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Monthly Archive: September 2010

Software Reviews

Top 10 Must Have Windows Freeware

PowerPro

powerpro.webeddie.com

Briefly talked about at https://www.rgdot.com/bl/2010/03/16/powerpro-is-the-ultimate-freeware/

Does it all and some more. Create a bar to do everything from launching programs to saving clipboard items and to scheduling systems task and lots more.

Photoscape

www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

Reviewed at https://www.rgdot.com/bl/2009/04/20/photoscape-for-all-your-image-editing-needs/

Photo and image editor and viewer with many features on a clean interface.

VirtuaWin or Dexpot

virtuawin.sourceforge.net or www.dexpot.de/index.php?lang=en

Dexpot reviewed at https://www.rgdot.com/bl/2008/12/17/dexpot-virtual-desktops/

Virtual desktop manager to create different desktops with different applications open on each. Organize your oft used applications on different desktops.

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

Backup and store your files on the cloud, easily access them and their older versions

Image Tuner Freeware

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Image Tuner Is Your Basic Image Editor

Image Tuner is a lightweight freeware which works on images or series of images and applies a set of basic but simple and useful tasks to them. Pictures or a folder of pictures are added by dragging them into the program window or by using the Add Folder or Add Images buttons. The images will then be listed and previews of them can be seen on the top right. On the lower left a destination folder is chosen and any of the available options checked.

Pictures can be resized to one of many preset sizes in the available drop down

AH Note Freeware Notepad Alternative

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AH Note: Free And Simple Notepad Alternative

AH Note is a young entry in the notepad alternative universe. AH Note’s capabilities are all visible via its icons around the program interface. Its features, those not common to all simple notepad alternatives are listed below.

Copy options to copy the current file name and path. Indent selected text by 1 column increments. Add bullet points to selected text. Add images to any text document. Zoom in and out of pages. View the page in a browser and finally convert selected or all text to lower or upper case.

AH Note can open many text files formats and save

Green

A Nissan Leaf Ad And A Word On Clean Power

Nissan Leaf (Leading, Environmentally friendly, Affordable, Family car) begins its US roll out very soon and it will be available in some other world wide markets before a more widespread roll out. It is Nissan’s all electric car with a range of 100 miles (160 km). It has a top speed of over 140 km/h (87 mph). Its motor is rated at 80 kW (110 hp) and 280 Nm (210 lbft).

Some responses to electric cars can be paraphrased as such:

The electricity you are using to charge your car is produced in a non environmentally friendly manner, such as

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Simple Freeware: Screenshoter And Easy Image Modifier

Screenshoter is a basic, no-install utility to take or capture screenshots quickly and easily. Double click the program executable, choose full screen or area – to capture an area click on the area button, after choosing the area radio button, then click and hold the left mouse button and drag to choose a rectangular area – and then simply click the screenshot button. The image’s format can be changed from the default *.jpg to either *.png or *.bmp and the destination directory can be chosen too. Screenshoter’s options include controlling the name of the captured image and the quality of

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Freeware FileSieve 3 Sifts Through Files And Folders

FileSieve 3 is a small program which organizes files and folders into highly configurable destination folders. As with software of its kind it is best used for organizing large amounts of files that accumulate on a system over many download and similar sessions.

The process or work flow of FileSieve 3 is well defined in a five numbered step process (see image). A profile and/or a list of directories can be created, saved and loaded for future sessions. These source folder(s) would contain all the files that will be sorted using FileSieve. Then a destination folder is chosen where the