In this post, I will list 6 free system utilities that can be used to monitor your hardware temperature such as CPU and hard drive.

1. Core Temp

Info: Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It's also completely motherboard independent.

Core Temp is available for Intel Core and Core 2 processors as well as the whole AMD's Athlon64 line of CPUs only. Older processors are not supported.

DriverPacks is a collection of hardware and device drivers, and this bundled drivers is very suitable those who are too lazy to search for drivers everytime you re-install Windows or if you just simply forgot to backup all your hardware drivers.

DriverPacks is an open source project, mainly to create a ‘uniform’ Windows installation CD that works with every hardware without having to look for the drivers. The latest DriverPacks slipstream tool, DriverPacks BASE 8.09 RC 1 support the creation of stand alone drivers location, without the need to have a source OS. Currently, there are 10 DriverPacks available:

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is one of the best free (and open source) image editor. GIMP is often considered as a free alternative software for Adobe Photoshop. On 1st October 2008, the GIMP developer has released the latest stable version of GIMP 2.6.0.

Some changes in GIMP 2.6:

- Integration of GEGL, a graph based image processing library that bring high bit-depth and non destructive editing to GIMP.

- Toolbox menubar has been removed.

- Toolbox and docks are now part of utility windows.

- The ability to pan beyond the image border when working with images.

- The free select tool has been enhanced and improved.

The ultimate graphic card guide - All you need to know about graphic card.

Download the latest Xunlei/Thunder No-Ads by Ayu. Xunlei/Thunder is an alternative bittorrent client. If you need an English translation for Xunlei/Thunder, download this language pack.

How to easily reduce the memory usage of all program in Windows.

Oosah - Get 1TB of FREE online media storage. Right now Oosah has a file size upload limit of 250MB per video, 50MB per image and 50MB per mp3.

The latest VLC media player 0.9.3 (0.9.2 for Windows) gets a new GUI!

Hotmail has update its interface, and offering more storage for users. Each user will get 5GB of inbox size, and 500MB more per month every time user hit the limit.

View the user names and passwords stored by Google Chrome Web with ChromePass

If you are looking for thumbdrive with extraordinary look, have a look at Brando’s.

The real USB ‘thumb’ drive

I’ve been using Drupal for almost a year and I find it very easy to customize and configure. In fact, Drupal is my second blogging platform after Blogger. The Drupal development and community is very active. In this post I will show you how to easily integrate Google’s ‘Adsense for Search’ into Drupal 6 so that the search result can be shown and contained on your Drupal site.

1. Download and install ‘Google Custom Search Engine’ module for Drupal 6 to your Drupal installation. If you don’t know how to install a Drupal module, extract and upload the content of google_cse-6.x-x.x.tar.gz to the sites/all/modules directory of your Drupal installation. Make sure the folder google_cse exists after you upload the files (1).

If your Google Chrome do not show Mozilla Firefox in the ‘Import Bookmarks and Settings’ browser list, don’t panic. Here is a simple trick to show back Mozilla Firefox in the browser bookmarks & settings import list.

Open notepad, and paste the following registry script.

I’ve been using TeraCopy as my default copy handler for a few month to speed up the file copying/moving process. Sometimes, I wonder if TeraCopy is actually helps in speed up the file copying process or not. So, I decided to perform a simple test to compare the copying speed of built in copy handler in Windows, TeraCopy and FastCopy.

TeraCopy

Developer description: TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features.

TeraCopy is a freeware and it can integrates to Windows as a default copy handler.

FastCopy

Before this, I use TeraCopy as the default copy handler. However, the latest TeraCopy seems to have problem on my machine when trying to transfer a lot of small files between different hard disk (103GB of mp3 files). After searching for the alternative of TeraCopy, I found FastCopy. FastCopy is a small tool that will help to accelerates the file copying process. While TeraCopy seems cannot handle small files, FastCopy works perfectly.