eXtraButtons: add up to 9 window control buttons on your program or folder title bars
eXtraButtons is a free Windows Explorer tweak that adds a number of buttons to your windows title bar. Among the function provided: minimizing windows to the tray area, minimizing to a single common icon in the system area, or minimizing to “box” (i.e. a floating icon on the desktop). Other buttons provide the following: always [...]
Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder: finds duplicate and similar images
Do you have a huge photo library with a lot of duplicate images? Or perhaps you have multiple resized versions of the same image cluttering your hard drive and resulting in the same image appearing multiple times in slideshows, etc. If so, check out Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder, a free program that can identify both [...]
Macrium Reflect Free: superfast disk imaging and system recovery
Macrium Reflect Free creates hard drives images and can restore them when you need it. It purports to be the fastest disk imaging software out there. It can compress your image such that it is much smaller in size than the actual hard drive partition, and can create a bootable recovery CD that can be [...]
jPDF Tweak: your all-in-one PDF merging, extracting, and editing toolkit
jPDF Tweak is a free, open-source PDF editing app. It can merge PDF documents, convert them into printable booklets with multiple pages per sheet, extract, rotate, scale, or shuffle pages, add a background watermark image or page numbers, add or edit bookmarks, page transitions, viewer preferences, or document metadata, and encrypt and/or sign a PDF [...]
LastPass finally available on Opera
If you don’t know LastPass, I would describe it as the ultimate free cloud-based password manager and form filler. While hitherto available as a plug-in or extension for other browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari), it has finally come to Opera with the release of the new beta of Opera 11, which (finally) introduces support [...]
Toolbox: keep your shortcuts organized
If you have a cluttered desktop, consider this: one reason why many of us keep so many objects on the desktop, aside from the fact that we have too many projects going on, is to avoid the “out of sight, out of mind” phenomenon. If you want to keep many icons within sight but are [...]
Animated Christmas Trees for the Desktop: ho, ho, ho!
’Tis the season to be jolly again, apparently, and what better way to celebrate than by giving to your favorite freeware site? (for example). Or you could place one or more animated Christmas trees on your desktop to infuse your every moment with that festive holiday cheer! These trees hover on your desktop, lights flickering, [...]
