Category: Windows 7

Free OCR to Word is a free software for Windows that enables you to extract the text from a scanned document or image into an MS Word file. It can convert your already scanned image files into a Word document but it can also work with your scanner and directly export the scanned documents into a Word document. It boasts of around 98% OCR conversion accuracy. It supports almost all kinds of image formats like JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, and many more.

Amazon started its cloud storage service almost a year ago and offers a free storage 5 gigabytes for all the Amazon account holders. Until now you could access your files on the Amazon cloud storage using only a web browser. Amazon has also come up with a desktop application for Windows and Mac. This desktop app for Amazon Cloud Drive integrates with Windows Explorer and makes it easy to upload, download and manage your files on the cloud storage.

Tiny Uploader is a Windows application that allows you to upload any picture to Imageshack and Imgur image sharing services. Tiny Uploader turns the tedious task of uploading images to image sharing websites into a very simple process. It integrates itself into the right-click context menu of Windows Explorer enabling you to upload your images just by right-clicking on them. You can also take screenshots of your desktop and other windows and automatically upload them.

Xleaner is a free Windows application developed by MoreThanACleaner.de. It can help you clear garbage files from your hard disk as well as the tracks of your activity resulting from your browsing the web, such as cookies, browsing history, cache, passwords, computer memory etc. and Windows recent files, run history, open/save documents and more. It is available for all the versions of Windows starting from Windows 98 to Windows 7.

Microsoft SkyDrive is an online file storage service from Microsoft. It now offers free storage space of 7 gigabytes for everyone. You can access and manage your files through your web browser, desktop clients for Windows and Mac, and mobile apps for Windows Phone, iPad and iPhone. All you need is a free Windows Live account to create and log in to your SkyDrive account.

Belarc Advisor is a very useful system analysis tool that can be used to scan your Windows system and generate a detailed report about the installed software, hardware, antivirus status, missed Microsoft security hotfixes and other benchmarks. When you first use Belarc Advisor, you get to choose various options which are saved for all future use. Belarc Advisor does not offer any way to change these options at any later stage.

AutoHideDesktopIcons is a small, free and portable utility that can help you automatically hide all your desktop icons and the taskbar. When the icons are hidden, you can see your desktop backgrounds in their full glory without being cluttered by the desktop icons. It has an adjustable timer which lets you choose after how much time, it would automatically hide the desktop icons. The desktop icons come back as soon as you click on your Windows desktop.

CapsUnlock is a small free tool that will help you automatically turn off your Caps Lock key if you have accidentally turned on the Caps Lock. This means that even if you accidentally turned on the Caps Lock key, it will be automatically turned off immediately – preventing you from type all of your document in capital letters and of course, saving your precious time you would have wasted in re-typing that document. CapsUnlock also helps your from accidental pressing of the Insert key.