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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Close’n Forget: removes cookies and history when closing out a tab, leaving all other browsing history untouched
April 11, 2009 – 1:56 am | 10 Comments

Closen Forget screenshotClose’n Forget is a free Firefox extension that allows you to close out a tab or window and instantly erase traces of the site(s) you were browsing in that tab or window (cookies and/or history) without erasing those from other browsing activity. It adds a single red button in your browser toolbar that can provide instant 1-click privacy.

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MaxTo: maximize your windows to user-defined regions
April 9, 2009 – 12:54 pm | 15 Comments

MaxTo ScreenshotMaxTo is a free program that splits your screen into custom regions and then nables you to maximize and snap your windows to these regions on-demand. It supports 2 “layers”, main and alternate, such that the user can split the screen into, say, vertical regions in one layer and horizontal regions in another (or even vertical/horizontal combinations) . It allows you to toggle window maximization for the main and alternate settings via two user-definable hotkeys, such that maximizing without pressing hotkeys results in normal window maximizing behavior.

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Blood Frontier: beta preview
April 3, 2009 – 9:18 pm | One Comment

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A free total conversion built on the Sauerbraten engine, Blood Frontier is a multiplayer first person shooter currently in open beta testing. Multiplatform (Windows/Mac/Linux).

[Editor’s note: this post was written by Freewaregenius contributor Travis B. Check out his freeware games blog here].

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Canaware NetNotes: capture web pages then store and edit them within a local knowledge base
April 2, 2009 – 9:38 pm | 14 Comments

canaware netnotes screenshot - mainCanaware NetNotes is a free program that can capture web pages and stores and organizes them within a searchable, local knowledge base. It can capture entire pages or individual elements such as paragraphs, images, or certain code snippets, and allows you to edit them using a full-fledged WYSIWYG article editor. It supports right-click browser integration with both Internet Explorer and Firefox.

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

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PSPad: a small, powerful, and versatile freeware text editor
April 1, 2009 – 12:06 pm | 15 Comments

PSPad ScreenshotPSPad is a text editor with syntax highlighting that supports many languages and file types. It is feature rich, allows you to define your own syntax highlighting for unsupported languages, is highly configurable, and nearly all options are close to hand.

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Carbonize. Check out his tech blog here].

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MindRaider: note-taking program combines hierarchical outlines, tagging, and visual “mind map” representations
March 30, 2009 – 9:56 pm | 27 Comments

MindRaider ScreenshotMindRaider is a multi-platform, free note-taking program that combines a tree-like hierarchical organization alongside a "free form" structure based on tagging your notes. It supports many notes formats (rich text, HTML, TWiki, plain text, and even sketches). But what is truly unique about this program is a visual component whereby your notes structure is either displayed in a "mind mapping" style relationship diagram, or otherwise within a "tag cloud" representation. It also allows you to embed links within notes to other entities.

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AnAppAday: 30 free apps created in 30 days
March 24, 2009 – 1:29 pm | 4 Comments

Jedi Window Dock ScreenshotAnAppAday is one blogger/programmer’s month long project where he created one app per day for 30 days straight. Using the pseudonym “The software Jedi” he did this during the period between 9/15/2006 and 10/14/2006 and published it on a blog.

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RIOT: powerful, handy image file-size reduction tool
March 23, 2009 – 1:05 pm | 8 Comments

RIOT ScreenshotRIOT is a free program which can best be described as an "image size reduction" toolkit. It allows you to reduce the size of your image(s) while previewing a side-by-side before and after. It also delivers a number of handy image tweaking, conversion, and editing tools.

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