Noteworthy Shareware turned Freeware in Feb 2011
The following three interesting programs used to be paid but recently turned Freeware: Bufferzone Pro, Chasys Draw IES, and WinX DVD Author. Share the love:Email
RainMeter: a powerful and highly customizable desktop customization engine
RainMeter is undoubtedly one of the most powerful free desktop customization and widget engines on the Windows platform. It can place all sorts of interactive informational devices on your desktop, is highly customizable, supports multiple skins, is multi-monitor friendly, and offers a wide range of available widgets to choose from (e.g. calendars, resource monitors, feeds, [...]
WizMouse: enables page scrolling with the mousewheel without having to click windows into focus
WizMouse is a free utility that enhances the middle-mouse scroll-wheel in a couple of interesting ways. It allows page scrolling via the scroll wheel when hovering over a window, even if it is out of focus, and without having to click into the window first to bring it into focus. This can be very useful [...]
Nemo Documents: organize and filter your files visually on a calendar-style grid
Have you ever wished that you could quickly see and/or access the files that you were working with last week, or the week (or the month) before that? Nemo Documents is a free file manager that can help; it organizes your files visually into a calendar style view similar to Outlook or Google Calendar. It [...]
SlimDrivers: finds drivers and driver updates for your PC
SlimDrivers is a free tool that scans your computer to identify missing drivers or drivers that are out of date and have updates available for download. It will let you download and install drivers "manually" (i.e. one by one) straight from the SlimDrivers interface. In theory, up-to-date drivers are likely to make your PC run [...]
TaskUnifier: a feature-rich task management program and Toodledo desktop client
TaskUnifier is a free, feature-rich desktop-based task management software that syncs with cloud-based online task management service Toodledo, allowing you to manage your to-do and task lists on multiple devices and smartphones (including iPhone), or multiple computers. The feature-rich program supports the GTD methodology (GTD, which stands for “getting things done”, is a popular method [...]
CleanCharts: Excel add on creates better looking charts with a single click
CleanCharts is a free add on for Microsoft Excel that can tweak your Excel charts in several different ways to make them more visually appealing. It provides five areas of improvement: removal of “chart junk” (i.e. unnecessary formatting), fixing axis labels and scaling, fixing font sizes, doing away with 3D elements, and changing the color [...]
