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bLADE Wiki is a personal wiki to let you take and manage notes. It runs on both Windows PC and Windows Mobile, and you can sync notes between them. You can write you notes on your PC, take them with you on your Windows Mobile cell phone, read and edit them on the fly, and [...]

A digital camera’s sensor has a more limited dynamic range than the human eye. This means that if you expose a photo for the bright areas, the camera may not “see” details in the dark area that your eye can see. Likewise, if you expose a photo for the shadows, the camera may not “see” [...]

xKill for Windows is a clone of the Linux/Unix program of the same name. It allows you to terminate another program by simply clicking on it. After you run xKill, you can press Control + Alt + Backspace to change the cursor into a Skull and Crossbones symbol. Now, when you click on any window, [...]

Startup Control Panel is a small program for Windows to manager the programs and services that start automatically when you boot your machine. It works on all modern versions of Windows through Windows XP. (Windows Vista has its own mechanism for managing startup programs: Control Panel -> Performance Information and Tools, and then click on [...]

Version 3.0 of the free, multi-platform, multi-language office package OpenOffice.org has been released. The release has been long awaited. The OpenOffice.org website is so busy that only a bare minimum download page is available due to overloaded servers. I have been using previous versions of OpenOffice.org for a while, and I look forward to trying [...]

Spybot - Search and Destroy is a program that detects and removes spyware including adware, dialers, keyloggers, trojans, and usage trackers. It is updated quite often to keep up with the ever growing number of spyware programs. One of my favorite features is “Immunize”. It immunizes your computer against some 94,000 threats like blocking bad [...]

IrfanView is a fast and small picture and photo viewer. It handles just about every picture and photo file format available. Using IrfanView you can crop, rotate, enlarge, and otherwise manipulate pictures. There is a powerful batch processing feature that allows you to perform the same manipulations to many pictures at once. It will show [...]

BeCyPDFMetaEdit is a freeware program for Windows that lets you edit meta data in PDF files. For example, you can change the title and the author fields. There is a clear-all-fields button for removing all meta data. You can also set the security policies for the document to specify whether the PDF file can be [...]

ooVo is a free video chat application for Windows and Mac. It allows you to have online video meetings with up to five people — unlike Skype, where you are limited to two participants in video meetings.
The Windows version of ooVoo has some nice features. My favorite is that it allows you to have a [...]

Despite Windows having had long file names since Windows 95, there are still some programs that insist on using the old 8.3 names. The most annoying thing is that there is no way in Windows to get the 8.3 name of a file — at least I haven’t found it. This is where the GSPN [...]