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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Notable App: a collaboration tool that lets you clip, annotate, and share feedback on websites and images
February 8, 2010 – 9:15 am | One Comment

notableapp screenshot1At heart, this software is a web-clipping tool with online storage, similar to Evernote. Yet Notable App is designed for sharing clipped web pages with collaborators, making notes on them and receiving feedback in a kind of virtual conversation.

Notable App is a web app used in conjunction with a Firefox extension or IE bookmarklet (or even an iPhone app) in order to create and upload web clips or screenshots that can later be shared for feedback with friends, colleagues, or collaborators.This program seems to be geared towards creative teams of designers, webmaster, usability designers, developers and SEO practitioners interested in dissecting websites and sharing knowledge not just on the content of websites but on the way they were put together.

However, you can use Notable App any way you want, as a web clipping app or a platform to simply share sites that you find, like, and choose to clip. Up to three people can use Notable for free; adding more will require paid licenses.

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JStock: powerful tool to manage and monitor stocks
September 2, 2009 – 1:40 pm | 4 Comments

Jstock ScreenshotJStock is a free, open source stock-monitoring software. It can create a database of stocks and download and deliver data and charts for these in real time for more than 20 world markets and going back up to 10 years. It can also set-up stock portfolios where it records all transactions and calculates profit or loss. Two features stand out, however, the first is Alerts delivery (SMS, Email, or in the system tray) that are based on user-created "Stock Indicators". The second is a built-in chat function designed to enable JStock users to communicate with each other and share information. JStock is multiplatform (Windows/Linux/Mac/Solaris).

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Caderno: capable text editor with a minimalistic interface
August 8, 2009 – 4:04 pm | 17 Comments

caderno screenshotCaderno is a freeware text editor/Notepad replacement that’s focused on delivering an excellent user experience. It features a minimalist, tabbed user interface on the one hand and some powerful features on the other, without overloading the user with too many functions. Features include search/find/replace, go-to specific line, crash recovery, session management, Unicode support, as well as Syntax highlighting (INI, XML, HTML, Java, PHP).

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Freewaregenius’ clickmaps analysis
June 15, 2009 – 7:46 pm | 16 Comments

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I recently used created clickmaps of my new Freewaregenius theme in order to shed light on what people were doing on my site. The results were very interesting to me and, I would imagine, they would be interesting to a lot of readers, especially those who have their own sites or blogs. I therefore created this post to share these clickmaps as well as some of the insights that came out of them.

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PSPad: a small, powerful, and versatile freeware text editor
April 1, 2009 – 12:06 pm | 17 Comments

PSPad ScreenshotPSPad is a text editor with syntax highlighting that supports many languages and file types. It is feature rich, allows you to define your own syntax highlighting for unsupported languages, is highly configurable, and nearly all options are close to hand.

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Carbonize. Check out his tech blog here].

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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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PicLens provides instant immersive slideshows on many websites
January 30, 2008 – 6:47 am | 30 Comments

Piclens ScreenshotPicLens is a free browser extension for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari that interacts with a number of the most popular image sharing sites to provide a seamless, full-screen "immersive slideshow" experience. Sites supported include Google Images, Yahoo Images, Facebook, Friendster, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums. It is also possible to embed PicLens immersive slideshows within your own site or blog.

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How to broadcast your Google Reader ’starred items’ to an RSS feed or widget on your blog
January 16, 2008 – 10:55 pm | 12 Comments

Starred items screenshot’Starred Items’ are a feature of Gmail and Google Reader designed to give you quick access to these items. What you might not know, however, is that it is possible to broadcast your Google Reader starred items into their own RSS feed that you can share with friends or display locally on your desktop, or even use them in a Widget within your site or blog. This posting is a step-by-step guide on how to do this.

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Feng GUI Viewfinder Heatmap
September 18, 2007 – 4:27 pm | 6 Comments

Feng GUI heatmap screenshot for FreewaregeniusRating: 55 Star Rating

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ColorPic
July 28, 2007 – 4:53 am | 5 Comments

ColorPic ScreenshotRating: 55 Star Rating pick

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