Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 71 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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Canaware NetNotes: capture web pages then store and edit them within a local knowledge base
April 2, 2009 – 9:38 pm | 14 Comments

canaware netnotes screenshot - mainCanaware NetNotes is a free program that can capture web pages and stores and organizes them within a searchable, local knowledge base. It can capture entire pages or individual elements such as paragraphs, images, or certain code snippets, and allows you to edit them using a full-fledged WYSIWYG article editor. It supports right-click browser integration with both Internet Explorer and Firefox.

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Jason H. Check out his tech blog: 404techsupport.com].

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The Favorite Start Page: build a dynamic, portable start page from your browser bookmarks
March 19, 2009 – 8:38 am | 3 Comments

The Favorite Start Page ScreenshotThe Favorite Start Page is a free software that takes your existing browser bookmarks and creates a "home page" that visually represents them inside expandable "boxes. It supports dragging and dropping to move/organize your bookmarks, and provides a search box to help find your bookmarks quickly and easily.

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Evri Toolbar: add in-text related information and media to your browsing experience
March 10, 2009 – 8:42 pm | 5 Comments

Evri ScreenshotEvri is a service that indexes the web and delivers a different kind of search based on discovering relationships between entities. The Evri toolbar brings an Evri search box in your browser toolbars area. It also introduces Evri term highlighting, which enables you to hover over a highlighted term in your browser and get a floating, tabbed window containing a definition of the keyword, some connections it has to other entities, and the latest news articles, images, and videos that relate to it.

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IE7Pro: a Swiss Army Knife of add-ons for Internet Explorer
March 3, 2009 – 10:20 am | 18 Comments

IE7Pro ScreenshotIE7Pro is a free add-on for Internet Explorer that introduces a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE experience more useful. IE7Pro includes tabbed browsing management, spell check, inline search, super drag and drop, crash recovery, a proxy switcher, mouse gestures, a history browser, a web accelerator, and a number of other useful functions. It also supports a Greasemonkey-like User Scripts platform and user plug-ins.

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Vertor: a site for “verified” torrents
January 28, 2009 – 2:41 pm | 11 Comments

vertorlogoVertor is a torrent listings site with a simple premise: only display torrents that are checked to be free of viruses and malware and have been verified to contain the content that they claim. Offers media “previews” on the site such as 20-seconds snippets from audio files and thumbnails from videos.

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Freezer: download MP3s from Imeem, Deezer, Jiwa.Fm; possibly others
December 9, 2008 – 11:25 am | 7 Comments

Freezer Screenshot Freezer is a free, portable program that can download mp3s from some song sharing sites that such as Imeem, Deezer or jiwa.fm that use anti-leeching protection to prevent song downloading.

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IESessions: save and retrieve your sessions on Internet Explorer
December 1, 2008 – 10:46 pm | 2 Comments

IESessions screenshot IESessions is a free Internet Explorer extension that enables the quick saving of your IE internet sessions (URLs from all tabs and windows that are open). Sessions can be saved locally, exported to a file for use on other computers or otherwise uploaded to the Amazon S3 storage service.

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Ammyy Admin: quick remote PC access with nothing to install, configure, or register
November 19, 2008 – 9:52 pm | 11 Comments

Ammyy Admin Screenshot Ammyy Admin is a free remote computer access tool that offers quick, easy, and reliable connections with nothing to install, no accounts to sign up for, and no technical configuration or messing with IP addresses and routers. It offers file transfers and desktop sharing, and can be used to connect with unattended machines.

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Tidy Favorites: thumbnail-based bookmark management
November 18, 2008 – 5:37 pm | 9 Comments

Tidy favorites Screenshot Tidy Favorites is a free extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox that allows users to manage bookmarks visually as thumbnails that can be dragged and resized on a workspace, similar to icons on a desktop. It offers the ability to organize favorites within combination of tabs and folders, and provides a “drop stack” for quick, temporary bookmarking of URLs that you might want to check out then dispose of afterwards. Tidy Favorites can be installed portably.

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