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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BrowserMaster: choose your browser on-the-fly whenever you click on a link
November 4, 2009 – 3:45 pm | 6 Comments

browsermaster screenshot2BrowserMaster is a free app that registers itself as your system’s default browser and gives you the option to select which browser to use when opening internet links. It applies to links clicked from outside a browser, such as desktop shortcuts, links in documents, links in IM and email apps, etc.

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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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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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The Favorite Start Page: build a dynamic, portable start page from your browser bookmarks
March 19, 2009 – 8:38 am | 3 Comments

The Favorite Start Page ScreenshotThe Favorite Start Page is a free software that takes your existing browser bookmarks and creates a "home page" that visually represents them inside expandable "boxes. It supports dragging and dropping to move/organize your bookmarks, and provides a search box to help find your bookmarks quickly and easily.

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Evri Toolbar: add in-text related information and media to your browsing experience
March 10, 2009 – 8:42 pm | 5 Comments

Evri ScreenshotEvri is a service that indexes the web and delivers a different kind of search based on discovering relationships between entities. The Evri toolbar brings an Evri search box in your browser toolbars area. It also introduces Evri term highlighting, which enables you to hover over a highlighted term in your browser and get a floating, tabbed window containing a definition of the keyword, some connections it has to other entities, and the latest news articles, images, and videos that relate to it.

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IE7Pro: a Swiss Army Knife of add-ons for Internet Explorer
March 3, 2009 – 10:20 am | 18 Comments

IE7Pro ScreenshotIE7Pro is a free add-on for Internet Explorer that introduces a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE experience more useful. IE7Pro includes tabbed browsing management, spell check, inline search, super drag and drop, crash recovery, a proxy switcher, mouse gestures, a history browser, a web accelerator, and a number of other useful functions. It also supports a Greasemonkey-like User Scripts platform and user plug-ins.

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Open++: put any function you want in the context menu
December 10, 2008 – 11:30 pm | 19 Comments

Open++ screenshot Open++ is a free program that allows you to install functions in the Windows’ context menu extension. You can choose from a number of built-in functions or otherwise use any command line executable to add custom commands that can work on folders, specific file type(s) or both.

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Freezer: download MP3s from Imeem, Deezer, Jiwa.Fm; possibly others
December 9, 2008 – 11:25 am | 7 Comments

Freezer Screenshot Freezer is a free, portable program that can download mp3s from some song sharing sites that such as Imeem, Deezer or jiwa.fm that use anti-leeching protection to prevent song downloading.

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Tidy Favorites: thumbnail-based bookmark management
November 18, 2008 – 5:37 pm | 9 Comments

Tidy favorites Screenshot Tidy Favorites is a free extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox that allows users to manage bookmarks visually as thumbnails that can be dragged and resized on a workspace, similar to icons on a desktop. It offers the ability to organize favorites within combination of tabs and folders, and provides a “drop stack” for quick, temporary bookmarking of URLs that you might want to check out then dispose of afterwards. Tidy Favorites can be installed portably.

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