Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 72 Comments

There is an impressive range of excellent freeware Windows enhancements and tweaks. This posting will present forty three excellent additions to Windows that you will like.

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StExBar: toolbar that adds useful functions to Windows’ folder view
February 11, 2009 – 2:27 pm | One Comment
StExBar: toolbar that adds useful functions to Windows’ folder view

StExBar screenshotStExBar is a free Windows extension that adds a number of useful functions as a Windows explorer toolbar, including a filtering box, toggle show system files, copy names or paths, mass rename, and a command line console. It allows you to add your own functions to the toolbar (or as keyboard shortcuts) if you have an executable or script.

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Closure: a “philosophical” flash game about being and nothingness
February 9, 2009 – 9:32 am | 8 Comments
Closure: a “philosophical” flash game about being and nothingness

Closure is a free online flash platform/puzzle game with a philosophical twist. Except for a few deliberately placed light sources, the game environment is shrouded in darkness, and the only physical reality that exists in the game is that which you are able to see; all else is void.

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Free Disk Usage Analyzer: find where all your disk space has gone
February 4, 2009 – 1:33 pm | 16 Comments
Free Disk Usage Analyzer: find where all your disk space has gone

freediskanalyzer screenshot1Free Disk Usage Analyzer is a free hard drive analysis tool that reveals those files and folders on your drive(s) that are occupying the most disk space. It displays ranked listsĀ of both your top space-hogging files and folders.

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Vertor: a site for “verified” torrents
January 28, 2009 – 2:41 pm | 11 Comments
Vertor: a site for “verified” torrents

vertorlogoVertor is a torrent listings site with a simple premise: only display torrents that are checked to be free of viruses and malware and have been verified to contain the content that they claim. Offers media “previews” on the site such as 20-seconds snippets from audio files and thumbnails from videos.

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Impressive: display PDF’s and images as (stylish) PowerPoint-style presentations
January 27, 2009 – 6:35 pm | 10 Comments
Impressive: display PDF’s and images as (stylish) PowerPoint-style presentations

Impressive Screenshot - Slide Overview Screen

Freewaregenius 5-Star PickImpressive is a free multi-platform app that can display any PDF file or folder containing image files (JPEG, PNG, TIFF and BMP) as a slideshow presentation. It can be used to present PDFs or images as full-screen PowerPoint-style presentations or it can function as a full-screen reader. “Impressive” also offers a combination of sophisticated slide transition effects and a number of practical presentation tools, including spotlight effects, box highlighting, zooming in, and an overview screen that displays slides as thumbnails and allows for quick navigation. Read more on Impressive: display PDF’s and images as (stylish) PowerPoint-style presentations…

Dyson: colonize the universe in this “ambient” strategy game
January 22, 2009 – 10:54 pm | 4 Comments
Dyson: colonize the universe in this “ambient” strategy game

Dyson Screenshot

Dyson is a free cross-platform real time strategy game with abstract visuals. It manages to be simple and elegant even as it combines elements such as the emergence of life, a Darwinian “sperm wars” motif, and intra-species competition with your standard world-domination game concept. Read more on Dyson: colonize the universe in this “ambient” strategy game…

TaggedFrog: tag your files by keyword
January 21, 2009 – 1:55 pm | 16 Comments
TaggedFrog: tag your files by keyword

TaggedFrog ScreenshotTaggedFrog is a free utility that allows you to tag any files on your hard disk by keyword and access or filter them through a tag cloud. Users can also create filters by file-type to filter their results, and create favorite “sets” or combinations of tags for quick browsing.

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UHAnimation: three animated shorts from the University of Hertfordshire’s digital animation program
January 16, 2009 – 12:22 pm | 3 Comments
UHAnimation: three animated shorts from the University of Hertfordshire’s digital animation program

world war croppedIf you are interested in some very cool short animated films check out the Film Page on the University of Hertforshire’s digital animation program (also check out their page on Vimeo). These films are made by students as graduation projects and are really very impressive.

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