Windows
Mmm Free Declutters Busy Context Menus [Featured Windows Download]
Windows XP only: When you right-click on your desktop or on a file, do you have to go through two dozen useless menu items before you hit the one you want? Free utility Mmm offers an easy interface f ....... read more
22 hours ago
iTunes 8.0.2 Adds Screen Reader Support [ITunes]
Along with the release of the iPhone 2.2 software, Apple also drops a new iTunes update to version 8.0.2, which includes bug fixes and integration with VoiceOver (Mac) and Window-Eyes (Windows), scre ....... read more
1 day ago
Spicebird 0.7 Beta Adds Google Gadgets and Instant Messaging [Featured Download]
Windows and Linux only: A new release of the open-source, all-in-one email, calendar, and task manager Spicebird is now available for download. Kevin took you on a tour of Spicebird 0.4 back in Januar ....... read more
1 day ago
Spice up Your Desktop With Lightweight Wallpaper Shifter [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Wallpaper Shifter is a lightweight wallpaper randomizer. The installation is 8.11MB which by portable-application standards isn't super light, but the system resources consumed by Walllp ....... read more
1 day ago
Best Desktop Customization Tool? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]
Sure your computer's desktop may be functional out of the box, but some of us need to put the 'P' in PC before we really feel at home at a computer. We love looking at how our readers have customized ....... read more
1 day ago
Integrate YouSendIt with Microsoft Office [Microsoft Office]
Send that big PowerPoint presentation or Excel spreadsheet without clogging up your recipient's email inbox straight from Microsoft Office using previously mentioned file delivery service YouSendIt. ....... read more
1 day ago
Process Manager Prioritizes, Kills Running Apps via Right-Click [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application Process Manager adds an entry to your right-click context menu that adjusts an application's priority or kills the app. Once Process Manager is running, the kill and pri ....... read more
1 day ago
Eraser Portable Securely Wipes Data from Your Thumb Drive [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application Eraser Portable puts previously mentioned Eraser—the popular open-source secure file deletion tool—on your thumb drive for secure file deletion on the go. Li ....... read more
1 day ago
How to Declutter Your Windows Context Menu [Windows Tip]
Windows tip: Whether you use them or not, many applications install superfluous entries to your Windows right-click context menu resulting in a cluttered mess. The How-To Geek weblog details how to cl ....... read more
2 days ago
Zapr Makes File Sharing Painless [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Zapr is a new file-sharing application that promises to make remote file sharing extremely simple. Users download the Zapr application, set up a free account, and can immediately begin ....... read more
3 days ago
Tidy Favorites Is a Customizable Thumbnail Homepage [Featured Download]
Windows only: Web browser plug-in Tidy Favorites creates a customizable bookmarks start page for Firefox and Internet Explorer complete with thumbnail previews. We've seen several Firefox extensions c ....... read more
3 days ago
Microsoft to Offer Free Anti-malware Software with Windows [In Brief]
In an effort to improve user experience and secure more machines from becoming zombies on botnets, Microsoft's anti-malware project codenamed "Morro" will be free with every copy of the operating syst ....... read more
3 days ago
Hot Corners Adds Actions to Desktop Corners [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Hot Corners, a free utility for Windows desktops, adds the "hot corners" abilities of OS X's Expose system to any Windows desktop. The system tray utility can assign actions like minimiz ....... read more
4 days ago
Doc Scrubber Removes Hidden Metadata from Your Word Docs [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Every time you save a Microsoft word doc, Word embeds gobs of potentially embarrassing metadata in your document, meaning that when you send a document off to someone else, you may be se ....... read more
3 days ago
Axence NetTools Is Advanced Network Monitoring Tool [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application Axence NetTools is a comprehensive suite of networking tools for your PC, including a network scanner, inbound/outbound connection monitor (NetStat), port scanner, and o ....... read more
3 days ago
ZoneAlarm 2009 Pro Free Tomorrow Today Only [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: The popular Windows firewall application ZoneAlarm Free has a big brother called ZoneAlarm Pro, which boasts a handful of features not available in the free version—including integ ....... read more
4 days ago
PowerShell Comes with Windows 7 [Windows 7]
Microsoft stripped its calendar and photo gallery apps from Windows 7, but one extra it did bundle into the Windows 7 Preview is PowerShell, a souped-up command line and scripting GUI that frees you, ....... read more
11 days ago
Parallels 4 Released, 50% Faster than Parallels 3 [Featured Mac Download]
Mac OS X only: The original Windows-on-Mac virtualization software Parallels—which we've used to run Windows and Mac apps side-by-side, set Windows programs as defaults on a Mac, and boot our Bo ....... read more
10 days ago
Treesize Free is a Simple Disk Space Visualizer [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: We've previously highlighted some disk space visualization tools with all kinds of neat graphics, but Treesize Free shoots for just the opposite—a clean, simple interface showing h ....... read more
11 days ago
Transmute Transfers and Backs Up Bookmarks Between Browsers [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Some browsers stash all your bookmarks and their metadata in a single folder that's easy to import to any other browser. For everything else, Transmute makes the work of shuttling bookm ....... read more
11 days ago