Category: Windows 8

Microsoft PowerPoint is a great application for creating presentations. The only problem is that it needs Microsoft PowerPoint to display the presentation. If your work place or school does not have Microsoft PowerPoint installed, then you can convert your PowerPoint presentation into Adobe Flash movie and show it anywhere you want. The flash movie can be run inside any web browser. The freeware tool PPT to SWF Scout allows you to convert PPT (PowerPoint) files into SWF (Adobe Flash movies).

Have you ever felt annoyed that when you copy a video from your PC to your smartphone or tablet, it just does not work. The Android or iOS device just refuses to play that video file. This is because of the wrong video format. If you want to play videos in these mobile devices then you should first convert your videos to a supported format like MP4. The free program EasyBrake can help you convert videos in just one click.

When you buy a new PC and use it for the first time, you have to install dozens of applications on it. But downloading and installing them from their individual websites takes too long and is a very frustrating task. DDownloads, a freeware application, can help you download and install hundreds of applications for Windows from a single window interface.

GhostBuster is a nifty tool that can be used to remove the ghosted devices from your PC. This is very helpful when you try to update the drivers of your computer hardware as the older (ghosted) devices do not interfere during driver update if the they are removed first. This also can be used to remove the references of USB keys or mobile phones ever connected to your PC for the privacy reasons.

It happens all the time that you leave your PC running and get busy doing some other things (like attending to a phone call, watching a TV show or talking to a friend). Leaving your PC powered on for no reason not only wastes the electricity but it also reduces the life of the computer hardware. A freeware tool called SmartPower presents the solution by automatically hibernating your PC when it is idle.

IObit Driver Booster is a free Windows application that can automate the driver updating process which may take many hours if you try to do it manually. Updating the drivers in Windows may boost your system performance and add many new features to your existing hardware. It creates restore points before installing the new drivers, so if anything goes wrong, you can always roll back your drivers to the older versions.

Although the optical media (CD/DVD) is very handy for long term storage of your files but once the disk surface gets a little scratched, it becomes harder to read data from it. If you try to copy files from such a scratched or damaged disk, then Windows just keeps trying to read data from the unreadable sector of the optical disk and hangs the whole file copying process. But if you use a special software called Unstoppable Copier, then you can copy all the readable files from your disk without any problems.

If you want to print many files on your printer, then you have to print them one by one. You give the command to print one document, wait for the printer to process it and then you can print the next document. This can take a very long time especially if you have an inkjet printer. But if you use a free software called Print Conductor then you can save your valuable time and print all the documents in one go – without having to open them or waiting for the files to be printed.

Sometimes we take pictures of moving persons or objects and they come out as blurred or out-of-focus. Pictures can also become blurry because of unsteady hand while holding the camera. Usually the photographers tell you that there is nothing they can do for blurry images. But SmartDeblur can improve and fix the blurred or noisy images for you. It can remove many different types of blurs like Gaussian blur, complex motion blur and out-of-focus blur.

Pictures taken with digital cameras are often very large in size and dimensions. If you start to resize them one by one, then it can take many hours. But if you use the free Fotosizer software then all your photos can be resized in one go at the click of a button. Fotosizer is a free application for Windows that allows you to batch resize pictures, apply simple effects to them, rotate the pictures and more.