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AVG Pty Ltd, the Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific distributor of the worlds leading free anti-virus software, is today announcing AVG LinkScanner as a free standalone product to protect users against random, invisible online threats.

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Easter eggs are not just made of chocolate. With a bit of perseverance they can be found hidden inside DVDs, games and even business software.
Computer code with a hidden purpose can be found lurking beneath DVDs, video games, and software such as spreadsheets, or word processors.

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Muziic Player puts millions of songs on your desktop free and legally. To use Muziic Player, simply type the name of the song or artist you wish to hear into the player's search bar. Muziic searches and returns the most relevant results from the world's largest music database, YouTube.
Muziic is a music player and converter developed by the son-and-father team of David and Mark Nelson. Fourteen-year-old David developed the actual software.
Muziic lets you create playlists of streaming-audio files from YouTube, as well as convert your own audio files for submission to the site. According to the creators, Muziic adheres to the YouTube terms of use (which is why it includes a little video player, but not everyone is so sure about that).

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DVDSmith Movie Backup is DVD Decrypter and DVD copying software to copy entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. With DVDSmith Movie Backup you can make clones of your favourite DVD movies hard drive with just a few clicks -- either complete with all the extras or just the main movie only, in selected audios and subtitles.

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