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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Auslogics Disk Defrag

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a hard disk defragmentation software for the Windows operating system. Recently version 3 of the software program has been released; Reason enough for us to take a look at the improvements in this new version. At its core stands the option to defragment all connected hard drives of the computer system. [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Install Multiple Applications With AllMyApps

AllMyApps offers a similar functionality as Ninite which we have reviewed last month. Both applications allow a computer user to install multiple programs without further user interaction. But that’s where the similarities end. Ninite creates a custom installer based on the selection of applications that the user makes on the homepage. AllMyApps on the other [...]

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Categories: Linux, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Video To MKV Converter

VideoToMKV is a comfortable software program to convert various video formats into the Matroska container format (mkv). The program utilizes the ffmpeg library for the conversions. New videos can be easily added to the application by drag and drop or a file browser. The videos that have been added are then displayed in the main [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 39

Desktop Torrents Search Engine Torrent Fetcher

Users looking for torrents usually go to a website like Mininova or The Piratebay that index torrents. An alternative to this is a desktop torrents search engine like Torrent Fetcher is available for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Torrent Fetcher comes with a comfortable interface to perform the search for Bittorrent files from the local [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Create Desktop Icons With Simply Icon

Desktop icons, or icons in general, come in handy in several situations but mainly to replace existing icons on the computer desktop or in applications. It is for instance relatively easy to replace an existing icon in the Windows operating system with another although it depends on the data type. System icons can for example [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Sumatra PDF Reader 1.0 Released

We reviewed the Adobe Reader alternative Sumatra back in the beginning of 2008 and came to the conclusion back then that Sumatra was a lightweight and fast replacement that was ideal for viewing PDF documents. Version 1.0 of Sumatra was released yesterday which actually was one of the two updates that the developer of the [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Flickr Desktop App Destroy Flickr

Destroy Flickr is the second Adobe Air application that provides Flickr users with capabilities to manager Flickr from the computer desktop. It was one of the recommended applications in the comments of the Zflick Flickr photo viewer review. Destroy Flickr can only be used by Flickr users to manage their own uploaded photos. This limits [...]

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Categories: software

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