SHELL CITY’S TOP 25 PROGRAMS, TIPS, AND TWEAKS: 2007

SHELL CITY’S TOP 25 PROGRAMS, TIPS, AND TWEAKS: 2007

http://shellcity.net/Here’s our annual list of the year’s top programs, tips and tweaks. We’ll post 4 items each day, with the final Top 5 posted on New Year’s Eve. So be sure to stay tuned in…..

Second Installment…..

18 ANTI FREEZE……….AntiFreeze offers a last recourse when you find your computer in a hung state. Because programs consume too much CPU or too much memory or too many programs have been started, your computer has become unresponsive. The mouse still moves but no programs are responding, you cannot switch to other programs or even close them. You have even tried to start the Windows Task Manager even that won’t work because it does not get enough attention from the scheduler to respond to your mouse clicks and keyboard presses. You are ready to press the reset button, instead you can press the hotkey of AntiFreeze. It will put to sleep all running programs except the most critical ones, giving you the opportunity to close down the programs which are causing problems. You may even be able to save or recover your work …..(free)…..GO THERE!

19 BONJOUR FOR WINDOWS……….From Apple, Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers …..(free)…..GO THERE!

20 CREATE SECURED FOLDERS IN XP………. Unfortunately, Windows XP does not have any user-friendly built-in tools to create secure folders on computers with multiple users. But there is another way to create a secure locked folder without having to buy any 3rd party software…..(free)…..GO THERE!

21 CLONE GENIUS………. CloneGenius provides advanced backup and recovery for your PC, protects your data by making a backup of your hard drive’s contents - without having to reinstall your Windows. CloneGenius is a comprehensive disk imaging solution for home and small office users, enhanced with Drive Image technology, suitable for both beginners and advanced users…..(free)…..GO THERE!

SHELL CITY’S TOP 25 PROGRAMS, TIPS, AND TWEAKS: 2007As promised, friends, today we begin our annual list of the year’s top programs, tips and tweaks. We’ll post our list in increments, 4 items each day, with the final Top 5 posted on New Year’s Eve. So be sure to stay tuned in….. Now here we go…..

First Installment…..

22 — ALPHA BLENDED MOUSE CURSORS……….Replace your Windows cursors with something better …..(free)…..GO THERE!

23 — RETURNIL VIRTUAL SYSTEM PERSONAL EDITION ……….Operate your system in a virtual environment, so anything you do will happen in the virtual environment, not in the real PC. The Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature. Provides a simple, effective, and smart way to prevent unwanted or malicious changes from being made to your supported Windows Operating System and the drive where Windows is installed…..(free)…..GO THERE!

24 — SHUT YOUR COMPUTER IN ONE CLICK……….Really simple, and this will work under Windows XP, and 2003…..(free)…..GO THERE!

25 — TRUE X-MOUSE GIZMO FOR WINDOWS………. Over the years Microsoft has undertaken some half-hearted attempts to bring X-Mouse functionality to Windows. Yet the most far reaching, TweakUI, goes only about one fifth of the way. Indeed, to an average X11-user the expression “X-Mouse” means the following: Keyboard focus follows mouse pointer instantly (the only one that can be achieved with TweakUI, annoyingly enough accompanied by the “quality” to raise the window upon click). Marked text is placed into the paste buffer instantly on left button release. Pasting is done with a single middle button click. (The latter two are implemented in couple of applications - only to feel more acutely the lack of it in the rest of the windows!) Ability to lower windows with right button click on window decoration. Autoraise (if engaged) is delayed relative to input refocusing. All of the above is what this “True X-Mouse Gizmo” is about…..(free)…..GO THERE!

December 26, 2007TRANSFORM XP TO VISTA……….According to the authors, “We’ve taken the best free programs and united them into one package “Transform XP to Vista”. Now you can easily modify Windows’s appearance and make your work more comfortable and pleasant” A “looks only” mod…..(free)…..GO THERE!

TASKILL……….Ends one or more tasks or processes. Processes can be killed by process ID or image name. Thanks to Cybernetnews …..(free)…..GO THERE!

GLOBAL BROADBAND SPEED TEST……….Very cool broadband speed test …..(free)…..GO THERE!

December 25, 2007REAL DESKTOP……….Your icons behave now, thanks to the powerful physics-engine, like real objects that you can touch and move as on a real desk (free version) …..(free)…..GO THERE!

BITMAP COMBINE……….Using this facility you can combine or overlay two picture files. They do not need to be the same size or even of the same type. From Mr. T …..(free)…..GO THERE!

BROWSER OBJECT………. Suitable to detect basic browser information (free version) …..(free)…..GO THERE!

December 24, 2007BOOTABLE USB KEYS………. This document describes how to create a bootable USB key, what the differences are and why some machines only boot on some of the keys around, but not all…..(free)…..GO THERE!

FREE FIRST-PERSON SHOOTERS……….A long list of downloadable games, thanks to Wikipadeia …..(free)…..GO THERE!

IE HTML ELEMENT SPY……….IE HTML Element Spy is tool that will help you to understand the structure of existing pages on the web, it is very easy to install and use…..(free)…..GO THERE!

IPTOOLS.COM……….Lots of web based Ip Tools, DNS tools, internet tools, WHOIS, traceroute, ping, domain name tools…..(free)…..GO THERE!

December 21, 2007GOOGLE MICROSOFT SEARCH………. Search Microsoft-related sites using Google…..(free)…..GO THERE!

HIDE FOLDER……….Free Hide Folder is a free computer security software to hide your private folders. It is very useful to keep your personal data away from others. Others will not know where your personal files exist and they will not be able to accidentally view them. You can hide folders simply with a few mouse clicks. Free Hide Folder is protected by a password that you can change or remove at any time …..(free)…..GO THERE!

IE HISTORY MANAGER……….IE History Manager is a small program that gives you the ability to manage yours Internet History. It reads all information from the history file on your computer, and displays the list of all URLs that you have visited in the last few days. IE History Manager allows you to erase these Internet tracks, including Internet Explorer’s cache, cookies, history, visited URLs, typed URLs, autocomplete memory, index.dat files …..(free)…..GO THERE!

WINDOWS TOOLS ………. Desktop Central provides a set of free Windows tools that Windows Administrators might require on an day-to-day basis. It has a set of five tools, viz: Wake on LAN, GPO Update, Shutdown/Restart Tool, Software Inventory Tool, and Join/Unjoin Computer Tool. This is very handy as it can be performed on multiple computers simultaneously. These tools are made available from the Desktop Central family and is provided as a separate download, which is absolutely free to use…..(free)…..GO THERE!

~ by pdna on December 28, 2007.