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	SAE Flywheel Housing Identification & Flywheel Dimensions - a useful chart on Rockford's website. (local copy of chart)
	Register your phone number with Canada's national Do-Not-Call list to stop telemarketers at www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca or call 1-866-580-3625 from the landline, cellphone or fax number you want to be listed. One twist is the "Confirmation Code" you need to type in after looking at the image is case-sensitive. File a complaint about a telemarketer once you are on the Do-Not-Call list. Stop unaddressed junk mail by attaching a sticker to note that says "No ad mail" above your mail slot. Details about Canada Post's Consumer Choice program The Canadian Marketing Association has a "Do Not Contact" service that may have some effect on addressed admail.
	AppRiver is a spam and virus-filtering company. Continually updates their filters to catch the latest spam and scams. Dirt cheap ($1 per mailbox per month), easy to set up, easy to deal with, excellent tech support. Possibly Frontier's best IT investment.
	The free Foxit PDF Reader is a lightweight PDF document reader. They do try to install the annoying Ask.com toolbar, disguised as a Foxit toolbar. Decline this option.
	We use Adobe Acrobat Reader for many of our forms and specification sheets. Get it free from Adobe's website, and read PDF files in your web browser.
	The freeware doPDF converter installs a printer driver for PDF creation. For 32 or 64 bit Windows machines. Straightforward and effective.
Ninite	www.ninite.com creates a custom installer to install multiple free apps on Windows or Linux machines. It runs through each installation with no questions, automatically disabling add-on toolbars, etc. A good time saver for preparing a new machine.
	OpenOffice.Org is a high quality, free, open-source, Microsoft Office-compatible suite of programs. It includes full-featured word processor, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation and accessory programs. We have found this package to be better designed and easier to use than MS Office. There are several good books published by Henzenwerke on switching from MS Office to OpenOffice. You can download sample chapters here.
	Dekart Private Disk Light is a good freeware encryption program that keeps your private information private. They also sell versions with more features.
	www.onguardonline.gov provides practical tips from the US federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.
	Sunbelt Software's Vipre is a reasonably well-written piece of software that removes spyware. Free trial, and reasonably priced if you decide to keep it.
	Sysinternals free Autoruns program shows you all the programs that automatically start when you fire up your computer. Some of the programs might surprise you. Some of them slow your computer. This helpful utility allows you to easily disable autostart items. Sysinternal was purchased by Microsoft, but the utilities are still free and useful. They now require you to click an 'agree' button the first time you use them.
	NTWind Software created TaskSwitchXP as a replacement for Window XP Alt-Tab task switcher. Displays previews of each task you have running on your computer. Well written, free software. Works only in Windows XP
	Parted Magic is a well-written Linux application that allows an experienced user to resize Windows and Linux partitions without destroying data. Download the ISO image, burn it to a CD, then boot from the CD. Free, but donations are encouraged.
	Xenu Link Sleuth is a well-written Windows application that quickly checks all the links on a website. Tilman Hausherr is the author. Freeware, although he encourages you to support his favourite charities.
	Windirstat tells you how your disk space is used. A well-written freeware program that reads a directory or entire disk, and presents disk usage graphically, in a treeview (like Windows Explorer), and by file type. Helpful for discovering why you no longer have any room on your hard disk.
	JKDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. It's a well-written, effective, and works on Windows Server. And it's free. It includes a GUI versions and command line versions for 32 bit and 64 bit Windows. You can schedule it using Windows Task Scheduler.

Educational videos
	18 minute movie from the Prelinger Archives tracing the development of the diesel engine from the Otto 'SILENT' gas engine of 1877, through Rudolph Diesel's engine, to the modern diesels of 1952. Produced by the Shell Oil Company Black & white, with sound Click on the picture to play
	23 minute movie from the Prelinger Archives explaining how generators and alternators work. This movie was created by the US Army in 1961. Black & white, with sound Click on the picture to play
	Chalwyn gives some background on their diesel safety shutdown valves