Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 56 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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Looxis Faceworx ScreenshotLooxis Faceworx is a free 3D modeling program that can construct a textured 3D model of a person’s head out of two 2D photos (one from the front, "mugshot" style, and the other profile style from the side).

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Looxis Faceworx ScreenshotLooxis Faceworx is a free 3D modeling program that can construct a textured 3D model of a person’s head out of two 2D photos (one from the front, "mugshot" style, and the other profile style from the side).

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Translate.Net: translate your text using multiple translation engines at once
April 29, 2008 – 7:58 pm | 8 Comments

Translate.net ScreenshotTranslate.Net is a desktop-based translation tool that will translate any text from one language to another. It connects with multiple online translation engines and delivers multiple translations at once straight into your desktop.

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Google Earth: explore a 3D interactive world from your desktop
April 29, 2008 – 5:51 am | 3 Comments

Google Earth ScreenshotGoogle Earth is a fully interactive 3D representation of the globe and (more recently) of space, with interactive representations of galaxies and constellations. Users are able to explore/navigate the virtual world and view and interact with a growing number of "layers" of information that are continuously being added and/or refined, such as 3D buildings, panoramic images of places, real-time weather information, roads, etc. Users are also able to interact with a growing number representations of well known places and monuments worldwide.

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BitRipper: convert DVDs to AVI or Mpeg with a single click
April 25, 2008 – 8:26 pm | 33 Comments

BitRipper ScreenshotBitRipper is an integrated DVD ripping and conversion program that provides AVI or Mpeg creation from DVDs in a single step.

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Daphne: manage Windows processes visually by dragging and dropping
April 25, 2008 – 4:59 am | 11 Comments

Daphne ScreenshotDaphne is a windows process manager that provides a number of interesting functions, such as the ability to shut down, find, or hide an app or process by dragging and dropping a tool onto open windows with the mouse. Other functions include the ability to set “traps” where processes invoke user determined actions, killing processes by name, etc, in addition to a number of the usual functions that you would expect to find in a program of this type.

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Binary Toys: amuse yourself with tiny desktop creatures
April 23, 2008 – 4:43 pm | 13 Comments

Binary Toys ScreenshotBinary Toys are animated windowless vector characters “made up of springs, muscles, and masses” that are designed to inhabit your computer, interacting with your desktop environment in accordance with the laws of physics.

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Kana Launcher: launch apps from pop-up or floating menus, on-demand
April 23, 2008 – 3:50 am | 9 Comments

KanaLauncher ScreenshotsKana Launcher is a “pop-up menu” style applications launcher that can either reside in your system tray or appear anywhere on the desktop when invoked by a hotkey. It offers two modes, a regular “context menu” style pop-up launcher with a hierarchical tree structure, and a so-called “floating icon” launcher style. It also offers the ability to install a permanent shortcut to programs, bookmarks, or folders within the system tray itself.

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RipShout: rip Shoutcast internet radio stations to your hard drive with RipShout
April 22, 2008 – 7:27 pm | 14 Comments

Ripshout ScreenshotRipShout saves the audio from “shoutcast” internet radio stations directly to your hard drive. It will preserve the song’s IDv3 tag info and organize recorded audio by creating a folder for each artist and saving the individual tracks within it.

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MailStore: backup your email from multiple applications and services to a single, centralized archive with MailStore Home
April 22, 2008 – 4:35 am | 17 Comments

MailStore ScreenshotMailStore Home is a free program that can backup your email from multiple email applications/accounts and consolidate these into a single, centralized archive that it can burn into a backup CD. Also offers the ability to perform advanced searches and quickly view archived email. Supported email clients include Outlook, Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Exchange, as well as POP/IMAP accounts (including all webmail services that IMAP or POP support such as Gmail and Yahoo), and local files.

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Convert across many audio formats and create audio CDs with Pepsky Free Audio Converter
April 19, 2008 – 6:38 pm | 11 Comments

Pepski Free Audio Converter ScreenshotPepsky Free Audio Converter is a free program that can convert audio files across a wide range of formats, burn audio CDs playable with any CD player, burn audio-file CDs in many formats, and rip CD’s into MP3 or other formats.

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Cobview: add a context menu entry that delivers quick info on various file types
April 19, 2008 – 3:25 pm | One Comment

Cobview ScreenshotsCobview is a Windows shell extension that installs a command in Windows’ right-click context menu which can be used to get general file/properties information for most file types

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BBoxV2: get a powerful yet lightweight audio player and manager
April 18, 2008 – 8:31 am | 34 Comments

BBox V2 ScreenshotBBox Audio Player (BBoxV2) is a free lightweight audio player/manager that offers a good range of features including CD ripping, audio file tagging management, internet radio, automatic volume normalization, audio library management functions, and others.

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