Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 57 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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Five freeware programs to help you find the optimal informational tooltips for most file types
March 12, 2008 – 9:41 pm | 12 Comments

Audioshell tooltip screenshotthis posting will present an overview of a number of freeware options that can add informational tooltips to various file types. Informational tooltips are those informational windows that appear when you hover the mouse over various files. Five programs are presented here including Infotag Magic, Filetip, Thumbview, MediaCoder, and Audioshell.

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AnyClient is a no-install, web-based FTP client (that can also be installed locally)
March 7, 2008 – 6:12 pm | 8 Comments

AnyClient ScreenshotAnyClient is a free file transfer client that is available both as a web service that can be accessed from any internet enabled computer and as a standalone program you can install locally on your machine. Supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP and WebDAV.

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Switch through open apps and windows in style using Winflip
February 25, 2008 – 5:46 pm | 31 Comments

Winflip ScreenshotWinFlip is a free program that brings to Windows XP the ALT-Tab 3D task-switching flipping function that’s featured on Windows Vista. It allows you to press a hotkey and flip through all open windows using a cascading, isometric visual representation.

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Piky Basket: use a virtual basket to perform operations on multiple files and folders
February 20, 2008 – 3:06 am | 16 Comments

Piky Basket ScreenshotPiky Basket is a Windows shell extension that adds the ability to add different files and folders from multiple locations into a virtual basket from the context menu, and then perform file operations on all of the basket’s contents at once.

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Instantly and automatically clean up your code with HTML Formatter
February 13, 2008 – 5:15 pm | 22 Comments

HTMLFormatter Before and AfterHTML Formatter can instantly format unstructured, messy code into an indented, cleaned-up logical structure. It can process a wide range of code types including HTML, ASP, PHP, Smarty templates, XML, and Coldfusion.

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Shrink DVDs down to size with Amok DVD Shrinker
February 12, 2008 – 5:35 pm | 18 Comments

Amok DVD Shrink ScreenshotAmok DVD Shrinker is a free program that can compress decrypted DVDs to smaller, user-defined disk sizes without any noticeable reduction in quality. It is designed to enable the copying of commercial DVDs stored on nonstandard media in order to fit them on a standard 4.7 gig writable DVD.

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Right-click to upload images to Flickr with “Sendto Flickr”
February 11, 2008 – 6:40 am | 9 Comments

Sendto Flickr Screenshot“Sendto Flickr” is a free Windows explorer extension that allows you to upload images to Flickr through the right-click “send-to” menu.

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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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Launch programs, websites, and Windows tasks using mouse gestures with gMote
February 6, 2008 – 5:10 pm | 15 Comments

gMote screenshotgMote is a free program that allows you to record mouse gestures and associate them with applications, websites, and Windows tasks. You can then launch those whenever you need them by drawing the specific gesture associated with the program or task you need on-screen.

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DMEXBar: brings the functionality of a dual pane file manager to Windows Explorer
February 6, 2008 – 2:04 am | 17 Comments

The Dmexbar toolbarDMEXBar is a free Windows explorer toolbar extension that provides the functionality of a dual-pane file management program straight from within any normal window. It integrates a wide range of functions into a toolbar embedded within Windows explorer and can, additionally, control and arrange multiple open windows on the desktop side by side in the style of a file management programs.

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How to change the icons used for any file type on your PC
February 4, 2008 – 6:30 pm | 12 Comments

Screenshots showing successfully changed icons for a file typeThis posting will describe how to change the default icons used for any file-type using the free”Icon Phile” program.

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Create a password-protected hidden folder using “My Lockbox”
January 29, 2008 – 5:46 pm | 27 Comments

My Lockbox ScreenshotMy Lockbox is a free program that can quickly hide and password protect a folder and all files/folders within it from being shown in the Windows files system, and will do so under Windows safe mode as well.

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