Posted by Samer on December 23, 2009 in System, Utilities | Tagged Windows 7 |
I just made to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7. One interesting security feature in both Windows 7 and Vista is the Windows UAC (User Account Control), which is designed to prevent basic users and malicious programs from changing system critical settings. This results in a lot of prompts popping up when launching many apps or performing some operations asking whether you wanted to allow these processes (that may make changes to your system) to proceed.
This post will outline how to get rid of these security prompts without switching off the UAC altogether, by using a free app called TweakUAC to switch the UAC to "quiet mode". Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on December 21, 2009 in DVD Utils, Freewaregenius Picks, Video, Video Utils, Video/DVD players |
SPlayer is a free, open source media player that is lightweight, well designed, and quite powerful. It promises to play every conceivable media format (including DVD’s and streaming media), and to optimize your audio and video quality to best utilize your hardware specifications. It is light on power consumption, making it ideal for laptop/travel use, and offers a handful of innovative features such as on-demand automatic downloads of subtitles. Continue reading ..
Posted by Travis on December 20, 2009 in Games | Tagged Games |
Death Rally is an old school top down racing game. It’s a fast paced, challenging, forgotten classic.
[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Travis B. Check out his new blog here]. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on December 18, 2009 in Graphics |
InstantMask is a free program that provides a quick and easy way to remove backgrounds and crop out foreground figures or elements from any type of image. The user is required to use a drawing tool to roughly outline the “foreground” (desired) image element as well as the area directly adjacent to it, and InstantMask will do the rest.
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Posted by Samer on December 16, 2009 in Productivity & Applications |
Osmo is a small, free, and multi-platform Personal Information Management (PIM) program. It provides the major functions you would expect in a PIM app, such as a task/to-do list with reminders and alarms, contacts management, notes, as well as calendar integration. Neatly packages in a tabbed, self-contained interface, Osmo is highly configurable and is module-based, allowing you to turn tabs/functions off and on depending on your preference. It is built such that all functions can be easily performed using keyboard shortcuts.
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Posted by Samer on December 15, 2009 in Games | Tagged Games |
This is going to be an infrequent array of musings and excavations inside the indie game scene. Two games to start off this week: “A Small World" and "Grow".
[Editor’s note: this post is a first of a new series by written by Freewaregenius contributor Diablo, focusing on the indie game scene] Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on December 14, 2009 in Launchers, Utilities | Tagged Desktop Enhancements, Windows 7 |
If you’ve installed Windows 7 you may have noticed the nifty new feature whereby you can right click on any program pinned to the taskbar and access recently used documents in what is called the Windows 7 jumplist. However, you may have noticed that when it comes to pinning your favorite documents to the taskbar, these will only appear with their program icon (e.g. Word docs to the Word jumplist, favorite folders with the Windows Explorer jumplist, etc.)
This is where the free Jumplist Launcher steps in; it is an app that allows you to pin any combination of elements (any documents, folders, or apps) to the taskbar within the Jumplist Launcher icon and organize these into groups that make sense. You can even pin multiple, separate instances of Jumplist launcher to your taskbar. Continue reading ..
I just made to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7. One interesting security feature in both Windows 7 and Vista is the Windows UAC (User Account Control), which is designed to prevent basic users and malicious programs from changing system critical settings. This results in a lot of prompts popping up when launching many apps or performing some operations asking whether you wanted to allow these processes (that may make changes to your system) to proceed. 
