Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 71 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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TED: find and download your favorite TV shows
October 10, 2008 – 7:44 am | 14 Comments

TED screenshot - main interfaceTED (Torrent Episode Downloader) is a free tool that can find episodes of almost any TV show for downloading using a torrent client. It’s database of torrent sources is updated periodically to include new shows, and the program allows users to search for and add any shows that are not listed.

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Remobo: instant VPN, filesharing, and remote desktop control
October 8, 2008 – 6:37 am | 19 Comments

Remobo ScreenshotRemobo is free app that can connect computers instantly via VPN. Based on a P2P structure, it allows you to connect to and control your computer remotely, to access your files from anywhere, and to run any application between computers on top of Remobo. It also offers secure file shares via private BitTorrents as well as the ability to share your entire music collection online using Remobo and Opentape. Remobo is multiplatform Windows and Mac OSX.

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Desktask: display your Outlook tasks and calendar items on the desktop
October 1, 2008 – 8:46 pm | 14 Comments

Desktask screenshotDesktask is a freeware companion to Outlook that displays Tasks and Calendar events for the entire week on your desktop. Desktask will periodically access Outlook and refresh its displayed data according to a user-defined time period.

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MobaLiveCD: launch Linux LiveCDs from within Windows
September 30, 2008 – 9:16 pm | 6 Comments

MobaLiveCD ScreenshotMobaLiveCD is a free program that can run Linux Live CD’s on Windows in emulation mode without the need to burn the Live CD ISO into a CD and boot into it.

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Slax: boot into a portable Linux on a USB
September 30, 2008 – 4:55 am | 9 Comments

Slax ScreenshotSlax is a Slackware-based Linux operating system that can be run on Live CD, booted from USB, or run from RAM. It is small in size yet highly customizable and comes with a full range of pre-installed applications.

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PrinterShare: share any printer over the internet
September 26, 2008 – 11:51 pm | 19 Comments

Shareprint screenshotPrinterShare is a free service that allows your computer to share printers with any other computer, given that both are online and running the PrinterShare software. Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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OSD Mute: displays Mute status on the desktop
September 24, 2008 – 8:11 pm | 12 Comments

OSD-mute ScreenshotOSD-Mute is a tiny free app that displays a semi-transparent “Mute On” message on your desktop whenever the system volume is muted.

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xNeat Clipboard Manager: a lightweight clipboard manager with a number of useful functions
September 22, 2008 – 9:52 pm | 10 Comments

xNeat Clipboard Manager Screenshot - translate textXNeat Clipboard Manager is a free clipboard manager program that allows you to maintain a history clipped text, files, and folders and to use these to perform a number of useful functions, including pasting historical items, searching for clipped text in Google, translating clipped text, making clipped items “permanent” (sticky) for later use, and a number of other functions.

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Gbridge: access remote PCs easily
September 18, 2008 – 8:43 pm | 39 Comments

Gbridge ScreenshotGbridge is a free software that can connect multiple computers. It forms a VPN between multiple computers and provides remote computer access, folder synchronization, automatic folder backup, remote computer control and/or screen sharing, and chat. Gbridge can use Google’s Gtalk network to connect remote PCs and requires Gtalk (Gmail) accounts.

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SwWeek: display the current calendar week in the system tray
September 12, 2008 – 8:48 pm | 8 Comments

SwWeek ScreenshotSwWeek is a small free program whose sole function is to display the current calendar week number in the system tray.

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Window Ruler: easily measure any on-screen object
August 29, 2008 – 11:26 pm | 5 Comments

Window Ruler ScreenshotWindow Ruler is a free on-screen measurement "ruler" tool that offers a number of interesting features, including portability, the ability to "snap-to" any on-screen object, and the ability to automatically resize to a number of common predefined size profiles.

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Photosynth: build interactive 3D environments from multiple 2D images
August 28, 2008 – 8:53 pm | 7 Comments

Photosynth ScreenshotMicrosoft Photosynth is a program that can combine multiple images taken at or around a single location from multiple perspectives into a single, unified whole. The resulting synth can be viewed as a single object from different perspectives and browsed in and out of, and it incorporates many of the details that might have been contained in the various source images.

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