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Windows Tweaker: 100+ Tweaks For System Utilities & UI Components

Most power users want their Windows to be customized to their own liking and comfort, and in order to achieve that, they tweak Windows Registry and Local Group Policy Editor. In the past, we’ve covered a lot of tweaking utilities for Windows 7, such as Sunrise Seven (an application designed for Windows 7 that provides [...] (more…)

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Tiggit Is An Open-Source Indie Game Downloader & Launcher For Windows

E-sports has been gaining quite a lot of popularity in recent times. There was a time when video games were considered to be something only for kids, but nowadays, games like Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Valve’s Dota 2 have become the part of a fervently followed virtual sport. While some people, the professional [...] (more…)

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Identify The Extension Of An Unknown/Extensionless File With FiletypeID

Sometimes, we come across files that are without a file extension. In such cases, other than hit-and-trial (trying to open the file with different random software), there is no other way to identify the programs that can be used to open the file. The method can prove to be very time-consuming and inefficient, of course, [...] (more…)

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Audio Pitch & Shift: Add Effects To Songs, Change Their Pitch & Playback Speed

Last month, we covered BPMinus, an application for Windows that allows you to play and control the speed of music tracks while maintaining their pitch, as well as the sound quality. Even though BPMinus performed excellent in our testing, there was still some change in pitch while manipulating the track speed (the app advertised being [...] (more…)

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Batch Download & Set National Geographic Featured Photos As Wallpaper

Earlier, we have covered applications that change the desktop wallpaper daily or after a user-specified time interval, such as Picturethrill (an open source application that automatically downloads new wallpapers from five different sources and applies a new desktop background on your computer screen daily and Bing Desktop (a tool that automatically downloads and applies the Bing homepage image [...] (more…)

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Treeviz: Analyze Disk Space Usage Through 7 Different Tree-Based Data Structure Visualizations

In order to keep your data in order, it’s important to know where each file is saved on your hard disk. Windows Explorer shows you basic folder and file structure, but it does not provide you with a complete overview of folders’ and sub-folders’ sizes. We have previously covered TreeSizeNet and  TDP x-Ray Lite, where the former [...] (more…)

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iSpy: Use Webcams For Remote Surveillance And Receive Disturbance Alerts

If you are quite concerned about security of your valuables in your room or need to keep uninvited intruders off your property, then it might sound to be a good idea to have a surveillance system installed in your house or office. A high-end video surveillance setup comes with a hefty price tag that may [...] (more…)

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Hifito: Show Hidden Files & File Extensions Using Hotkeys

To identify different types of file formats from each other, Windows provides us with a different icon for each file type. For instance, a text file will have a different icon than that of a music or video file. However, not all file types have different icons. You cannot differentiate a TXT file from an [...] (more…)

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Showcase: View And Share 3D Photo Presentations With Your Friends

Showcase is an open source image viewing application that lets you view and save your images using different 3D visual effects. You can select and showcase up to five images, and then adjust them according to your preferences to create a 3D presentation. There are a number of different effects you can apply to your [...] (more…)

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Document.Editor: Feature-Rich, Eye-Candy Word Processor For Windows

Microsoft Office Suite can be called as a first love of every computer due to its widespread standard when it comes to creating and editing documents such as in MS Word. The feature-rich text processing applications like MS Word offer a lot of tools to play with your text documents, but if you want a [...] (more…)

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Image Comparator: Find & Remove Duplicate Images With Different Names & Sizes

People like to collect images. Even after so many online cloud storage services, image hosting websites and social networking services, a lot of people still like to keep their precious memories stored in shape of images in their own computers. Others, including myself, like to collect images of something or someone. However, at one point [...] (more…)

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iTunes Hotkeys: Global Shortcuts For Play/Pause, Next & Previous Track

A couple of days ago, we covered iTunesInfo, an iTunes controller that allows you to configure global hotkeys to perform different actions, such as Play, Pause, Stop, Adjust Volume, Shuffle Playlist etc. It is quite a big program with lots of options to adjust hotkeys and view song information in notification window. If you are looking [...] (more…)

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Adjust Subtitles Using Dual Reference Points & Fine-Tune Controls

Subtitles are a great comfort if you watch movies that are not in your native language, or when you may want to watch some late night movie without waking up your (not so courteous) roommate. Most of the modern Blu-rays/DVDs contain subtitles in multiple languages in order to make it somewhat global, because it gives [...] (more…)

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TurboShredder: Quickly & Securely Shred Sensitive Files With Zero Pass

When you delete files from your computer using the default Windows delete function, they go to the Recycle Bin. To completely remove them from your computer, you have to empty the recycle bin in order to ensure that they are not consuming the much-needed space on your hard drive. However, even after being removed from [...] (more…)

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How To Quickly Switch Between Proxy Servers Using ProxySwap

When you are on the internet, your IP address is the indicator of your geographical location, and your online address where you can be reached at. Due to the same reason, sometimes when you open up a website or a video on YouTube, a message pops up that the requested item is not available in [...] (more…)