Anti-tracking company Ghostery has updated its Firefox add-on to version 6.0 in what the developer is calling “the most significant upgrade to Ghostery since its inception”.
The interface has been redesigned, with a new dashboard giving …
Picosmos Tools is a versatile image management suite which includes a viewer, editor, batch processor, capture tool, simple publishing tools and more.
The program stands out immediately with its Windows Start Screen-type launcher, colorful “live tiles” giving you speedy access to each module.
Freeware developer The SZ has shipped a new version of PortScan, its one-stop network toolkit for Windows XP and later.
We last checked out the program way back in 2012, so the new release seems like a good time to look at it again.
Your PC is misbehaving. Is it malware? Faulty software, maybe? Scanning for PC for digitally signed files can help to pick out trustworthy executables, and highlight unsigned files for more investigation.
Sysinternals’ Sigcheck provides a vast amount of information and options, but it’s also a console tool, maybe inconvenient if you don’t use it enough to learn the various switches.
Makagiga started life long ago as an open-source, Java-based RSS reader. But then the developer started to take it further. Much, much further.
The program now also has a capable to-do manager. A note taker. A simple image editor. And, via optional plugs, web searching, an OpenStreetMap viewer, a thesaurus, LaTex/ Markdown/ BB Code previews, screen capture, barcode generation and more.
You’re browsing the web, find some interesting text, copy and paste it elsewhere… And then realise it’s got all the original formatting, now entirely unnecessary. And maybe an unwanted image, too.
Copy Plain Text is a Firefox add-on which supports copying plain text only, and adds some handy text processing extras as well.
AlomWare Actions Lite is a scripting tool which allows even novice users to automate many PC tasks.
There are commands to launch applications, download web pages, send emails, type text, simulate mouse clicks, work with files, and a whole lot more, and these may all be combined to make up a single action.
You’ve been working on it forever, and had almost finished, but… Disaster. That all-important Word document no longer opens.
If you’re using some other viewer, try reopening it in Word. It may offer to repair the file, and this can fix a lot of problems.
Artists and photographers often need a clear understanding of the colors used in an image, but standard photo editor tools like the histogram do little to help.
Image Color Analyzer is a free Android app designed to deliver a clearer view of an image palette.
The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 5.1 64-bit and LibreOffice 5.1 32-bit. It comes just under six months after version 5.0 debuted back in August yet unveils some major changes to the user interface as well as performance improvements.
LibreOffice 5.1 promises new and simplified application menus, faster start-up times and a number of application-specific improvements, including better slide transitions in Impress and a host of new features in Calc.
It happens all the time. You’re working in Explorer, maybe opening or saving a file, but the current folder is so far away that you have to click, and click, and click to get there.
Quick Access Popup – a new and improved version of Folders Popup – is a freeware tool which ensures your favorite folders and apps are only ever a click or two away.
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