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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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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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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Tobu: take notes management beyond hierarchical structures to the next level
May 8, 2008 – 10:40 pm | 16 Comments

Tobu ScreenshotTobu is a “freeform information organizer”, a desktop-based note taking application that allows you to use multiple tags to categorize notes of all kinds. Tobu’s use of tags allows for making multiple connections between notes, which in turn makes it possible for this app to provide versatile database-like functionality for organizing, viewing, and finding your notes quickly and easily.

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Wubi: install Ubuntu Linux from within your Windows environment
May 2, 2008 – 4:45 pm | 24 Comments

Ubuntu Setup ScreenshotWubi is an Ubuntu Linux installer designed to be run from within a Windows environment in order to create a dual booting Windows/Ubuntu machine. Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer and is open source.

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Translate.Net: translate your text using multiple translation engines at once
April 29, 2008 – 7:58 pm | 9 Comments

Translate.net ScreenshotTranslate.Net is a desktop-based translation tool that will translate any text from one language to another. It connects with multiple online translation engines and delivers multiple translations at once straight into your desktop.

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Google Earth: explore a 3D interactive world from your desktop
April 29, 2008 – 5:51 am | 4 Comments

Google Earth ScreenshotGoogle Earth is a fully interactive 3D representation of the globe and (more recently) of space, with interactive representations of galaxies and constellations. Users are able to explore/navigate the virtual world and view and interact with a growing number of "layers" of information that are continuously being added and/or refined, such as 3D buildings, panoramic images of places, real-time weather information, roads, etc. Users are also able to interact with a growing number representations of well known places and monuments worldwide.

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Mikogo: Share your screen and/or access a PC remotely
April 5, 2008 – 12:37 am | 22 Comments

Mikogo ScreenshotMikogo is a free, browser-based screen sharing and remote computer access platform for Windows. It allows you to create virtual meetings/webinars where any of the participant’s screens can be shared, to define which applications can or cannot be accessed remotely, and to instantly share files with participants, all without the need to configure firewalls, ports, and routers etc.

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