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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Browse, annotate, and organize your image library with PhotoMesa, a “zoomable” image browser
March 19, 2008 – 4:12 am | 10 Comments

Photomesa ScreenshotPhotoMesa is a free tool for managing image libraries. Dubbed a "zoomable image browser", it employs an innovative method for browsing a large number of images by zooming in and out of folders in a sort of "bird’s eye view". It also offers the ability to browse image collections by folder, category, people, year, and month, and for adding searchable tags and captions stored within the image files themselves using the IPTC standard.

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Mp3ListShellEx: create audio playlists on the fly, in the context menu
March 17, 2008 – 8:47 pm | 7 Comments

Mp3ListShellEx ScreenshotMp3ListShellEx is Windows Explorer shell extension that allows you to create playlists or text lists of your MP3s simply by highlighting a folder and selecting an option from the right click context menu.

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Synaesthete combines visuals and audio in a unified gaming experience
March 14, 2008 – 10:35 pm | 4 Comments

Synaesthete screenshot Synaesthete is a free 3D isometric game that introduces some very interesting innovations to the shoot em up genre. It aims to synchronize visuals and audio in a unified whole, where both interact and are an part of the gaming experience.

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Filebox Entender: Enhances Windows with favorite folders, recent folders, and windows management functions
March 13, 2008 – 9:41 pm | 19 Comments

filebox extender screenshotsFilebox Extender is a free windows explorer extension that adds a number of buttons on the top right of open windows next to the minimize, maximize and close buttons, including a “stay on top” pushpin button, a window roll-up button that hides all but the title bar of a window, a favorites folder button, and a recent folders button. Filebox Extender provides these functions in open folder and application windows, in open/save dialogs and in the system tray.

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Five freeware programs to help you find the optimal informational tooltips for most file types
March 12, 2008 – 9:41 pm | 12 Comments

Audioshell tooltip screenshotthis posting will present an overview of a number of freeware options that can add informational tooltips to various file types. Informational tooltips are those informational windows that appear when you hover the mouse over various files. Five programs are presented here including Infotag Magic, Filetip, Thumbview, MediaCoder, and Audioshell.

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Put a dynamic representation of the globe on your desktop with Desktop Earth
March 8, 2008 – 12:55 am | 13 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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