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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taskTome: a competent and intuitive task organizer
August 9, 2008 – 3:48 am | 13 Comments

tasktome screenshot: monthly plannertaskTome is a personal information manager that comprises a monthly planner, task list, notes module, and a money-management module. It offers a good set of well-thought-out features while maintaining a clean, intuitive interface.

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DK Finder: superfast desktop file search
August 2, 2008 – 2:28 pm | 35 Comments

dkfinder screenshotDK Finder is a desktop search program that employs a sophisticated indexing algorithm to deliver lightning fast search results. It is primarily designed to find files on your system but can also search for keywords contained within files. The program can also perform a number of excellent file-related operations on search results that go beyond moving and copying to include group-operations, advanced filtering, and exporting results as a collection of shortcuts.

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Incollector: a desktop note-taking app that uses tags to structure information
July 22, 2008 – 6:07 am | 11 Comments

Incollector ScreenshotIncollector is a freeware note-taking program that runs in the background and offers simple notes on demand from the system tray. It uses user-defined tags and saved searches to structure information rather than a traditional folder/category hierarchical structure.

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360 Desktop: expand your desktop across multiple screens
July 10, 2008 – 4:40 am | 9 Comments

360 Desktop Screenshot360 Desktop is a free innovative virtual desktop application that creates a "panoramic workspace" extending across multiple screens. It behaves as a scrollable desktop where you could travel from one side and into the other. It also introduces the ability to embed widgets on the new desktop that clip content off the web such as RSS feeds and videos.

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Ulteo Virtual Desktop: run a virtual Linux environment inside Windows
June 25, 2008 – 9:50 pm | 22 Comments

Ulteo Virtual Desktop ScreenshotUlteo Virtual Desktop installs a virtual Linux environment inside Windows. This free program shows up as a panel inside the Windows desktop and allows you to access Linux applications within Windows with little effect on performance, enabling users to run both Windows and Linux apps simultaneously and to switch between them at will.

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Stick: add “Screen Tabs” to your desktop
June 25, 2008 – 6:45 am | 8 Comments

Stick ScreenshotStick is a free program that introduces tabs attached to the sides of your screen (called "Screen Tabs") that can display notes, folder contents, web pages, RSS feeds, as well as mini apps such as a calendar or calculator.

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FusionDesk Starter: manage your tasks with this GTD friendly organizer
June 17, 2008 – 6:17 am | 11 Comments

FusionDesk Starter ScreenshotFusionDesk Starter is a to-do/project management and time tracking program that is influenced by the”Getting Things Done” (GTD) methodology. It offers a simple interface that supports both tabbed and hierarchical organization, as well as a number of GTD-inspired organizational tools such as contexts, time estimate, and tags. Other features include portability, automatic backups, the ability to add notes and file attachments to tasks, and others.

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Easy2Add: schedule meetings and events in Outlook quickly and easily
June 3, 2008 – 3:57 pm | 7 Comments

Easy2add screenshotEasy2Add for Outlook is a small app that allows you to quickly set up meetings, appointments, or events with Outlook using simple, regular English syntax. Accessed through the system tray or the Vista sidebar, this program resides in the background until you need it, without needing to open Outlook.

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HP Smart Web Printing: clip, aggregate and print web content with ease
May 20, 2008 – 8:41 pm | 9 Comments

HP Smart Web Printing ScreenshotHP Smart Web Printing is a free browser extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox designed to enhance the process of printing webpages or (parts of webpages) from the browser. It allows you to "clip" elements of web pages, aggregate them, re-size and re-arrange them on a preview page before printing or saving them as a PDF document.

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“Some PDF to Word Converter”: convert PDFs to DOC competently and in batch
May 19, 2008 – 7:56 pm | 10 Comments

Some PDF to Word Converter ScreenshotSome PDF to Word Converter is a free converts PDF into Word documents. It offers batch processing, a degree of customizablity for the output document, and very good overall performance. Most importantly, it is fully useable and does not require any registration or codes and does not expire within a certain time period.

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SysExporter: extract infromation from any program or window, even when copying and pasting is not an option
May 12, 2008 – 8:04 pm | 9 Comments

SysExporter ScreenshotSysExporter is a small tool that allows you to extract information from any application or window and export it as text, HTML, or XML files. It is designed to retrieve information from programs that do not normally allow you to simply copy/paste info, such as the files list inside a folder or zip archive, list of emails and/or contacts in an email client, registry values in the right pane of the registry editor, error message prompts, etc.

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