Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 81 Comments

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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Moby Gratis: find free music for your independent, student, or non-profit film, courtesy of Moby
April 15, 2008 – 7:49 pm | 12 Comments

MobyheadMoby Gratis is an archive of instrumental music clips created by the alternative rock/electronic music maestro Moby. These are available to anyone to download and legally use in their film projects, provided that these are independent, student, non-commercial, or non-profit films.

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Unhider makes any window visible, even after a crash
April 15, 2008 – 4:02 pm | 15 Comments

Unhider ScreenshotUnhider is a program that can reveal/unhide any window(s) that belong to applications and/or process running in the background that are not visible. It can do this for programs that are running but not visible in the wake of a crash.

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Retrieve previously opened tabs in IE7 with “IE Open Last Closed Tab”
April 12, 2008 – 8:36 am | 11 Comments

IE Open Last Closed Tab - thumbail view“IE Open Last Closed Tab” is a free Internet Explorer extension that can retrieve and launch previously visited URLs. On pressing a hotkey it displays a page of thumbnails representing previously viewed URLs that can be used to quickly access any of these sties.

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Use text aliases to access your favorite sites with IE Alias
April 12, 2008 – 8:19 am | 5 Comments

IE Alias ScreenshotIE Alias is an free extension for Internet Explorer that allows you to type in a user defined text shortcut in IE’s address box in order to launch your favorite site or sites.

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Adobe Media player delivers streaming video into your desktop
April 11, 2008 – 6:45 am | 7 Comments

Adobe Media Player ScreenshotAdobe Media Player is a free video streaming application that runs on the Adobe Air platform. What it is is a desktop content delivery vehicle for “Adobe TV”, which comprises a number of licensed networks and channels offers content creators the opportunity publish their videos. Content is managed within the app so that it is saved and be accessed offline, and a range of video resolutions (480i, 720p, and 1080p) are supported.

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Send emails into the future with Time Machiner
April 10, 2008 – 7:08 pm | 9 Comments

time machiner logoTime Machiner is a web service that can be used to send emails to anyone on a future date, useful as reminders to yourself or others about future appointment or pre-scheduled birthday/anniversary congratulation notes, and so on.

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How to find a freeware game
April 10, 2008 – 9:29 am | 31 Comments

Screenshot mosaic of some freeware gamesOver the past few months there seems to have been an explosion of games released as freeware. This posting will present a sort of meta-index of freeware games-lists that I have found on the net.

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Work with your images in 3D with Twins Visions
April 9, 2008 – 9:36 pm | 5 Comments

TwinsVisions Screenshot main interface TwinsVisions is a free image viewer that uses a so-called “3D image management system” to navigate and manage image collections. It combines this with image editing and online image sharing functions, as well as Windows context menu integration.

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Change the icons used for any filetype, file, or folder from the context menu with IconX
April 8, 2008 – 7:49 pm | 10 Comments

IconX Screenshot2 - in the context menuIconX is a free Windows Explorer context menu extension that enables you to change the icon used for any file-type. It can also change the icon used for any individual file, and for any individual folder.

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Find the nearest free wireless internet spot with Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder
April 7, 2008 – 7:55 pm | 13 Comments

Free WiFi Hotspot Finder in actionFree Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder is a web service that can give you a list of free wireless internet locations for any address of your choosing and present these locations visually on a map of the area.

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Mikogo: Share your screen and/or access a PC remotely
April 5, 2008 – 12:37 am | 23 Comments

Mikogo ScreenshotMikogo is a free, browser-based screen sharing and remote computer access platform for Windows. It allows you to create virtual meetings/webinars where any of the participant’s screens can be shared, to define which applications can or cannot be accessed remotely, and to instantly share files with participants, all without the need to configure firewalls, ports, and routers etc.

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