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HideDesktopIcons: hide and unhide desktop icons with a single click
If you’re looking for a simple, easy way to switch your desktop icons display on and off – literally at the press of a button – then check out this tiny little free app. HideDesktopIcons emulates the “display desktop icon” command in the Windows context menu, packaged in a simple icon that can be placed [...]
Tableau Public: create charts and interactive dashboards and publish them to the web
One way to describe this software is: take the Excel charting engine, make it a standalone app that can chart data from any source, and give it a web/community sharing component for publishing charts and dashboards on the web. Except this charting engine is light years ahead of Excel in terms of both its capabilities [...]
Screensaver Player: play, manage, and create screensaver playlists from the desktop
Ever wondered why you couldn’t preview and/or play screensaver files like any other media file? This, in fact, is exactly what the free Screensaver Player allows you to do. This little app allows you to manage screensavers and to them within small sub-windows on your screen. It can even create playlists of favorite screensavers and [...]
ProcessQuicklink 2: provides instant info on running process, straight from Windows’ Task Manager
This free utility is brought to you by the people behind the processlibrary.com website. What it does is tweak the Windows Task Manager to add a little green button next to each process in the process list (see screenshot), which when clicked instantly searches processlibrary.com for information on the process you are interested in. ProcessQuicklink [...]
UNetbootin: create a bootable Linux USB with a single click
UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a small, free, cross platform app that can download and install Linux (or other operating system) on a bootable USB drive or a hard drive partition. It supports a wide range of Linux builds (25+ and growing) out of the box that it will automatically download from the net, or [...]
Notable App: a collaboration tool that lets you clip, annotate, and share feedback on websites and images
At heart, this software is a web-clipping tool with online storage, similar to Evernote. Yet Notable App is designed for sharing clipped web pages with collaborators, making notes on them and receiving feedback in a kind of virtual conversation. Notable App is a web app used in conjunction with a Firefox extension or IE bookmarklet (or even [...]
Lammer Context Menu: more cool and useful functions for your right-click context menu
Another day, another free utility that puts nifty function in the right click context menu. And although it may seem that we’ve seen a lot of the functions that Lammer Context menu offers before, a closer look will reveal some very interesting and noteworthy functions on here, such as mounting folders as virtual drives, search [...]
