Articles by Samer Kurdi
If you’ve ever encountered a blocked startup app in Vista and would like a work-around that can bypass it then read on. This posting will describe how to launch an app on startup as a scheduled task, which will circumvent the startup apps list altogether. Ultimately you will be able to get your app to launch without seeing the notice in the screenshot and without having to shut down Vista’s User Account Control security infrastructure.
Smart Soft’s Free PDF to Word Converter is a free program that offers one-click PDF to Word (DOC) conversions. It performs conversions locally on your desktop (i.e. it is not a web service) and offers excellent fidelity to the original document.
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Battlefield Heroes is a third person, online only action game. It’s free-to-play, supported by optional micro transactions, and can only be launched through your web browser. It’s created by EA DICE, the developer behind the famous Battlefield series.
[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Travis B. Check out his freeware games blog here]. Read more on Battlefield Heroes: wacky, fun, online wargame…
Tubemaster Plus Plus (the sequel to previously mentioned Tubmaster Plus) can download media (video/audio) from video sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, MySpace, Dailymotion and others, as well as encrypted media from “ani-leeching” websites sites such as Imeen, Pandora and Last.fm. TM++ can also perform on-the-fly format conversions as well as general Video and MP3 searches.
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.
Capster is a free, tiny utility that allows you to modify any particular startup program or programs that auto-start with Windows such that they only launch on startup if the Caps Lock key is toggled On or Off.
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Suction is a small free utility that can consolidate all files in several directories recursively and deposit them into a single parent directory. It can install an entry in the right-click context menu for quick action on folders.
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Double Vision is a freeware program designed for viewing web video (such as YouTube, Netflix, and Fancast) while you work, by providing a semi-transparent player that shows through all other windows and programs that are visible on your desktop.
I recently used created clickmaps of my new Freewaregenius theme in order to shed light on what people were doing on my site. The results were very interesting to me and, I would imagine, they would be interesting to a lot of readers, especially those who have their own sites or blogs. I therefore created this post to share these clickmaps as well as some of the insights that came out of them. Read more on Freewaregenius’ clickmaps analysis…
First Impression is a free, lightweight image viewing app that is geared towards utilizing as much of the screen’s real estate as possible for image display without cluttering it with the viewer’s own interface. It manages to do so while providing a nice set of functions, but what I really like about this program is that images are displayed on screen as draggable objects (similar to previously mentioned Vjpeg).
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KDE Window Resizer is a free portable app that brings to XP and Vista the window moving and resizing functionality found in the KDE Linux environment. It allows you to press ALT and move your windows by left-clicking and dragging from anywhere, without having to click on the title bar, and to resize by right clicking and dragging, without needing to grab the edges. Moving a window so its edge is offscreen and following it by a right mouse-click will conveniently snap your window to the edge of the screen.
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Numpty Physics is a free, multiplatform physics game where the user has to draw objects that interact with the game environment in order to solve puzzles. Read more on Numpty Physics: a crayon-drawing physics game…
