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Toggle the internet on and off from the system tray, with InternetOff

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Filemind adds sophisticated filtering for files and folders

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Perfgraph: get a graphical representation of your CPU, Memory and other metrics, right on...

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Get tabbed browsing in Windows with Clover

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