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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Radiohead in Japan: an interactive video experience
January 13, 2009 – 1:53 am | 2 Comments
Radiohead in Japan: an interactive video experience

Radiohead Interactive this page, set up by Japanese TV station Wowow offers an interactive experience of a live Radiohead performance of their track “15 Step” during the group’s 2008 Japanese tour. It allows you to remix the video in real time using pixellized flash video streams captured from 12 different points-of-view, and to generate your own custom mix of the live performance.

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Ten lesser known “must have” free Programs, part 1
December 30, 2008 – 7:40 pm | 33 Comments
Ten lesser known “must have” free Programs, part 1

Screenshot Grid A reader sent an email to ask about a list of “ten must-have” free programs that I would recommend that everyone immediately download and install on their computers, and this is one I have come up with. These 10 are to be the first installment (part 1), with additional “must have” freeware program lists to be amended to this one. Check this list out, download and install – these programs are solid gold.

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WindowsPager: an excellent, lightweight virtual desktop solution
December 23, 2008 – 8:52 am | 12 Comments
WindowsPager: an excellent, lightweight virtual desktop solution

windowspager screenshot WindowsPager is a free program that adds four virtual desktops/workspaces to your desktop. It integrates the new workspaces as icons in your taskbar and allows for managing your open windows through the right click context menu. WindowsPager is a portable app with very light resource consumption.

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“I made this. You play this. We are enemies”: the flash game as creative expression
December 20, 2008 – 11:47 pm | No Comment
“I made this. You play this. We are enemies”: the flash game as creative expression

I made this screenshot3 I made this. You play this. We are enemies” is a free flash platform game where the objective is to navigate a ball across different maze-like levels. It is the sequel to a previously mentioned game called “Game, game, game and again game“. Like it’s predecessor, “I made this” is not just a game but an artistic vehicle, an exercise in creative expression that uses the gaming format as its medium.

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How to convert PowerPoint to DVD for free
December 17, 2008 – 11:37 pm | 35 Comments
How to convert PowerPoint to DVD for free

PPT to DVDthis posting will outline a number of options for converting a PowerPoint presentation to DVD using all free software. There is not a single free application that will accomplish this; however there are three “routes” illustrated below that you could take to achieve PowerPoint to DVD conversion using all free apps. Here’s a quick summary: Read more on How to convert PowerPoint to DVD for free…

Open++: put any function you want in the context menu
December 10, 2008 – 11:30 pm | 19 Comments
Open++: put any function you want in the context menu

Open++ screenshot Open++ is a free program that allows you to install functions in the Windows’ context menu extension. You can choose from a number of built-in functions or otherwise use any command line executable to add custom commands that can work on folders, specific file type(s) or both.

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Freezer: download MP3s from Imeem, Deezer, Jiwa.Fm; possibly others
December 9, 2008 – 11:25 am | 7 Comments
Freezer: download MP3s from Imeem, Deezer, Jiwa.Fm; possibly others

Freezer Screenshot Freezer is a free, portable program that can download mp3s from some song sharing sites that such as Imeem, Deezer or jiwa.fm that use anti-leeching protection to prevent song downloading.

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Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition: powerful, free disk and partition management
December 8, 2008 – 12:38 pm | 21 Comments
Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition: powerful, free disk and partition management

EPM screenshot Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition is a free disk partitioning utility that offers a powerful range of functions such as resizing drive partitions, formatting partitions, copying partitions/drives, creating new partitions, deleting partitions, hiding partitions, changing drive letters, setting active partitions, and a handful other functions.

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Tork: learn an alien language in this online action adventure flash game
December 6, 2008 – 9:17 pm | One Comment
Tork: learn an alien language in this online action adventure flash game

Tork Screenshot3 Tork is a free online action/adventure flash game that employs a unique gameplay concept: deciphering a symbol-based language. Specifically, this would be the language used by the alien inhabitants of a strange planet that your spaceship just crash-landed into.

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Five excellent Internet Explorer extensions which you never knew existed
December 3, 2008 – 10:58 pm | 11 Comments
Five excellent Internet Explorer extensions which you never knew existed

InternetExplorerLogo3In this posting I am going to highlight five FREE excellent Internet Explorer extensions that you never knew existed: (1) RCGoogle, (2) IECopySelectedLinks, (3) Find as you type, (4) Favorites Search, and (5) Web Archives Viewer.

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Shock Bookmark: access favorite files, folders, apps, and websites in Windows’ context menu
December 3, 2008 – 10:06 pm | 14 Comments
Shock Bookmark: access favorite files, folders, apps, and websites in Windows’ context menu

Shock Bookmark Screenshot Shock Bookmark is a free program that provides access to your favorite folders, files, internet bookmarks, and program shortcuts straight from the Windows explorer right click context menu. It also enables quick right-click copy and/or move operations to your bookmarked locations.

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