Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 81 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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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 | 26 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 | 37 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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Shuffle your wallpaper and Embed RSS feeds into your active desktop with Chaos Wallpaper
January 17, 2008 – 5:12 pm | 8 Comments

Chaoes Wallpaper ScreenshotChaos Wallpaper is a free program that has the dual function of shuffling your wallpaper as well as embedding RSS/ATOM feeds into your active desktop background. You can optionally use any one of the two functions or both together.

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Special Characters Menu delivers on-demand special characters insertion within any application
January 16, 2008 – 5:15 am | 11 Comments

Special Characters Menu ScreenshotSpecial Characters Menu is a tiny memory-resident program that can display a pop-up window of the most commonly used special characters for easy insertion into any document or text. The free program can be kicked into action whenever needed by pressing a hotkey combination.

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EasyNotes is a simple, portable hierarchical notes program with a small footprint
January 15, 2008 – 4:54 am | 16 Comments

Easynotes ScreenshotEasyNotes is a simple hierarchical note taking program that offers a good range of functions. The open source program can be installed locally or used portably from a USB.

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Convert PDF to Word with “Free PDF to Word Doc Converter”
January 9, 2008 – 4:54 am | 106 Comments

Free PDF to Word Doc ScreenshotFree PDF to Word Doc Converter is a small, free program that can convert PDF files into DOC files used by MS Word. It can handle all elements of a PDF document including text, shapes and images.

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Read Ebooks on your MP3 player using “Ebook to Images”
December 13, 2007 – 6:10 am | 15 Comments

Ebook to Images Screenshot"Ebook to Images" converts ebooks in most formats (.txt, .html, .htm, .lit, .pdf) to images that are custom formatted for reading on a mobile device. The idea is that while most portable devices such as MP3 players will not allow you to upload and view ebooks, many of them allow for image viewing on their screens. Hence "ebook to images" will convert the text from ebooks into images suitable for viewing on your particular portable device.

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