We’ve all heard about how blogs have given everyone a world-wide platform. Anyone who has something to say (and many who don’t) can broadcast it to the whole world. But what if you just wanted to share a message, or a few, on the fly, without →
Roozz: create browser based web apps out of any desktop program
What if I told you that a technology exists that can take any Windows program and turn it into a fully-functional web app that looks and feels exactly like the original desktop version, without the need for the source code, and without the kind of re-programming →
How to speed up WordPress: a case study
One of the issues that I have struggled with for a long time is the persistent slowness of this Wordpress site. This is something I faced over the span of the past 2 years, during which period I used four different themes and four different hosting services, →
Tableau Public: create charts and interactive dashboards and publish them to the web
One way to describe this software is: take the Excel charting engine, make it a standalone app that can chart data from any source, and give it a web/community sharing component for publishing charts and dashboards on the web. Except this charting engine is light years ahead →
Notable App: a collaboration tool that lets you clip, annotate, and share feedback on websites and images
At 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 →
JStock: powerful tool to manage and monitor stocks
JStock 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 →
Caderno: capable text editor with a minimalistic interface
Caderno 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 →
PDFTools: splits, joins, extracts PDF pages and provides a myriad of other functions
PDFTools is a free tool that can perform a wide range of PDF editing functions including ones that you would expect such merging, splitting and extracting of PDF pages, as well as many other less common functions such as stamping PDFs with a text message or →
Freewaregenius’ clickmaps analysis
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 →
PSPad: a small, powerful, and versatile freeware text editor
PSPad 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 →
Instantly and automatically clean up your code with HTML Formatter
HTML 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. [UPDATE: since first writing this review this program is NO LONGER FREEWARE] If you →
PicLens provides instant immersive slideshows on many websites
PicLens 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. →
