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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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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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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Xneat: power charge XP or Vista with this nifty windows manager
May 1, 2008 – 9:21 pm | 17 Comments

Xneat ScreenshotXneat windows manager is a free windows enhancement that adds a number of “window management” type functions to explorer, including the ability to customize window transparency, minimize (or hide) windows to the system tray, toggling always on top, and drag and drop taskbar buttons in order to rearrange them. It also adds interesting options to the windows save file dialog: a “clone file” button that becomes active when overwriting a file, and a time stamp button.

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Loomis Faceworx: model a 3D head from two 2D images
April 30, 2008 – 4:57 pm | 10 Comments

Looxis Faceworx ScreenshotLooxis Faceworx is a free 3D modeling program that can construct a textured 3D model of a person’s head out of two 2D photos (one from the front, "mugshot" style, and the other profile style from the side).

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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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Daphne: manage Windows processes visually by dragging and dropping
April 25, 2008 – 4:59 am | 11 Comments

Daphne ScreenshotDaphne is a windows process manager that provides a number of interesting functions, such as the ability to shut down, find, or hide an app or process by dragging and dropping a tool onto open windows with the mouse. Other functions include the ability to set “traps” where processes invoke user determined actions, killing processes by name, etc, in addition to a number of the usual functions that you would expect to find in a program of this type.

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Binary Toys: amuse yourself with tiny desktop creatures
April 23, 2008 – 4:43 pm | 13 Comments

Binary Toys ScreenshotBinary Toys are animated windowless vector characters “made up of springs, muscles, and masses” that are designed to inhabit your computer, interacting with your desktop environment in accordance with the laws of physics.

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Kana Launcher: launch apps from pop-up or floating menus, on-demand
April 23, 2008 – 3:50 am | 13 Comments

KanaLauncher ScreenshotsKana Launcher is a “pop-up menu” style applications launcher that can either reside in your system tray or appear anywhere on the desktop when invoked by a hotkey. It offers two modes, a regular “context menu” style pop-up launcher with a hierarchical tree structure, and a so-called “floating icon” launcher style. It also offers the ability to install a permanent shortcut to programs, bookmarks, or folders within the system tray itself.

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Cobview: add a context menu entry that delivers quick info on various file types
April 19, 2008 – 3:25 pm | One Comment

Cobview ScreenshotsCobview is a Windows shell extension that installs a command in Windows’ right-click context menu which can be used to get general file/properties information for most file types

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BBoxV2: get a powerful yet lightweight audio player and manager
April 18, 2008 – 8:31 am | 34 Comments

BBox V2 ScreenshotBBox Audio Player (BBoxV2) is a free lightweight audio player/manager that offers a good range of features including CD ripping, audio file tagging management, internet radio, automatic volume normalization, audio library management functions, and others.

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Moby Gratis: find free music for your independent, student, or non-profit film, courtesy of Moby
April 15, 2008 – 7:49 pm | 12 Comments

MobyheadMoby Gratis is an archive of instrumental music clips created by the alternative rock/electronic music maestro Moby. These are available to anyone to download and legally use in their film projects, provided that these are independent, student, non-commercial, or non-profit films.

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