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Index of recommended products and services:
Tools:
- Locks: Bump-Proof Deadbolts
- Instant-Hot Water Filter
- Laser Level: Ryobi AIRgrip ProCross — $50 from Home Depot
- Rotary Hammer: Hitachi DH24PF3 — $170
Arms:
- Concealment Pistol: Smith & Wesson 642 with Crimson Trace
- Pistol, Semi-Auto: Glock 17
- Target Pistol: Browning Buck Mark .22 with Trail-Lite barrel and Gemtech Outback-II Suppressor
- PDW: Steyr AUG/A3 USA or MSAR STG
- Sniper Rifle: Savage 10-FPXP HS
- Shotgun, Pump-Action: Mossberg M590-A1
- Tactical Rifle: Robinson XCR or the AR-15 -compatible Ruger SR-556
- Recoil Reduction Products
Services:
- CarBargains: Competitive New Car Buying
- Credit Card: American Express Blue Cash Rewards
- Custom Closets: EasyClosets.com
- Online Backup: Carbonite — $50/year
- Real Estate Brokerage
- Cell Phone Service, Prepaid: T-Mobile To Go — $.10/minute
Software:
- Open-Source Alternatives to popular commercial software
- FileZilla (free, open-source FTP client)
- 7-zip (free, open-source file compression and decompression for virtually all formats)
- Chrome (the fastest web browser also has the best user interface)
- JDiskReport (free utility to graphically drill down disk space usage)
- Baby Smash! (free software that protects your system while your baby mashes the keyboard)
- Active Undelete (recover deleted files, including from some failing drives)
- RichCopy (free Windows bulk copy utility)
- UIF2ISO (convert UIF images to standard ISO images — avoiding the MagicISO scam)
ComputerWorld recommends these 15 utilities for maintaining Windows machines.