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XWidget brings Mac OS X Dashboard for Windows 7

October 16, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

If you’re Apple Fan boy using Windows 7 PC you love freeware app XWidget which brings Mac OS X Dashboard to Windows 7 with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware Tagged: Mac, Mac Dashboard, Mac Dashboard for Win7, Windows 7
Freeware

Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3.0 Released [Offline Installer Links Inside]

October 4, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Adobe finally released flash player 11 for Windows, Mac and Linux this time including 64-bit version, as usual they are offering online installer with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News Tagged: Adobe AIR, flash player, Flash Player 11, offline installer
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Change Windows 8 Start Screen Background Image & Color with Windows 8 Start Tweaker

September 23, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Till we’ve covered apps to disable Windows 8 Metro UI, all these apps uses the registry hack changes  “RPEnabled” string value from 1 to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware Tagged: Metro UI, Start Screen Background, Windows 8
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Ultra Virus Killer (UVK), Powerful Virus Removal and System Repair Tool

September 19, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Ultra Virus Killer aka UVK is a freeware app packed with troubleshooting utilities allows users to detect and removes viruses, Trojans, rootkits, malware and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware Tagged: Secuirty
Freeware

Unpack Monitor Auto Extracts Archives to a Selected Folder

September 14, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve recently covered AutoWinRarZip app which automatically extracts files from archives in a selected folder, Unpack Monitor is similar type of freeware and portable … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware Tagged: Archives, auto extractor, auto unpacker, extract, WinRAR, ZIP
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Connectivity Fixer Automatically Repairs Internet Connection Problems in Your Computer

September 13, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve  covered Complete Internet Repair app in the past which fixes internet connectivity issues, you need to run this tool manually and select the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware Tagged: fix internet connectivity, Internet connection, repair
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Transform Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot with Ubuntu Skin Pack 7.0

September 13, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Ubuntu next Operating System,  Ubuntu 11.10 aka Oneiric Ocelot set to release on October 13th of this year, first beta version already released on … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware Tagged: Transformation pack for Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot, Ubuntu, Windows 7
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UserAssist for Windows 7 Displays List of Programs Run by a User from Windows Installed Date to Till Today

July 18, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve covered how to print list of programs installed in your Computer, by default, Microsoft Windows keeps a record of all programs run by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware Tagged: privacy, UserAssist
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Wireless Network Watcher Displays Information about Computers & Devices Connected to your Wireless Network

July 12, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Do you ever wanted to know people, Who connected to your wireless network ? Wireless Network Watcher is a freeware portable utility from Nirsoft … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware
Freeware

Omnimo 4 Skin Brings Windows 8 Start Screen for Windows 7

June 15, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve covered how to get Windows 8 like Start Screen for Windows 7 with Omnimo 3.1 for Rainmeter, as we mentioned in that article, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware
Freeware

Download Kaspersky Lab Products Remover [Updated]

June 7, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve covered AVG Removal tool and some other removal tools for various antivirus products, these antivirus programs once installed, gets deeply hooked with the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware Tagged: Kaspersky Removal Tool, removal tools
Freeware

Download CCleaner for Mac (Beta)

June 3, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve covered Piriform going to release CCleaner for Mac soon and the first beta of CCleaner for Mac is released and available for download … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News Tagged: CCleaner, CCleaner for Mac, Mac
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