Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 71 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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Mikogo: Share your screen and/or access a PC remotely
April 5, 2008 – 12:37 am | 22 Comments

Mikogo ScreenshotMikogo is a free, browser-based screen sharing and remote computer access platform for Windows. It allows you to create virtual meetings/webinars where any of the participant’s screens can be shared, to define which applications can or cannot be accessed remotely, and to instantly share files with participants, all without the need to configure firewalls, ports, and routers etc.

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Combine a docking launcher and keyboard shorcuts with ProgramLaunch
April 4, 2008 – 6:11 pm | 7 Comments

ProgramLaunch ScreenshotProgramLaunch is a applications launcher that docks into the top or bottom of your desktop and can be accessed either by mousing over the edge of the screen or by a shortcut key. It offers a number of interesting functions such as organizing shortcuts by group, assigning keyboard shortcuts for each icon, assigning a single launch icon to a group of apps, and others.

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Create photorealistically-rendered images of your 3D models with Kerkythea
April 3, 2008 – 8:15 am | 4 Comments

Kerkythea ScreenshotKerkythea is a free multiplatform standalone rendering software that can be used to create photorealistic image renderings using physically accurate materials and lighting when integrated with Blender, SketchUp, Wings3D, 3ds Max, Silo and any program that exports files in OBJ and 3DS formats.

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Browse geo-tagged panoramic images at Panoye
April 2, 2008 – 5:08 am | 4 Comments

Panoye is a community-driven photo sharing site with a twist: all uploaded images are panoramic, 360° views, and all of them are geo-tagged to show you exactly where the photos were taken on a map of the earth.

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Translate any text or lookup any word anywhere with Lingoes
April 1, 2008 – 8:22 pm | 10 Comments

Lingoes Screenshot - translationLingoes is a free program that makes a wide range of translation and language reference tools available at your fingertips, enabling you to access these globally from any application to perform word lookups, text translation and pronunciation of words in over 60 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, and others.

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Create ringtones from your favorite MP3s with ToneShop
March 29, 2008 – 6:29 am | 22 Comments

ToneShop ScreenshotToneShop is a small, free program that can create ringtones out of your audio files for any phone that supports a true audio ringtone, including the Apple IPhone. It provides the ability to quickly and easily select a snippet of sound from within your audio files to be used as a ringtone.

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Install your no-install apps with ZipInstaller
March 26, 2008 – 3:12 am | 16 Comments

ZipInstaller ScreenshotZipInstaller is a small program that can streamline no-install apps in zip files such that they are extracted in the right place, and provides these with shortcuts in the start menu and desktop, as well as an uninstall entry in Windows’ add/remove control panel.

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How to change Windows’ default image editor (and find a good freeware replacement)
March 25, 2008 – 4:55 pm | 22 Comments

Edit context menu entryThis posting will describe how to change the default image editor used by Windows using a small freeware program called Imgeditor, and will propose 5 freeware image editing programs that you can use instead (Photoscape, GIMP, Paint.Net, Image, and I.Mage).

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Add a number of unique commands to the context menu with Shell Tools
March 25, 2008 – 6:36 am | 11 Comments

Shell Tools ScreenshotsShell Tools is a collection of Windows enhancements that add five functions to the right-click context menu that allow you to do the following: add notes to any file, right click to toggle view hidden files on/off, copy URLs from IE bookmarks, load or install fonts, and register/unregister COM servers for DLL, OCX, and EXE files on demand. You can choose to enable any or all of these modules on your system as you wish.

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Automatically backup and retrieve earlier incarnations of your files with DocShield
March 24, 2008 – 2:56 am | 6 Comments

DocShield ScreenshotDocShield is a program that runs in the background and monitors files and folders that you specify for changes. It will create compressed snapshots of your files whenever it detects any changes, enabling you to retrieve your files in case of data loss, and providing a retrievable version history of your files and/or data.

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Get a list of all recently accessed files with RecentFilesView
March 21, 2008 – 5:20 pm | 8 Comments

Recentfilesview ScreenshotRecentFilesView is a small, no install freeware program that can retrieve and save the list of the most recently accessed files.

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