This is a no hassle way of allowing you access to your computer no matter where you are, assuming you have Internet access.
Plus it’s a free VPN service.

I installed this at my home, and surprisingly was able to quickly network my computers through the internet with my work computer.

Hamachi VPN

Popularity: 29% [?]

Hmm, this is a pretty cool device to catalog your possessions. However I think I’ll wait for the price to come down a bit.

The device scans bar codes on products that you purchase. Then you download the information to your PC which matches it up to a database to catalog information about things you own.
The company touts it’s usefulness to track all of your DVDs, automatically cataloging cover art and release information.

$300
www.intelliscanner.com

Popularity: 26% [?]

This free program creates a virtual hard drive out of a folder on your pc.
This drive gets opened only with your password. Once opened you can access your files like normal and add additional files to this drive, then when you are finished you “dismount the drive” and all of your files within that drive become encrypted again as a single file you can easily transfer to a cd or thumb drive.
Truecrypt.org

Popularity: 24% [?]

The iPhone 2.0 software has a built-in screen capture shortcut. Hold the “home” button, then hit the “power/sleep” button, and presto, a capture of your screen is in your photos.

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Thumb drives are so inexpensive now that I think it is worth having an extra thumb drive loaded with just diagnose and fix program. This way if your computer or a friends computer is having troubles you can grab your thumb drive and know that you have all the program at your thumb tips.
PC Repair Kit

In addition I would also install this free undelete program, that recovers deleted files.

Popularity: 29% [?]