There is an impressive range of excellent freeware Windows enhancements and tweaks. This posting will present forty three excellent additions to Windows that you will like.
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If you’ve ever been on the National Geographic Photography site then you already know that they feature some of the best, high quality photographs to be found on the internet. What you may not know, however, is that the site has a special wallpapers section, and that the majority of images in the Photography site are available for download in wallpaper sizes (with a maximum width of at least 1280 pixels for most images, and some are available at 1600 pixels).
Note that there are in fact two different National Geographic URLs with two different wallpaper sections, here and here.
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DefaultPrograms is a small, free utility that can manage and edit the way windows works with filetypes, such as editing their context menu items, their icons, description, and the associated file type for an extension. For Vista and Windows Seven it can also manage and edit autoplay handlers, as well as edit, add, or remove the default registered programs associated with file types.
Windows Surface Scanner is a free, fast utility that scans your hard drive(s) for physical errors. It will examine each sector on your hard drive for read errors and reports them if found. It is purely diagnostic and will not fix or “mark” bad sectors or recover data.
PeerBlock is an open source IP filtering application partially based on the PeerGuardian code. It is designed to prevent your computer from making undesirable connections, such as to machines flagged for anti p2p activities, corporations, governments, etc. This can significantly decrease your chances of being detected when downloading from p2p or Torrent networks, or of contracting malware/spyware from known sources. PeerBlock is available in portable form and works with all versions of Windows (including XP, Vista, Seven).
Free Stock Ticker is a free, small app designed to display stock ticker(s) on your desktop, as well as stock related headlines as hovering tooltips. It can also display regular RSS feeds or a combination of both.
RUNit is a free launcher accessed via right clicking a hot area on your screen (the top edge of the screen by default). You can set up multiple lists of items to be accessed via different hot areas of the screen. RUNit can launch apps, URLS, documents, or folders, supports drag and drop when adding items, is customizable, and is portable.
The people that brought you Firefox extension "InvisibleHand" would like 200 of Freewaregenius readers to be among the first to try their new version 1.8 beta. Just go to this page and use the access code "invisibleGenius".
Firefox extension "InvisibleHand" is an on-the-fly comparison shopping tool designed to instantly retrieve and display the best prices from a wide variety of online vendors for the items that you are looking at as you surf. See our Freewaregenius review here. Some of the added features in this new version are as follows:
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"Zoomquilt II" is a collaborative flash animation created in 2007. It consists of image contributions from 20 artists connected in a continuous zooming motion. A free screensaver is also available for download.
TV-Browser is a free, cross-platform digital TV guide which downloads and lists the schedules of over 900 TV stations and over 90 radio stations, including cable and Satellite channels. Users can subscribe to stations and use different styles for formatting listings. The application by default organizes channels in different categories like Music, Drama, Cinema and Sports; it also lets users select country specific channels.
[Editor’s note: this post was written by Freewaregenius contributor EngineerHead. Check out his tech blog here].
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Want to find cool wallpaper? I was recently admiring the wallpaper my friend Jeff (who, incidentally, works for Microsoft) had on his computer. When I asked him about the source he showed me the new cool wallpaper image search provided in Bing. This posting will show you how to use Bing image search to find great wallpaper images.
BrowserMaster is a free app that registers itself as your system’s default browser and gives you the option to select which browser to use when opening internet links. It applies to links clicked from outside a browser, such as desktop shortcuts, links in documents, links in IM and email apps, etc.
This article will introduce you to three online mind map tools that are free to use and have solid functionality. A number of note taking tools were previously covered on Freewaregenius, and I’ve previously written about Bubbl.us, another mind map tool. This article will present three more tools: Text 2 Mind Map, Creately, and Lovely Charts, which can all help you brainstorm and diagram your thoughts.
[Editor's note: this post was written by Freewaregenius contributor Jason H. Check out his tech blog: 404techsupport.com].
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Oolite is an open source remake of the classic space simulator Elite. This non-linear title puts the player in control of their own experience. Trading, piracy, and mining are just a fraction of what you can do in this expansive universe.
[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Travis B. Check out his new blog here].
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