Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 81 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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ActiveHotkeys: reveals used hotkeys on your system
May 6, 2009 – 10:31 am | 7 Comments
ActiveHotkeys: reveals used hotkeys on your system

ActiveHotkeys screenshotActiveHotkeys is a small, free portable app that can scan and display all active hotkey combinations on your system that are being used by various applications.

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BB Flashback Express: powerful, free screen-recording program
May 5, 2009 – 9:01 am | 12 Comments
BB Flashback Express: powerful, free screen-recording program

BB FlashBack screenshot - 3D graphicsBB Flashback Express is a free screen recording program that can capture your PC’s screen, sound, and webcam video and supports capturing graphics/animations, including 3D graphics. It offers a high degree of control over your video (output resolution, quality, file size, recording modes, mouse autoscroll, and cursor highlighting effects). Saves resulting files as either FLV’s, AVI’s or SWF’s, and offers the ability to easily upload videos to YouTube or embed them inside a webpage.

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Announcing: Appnews.net
April 28, 2009 – 2:52 pm | 13 Comments
Announcing: Appnews.net

appnews logoAppnews.net is a project conceived and created by Andrey from Rarst.net in collaboration with Freewaregenius and Ghacks.net. It’s purpose is present a stream of the latest freeware software updates with links to postings/reviews of the software published on Freewaregenius, Ghacks, and Rarst.net.

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SpaceSniffer: explore a “treemap” representation of your file and folder sizes
April 24, 2009 – 10:32 am | 11 Comments
SpaceSniffer: explore a  “treemap” representation of your file and folder sizes

SpaceSniffer ScreenshotSpaceSniffer is a free program that displays the size of your files and folders in a visual “Treemap” representation. It allows you to browse your folder structure, drill in and out of represented elements, and filter the display by any combination of criteria (filenames, extensions, size, date). It also allows you to access your Windows context menu for on-the-spot file/folder manipulation.

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Four interesting, non-hierarchical freeware notes programs
April 23, 2009 – 1:50 am | 25 Comments
Four interesting, non-hierarchical freeware notes programs

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This article will present four novel, free note taking apps: Treesheets, Tobu, Cintanotes, and MindRaider. Each one of these apps is unique in its own way, yet they have one thing in common in that they are not your traditional, hierarchical-tree based notes programs. Read more on Four interesting, non-hierarchical freeware notes programs…

PowerResizer: snap windows to the screen’s edge and resize them relative to each other
April 21, 2009 – 1:13 pm | 5 Comments
PowerResizer: snap windows to the screen’s edge and resize them relative to each other

PowerResizer ScreenshotPowerResizer is a free program that brings the window resizing/docking function popularized by Windows 7 to all Windows platforms. It is unique in that once two windows are docked PowerResizer will let you grab ahold of any one of the edges in the ”border” are between the two Windows and drag it to resize both windows simultaneously, in case you wanted one of them to take up a larger area than the other. A really nifty feature. Additionally, you can perform all sorts of resizing behaviors using a combination of resizing and hotkeys.

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LMMS: free, open source music sequencer & multitracker
April 16, 2009 – 12:11 am | 19 Comments
LMMS: free, open source music sequencer & multitracker

LMMS ScreenshotLMMS is a free, open source music production software inspired by commercial apps such as FL Studio (FruityLoops) . It enables you to create melodies and beats and to create, mix, and arrange sounds and samples, and will even import Fruityloops project files. It allows access to LADSPA effects and is compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), and GUS Patches, and offers full MIDI/MIDI project files support. LMMS is multiplatform (Windows, Linux).

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How to uninstall anything: free apps that get the job done
April 13, 2009 – 12:18 pm | 24 Comments
How to uninstall anything: free apps that get the job done

Uninstall Anything Screenshot

This article presents three handy free programs designed to remove installed applications from your system: Appremover, PC Decrapifier, and Revo Uninstraller. All three are portable (or, in the case of Revo, have a portable version available). Read more on How to uninstall anything: free apps that get the job done…

Close’n Forget: removes cookies and history when closing out a tab, leaving all other browsing history untouched
April 11, 2009 – 1:56 am | 10 Comments
Close’n Forget: removes cookies and history when closing out a tab, leaving all other browsing history untouched

Closen Forget screenshotClose’n Forget is a free Firefox extension that allows you to close out a tab or window and instantly erase traces of the site(s) you were browsing in that tab or window (cookies and/or history) without erasing those from other browsing activity. It adds a single red button in your browser toolbar that can provide instant 1-click privacy.

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MaxTo: maximize your windows to user-defined regions
April 9, 2009 – 12:54 pm | 16 Comments
MaxTo: maximize your windows to user-defined regions

MaxTo ScreenshotMaxTo is a free program that splits your screen into custom regions and then nables you to maximize and snap your windows to these regions on-demand. It supports 2 “layers”, main and alternate, such that the user can split the screen into, say, vertical regions in one layer and horizontal regions in another (or even vertical/horizontal combinations) . It allows you to toggle window maximization for the main and alternate settings via two user-definable hotkeys, such that maximizing without pressing hotkeys results in normal window maximizing behavior.

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