Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 72 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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Forces: addictive, turn-based game of global domination
August 5, 2009 – 1:25 pm | 5 Comments

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FORCES (also known as BattleForces) is a free, online turn-based strategy game that is played in the browser in single player or online multiplayer modes. It takes elements from RISK as well as concepts from other strategy wargames and blends them into a game that is surprisingly playable and addictive.

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Printee: make any web page printer friendly with this Internet Explorer extension
August 4, 2009 – 1:41 pm | 7 Comments

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Printee is a free Internet Explorer extension designed to remove elements of a webpage to create a perfectly printable page without ads or extra information (e.g sidebars, unrelated images, other stories on the page) that you might not want to waste ink and paper printing. Provides a single-click wizard when pressing CTRL+G that can provide a printer-ready page on-demand, instantly eliminating extraneous page elements.

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SmillaEnlarger: free tool produces high quality image enlargements
August 3, 2009 – 9:15 am | 15 Comments

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SmillaEnlarger is a free, open source program that enables enlarging/magnifying bitmap images in high quality. Based on original algorithms, this standalone software uses a number of filters that are designed to remove some of the typical artifacts generated by the enlarging process and “fill in” image information to achieve a much higher quality image than image enlargement algorithms typically employed in most applications.

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How to split a very large text or CSV file by a specific number of lines/rows
July 30, 2009 – 9:28 am | 2 Comments

Split large CSV or Text filesThis posting will describe how to split a very large CSV or Text file into a number of smaller parts by specifying the number of desired lines within each of the resulting pieces (for example, by 65536 lines for use with Excel 2003 or 1,048,576 for Excel 2007). The method described will use free software to do this and will work for very large files (even files larger that 4 gigs in size), will avoid loading the entire file into memory when processing, will maintain the format/extension of the original file, and will not add any additional information to the resulting files.

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SuperF4: forcibly terminate any program via hotkey
July 27, 2009 – 12:01 pm | 30 Comments

SuperF4 ScreenshotSuperF4 is a free utility that resides in memory and delivers instant, quick termination of apps or processes via hotkey. It is designed to forcibly terminate any running program effectively and instantly, but without notifications or prompts to save your work. This is done by pressing CTRL+ALT+F4 for terminating the active app, while WIN+F4 will allow you to use the mouse to click on any visible Window to terminate that app or process.

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Gsplit: powerful, versatile tool to split any file
July 24, 2009 – 11:09 am | 9 Comments

Gsplit ScreenshotGSplit is a freeware program that can split any file, even extremely large files, in any number of ways including by user-defined sizes or predefined sizes, by spanning across a number of removable disks/media, by number of desired pieces, or even by number of individual lines or occurrences of a pattern in the file. It can create a tiny program to re-unite the split files without needing to use the original application, and can even integrate this into the first file of your splits. Gsplit also adds a Windows explorer context menu entry for on-the-fly splits. Portable version available.

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Pointy Haired Dilbert: amazing blog offers free Excel templates for download
July 22, 2009 – 4:46 pm | 7 Comments

phd2excel_icon2Pointy Haired Dilbert is a blog that provides some amazing, freely-downloadable MS Excel resources. The philosophy behind the site is a focus on data charting and visualization and on “telling stories” with data. Templates that can be downloaded from the site (all 100% free) include sophisticated reporting dashboards, templates for advanced charts (e.g. bullet graphs, Gannt charts, Petal Charts, Speedometer, Candlestick charts, etc.), and even Excel-based games and apps (including a calendar and an Excel-based Twitter client).

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MetatOgger: audio tagger with “acoustic fingerprinting” and other powerful options
July 21, 2009 – 11:34 pm | 23 Comments

Metatogger Screenshot coverartMetatOgger is a free, powerful program for tagging and renaming MP3s and other audio files. It offers the functions you would expect from a tag editor (e.g. mass renaming, tags from filenames or path, scripts to perform editing functions) as well as a few that are not so common, such as “acoustic fingerprinting” of unknown songs using the MusicBrainz database, built in album art search, importing lyrics from lyricwiki.org into your audio tags, and the ability to download a massive audio tag database that it can use as a tagging resource.

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TextOn9: Type on your Computer like you’re Texting from your Phone
July 20, 2009 – 11:39 pm | 10 Comments

texton9-main screenshotHave you ever said to yourself: "Man, I hate having to type on a keyboard! If only I could use my phone to type, I’d be so much faster and none of my other fingers would have to get tired when I have my muscular, toned thumbs that can do so much more than just hit the space bar!" No? Neither have I. But this function can be very helpful if controlling a computer remotely through a remote control or a bluetooth enabled cellphone, and here’s a program that will allow you to do just that: TextOn9.

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Jason H. Check out his tech blog: 404techsupport.com].

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AuthorStream Desktop: easily insert YouTube videos into Powerpoint
July 16, 2009 – 8:47 am | 3 Comments

authorstream desktop screenshotAuthorStream Desktop is a free PowerPoint Add-on that makes it easy to search for and insert YouTube videos as well as images from the web into your PowerPoint files. Users on other computers that you might share your PowerPoint files with will need an internet connection to view the embedded videos, but will NOT require AuthorStream Desktop installed on their computers in order to do so.

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High Sign: control your PC using mouse gestures
July 15, 2009 – 7:07 am | 9 Comments

actionsIn this post I will review “High Sign”, an excellent freeware mouse gesture program. While Samer has previously reviewed gMote, another mouse gesture program, I planned on reviewing StrokeIt which has been around for a long while now and is almost the founding father of freeware mouse gesture software. Unfortunately, when I installed StrokeIt, it did not leave a very good impression, with the software not working fully and with unclear implementation step. I therefore began a search for a better alternative, and High Sign is the program that I found.

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Jason H. Check out his tech blog: 404techsupport.com].

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