lessons and 11 courses in total that you can learn over a period of time as you like and when you like.

It has a number of nice features such as:

Color Coded Translations

Audio of Native Speakers

Memory Building Exercises

Speaker Icon at the Beginning of Each Full Sentence

Additionally you can also download paid Mp3 which you can download and then transfer and listen on your ipod, so that you can keep learning the language even when you are traveling. But I think the free courses are more than enough to make you an efficient foreign language speaker.  

Learn at Mango Languages.com

Better Gmail 2

If you want to add a few features and skins you could download a firefox extension called Better Gmail. Now here's an updated version of the extension which adds even more functions and features to your Gmail. Better Gmail 2 is essentially a compilation of Greasemonkey user scripts that add features to Gmail. So your only requirements apart from Firefox would be Greasemonkey extension installed.

Download Better Gmail 2.

Further details available at LifeHacker.

FileHippo Update checker

 

You probably have hundreds of applications installed, many of which have been installed many days, weeks or even months ago. All this while these softwares have been updated with new and better features and probably with security updates.

You probably do not know about the updated softwares or you are too lazy to download and install them. So what do you do? So here's where FileHippo Update checker comes in. Its a small  120kb download and what it does is it is goes online and checks the softwares installed on your computer with its own database and tells you which software needs to be downloaded. It also provides an update link along with the file list.

So with this your work does not get more easier than this.  

Download FileHippo Update Checker

McAfee VirusScan Plus---For Free!!!

Are you looking for an anti virus or a Anti-Spyware or a Firewall? or all of these? But don't have enough bucks in your piggy bank or just want to same dollars for the latest console? So here's what you can do, get a paid anti-virus for free!!! And no, I am not talking about those cracks and serial keys you get on illegal sites, I am talking about a free and a legitimate way of getting McAfee VirusScan Plus for free.

McAfee VirusScan Plus has the following features

1-Virus protection guards your whole PC
2-Spyware Protection blocks potentially unwanted programs
3-Firewall helps keep hackers out.

If you want to buy this protection yourself,you will have to spend as much as $39.99, but here's how you can get this free.

All you have to do is sign up for a free Aol.com email address and you can recieve this comprehensive set of safety tools free!!!

Get the free software from here: Free McAfee from Aol

Make no mistake this is not a free version of McAfee anti-virus but a full fledged paid software that costs $39.99. Here's the link to the paid software Paid McAfee VirusScan Plus

Free Software Only For Today!!

EverNote

Ever wanted to take notes regarding a particular topic or a project that you are doing? Or wanted to save clips and paragraphs from sites for your collection? So here's the software for you. Its called EverNote. And it will do all that and more. It basically has the same function as Microsoft OneNote and Zoho Notebook but it has a lot of extra features and it is a desktop version of those applications.

This software costs $50 if you buy it, but it is absolutely free today ie. November 16th 2007. So, if you reading this now go and download this software and try it out.

Download from here--Evernote.com