There are many ways that Windows users can manage hard disk space. You can manage your hard drives with the Windows Disk Management utility, but it is somewhat difficult to navigate. Programs like WinDirStat are great for getting a good visual scheme. Tools with visual graphing for hard disk management are ideal. Everybody has their [...]
Free Software Reviews
Freemake Video Downloader, Download Free Movies, Videos
When it comes to downloading movies and videos from the Internet, users have lots of options. They can install browser add-ons like Download Helper for Firefox, the myriad tool reviewed in our guide to download YouTube videos or third party programs like Freemake Video Downloader. I reviewed the program for the first time back in [...]
GameSton, Backup Game Saves
A corrupt game save for a single player title can set you back lots of hours of game play time. Even worse, you may be demotivated to replay the stages of the game that you have already played and decide to stop playing the game completely. Some games, especially online games, save games on servers [...]
RunAsDate, Run Programs With A Different System Date, Time
You may know that I’m using the MSI Afterburner software to record game videos on my PC. The software has been in beta for quite some time. One issue I experienced is that the beta versions have fixed expiration dates, which means that they expire at a given point in time. While this is usually [...]
Steam Tool Library Manager, Move Steam Games
Steam is a popular online game distribution platform by Valve Software, the creators of Half-Life. It was definitely one of the first movers in the niche and moved from a rough start to a popular platform used by millions of gamers. Steam for the most part works just fine, the platform does have a few [...]
TED Downloader
I have covered TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, before here on Ghacks. TED is about sharing ideas on stage with an audience and on the Internet. When you look at the list of speakers, you will notice that it ranges from everyday people fighting for a cause to book authors and celebrities [...]
PointerStick, Turn Your Cursor Into a Stick For Presentations
When you are holding presentations on a big screen with a computer mouse you know that it may be quite difficulty to follow the mouse cursor around. That’s fine if you have presentation software that gives you the tools at hand to highlight areas or write on the screen. If you are stuck with the [...]
Defragmentation Software Defraggler Updated, Better SSD Detection
Two of the three hard drives in my main computer are Solid State Drives (SSD) that do not need defragmenting. In fact, running defragmenting software on them could have an opposite effect on the drive’s speed and health. One of my personal criteria therefor is that defragmentation software needs to be able to block those [...]
Flickr Photo Downloader, Download Public Flickr Photos In Bulk
I have reviewed quite a few programs to download photos from Flickr in the past. From Flickr Download and Flickr Downloadr to Flickr Mass Downloader and the more recent Flickr Mass Downloader. All tools have in common that they can be used to download public photos that are hosted on Flickr. They differ in handling [...]
Add Snow To Your Desktop With DesktopSnowOk
While I’m personally not a huge fan of anything animated on my desktop, I know quite a few people who love some level of activity on their desktop. When it comes to Christmas some users like to decorate their computer desktop much like they decorate the rest of their house and property. Th next best [...]
Last.FM, Aupeo & Vkontakte.ru Downloader
Internet users have lots of options when it comes to listening to music on the Internet. They can tune into Internet radio stations, visit free music repositories like Jamendo, find new and rare songs on YouTube and other music portals or visit music information portals like Last.fm to listen to music. Music downloading is often [...]
Quickly Benchmark Hard Disk, Optical Drives and Network Servers
Sometimes you may want to benchmark drives or servers connected to your computer system, for instance to compare them to other devices or to test optimizations that you plan to make. Parkdale is a free benchmarking software for the Windows operating system that can be used to benchmark all drives that are currently connected to [...]
Desktop Icon Text On the Right? D-Color Does The Trick
If you are like me you have some documents and files stored on the desktop for fast access. Some users may prefer to pin those files to the taskbar or start menu instead, or use a program and file launcher. When it comes to icons on the desktop you have only a few options to [...]
Save Desktop Icon Layouts With Icon Configuration Utility
One of the things that still has not been fixed or resolved in the Windows operating system is that desktop icons change their position automatically when the screen resolution changes. Most Windows users will probably never come into a situation where their desktop icon positions change, considering that most won’t change the screen resolution unless [...]
OPA Backup, Microsoft Office Activation Backup
When you reinstall the Windows operating system you may need to reinstall other software like Microsoft Office as well. It may then be necessary to activate the software again which may not be a big problem in most cases, but might be one if the computer Office was reinstalled on has no permanent Internet connection. [...]
Mourao Image Grabber, Mass Image Host Downloader
My program of choice to download lots of images from image hosts like Imagebam is Bulk Image Downloader, an excellent program to download images from hundreds of image hosting sites. Windows users looking for a free alternative could take a closer look at Mourao Image Grabber which offers the same basic functionality. The program can [...]
Keolah Learns Japanese, Japanese Language Tutor
You may remember that I started learning Japanese some time ago. Especially the multitude of different characters make it difficulty to learn the language. Compare learning English with its 26 language characters to learning Japanese which has thousands. Even if you do not have to know all of them, you are still stuck with learning [...]
Desktop Alarm Clock for Windows
It felt kinda strange to me all this years that Microsoft never improved the clock in the Windows operating system. All you can basically do with it is to set the time, date and timezone. Sure, you can add additional clocks if you like (limited) but where are common features like alarm or a stopwatch? [...]
SSDLife Free, Show Life Expectancy Of Solid State Drives
Solid State Drives are slowly becoming the new mainstream storage devices. It may still take a few years before they replace platter based hard drives but it will happen eventually. Currently both price and storage volume are not competitive, but this will change in the future. PC users who followed SSDs from the very beginning [...]
Using Free File Unlocker to Release OS-Locked Files and Folders
The Windows operating system automatically locks files and folders that are being used by an application or any native Windows service. Stopping services or closing the applications that are locking the file or folder is not always an option. The familiar message, “Cannot delete file: It is being used by another program” can be an [...]