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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Random Mixtape Maker is a free program that can create “intelligent” playlists based on user-defined guidelines. For example you can tell Random Mixtape Maker to look for music inside certain folders but to avoid a certain subset of folders and certain songs you specify; to create a playlist that plays for x minutes; to limit each artist to 3 songs max; to include the tracks in your “must have” list, and to always follow some tracks with others, and so on.
Evri 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.
Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is a freeware game that incorporates real time strategy and action role playing elements. It is exclusively a multiplayer game and supports multiple OS platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux).
[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Travis B. Check out his freeware games blog here].
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UbitMenu is a free add-on for MS Office 2007 that provides the option to use an MS Office 2003-style interface alongside Office 2007’s "Ribbons" style interface. It is installed as an additional menu in Office 2007 applications (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint), allowing for switching back and forth at will between the older and newer style interfaces.
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Sysygy is a free virtual 3D art gallery. It allows you to create and use sets of your images and photos in a 3D-rendered environment viewed from a first-person perspective.
IE7Pro 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.
PDF to Word Free is a free web service that offers high-quality conversions of PDF files to DOC or RTF formats that can be used in Microsoft word or other Rich Text Editors. It lets you upload PDF files through a web interface and will then send the converted file via email as an attachment.
TrackMania Nations Forever (TMF) is a freeware racing game that distinguishes itself by way of its impossible stunt driving. It can be played both single player and online, and was designed to be widely accessible. This game runs on the Microsoft Windows platform.
[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Travis B. Check out his freeware games blog here].
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IPodMe is a free, open source program that can convert video into MP4 format suitable for iPod or iPhone playback. It is a portable, single executable which contains all the filters and codecs needed for it to do its job.
PDF Split and Merge 2.0 is a powerful free PDF editing program that can split, merge, and extract PDF documents. It employs a visual editing interface that allows users to drag and drop thumbnails of pages to arrange or combine them, and to edit pages (rotate, delete, etc) by right clicking on them.
