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Alert Thingy v3 adds support for business apps
Version 2 of Alert Thingy may have just been released last month, but version 3 is here now.V3 has been tweaked to include features that make it an excellent addition to your work desktop, including support for Basecamp, Yammer, and Huddle. Alert Th...
Yawffer monitors, safely freezes Windows processes
Yawffer is a utility for windows that monitors the time and your computers CPU, memory, and disk usage. You can set it to show some or all of this information in the corner of your computer display, and you can easily adjust the font, size, and color...
Freebyte Task Scheduler: Portable task scheduling
Freebyte Task Scheduler is a free utility for windows that lets you schedule daily, weekly, or one-off jobs for your PC. You can use it to run a backup utility every night at midnight, or start your streaming audio player when your favorite radio sho...
Monitor and close inactive Windows tasks with JustCloseSomeTasks
JustCloseSomeTasks is one of those rare utilities that does exactly what you think it would. It closes some tasks, but not all of them. The free Windows program monitors all of your running programs. And if you haven't used one of those apps in a whi...
7 addons and two tweaks for annoyance-free browsing with Firefox
firefox is a great browser, even in its unmodified, fresh-from-the-install form. If you're installing it for someone else and are trying to provide the most irritation-free experience you can, you might want to install a few of these addons.AdBlock ...
Monitor websites in Firefox with Pingdom's Mr. Uptime
There are plenty of ways to be notified when a site comes back online, like previously mentioned Ding, It's Up and Notify Me. If you're a firefox user, you may as well use an extension that's powered by the granddaddy of monitoring services, Pingdom'...
Mouseless for Firefox updates with better support for web apps
Mouseless has been mentioned on Downloadsquad before, and it's steadily improved since Jordan Running first posted about it.The latest version offers improved support for dynamic web apps like GMail and Facebook. The number of "clickable" links has a...
Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac brings screensharing and more
If you're a Mac-using fan of Skype you'll probably be quite excited about version 2.8 beta of their ubiquitous Voice over IP application. Bringing in a raft of new features, the beta includes the ability to screenshare between machines - a feature no...
Openfire: cross-platform Jabber server
Openfire is an open-source Jabber (XMPP) server that provides an easy way to offer and maintain internal instant messaging (including voice and video chat) for your company or organization. There are server plugins available which can add archiving ...
Keep your application installers updated with Ketarin
We've covered applications that attempt to download and install the latest versions of your Windows software in the past. But Ketarin takes a different approach. You can enter a list of applications you want to track, and it will automatically check ...
FastAero adds Vista-like transparency to Windows XP
FastAero is a Windows XP utility that adds a transparency effect to some program windows. The effect is similar to one of the components of the Aero Glass interface on Windows Vista: You can see through borders of some programs and more easily see wh...
Upload files to 100+ hosts from your Windows desktop
If you're a frequent uploader of files, Zoom's File & Image Uploader is well worth a download.It supports more than 70 file hosting services, including popular options like Mediafire, Megaupload, Rapidshare, Sendspace and 23 image hosts like Imagesh...
Easily and completely remove the Microsoft XPS doc writer
I do my best to minimize confusion and headaches for my retail customers. One thing that never fails to confuse and annoy is the Microsoft XPS Document Writer.Most of them have no idea what it is or how it got added to their list of printers. To avoi...
OpenItOnline for Firefox opens Office, image files with web apps
By now, many of you are probably using web-based office suites like Zoho, Google Docs, or Thinkfree as your primary office applications. If you do and you're a Firefox user as well, you'll probably love the OpenIT Online addon. I mentioned it previo...
Add Leopard-style folder stacks to Windows
I'm not a Mac user, but OSX has a lot of nice features - several of which have been translated into Windows shell enhancements. I've been using the Stacks docklet in RocketDock for quite a while. It's a very handy way to navigate frequently accessed ...
Raptor manages downloads for Rapidshare Free users
There are plenty of good download managers available for Rapidshare Premium members, but what about those of us without a pair account?Raptor is a good option for handling multiple RS downloads with minimal fuss. Just copy the download URL, click the...
Limewire 5 Alpha screenshot tour
Limewire is one of the oldest filesharing programs around, and it's by far the most popular. The Limewire development team continues to work hard on version 5, which promises to bring some very big changes to the application. After taking a look at W...
Anti-Malware Toolkit updated, supports loads of new apps
Lunarsoft, producers of Anti-Malware Toolkit, have been hard at work since I mentioned it on Downloadsquad back in August.The handy updater now supports 37 different downloads in five categories, including: Spyware: Spyware Blaster, CCleaner, RogueR...
MS Web PI provides an easy way to roll IIS, SQL, .NET
WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) installers have been around for ages, and provide an easy way for anyone to quickly set up a platform for developing web apps on their Windows desktop. If, however, you're looking to play in the Microsoft sandbox, t...
Rohos Min Drive creates protected partitions on USB flash drives
Rohos Mini Drive is a free Windows utility that will let you create a hidden, password-protected and encrypted partition on any USB flash drive. In theory you could use the software on your hard drive as well, but it really comes in handy if you have...
Clone2Go: Batch video converter for Windows
Clone2Go is a video conversion utility for Windows that accepts videos in a variety of formats (including WMV, MPG, MP4, or 3GP), and includes at least as many output options. What sets Clone2Go apart from some other video converters out there is tha...
Hot Corners adds OSX-style magic corners to Windows
I'm a big fan of applications that extend the power of my keyboard, but I like being able to to teach my mouse some new tricks as well.Hot Corners is a application that allows you to assign a number of actions that occur when your mouse hovers over t...
VideoCacheView lets you save web videos you've watched
Nir Sofer writes great Windows apps. His programs are tiny, they're portable, and they're unbelievably useful. VideoCacheView is yet another in the long list of great NirSoft creations.If you watch a lot of web video on sites like YouTube, VideoCache...
Flash Drive Reminder reminds you to unplug your flash drive
Flash Driver Reminder is a different kind of nagware. While some applications will pop up a nag message reminding you to register or pay for your software after you've been using it a while, Flash Drive Reminder actually provides you with a useful na...
Require passwords to launch programs with Empathy
If you need a way to prevent users from launching certain programs on an XP or Vista Home system, have a look at Empathy.Users of XP Pro or Vista Business/Ultimate don't technically need to bother with a program like this. It's fairly easy to use se...
Driver Backup! 2 is a free, portable DriverMax alternative
I've been using DriverMax for a while, and it's a great tool - I included it in my 5 applications for a painless Windows reformat. One thing I don't like about it is that it's not portable and that the screens don't display properly on computers runn...
KLS Mail Backup makes email, browser backups a snap
KLS Mail Backup takes the hassle out of backing up and restoring profile data from seven different programs: IE, Firefox, Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Seamonkey, Live Mail, and Windows Mail. Select the applications and profiles you want to back up, ...
ZScreen is a powerful, open source screenshot app
I've been using FastStone Capture for quite some time, but it may be time to pass screenshot duties on to another program.ZScreen is an extremely flexible alternative. The usual capture options are supported - full screen, active window, or selectio...
AbiWord 2.6.5 supports OpenOffice.org, MS Word 2007 files
The latest version of open source word processor AbiWord adds support for Office Open XML filters, which means you can now use AbiWord to open, edit, or save OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word 2007 documents. AbiWord 2.6.5 also includes a number of ...
GetIt combines the power of three Windows apt-style updaters
As I've mentioned before, I'm a fan of apt-get. It's an extremely easy way to get tons of new applications installed on a new Linux installation. Plenty of similar options exist for Windows, but one stands out.GetIt combines the power of three Windo...
