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[Windows 8] Bring scientific calculator functions to your computer with Calculator²
Many people use scientific calculators only once or twice a month. This means that the rest of the time, they’re sitting, occupying space, for vast amounts of time. Ditch the physical device and start using your extremely powerful computer as a calculating machine with Calculator² for Windows 8.
One of [...]
Read More »[Windows] Translate from English to Gibberish with Translator Boomerang and repeated usage of Google Translate
In recent years it’s gotten popular to showcase how odd and mechanical online translators can be by repeatedly translating from English to another language, back again, and then to another language multiple times. But finding a good webapp that does that can be annoying, and they tend to disappear or [...]
[Windows] Instantly hide all open windows and cycle through them one by one with PutAside
On Windows 7, hitting the Win+D keyboard shortcut automatically minimizes all of your windows and shows the desktop. It has some pretty big issues, however: it’s either all windows at once, or none at all. You can’t hide only Chrome or only Notepad, leaving Command Prompt and Paint open. You [...]
[Windows 8] Browse the internet’s front page Reddit with the first full-featured Windows 8 Reddit app Snoo
The internet is an amazing place, and its self-purported front page Reddit.com is a great way to discuss the latest in almost any subject area, technology, or game. And, of course, cat pictures. Lots of cat pictures! A hallmark of every good platform, then, is a good Reddit app. It [...]
[Windows] Detect and monitor file and folder modification, creation, and deletion with FolderChangesView
There are thousands of tiny filesystem changes across your computer every second, but for the most part, they’re entirely invisible. It’s when a file gets modified in special places that they’re cause for alarm or celebration, and FolderChangesView lets you do just that: monitor folders for the creation, deletion, or [...]
[Windows 8] View and download the magnificent Astronomy Picture of the Day in one beautiful, sleek interface
The world is a beautiful place. So is space. Every day for the last several years, NASA has been republishing one photo a day on their Astronomy Picture of the Day service, and it’s been brought to dozens of devices through the use of dedicated apps and services. However, no [...]
[Windows] Annoyed by high ping times? Lower them dramatically with Leatrix Latency Fix
Windows is the world’s most popular gaming platform. Through markets like Steam and Origin, as well as the traditional box-and-disc market, it’s remained at the top of the food chain for many years, too, including the segue into the multiplayer world. Properly running a multiplayer game, of course, requires a [...]
[Windows] Automatically resize photos and images while uploading with RoboSizer
Are you being crushed by annoying internet speed caps or bandwidth caps? WinBit Software was, so they created RoboSizer. It automatically resizes and compresses photos and images based on easy to use profiles, allowing you to keep your upload times low and your browsing fast.
RoboSizer actually intercepts any file [...]
Read More »[Windows] Compress and decompress files with Haozip
There are thousands of compression tools available all across the internet. Many, like 7-Zip and WinZip, are incredibly popular for no particular reason. What makes 7-Zip better than PeaZip? What makes WinZip better than ALZip? Haozip is another one of those free compression tools, and like 7-Zip, is free and [...]
[Windows 8] Break and place triangles for as long as possible in LINX
Each triangle you place gets you more points… but the screen fills up quickly! Link L shapes into rectangles of 3×2 or bigger, but beware that each rectangle then turns into another L–of a different color. This keeps you running and running, until the board inevitably fills up.
Linx is [...]
Read More »[Windows] Laggy games? Speed them up with Wise Game Booster
My computer is slow and laggy. There’s not much I can do to help that, though, as it’s a mid-2010 laptop that had half of its RAM die within a year. However, what little I can do can be automated with Wise Game Booster: it’ll close programs, stop services, and [...]
[Windows] Love photographing but hate the blur? Magically deblur photos with Blurity
The future is here! Instead of coming in the form of hoverboards and hovercars, however, it came in the form of magic: the magic to unblur blurry photographs. For many years, computer scientists have been coming up with algorithms to deblur photographs, but none of them ever made it into [...]
[Windows 8] Flick off the lights with the classic puzzler Lights Out
There are a set of classic games that must be repeated on every platform before it can be considered a viable platform. There’s Tetris, of course, and Minesweeper. But then there’s also Lights Out. It’s a supposedly simple game, and with its simple logic, it’s even been created in Minecraft. [...]
[Windows] Increase drive speed by creating superfast temporary RAM disks with RAMDisk
Your computer’s hard drive is slow. It’s even slow if you’ve upgraded to the next generation of disk drive technology, a solid state drive. What’s faster? Your computer’s RAM. That’s right–there’s technology that exists to temporarily create a storage space on your RAM, making for lightning speed access speeds [...]
[Windows] Automatically flip through open windows with AutoTab
The scene: a trade show. The time: ten minutes before it starts. The problem: you’re supposed to be flipping through a pile of graphics, but have no idea how. Suddenly, you remember a small program you read about named AutoTab. It’s designed to flip through every open window you have [...]
[Windows 8] Play Scrabble with friends and random players with WordFeud
Are you a fan of the real-world game Scrabble, or the Facebook game Words with Friends? Try WordFeud. Building on the everlasting classic, WordFeud adds twists like random boards, push notifications, multiple languages, and more.
Everyone knows at least the basics of Scrabble. You are given a set of letters, [...]
Read More »Bring Google Voice (text, talk, and notifications) to your desktop with GVNotifier [Windows]
Google Voice is an awesome Google service that lets you use one universal number with any telephone and line you might own–calling or texting. If you’re a user of this extremely convenient service, you might have been looking for a program that lets you text and listen to voicemail on [...]
Upload and manage images on Imgur with MyImgur [Windows]
Are you in need of an easy to use program to upload images to the web? MyImgur is a free tool that integrates with online image hoster Imgur to not only upload, but take screenshots and delete previously uploaded images.
MyImgur is definitely not the best looking of Imgur clients. [...]
Read More »Convert as many units as you want as quickly as you want with Unit Converter++ [Windows 8]
Are you bad at math? Even if you aren’t, you’d still have a hard time converting 10 liters to US fluid ounces. With Unit Converter++, you can take away the pain of number crunching and convert units in seconds flat. Just select a category, a beginning unit, an ending unit, [...]
Compress your files to the smallest possible size with File Optimizer [Windows]
Every file on your computer is way larger than it really needs to be. That’s because there’s a tradeoff between bandwidth, storage space, and processing power, and processing power usually wins. If you’re looking for a way to save drive space or bandwidth, compressing them as much as possible is [...]
Resize images from right-click context menu with Free Image Resizer [Windows]
Looking for an easy way to resize your images? In Windows, there is none by default. The only way to resize images is to open them in Paint, scale them, and save them. Once you install Free Image Resizer, however, that all changes: you’ll get two context menu items and [...]
Read stunning photo blogging on your Windows 8 computer or tablet with the official Big Picture app [Windows 8]
The internet is full of many wonderous things, not the least of which is a bevy of photo blogs. Of those photo blogs, however, one stands out: The Big Picture. This photo blog, run by Boston.com, is nothing short of amazing. Each entry they put out is around 40 crisp, [...]
Bring command line package management to Windows with Chocolatey [Windows]
Are you a fan of Linux, and its incredibly easy to use Terminal-based package management? Installing programs on Linux is as easy as a single command. With Chocolatey, you can bring that easy installation to your Windows computer.
With Chocolatey, you just run a few commands:
- clist [program name]. This
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Read More »Play an extremely confusing game of Tetris in 3D with Blockability 3d [Windows 8]
Are you a huge fan of the 2D falling block game also known as “Tetris”? If you are, you probably love that we’ve been covering a lot of Tetris-like games recently. Blockability 3d is yet another one of those: it’s Tetris, in 3D.
Unlike some 3D Tetris games, Blockability 3d [...]
Read More »View local wireless networks in detail with WifiInfoView [Windows]
Are you getting a consistently weak wireless signal? Do you find that there are tons of wireless networks around you? WifiInfoView, the latest tool from NirSoft, is a free tool to view all of the WiFi networks around you, and detailed information about them.
In the main screen, WifiInfoView shows [...]
Read More »Play Tetris on your computer or tablet with Tetriblox [Windows 8]
By this point in life, you must be familiar with the game of Tetris. If you’re not, it’s the game of falling blocks in which one must attempt to stack up a full row of blocks. Doing so causes them to disappear–earning you more time before they reach the top. [...]
Save text and images from your clipboard as files with Paste As File [Windows]
Looking for a way to make cut, copy, and paste more useful? Consider this: when designing Windows, Microsoft completely overlooked pasting clipboard data as a file. This means you can’t paste images or text documents to your desktop, and is quite annoying. Paste As File changes that: now, you can [...]
Predator: Automatically lock and unlock your computer using a thumb drive [Windows]
Tappity-tappity-tappity tap. Wait a few seconds. Is that the process you go through every day to log into your computer? Booooring! Instead, log into your computer with a loud, annoying countdown timer and your favorite thumb drive. Predator can do that, and it can do it entirely free: lock and [...]
Type foreign (non-English) characters easily with Holdkey [Windows]
Do you have to type in a foreign language on an English keyboard? If you do, then you must hate accents with a bü®ñïñg ¶äߧîöñ. I know I would. Before, you’d have to memorize tons of totally intuitive Alt codes, or open up the clunky character map. Holdkey does away [...]
Save and restore desktop icon layouts with DesktopOK [Windows]
Bzzt! The power goes out. That’s OK, you weren’t doing anything too important. Just power back on your computer, and–whaaaa?! Why are your desktop icons all wrong!?
Windows has an annoying habit of resetting your desktop icon layout if a fly lands on your volume key. Or you change screen [...]
Read More »Like Hangman? Bring it to your Windows 8 computer or tablet with Doodle Hangman Free [Windows 8]
Do you remember playing hangman in class instead of learning boring ol’ algebra? Now, you can play against your computer with Doodle Hangman Free! It’s a fun little game that lets you choose the category, so you actually might have a chance to win.
Doodle Hangman Free starts off with [...]
Read More »Verify file downloads by calculating MD5 hashes from the context menu with HashOnClick [Windows]
Are you an avid downloader? You then might have experienced once or twice the annoyance of a supposedly fully downloaded file that actually got messed up while downloading. Some developers combat this by posting MD5 hashes on their websites: these are codes that are unique to each file, and can [...]
Play a fun crossword game on your PC or tablet with Word Search [Windows 8]
Are you a fan of the crossword puzzle? I certainly am, so I was excited when I found Word Search on the Windows Store. It’s a free, singleplayer crossword app that features built-in lists with varying difficulties and a timer to keep you on track.
There are three modes to [...]
Read More »Upgrade your workflow and gain mastery over windows with GridMove [Windows]
Are you a fan of Windows’ Aero Snap, the feature where you can just drag windows to the tops or sides of your screen to maximize them? Many people are, but many others find it too limiting. With GridMove, there are no limits: you can set it up to move [...]
Keep your square in the court for as long as possible in Escapa [Windows 8]
Are you a fan of this free JavaScript game? Apparently someone was, as it’s made its way into a Windows 8 app and onto the Windows Store. There, it’s downloaded by thousands as it’s incredibly fun, high-definition graphics rock the world. Escapa is a free game in which you simply [...]