It's highly recommended to protect your computer against Virus, Malware, Spyware and other potential threats. Microsoft Security Essentials is one of the better, free solutions.
In the part one of tutorial, I will show you how to create a new virtual computer and prepare it to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview or the latest Windows 8 Release Preview.
RawTherapee is a free open source application for opening and editing RAW image files. It works on all major operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Power Search was a real useful feature and there is now good reason why Apple decided to ditch/hide in iTunes version 11. But luckily you can bring it back quite easily. Check it out.
We will install VLC player, which is one of the most versatile players. The biggest advantage of the VLC player is that it does not need any additional codecs.
Pixlr is a free and probably the best web based image editor. I will show you how to open and and resize an image, I'm sure you will be impressed how well the web app actually works.
If you use a lot of different usernames and passwords it is difficult to remember all of them. KeePass is an interesting solution where all your passwords are kept in one safe place and protected with one password.
VMware player is a great free tool for creating virtual machines and desktops. For instance, you can create a new virtual computer to install and test the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview.