Hard Disk Performance Check

Here is the great tool the check hard disk performance and benchmarking. It is DiskTT (Disk Throughput Tester) . DiskTT is freely available to download and is very easy to use. I have used it and also corrected the system configuration of one computer by replacing the slow hard disk.

http://www.objectso.nl/Software/DiskTT.exe

http://www.objectso.nl/ 

DiskTT (Disk Throughput Tester) measures the performance of your harddrive`s read and write function. You can select a folder or drive to test and the program performs a real-time test on the selected disk.

http://www.freewarefiles.com/Disk-Throughput-Tester-DiskTT_program_23527.html

Open Source Alternatives

Here is the best place to search open source alternatives. This site is huge library of open source alternative softwares. If you are seeking open source software than this is the best website for it.

http://www.osalt.com

Osalt is one of the best guides for open source softwares.

Open Stock Photography Images

Here is the free open stock photo and media library from wiki media - it has free images, sounds and even video clips.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikimedia Commons uses the same wiki-technology as Wikipedia and everyone can edit it. Unlike media files uploaded to other projects, files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons can be embedded on pages of all Wikimedia projects without the need to separately upload them there.

Open Source Icons Library

Here is the open source icon library which you can use for your web development projects, graphic designs, presentations, interface development. They are free to use and you can also contribute your icons to the library

http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/

http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/developers.html

http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/LICENSES.html

http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/sources.html