Posted by Samer on February 23, 2010 in System, Utilities | Tagged Desktop Enhancements |
If you’re looking for a simple, easy way to switch your desktop icons display on and off – literally at the press of a button – then check out this tiny little free app.
HideDesktopIcons emulates the “display desktop icon” command in the Windows context menu, packaged in a simple icon that can be placed anywhere (or alternately launched via a keyboard shortcut). A single click will hide the desktop icons and/or display them again; there is no user interface or any dialogs of any sort. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on February 21, 2010 in Productivity & Applications, Web Development, Web2.0 | Tagged Charting, Data Visualization, Excel |
One way to describe this software is: take the Excel charting engine, make it a standalone app that can chart data from any source, and give it a web/community sharing component for publishing charts and dashboards on the web. Except this charting engine is light years ahead of Excel in terms of both its capabilities as well as ease of use.
But take note: Tableau Public, while free, is not the same as a free version of the Tableau. What the developers have done is create a version of Tableau that is fully functional, but only if you are willing to make the charts and the data you use public for others to potentially see. They did this by restricting the user’s ability to save their projects locally to their own hard drives, instead allowing them to only save to online storage accounts.
In other words, this product is geared towards bloggers or users of social media whose projects are designed for public consumption and/or publishing on the web (or personal projects where you might not care that someone else can potentially look at your data).
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Posted by Samer on February 17, 2010 in Embedded Video, System, Utilities | Tagged Screensavers |
Ever wondered why you couldn’t preview and/or play screensaver files like any other media file? This, in fact, is exactly what the free Screensaver Player allows you to do. This little app allows you to manage screensavers and to them within small sub-windows on your screen.
It can even create playlists of favorite screensavers and shuffle through them at set time intervals. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on February 12, 2010 in System, Utilities | Tagged Desktop Enhancements |
This free utility is brought to you by the people behind the processlibrary.com website. What it does is tweak the Windows Task Manager to add a little green button next to each process in the process list (see screenshot), which when clicked instantly searches processlibrary.com for information on the process you are interested in.
ProcessQuicklink 2 is a tiny app that comes in at less that I meg of memory usage. Process information appears on the processlibrary.com website in your browser. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on February 11, 2010 in CD / DVD apps, Linux, Productivity & Applications, System, Utilities | Tagged Linux |
UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a small, free, cross platform app that can download and install Linux (or other operating system) on a bootable USB drive or a hard drive partition. It supports a wide range of Linux builds (25+ and growing) out of the box that it will automatically download from the net, or it can work with any locally downloaded ISO images that you might want to use.
It can also automatically download and create Live versions of various system utilities, such as Parted Magic, System Rescue CD, Ophcrack, and Kaspersky Rescue Disk to name a few examples. Continue reading ..
Posted by Jason on February 9, 2010 in System, Utilities, Web2.0 |
ICSI Netalyzr is a service maintained by the Networking Group at the International Computer Science Institute, an affiliate with the University of California, Berkeley and funded by the National Science Foundation. The service got some publicity and found importance after late 2007 when Comcast was sued for throttling Internet traffic which Comcast later admitted to be true.
[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Jason H. Check out his tech blog: 404techsupport.com].
Netalyzr is not the traditional freeware covered here at Freewaregenius, but it is a free service that allows you to test and find out more information about the Internet connection you’re paying for. With no real established metrics for what an ISP must provide, Netalyzr gives you the inside scoop in a convenient report. By running the test, not only will you find out information about your connection and its capabilities, but you’ll also share information with researchers that may improve the Internet infrastructure and provide data to the Net Neutrality argument. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on February 8, 2010 in Productivity & Applications, Web Development, Web2.0 |
At heart, this software is a web-clipping tool with online storage, similar to Evernote. Yet Notable App is designed for sharing clipped web pages with collaborators, making notes on them and receiving feedback in a kind of virtual conversation.
Notable App is a web app used in conjunction with a Firefox extension or IE bookmarklet (or even an iPhone app) in order to create and upload web clips or screenshots that can later be shared for feedback with friends, colleagues, or collaborators.This program seems to be geared towards creative teams of designers, webmaster, usability designers, developers and SEO practitioners interested in dissecting websites and sharing knowledge not just on the content of websites but on the way they were put together.
However, you can use Notable App any way you want, as a web clipping app or a platform to simply share sites that you find, like, and choose to clip. Up to three people can use Notable for free; adding more will require paid licenses. Continue reading ..
