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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Put a dynamic representation of the globe on your desktop with Desktop Earth
March 8, 2008 – 12:55 am | 12 Comments

Desktop Earth ScreenshotDesktop Earth is an interactive wallpaper generator that presents an accurate, constantly changing representation of the earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment on your desktop wallpaper.

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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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Organize notes and information with TreeDBNotes
March 6, 2008 – 8:41 pm | 16 Comments

Treedbnotes ScreenshotTreeDBNotes Free Edition is a hierarchical notes outliner program with a wide range of features, including organizing information in both tabs and tree structures, rich text editing, support for tables, images, and links, global search, and more.

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Unleash the voyeur within with Flickrvision
March 5, 2008 – 9:43 pm | One Comment

Flicrvision ScreenshotFlickvision is a web site that displays pictures being uploaded to Flickr and the location they are being uploaded from on a map of the world in real time.

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Surf the internet anonymously with Vidalia
March 4, 2008 – 8:22 am | 15 Comments

Vidalia screenshotVidalia is a GUI for Tor, the free onion-router implementation that can provide anonymous internet communication. This program resides in the system tray and provides quick, 1-click anonymous internet access. It allows you to start and stop Tor, view it’s status and bandwidth usage, and even setup your own Tor server if you want that can contribute to the anonymous network.

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Add a slew of useful functions to Internet Explorer with ALToolbar
March 1, 2008 – 12:04 am | 12 Comments

ALToolbar ScreenshotALToolbar is a free Internet Explorer toolbar that offers a number of very useful functions straight from the browser, including an internet cleaner, advanced find, automatic site login with online password storage, online bookmark management , screenshot capture for websites, quick access to multiple search engines, a flash ad blocker, control by mouse gestures, and a few others.

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Phun is your personal physics playground
February 27, 2008 – 5:19 pm | 8 Comments

Phun ScreenshotPhun, described as a "2D physics sandbox", is a free physics game where the user can construct the entire game environment using combinations of objects and then observe and tweak how the various creations/objects interact.

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Collect and Share videos from the desktop with uvLayer
February 27, 2008 – 6:16 am | 4 Comments

uvLayer ScreenshotuvLayer is an Adobe Air application that allows you to watch, collect, and share videos from a cool desktop-based interface. It can also log into your Facebook account and allow you to share videos with your Facebook friends simply by dragging and dropping them on your friends’ icons.

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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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