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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Browse, annotate, and organize your image library with PhotoMesa, a “zoomable” image browser
March 19, 2008 – 4:12 am | 11 Comments

Photomesa ScreenshotPhotoMesa is a free tool for managing image libraries. Dubbed a "zoomable image browser", it employs an innovative method for browsing a large number of images by zooming in and out of folders in a sort of "bird’s eye view". It also offers the ability to browse image collections by folder, category, people, year, and month, and for adding searchable tags and captions stored within the image files themselves using the IPTC standard.

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Organize notes and information with TreeDBNotes
March 6, 2008 – 8:41 pm | 16 Comments

Treedbnotes ScreenshotTreeDBNotes Free Edition is a hierarchical notes outliner program with a wide range of features, including organizing information in both tabs and tree structures, rich text editing, support for tables, images, and links, global search, and more.

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Add a slew of useful functions to Internet Explorer with ALToolbar
March 1, 2008 – 12:04 am | 12 Comments

ALToolbar ScreenshotALToolbar is a free Internet Explorer toolbar that offers a number of very useful functions straight from the browser, including an internet cleaner, advanced find, automatic site login with online password storage, online bookmark management , screenshot capture for websites, quick access to multiple search engines, a flash ad blocker, control by mouse gestures, and a few others.

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Read ebooks and electronic texts twice as fast (or more) with WordFlashReader
February 19, 2008 – 5:17 pm | 14 Comments

WordFlashReader ScreenshotWordFlashReader is an open source program that promises to increase your reading speed (of electronic texts) by multiple factors, as well as increase your comprehension of them. It will flash the words within a text in sequence (individually or in chunks) on the screen in large font, with pauses for punctuation. WordFlashReader can open and display multiple text and ebook formats.

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Instantly and automatically clean up your code with HTML Formatter
February 13, 2008 – 5:15 pm | 22 Comments

HTMLFormatter Before and AfterHTML Formatter can instantly format unstructured, messy code into an indented, cleaned-up logical structure. It can process a wide range of code types including HTML, ASP, PHP, Smarty templates, XML, and Coldfusion.

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Desktop Sidebar: access the information you need straight from your desktop
February 9, 2008 – 7:08 am | 12 Comments

Desktop Siderbar ScreenshotDesktop Sidebar is a Vista-style sidebar widgets engine with minimal system resource consumption. It supports a wide range of applets/widgets that can give you access to a wide variety of information from your PC or from the internet straight on your desktop. Works on Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista.

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Enso Words provides universal spellchecking and other text functions on-demand
February 7, 2008 – 9:23 pm | 6 Comments

Enso ScreenshotEnso Words is a free program that offers a number of text-related functions that can be performed universally within any application. These include a spellcheck, word definitions, thesaurus, word and character counts, uppercase/lowercase conversions, instantly Googling selected text, and others.

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ComicRack is a full-featured comic ebook reader and manager
February 2, 2008 – 3:33 am | 24 Comments

ComicRack ScreenshotComicRack is a free comic ebook reader for CBZ, ZIP, CBR, RAR, TAR and PDF formats. It is designed as a full-feature reader with bells and whistles as well as being a manager for your library of comic ebooks and metadata. It can also convert ebooks to other ebook formats.

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Input Director: control and share clipboards across multiple computers
January 22, 2008 – 10:18 pm | 10 Comments

Input Director ScreenshotInput Director is a free program that enables two or more computers connected on a network to share a single mouse and keyboard input, allowing for dragging a mouse pointer across multiple screens. This easy to set-up software also enables the sharing of clipboard contents, including copying/pasting files and folders across multiple computers.

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Convert Word 2007 and OpenOffice files (DOCX, DOTX, SXW, and ODT) to rich text files (RTF) with Docx2Rtf
January 21, 2008 – 7:12 pm | 36 Comments

Docx2Rtf ScreenshotDocx2Rtf is a free program that can convert .DOCX and .DOTX (Word 2007 MS Word formats) as well as SXW and .ODT (OpenOffice) into the universal .RTF format that can be read and edited by any Word Processor. It also offers the ability to convert documents to .PDF and can open, view, and print all the above mentioned formats as well as PalmOS Database Documents (*.PDF) and Aportis (*.PRC) files.

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