Posted by Samer on June 22, 2011 in Best of, Browser Extensions, Chrome, Comparative tests, Internet, Internet Utils, xclude | Tagged Chrome |
One of the benefits of Google Chrome is the Webstore, a place where users can find many free extensions, apps and themes that add more features to the browser. Extensions are small programs created by Google as well as external developers that modify and enhance the functionality of the Chrome browser using the standard web technologies HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. The two most popular extensions listed in the Webstore are “AdBlock” and “Adblock Plus” – but which one of the two is the better one?
This post will explore the differences between the two ad blocking extensions.
[Editor’s note: this review was written by Tom from chrome-plugins.org, a non-profit project that features reviews of extensions, apps and themes for the Google Chrome browser.] Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on June 21, 2011 in Audio, Audio Tagging |
Do your songs lack cover art? do you feel annoyed to have to stare at a generic file icon while everyone else (at least in iPhone commercials) looks at glorious, colorful cover art? This software can help.
Creevity MP3 Cover Downloader is a free software that can scan your folders for MP3 files and process them through a simple interface in order to add cover art for each song quickly and easily.
Relevant album art is obtained from several locations on the internet, and the user is able to save the correct artwork to the MP3 file itself. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on June 20, 2011 in Video, Video Streaming, Video Utils, Video/DVD players |
If you have many PC’s or laptops in your household, with video files and movies scattered all over the place and different hard drives, then consider this: InnerTube is a small software that lets you easily set up a web server on one (or more) machines, and broadcast your videos to any number of other PCs or laptops.
This free software employs a simple web interface through which you can watch your videos. It uses the DivX Webplayer browser plugin and supports a number of common formats (AVI, MKV, M4V). Videos can be streamed and watched or otherwise downloaded on the remote machines. Continue reading ..
Posted by Priit on June 16, 2011 in Best of, Featured, PDF, PDF Editors & Convertors, Productivity & Applications | Tagged PDF |
PDF Virtual printers are a convenient way of creating PDF files. These programs can save any kind of printable document as a PDF file; all you need to do is to select ‘print’ from your favorite program, then select the virtual PDF printer and get a PDF file.
There are many excellent free virtual printers. We have tested 15 of these and selected 10 of them to evaluate and compare. These (in alphabetic order) are: Bullzip PDF Printer, doPDF, Doro PDF Writer, PDF Printer (PdfSvg), PDF reDirect, PDF24 Creator, PDFCreator, Perfect PDF 7 Master, Print2PDF Free and qvPDF.
The virtual printers that we tried but decided to exclude from the comparison were Bolt PDF Printer, CutePDF Writer, ImagePrinter, pdf995, PDFlite and Primo PDF, mainly because they were inferior by functionality, configurability, or ease of use. Some (e.g. Primo PDF and CutePDF) were removed from the list for privacy considerations as they contain adware/spyware components.
[Note: this post was written by Freewaregenius contributor Priit L.] Last update 6/21/2011. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on June 15, 2011 in Boost performance, System, Utilities |
Ever wished you could determine the order in which your items are loaded on startup, or the priority, or to set specific time delays before some programs launch, or specify the window state upon launch (e.g. minimized, hidden), or to load some items only when the PC is idle, etc.
Oolauncher is a free program that can do all of this and more. It provides a degree of flexibility that is unusual for most startup managers. It does this by importing all of your start programs and removing them from their original position, allowing itself full control to manage your start programs precisely the way you want it to.
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Posted by Samer on June 14, 2011 in Desktop Customization, System, Utilities, Windows Enhancements | Tagged Desktop Enhancements, Windows Enhancements |
This program lets you access your desktop while keeping all of your open windows right where they are, without minimizing any of them. The desktop appears overlaid semi-transparently on top of all of your open windows whenever you press CTRL+ALT+D, (see the screenshots above). Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on June 13, 2011 in Money & Finances, News, Opinion, Productivity & Applications, Web2.0 |
My friend Imad and I recently created “MoneyConfidence”, a site whose mission is to provide smart and thoughtful advice about managing money.
It is still in it’s infancy but already contains a not-insignificant amount of content. We hope it will grow much larger and that we can provide a brand of thoughtful/useful content that will be useful (and entertaining) to many people out there.
I am really excited about the name: a dictionary URL that is precisely the sort of thing we wanted, and that, to our surprise, was not taken when we registered it (took us about 2 hours of experimenting with various names and ideas though, before we found it). Continue reading ..
One of the benefits of Google Chrome is the Webstore, a place where users can find many free extensions, apps and themes that add more features to the browser. Extensions are small programs created by Google as well as external developers that modify and enhance the functionality of the Chrome browser using the standard web technologies HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. The two most popular extensions listed in the Webstore are “AdBlock” and “Adblock Plus” – but which one of the two is the better one?
