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[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...
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[Windows] Annoyed by high ping times? Lower them dramatically with Leatrix...
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,...
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[Windows 8] View and download the magnificent Astronomy Picture of the Day in...
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...
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[Windows] Detect and monitor file and folder modification, creation, and...
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...
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[Windows 8] Browse the internet’s front page Reddit with the first...
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...
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[Windows] Instantly hide all open windows and cycle through them one by one...
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...
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[Windows] Translate from English to Gibberish with Translator Boomerang and...
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...
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[Windows 8] Bring scientific calculator functions to your computer with...
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...
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[Windows] Clean up and tweak your dirty context menu with Right Click Enhancer
Every time you right click on a file or folder, it brings up the context menu. In there, age-old programs that you thought you took off of your hard drive 10 years ago lurk around, waiting for you to...
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[Windows 8] Bring Windows Gadgets back to Windows 8 with 8GadgetPack
Microsoft changed thousands of things between Windows 7 and Windows 8. Not the least of the differences is the omission of Gadgets. Originally introduced in Windows Vista as the Sidebar, they were...
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[Windows 8] Play checkers with your computer in Modern Checkers
Are you a fan of checkers? If you are, you’ll probably be disappointed to hear that there is not going to be an official Microsoft release of checkers for Windows 8. However, that doesn’t mean that...
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[Windows] Collect all of your Windows utilities in one place with Puran...
Every Windows computer ever, no matter how meticulously kept up, has some amount of useless or junk data on it. Be it in a temp file somewhere, or even a failing hard drive, Puran Utilities lets you...
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[Windows] Pick a video, song, or file at random with Pick Me
Are you trying to pick just one movie or video to watch tonight? Best of luck! If you were perhaps using a random number generator like Pick Me, however, you could eliminate the overwhelming number of...
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[Windows 8] View and learn about the 118 elements with the Periodic Table
Chemistry students everywhere are always in search of a better periodic table–one that shows them everything they need to know without overcrowding the already small squares. Due to their linkable,...
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[Windows] Lower your computer’s volume automatically with Volume Concierge
Are you an evening computer user? Many people are, but at the same time, many people choose to sleep or otherwise rest during the same time. If someone in your household or workplace doesn’t want your...
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[Windows] Disable USB reading or USB writing with one click with Phrozen Safe...
USB drives are great–a great way to transfer viruses and sensitive files from one computer to another, that is. If you’d prefer to keep other people’s data off of your computer and your data on it, you...
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[Windows] Edit your Windows Vista or 7 bootloader with Visual BCD Editor
Is your computer prompting you to choose between Windows 7 and some version of Windows you got rid of many years ago? That’s actually an issue with your bootloader, but luckily, with Visual BCD Editor...
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[Windows 8] Get a beautifully-animated, wonderfully-futuristic disk scanner...
The future is of technology awesome, according to movies such as The Minority Report and Avatar. (The future itself, not so much.) But those futuristic computer interfaces are actually somewhat...
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[Windows] View detailed information about the elements of the periodic table...
There is tons of information known about each and every element known to mankind, but accessing it is another story. Most of it is scattered by the winds throughout the internet, some appearing on...
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[Windows 8] Read the latest issue of Popular Science with the free PopSci app
Popular Science is a cool magazine, and has made a great switch over into web magazine form. It has an official Android app, an iOS app, and now, a Windows 8 app. It rolls all of the latest stories and...
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[Windows] Download and upload to remote fileservers (FTP, SCP, SFTP) with WinSCP
There are tons of people who use FTP clients every day. Graphic designers use them to upload completed designs. Web programmers use them to upload finished scripts and programs. Whatever you use them...
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[Windows] Help scientists unravel the mysteries of protein folding with...
Did you know that, around the world, there are numerous projects to use home computers as distributed supercomputers? There are, and Folding@home is one of the most famous ones. Created by scientists...
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[Windows 8] Watch full-screen TED talks with TEDTalks HD
Ever seen a TED video? If not, then you don’t know what you are missing. TED – which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design – is a nonprofit organization that organizes TED conferences and talks...
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[Windows] Back up, transfer, and restore your Gmail inbox and archive with...
A lot of people use Gmail to manage their day-to-day lives. But what happens if Gmail were to suddenly get wiped off the face of the earth, or if Google were to close down your account? It’s important...
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[Windows] Help your concentration and sleep better with White Noise Sleep System
Extraneous noise can be very distracting–it’s our brains trying to pick patterns out of the background. White noise can help. Random frequencies that combined create the sound from an old CRT TV on the...
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[Windows 8] MetroPuzzle is a simple, fun puzzler that makes you think
So few games released today are slow, relaxing puzzlers. That’s what makes MetroPuzzle stand out: rather than being all about rushing as fast as you can, it makes you stop and think. It’s all about the...
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[Windows] Open frequently used applications and files quickly with the free...
Handy as Windows 7′s taskbar may be for launching all of your favorite apps and programs, it’s still not perfect. There’s still no official way, after three years, to dock specific files on your...
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[Windows] Open Firefox and Firefox Portable at the same time with TwinFox
One of the coolest things about Firefox is that it’s available in both installable and entirely thumbdrive-based portable editions. If you’re a user of the portable version, however, you might find it...
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[Windows 8] Watch and listen to YouTube videos with Youtube Player
The internet is all about sharing photos, videos, music, and much much more. A large part of this is entirely YouTube, the online video sharing site that has become a home for high quality (and low...
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[Windows] Test USB drives for actual storage capacity with H2testw, because...
“$12 for a 64GB flash drive?! Send me 20!” Cheap thumb drives and hard drives off of Ebay and from street vendors can often be of dubious quantity and quality, even if they claim to work when you plug...
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[Windows] Monitor CPU usage, memory usage, and computer temperature from your...
Keeping tabs on your CPU and memory usage is a must for anyone who likes to keep their system in tip-top shape. If you’re one of those people, try Perfgraph. It’s a free program that adds a...
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[Windows 8] Pop the bubbles or die trying in Bubble Star
Bubble Star is a free game on the Windows Store that offers 100 levels and ”hours of fun”–and it’s not just talk. It’s for real. Bubble Star, which is essentially Frozen Bubble with powerups, is a...
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[Windows] Attachments too big? Split them with Split Byte
Email, for some bizarre reason, still has an upload limit of around 25-50MB. It’s slowly getting better, but you still can’t send very large attachments to certain people. If you need to email...
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[Windows] Keep track of files and add the date to the end of filenames with...
Many computer users deal extensively with files every day. However, they often loose track of which exact version of a file something is, or when it was created. With Append Date, that’s not an issue:...
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[Windows 8] Learn about your neighborhood by reading Wikipedia on Explora
What are some cool or interesting places to visit in your area? If you’re new to the area, you probably don’t know–but with Explora, you can find out. Explora lets you view Wikipedia articles on local...
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