Freemake Video Converter: stylish, user friendly video and DVD conversion, burning, and editing program
This is the kind of video conversion program that feels like it belongs in an Apple store; slick, clean-looking, with a lot of white space and colorful buttons in it’s interface, and as little information crammed on the screen at any one time as possible. It also delivers exactly what is promised, which is always [...]
Calibre: a single place to view, tag, and manage your ebook collection
Last week Amazon announced that its sales of ebooks, in units, have exceeded its sales of hardback books. Further proof, of course, that the age of the ebook is upon us, and all the more reason for you to check out Calibre, a free, multiplatform ebook management software that is simply best in class. Calibre [...]
BBox: organize your files, folders, and URLs within a virtual environment
BBox is a free program that can organize files and folders within a virtual environment, allowing you to group with your files and folders into categories and work with them without moving the actual files and folders from their locations on your hard drive. BBox can manage files and folders as well as URLs and [...]
Image Resizer PowerToy Clone: resize images from the context menu
Windows XP users may remember a nice little right-click-context-menu resident image resizing app from Microsoft called “Image Resizer Powertoy”. You may also remember that it was XP 32-bit specific, and that it did NOT work on Vista or Windows 7 or 64bit OS’s. As it’s name suggests, Image Resizer PowerToy Clone is a clone of [...]
HiddenMenu: a nifty little launcher that appears only when you need it
HiddenMenu is a tiny, free launcher for apps, files, or folders that remains out of sight until it is activated by mousing over user-specified edges or corners of the screen. This launcher is truly lightweight at about 3 megs or so in memory, is portable software, and supports dragging and dropping of entities from Windows [...]
Finally! My “Top Freeware” page is updated
I just updated my “Top Freeware” page, which was very (very) long overdue, and making it into a “Top 30″ listing in the process instead of the previous “Top 20″. I’d like this page to become a go-to destination for readers who are seeking the best free software to install on their brand new [...]
MDownloader: automate downloads from file hosting sites such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, and more than a dozen others
MDownloader is a free software for downloading files from popular media hosting sites such as Rapidshare, Megaupload and more than a dozen others. It removes the need for human intervention when downloading files, allowing you to queue the files you want to download and forget about them; MDownloader will check for file availability, wait for [...]
