Add thumbnail previews for a wide range of image types with Sage Thumbs
If you’re like most people, you like to look at a folder full of images and see thumbnail previews rather than icons. Windows explorer will provide previews for the most common image file types in thumbnail view, but not all of them, which is where this software can come in handy. Sage Thumbs can add [...]
Get a stylish, minimalistic image viewer with NexusImage
If you want a minimalistic image viewer that just works, but looks really really good while at it, check out the free NexusImage. This program has a similar look and feel to the ‘Lightbox’ image viewing style you find on many blogs (including this one), where the image seems to float up while the background [...]
Fix the audio in podcasts or camcorder footage conversations with “The Levelator”
Have you ever heard recorded audio where the voice of the interviewer was so much louder than the voices of his/her interlocutors, or vice versa, or some of the guests were closer to the microphone and thus were louder than others? Certainly you’ve seen this if you’ve had to audio record interviews or conversations, or [...]
Instantly publish any message to a unique URL with ShortText
We’ve all heard about how blogs have given everyone a world-wide platform. Anyone who has something to say (and many who don’t) can broadcast it to the whole world. But what if you just wanted to share a message, or a few, on the fly, without starting a blog, and without making it a project? [...]
Eject USB devices quickly and safely with ProEject
One of the things that continue to puzzle me is why ejecting a USB drive remains such a labor intensive affair, even on Windows 7. Luckily, this software can spare you ever having to go hunting for the “safely remove hardware” icon in the system tray ever again. ProEject is a small, free program that [...]
Translate any text in any program instantly with Transmiti
By now, most everyone is used to Google-translated pages when browsing a foreign language web page. However, what about foreign language phrases elsewhere in Windows, such as in PDF or DOC documents or other non-browser applications. (Or, for that matter, when Google translate for whatever reason fails to kick in, which is not an infrequent [...]
Geo-tag your images and locate them on a map with open source software GeoTag
You may not realize it, but the pictures that you take with your GPS-enabled camera or smartphone (such as your iPhone), and many of the images that you download from the internet contain location information that identify precisely where the snapshots were taken (typically, in the form of longitude and latitude coordinates). This means that [...]
