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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“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 | 23 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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Translate any text or lookup any word anywhere with Lingoes
April 1, 2008 – 8:22 pm | 10 Comments

Lingoes Screenshot - translationLingoes is a free program that makes a wide range of translation and language reference tools available at your fingertips, enabling you to access these globally from any application to perform word lookups, text translation and pronunciation of words in over 60 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, and others.

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Get a list of all recently accessed files with RecentFilesView
March 21, 2008 – 5:20 pm | 8 Comments

Recentfilesview ScreenshotRecentFilesView is a small, no install freeware program that can retrieve and save the list of the most recently accessed files.

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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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