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| Featured Windows Download: Migrate or back up your photos to another online service with Migratr |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Digital Photos, Digital Pictures, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Flickr, Top, Web Publishing, Windows |
| Windows only: Freeware application Migratr moves your digital photos from one photo sharing service to another, metadata and all. We're pretty into Flickr here at Lifehacker HQ, but Flickr's free account only serves up 100MB of storage space, so we can understand if, for example, you want to move to the 1GB pastures of an integrated Google |
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| Featured Windows Download: Build a good color palette with ColorPic |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 9:20 am |
| Tags: Color Palette, Design, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Web Design, Windows |
| Windows only: Freeware application ColorPic is a simple but powerful utility for designers that determines the HEX and decimal code of onscreen colors and manages color palettes for broad design or web-safe color use. Not only is ColorPic strong on features and simple to use—it's also very light on system resources (which is a nice bonus if |
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| Featured Windows Download: Embed Outlook on the desktop |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Calendar, Desktop, Featured Windows Download, Microsoft Outlook, Top |
| Windows only: Freeware app Outlook on the Desktop embeds the Outlook calendar directly into your desktop. Outlook on the Desktop creates a semi transparent layer that pins the Outlook Calendar on the desktop at all times. The premise is to mimic the real life paper calendaring system -- you know the really big calendar you used to keep on your |
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| Featured Windows Download: Customize Windows XP and Vista with VistaTweaker |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Featured Windows Download, Tweaks, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp |
| Windows only: Freeware app VistaTweaker makes customizing Windows a breeze. Very similar to the previously-mentioned Vispa, VistaTweaker has easier to navigate menus and can be used (with limited functionality) in Windows XP. VistaTweaker's interface is grouped in easy to navigate tabs with categories for: system, UI, IE, software, network, and |
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| Featured Windows Download: Automate free software installations with Win-Get |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Command Line, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Installation, Windows |
| syntax. For example, you can download and install the latest and greatest Firefox with win-get install firefox. This kind of command line install isn't for everyone, but it really can be much quicker than hunting for web sites and download links when you just want to download an app. Win-Get is free as in speech, Windows only, works with any |
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| Featured Windows Download: Defrag your hard drive with JkDefrag GUI |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:00 am |
| Tags: Defragment, Disk Space, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Hard Drives, Top, Utilities, Windows |
| Windows only: Freeware application JkDefrag GUI is an advanced hard drive defrag application that provides a graphical user interface for the open source JkDefrag command line defrag tool. JkDefrag puts the standard Windows defragger to shame with scheduled defrags, file optimization, and options to include/exclude directories. On the fun end of |
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| Featured Windows Download: Bowl over corrupt installations with Windows Installer CleanUp Utility |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Featured Windows Download, Installation, Installers, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp |
| Windows only: Freeware utility Windows Installer CleanUp Utility can remove Windows Installer configuration information from applications that refuse to install. Microsoft created the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility as a last ditch way of installing (or removing) an application that encounters errors during the setup (or removal) process. It's |
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| Featured Windows Download: Secure your laptop with Laptop Alarm |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 8:00 am |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Gizmodo, Laptops, Privacy, Security, Theft, Top, Windows |
| Windows only: Next time you leave your laptop unattended, turn on freeware program Laptop Alarm. Laptop Alarm sets off an alarm to alert you any time someone tries to log off, shut down, or disconnect your power supply or USB mouse without entering your password. Laptop Alarm is similar to Mac-only alarm iAlertU but—let's be |
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| Featured Windows Download: Log your workday from the system tray with Life Logger |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Capture Tools, Featured Windows Download, Plain Text, Time Management, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp |
| Windows only: Freeware app Life Logger is a small system tray application to help log your daily activities. Inspired by Gina's quick log script, Life Logger pops up a small interface showing you your most recent activities and a text box where you can add new entries. Life Logger is a stand-alone executable and writes your entries to a text |
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| Featured Windows Download: Replace Add/Remove Programs dialog with MyUninstaller |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Cleaning, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Utilities, Windows |
| Windows only: Freeware application MyUninstaller is a light-weight replacement to the Windows Add/Remove Programs dialog, similar to previously-mentioned Revo Uninstaller. The main difference: Rather than going for an impressive feature set of uninstall capabilities like Revo, MyUninstaller is a very simple, bare-bones uninstaller. It runs from a |
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| Featured Windows Download: Turn Visual Basic scripts into executables with Vbs to Exe |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Conversion, Featured Windows Download, Scripts, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp |
| Vista. Vbs to Exe is a free download for Windows only. Thanks, WRH! Vbs to Exe [F2K0] |
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| Featured Windows Download: Open PDF's in a flash with Sumatra |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Pdf, Top, Windows |
| Windows only: The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny open source portable reader that opens PDF's in the blink of an eye. Bloat and startup time is a major drawback to Adobe Reader, so we fled to the faster arms of FoxIt Reader long ago. However, at 850KB, Sumatra is way slimmer than FoxIt, and it's a single .exe file that runs nicely from a USB |
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| Featured Windows Download: Batch process images with FastStone Photo Resizer |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 8:00 am |
| Tags: Digital Photography, Digital Photos, Digital Pictures, Featured Windows Download, Image Editing, Images, Top, Windows |
| Windows only: Image processor FastStone Photo Resizer can edit, correct, crop, rename, and watermark your digital images in batch mode—that is, in big bunches all at once. This impressive little utility can: Convert and Rename images in batch mode Resize, crop, change color depth, apply color effects, add text and watermark. Rename |
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| Featured Windows Download: Turn your printer and scanner into a copy machine with iCopy |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Copy Machine, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Printers, Scanners, Windows |
| Windows only: If you bought your printer and scanner separately, free, open source application iCopy combines the two to create a one-click copy machine through the magic of software. After you install iCopy, you need to select your scanner, printer, and set whatever copy settings you want. Then just place the document you want to copy in the |
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| Featured Windows Download: Schedule Windows shutdowns with WinOFF |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Scheduled Tasks, Shutdown, Top, Windows |
| Windows only: Freeware application WinOFF schedules Windows shutdown, restart, log off, hibernate, and other shutdown modes using a variety of scheduling criteria. For example, you can tell WinOFF to shut down Windows at a specific time, after a specific period, or when the CPU is idle or usage is low for a certain period of time. WinOFF even |
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