Portable Chrome Puts Chrome on Your Thumb Drive [Featured Windows Download] (11)
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Windows only: You've seen its flashy features and were impressed with its speed, and now you wish you could put Google Chrome on your thumb drive and take it with you wherever you go? It's far from official, but German blogger Caschy has put together a portable version of Google Chrome you can run off your thumb drive. Just unzip the download to your thumb drive and run ChromeLoader.exe. All your Chrome settings and profile ...
College Alarm Clock Wakes You Up in Time for Class Today [Featured Windows Download] (9)
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Windows only: Desktop application College Alarm Clock wakes you up on time for class (or an irregular work schedule) seven days a week. Set a custom alarm time on a per day basis, Sunday through Saturday, and set the sound to just a plain beep, or choose a song from your computer's digital music library. College Alarm Clock can skip any day of the week, and you can save an alarm schedule to easily switch ...
RoboTask Automation App Free Today Only [Featured Windows Download] (9)
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Windows only: The Giveaway of the Day web site is offering the normally $120 RoboTask 3.1 software as a free download and registration for today only. If you're forced to perform perfunctory file operations or software actions regularly, like renaming and zipping up a folder of files or uploading a regularly-updated file to an FTP server, RoboTask might be perfect for you. The open-source scripting tool AutoHotkey is always free, but if you prefer a ...
Featured Windows Download: Detect wireless networks with NetStumbler (1)
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Windows only: Network manager NetStumbler lists all the wifi networks in your area, their signal strength and whether or not they're passworded. The Windows equivalent of yesterday's featured Mac download, iStumbler, NetStumbler's not quite as good-looking but still just as essential when you're in out and about tracking down love in the wifi jungle. NetStumbler is a free download for Windows only. NetStumbler
PureText Strips Formatting from Your Clipboard When You Paste [Featured Windows Download] (20)
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Windows only: Free system tray utility PureText adds a global keyboard shortcut to your system to paste text into any application without formatting. PureText strips all of the rich formatting from text—like bold, italics, color, alignment, margins, and more—so that what you're left with is just the plain text (hence the name). If you're all too familiar with the Paste Special -> Unformatted Text feature in Microsoft Word, PureText's simple shortcut—which defaults to Win+V—will save ...
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Scott Reston said:
aaah... MS product put so much junk in the clipboard. Nice to have a tool to clean up the mess.
PureText Strips Formatting from Your Clipboard When You Paste [Featured Windows Download] (3)
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Windows only: Free system tray utility PureText adds a global keyboard shortcut to your system to paste text into any application without formatting. PureText strips all of the rich formatting from text—like bold, italics, color, alignment, margins, and more—so that what you're left with is just the plain text (hence the name). If you're all too familiar with the Paste Special -> Unformatted Text feature in Microsoft Word, PureText's simple shortcut—which defaults to Win+V—will save ...
Featured Windows Download: Game Key Revealer Finds the Keys for Your Games (45)
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Windows only: If you have a game installed on your computer but have lost the original documents that came with it, you can still retrieve the product keys for safekeeping. Game Key Revealer is a small portable application that can help you recover your lost game keys. Game Key Revealer supports more than 500 popular computer games from well known publishers like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, THQ and Lucasarts. The game key of games like The ...
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Kyle said:
Useful if you have a decent amount of games from multiple platforms. Store the keys and be able to reinstall on a different machine instead of holding onto all the CD cases.
Game Key Revealer Finds the Keys for Your Games [Featured Windows Download] (2)
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Windows only: If you have a game installed on your computer but have lost the original documents that came with it, you can still retrieve the product keys for safekeeping. Game Key Revealer is a small portable application that can help you recover your lost game keys. Game Key Revealer supports more than 500 popular computer games from well known publishers like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, THQ and Lucasarts. The game key of games like The ...
Featured Windows Download: Free PDF to Word Doc Converter Is Exactly That (3)
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Windows only: There are many, many tools to convert Microsoft Word files into PDF documents, including those built into the latest office suites, but what about the other way around? Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is a small program that solves a big headache for some office and document workers. Load up a PDF, choose how you want to export the file—including images, shapes, and text layout functions—and hit the convert button. My own ...
Startup Delayer Staggers Your Startup Apps for Smoother Loading [Featured Windows Download] (66)
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Windows only: Free application Startup Delayer staggers the applications that launch when you login to Windows by user-defined increments. The reason: To mitigate the common startup bottleneck caused by all of your startup applications fighting to run at the same time. You'd never try launching eight different applications simultaneously under normal circumstances and expect your computer to handle it well, so why should your startup apps be any different? To use it, just drag applications ...
Startup Delayer Staggers Your Startup Apps for Smoother Loading [Featured Windows Download] (5)
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Windows only: Free application Startup Delayer staggers the applications that launch when you log in to Windows by user-defined increments. The reason: To mitigate the common startup bottleneck caused by all of your startup applications fighting to run at the same time. You'd never try launching eight different applications simultaneously under normal circumstances and expect your computer to handle it well, so why should your startup apps be any different? To use it, just drag ...
Slowmousion Slows Your Mouse for Precision with a Hotkey [Featured Windows Download] (11)
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Windows only: Free mouse utility Slowmousion is a small, memory-resident app that can be seriously helpful for Photoshop/GIMP aficionados and anyone else who has to draw or select objects with precision. The app sits in your desktop tray (taking up about 3.6MB on my Vista system) and lets you enable its cursor-slowing function with a keyboard key, middle mouse button, or other hotkey. The one big drawback is a missing option to adjust the slow-down ...
Slowmousion Slows Your Mouse for Precision with a Hotkey [Featured Windows Download] (1)
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Windows only: Free mouse utility Slowmousion is a small, memory-resident app that can be seriously helpful for Photoshop/GIMP aficionados and anyone else who has to draw or select objects with precision. The app sits in your desktop tray (taking up about 3.6MB on my Vista system) and lets you enable its cursor-slowing function with a keyboard key, middle mouse button, or other hotkey. The one big drawback is a missing option to adjust the slow-down ...
HashTab Verifies the Integrity of Your Downloads [Featured Windows Download] (2)
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Windows only: If you download a lot of applications from the internet, chances are you've seen an MD5 hash next to the download link. This unique hash is used to verify the integrity of your download, ensuring that the file you got is in fact the file you were supposed to get. HashTab is a simple utility that adds a new tab to the Properties window of Windows Explorer that displays the file hashes for ...
HashTab Verifies the Integrity of Your Downloads [Featured Windows Download] (9)
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Windows only: If you download a lot of applications from the internet, chances are you've seen an MD5 hash next to the download link. This unique hash is used to verify the integrity of your download, ensuring that the file you got is in fact the file you were supposed to get. HashTab is a simple utility that adds a new tab to the Properties window of Windows Explorer that displays the file hashes for ...
Agent Ransack Adds Regular Expression Power to Windows Search [Featured Windows Download] (10)
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Windows only: Free search app Agent Ransack is a tool worth checking out if you've got a file you just can't find with Windows' built-in search or other index-based apps, but you know a few details about it. That's because Agent Ransack, the "lite" version of File Locator Pro, helps you build regular expression searches for seriously complex filtering. In other words, if you know a file starts with "T" but the next letter isn't ...
Featured Windows Download: SpeedRead Increases Your Reading Pace, Retention (25)
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Windows only: Free application SpeedRead is designed to improve your reading speed and retention by quickly flashing a few words at a time on your screen in quick succession. You can adjust features like playback speed and number of words to display at a time, and SpeedRead keeps track of your stats as you read. At first you may want to stick to one word at a time, but with practice SpeedRead could really boost ...
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Marcus said:
Speed reading. A good skill to have. Where's the Mac version?
SpeedRead Increases Your Reading Pace, Retention [Featured Windows Download] (2)
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Windows only: Free application SpeedRead is designed to improve your reading speed and retention by quickly flashing a few words at a time on your screen in quick succession. You can adjust features like playback speed and number of words to display at a time, and SpeedRead keeps track of your stats as you read. At first you may want to stick to one word at a time, but with practice SpeedRead could really boost ...
Agent Ransack Adds Regular Expression Power to Windows Search [Featured Windows Download] (1)
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Windows only: Free search app Agent Ransack is a tool worth checking out if you've got a file you just can't find with Windows' built-in search or other index-based apps, but you know a few details about it. That's because Agent Ransack, the "lite" version of File Locator Pro, helps you build regular expression searches for seriously complex filtering. In other words, if you know a file starts with "T" but the next letter isn't ...
