Noteworthy Shareware turned Freeware in April 2011
As if to prove this site’s slogan (“Someday all software will be free”), every month I feature software that used to be shareware but turned freeware (check out the first and second installments of these). This month, four programs: Vectorian Giotto, Shortcircuit 2, PC Login Now, and AbpMon. Note 1: the “star” program here which you [...]
MadAppLauncher: simple, free tabbed launcher
MadAppLauncher is a simple, free tabbed launcher. It supports up to 10 different tabs, with 30 slots each that can hold program, file, or folder shortcuts. Each slot is mapped to a key on the keyboard and can be launched by pressing that key . I personally like tabbed launchers because of the prospect of [...]
How to enlarge images with no pixellization and minimal quality degradation (using free software)
Have you experienced a situation where an image you are interested in using is smaller than you would like it to be, whether it might be for printing purposes or for use in illustration projects or even for usage on the web, etc? Typically, straight-enlarging of an image comes with too much of a degradation [...]
Depeche View: search multiple text files simultaneously
Depeche View is a free program that can search and edit multiple text files simultaneously. It allows users to jump to instances of a search string that may exist across a number of different files, provided they are placed in the same folder. It will search all text files in a folder, including log files, [...]
Gimposition: print your PDF documents and ebooks 2 pages per sheet of paper, or in booklet or book format, etc.
Have you ever wished you could print a PDF ebook or document in booklet form, to make it look more like an actual book or booklet? Or perhaps you wanted to print 2 pages per sheet to save paper, or maybe some other similar configuration. This is exactly what Gimposition can do. This free software [...]
Duplicate Commander: a file deduping app that can automatically replace duplicate files with hard linked clones
Duplicate Commander identifies duplicate files that exist on your NTFS formatted hard disk, enabling you to easily manage or remove them to conserve space on your hard drive. It will check for files based on actual file data (i.e. files that are exactly the same irrespective of what they are named) or based on filename, [...]
Roozz: create browser based web apps out of any desktop program
What if I told you that a technology exists that can take any Windows program and turn it into a fully-functional web app that looks and feels exactly like the original desktop version, without the need for the source code, and without the kind of re-programming or web development that aims to rebuild the app [...]
