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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InstantMask: remove backgrounds from images quickly and easily
December 18, 2009 – 2:55 pm | 6 Comments

InstantMask Screenshots; before and afterInstantMask is a free program that provides a quick and easy way to remove backgrounds and crop out foreground figures or elements from any type of image. The user is required to use a drawing tool to roughly outline the “foreground” (desired) image element as well as the area directly adjacent to it, and InstantMask will do the rest.

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10 wallpaper selections, part 1
December 11, 2009 – 10:37 am | 17 Comments

10-wallpapers-part1This is the first of a new series of posts entitled “10 wallpaper selections”, which will consist entirely of (you guessed it) wallpaper images that I like and use. I decided to do this after the thought occurred to me that the desktop wallpaper for many people is the foremost image that they will see for many hours during the day (or most of the day for people, like myself, whose work primarily involves using a computer). I hope you enjoy these 10 selections.

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SE-Screensaver: an interesting, multi-themed free screensavers collection
December 9, 2009 – 10:48 am | 9 Comments

SE-Screensaver Screenshot grid3SE-Screensaver is a free collection of screensaver themes packed inside a single installable screensaver file. Themes include several variations on the famous "The Matrix" screensaver, a 2D slideshow that can point to an image directory on your hard drive, animated fractals, analogue and digital clocks, kaleidoscopes, amoebas, snowfall, fractal trees, and others. There are nine different themes in all, many of which have several mini variations.

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National Geographic Photography Site: a fantastic source of desktop wallpaper images
November 19, 2009 – 6:00 pm | 7 Comments

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If you’ve ever been on the National Geographic Photography site then you already know that they feature some of the best, high quality photographs to be found on the internet. What you may not know, however, is that the site has a special wallpapers section, and that the majority of images in the Photography site are available for download in wallpaper sizes (with a maximum width of at least 1280 pixels for most images, and some are available at 1600 pixels).

Note that there are in fact two different National Geographic URLs with two different wallpaper sections, here and here.

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How to find high quality wallpaper images on any topic
November 6, 2009 – 5:03 pm | 10 Comments

wallpapersWant to find cool wallpaper? I was recently admiring the wallpaper my friend Jeff (who, incidentally, works for Microsoft) had on his computer. When I asked him about the source he showed me the new cool wallpaper image search provided in Bing. This posting will show you how to use Bing image search to find great wallpaper images.

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Seadragon: a nifty online viewer designed for very large images
October 16, 2009 – 4:54 pm | 8 Comments

Seadragon ScreenshotSeadragon.com from Microsoft Labs is a free web service designed to view, zoom, pan-into, and share large images on the internet without degrading them or otherwise making them smaller.

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Dropresize: resize images by dragging them to a special folder
October 14, 2009 – 11:48 pm | 20 Comments

Dropresize screenshot3Dropresize creates a special folder on your machine such that any images placed in this folder are automatically resized as per a predefined height or width and quality setting. This free program is designed for quickly resizing images for the purposes of posting on the internet.

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PhotoJoy: embeds your photos in screensavers, desktop widgets, and dynamic wallpaper
October 11, 2009 – 9:12 am | 19 Comments

PhotoJoy Collage2PhotoJoy ScreensaverPhotoJoy is a free app that uses your own photo collection to create dynamic
desktop wallpaper, screensavers, and desktop widgets.

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PhotoFilmStrip: create videos from images (including Ken Burns style zooming in/out effect)
October 2, 2009 – 2:00 pm | 18 Comments

PhotoFilmStrip Screenshot3PhotoFilmStrip is a free program that can create video from images quickly and easily, including the Ken Burns style zoom-in/zoom-out effect commonly used in documentaries. Other features include the ability to add subtitles, add a soundtrack, and use black and white/sepia versions of your images. PhotoFilmStrip is multiplatform (Windows/Linux).

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JacksonPollock.org: unleash your inner (abstract expressionist) artist
September 23, 2009 – 1:17 pm | 6 Comments

pollock.number-8Pollock ScreenshotJacksonPollock.org is a free flash toy that simulates the "action painting" style of American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.

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Viewer2: unique, innovative image viewing and tagging app
September 16, 2009 – 2:30 pm | 13 Comments

viewer2 screenshot6viewer2 screenshot5Viewer2 is a free image viewing and tagging app that combines form and function into a powerful program that is a joy to use. It offers an innovative tagging process based on organizing image thumbnails and folders visually and grouping them in various ways that make it very easy to work with and tag them. Includes a powerful, versatile search function that indexes metadata as well as filenames and paths.

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PrtScr: stylish, “cool” screen capture program
September 10, 2009 – 11:59 pm | 14 Comments

PrintScreen ScreenshotPrtScr is a free screen capturing program that combines good functionality with an excellent user experience. It offers much of what you would expect out of a screen capture program within a stylish, visually appealing user interface.

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