Category: Windows 8

XnSketch is a free software that can convert your pictures into cartoons or sketches. It has eighteen different effects to turn your images into sketches. In addition to the preset effects, it also allows you to adjust the edge strength, opacity, contrast, saturation, color and other level of your images. It gives you options to save your pictures to the hard disk or share them with friends.

Do you envy the people who use Photoshop and upload great looking pictures on Facebook with stunning vintage effects applied? Now you can also have the similar vintage or retro effects in your pictures without using an expensive program. You can use the freeware application XnRetro to apply dozens of color effects, light effects, frame borders effects, vignette effects and more. XnRetro can make your picture look like as if it was taken a hundred years ago.

OSHI Cleaner is a freeware application for Windows which can be used to clean the obsolete data from your hard disk and Windows registry. This obsolete data takes up space of your hard disk and in various locations of your Windows registry. OSHI Cleaner can clean up this junk data for you and make your PC run faster in addition to gaining usable hard disk space.

A ramdisk is a disk created by using a portion of your system RAM (random access memory). The benefit of using a ramdisk is that it is much faster in performance than a regular hard disk. Consequently, it can be used for programs that require fast data processing like computer games, program compilers, graphics work etc. The free software Dataram RAMDisk allows you to create a ramdisk easily through a graphical user interface.

As we have explained many times before, the continued use of your computer results in large number of unwanted files and other data accumulating on your hard disk. These files just pile up on your hard disk consuming disk space without any productive value. You should clean these garbage files regularly in order to claim lost disk space and make your computer work optimally. You can use the Moo0 Disk Cleaner to get rid of unwanted files from your hard disk.

When you open File Explorer in Windows 8, it displays all the partitions on all the drives attached to your computer. By default, it displays the drive letters for each of the partition. Although drive letters make it easy to identify the drives, some people do not want to see the drive letters. If you want to know how to toggle on and off the displaying of the drive letters, then you can follow these simple instructions.

If you want to upload videos to websites then they must be in a format that can be played easily in a web browser without requiring any additional plugins. Most popular of such video formats are FLV, MP4 and WEBM. You can use the free EasyFLV Web Video Encoder to convert any video into these formats. This free software also has the ability to add a custom text or image logo to your video.

When you start Windows, many programs are automatically loaded along with it. Some of these programs are not required for Windows to work properly and only make Windows slower to start. You can remove these unnecessary startup items using the free Synei Startup Manager. This freeware program can automatically scan the startup items and show you which of them are not needed or which of them should be disabled.

Just like your car, Windows also requires cleaning and oiling from time to time. After some time of use, Windows gathers all kinds of junks files and registry entries. You can hose it down and clean Windows using the free Synei Disk Cleaner. It is a small but powerful tool for Windows that can clean junk files from Windows, your web browsers and more than a thousand third party applications like VLC Media Player, Microsoft Office etc.

PDF Reducer is a free and fast software that allows you to reduce the PDF file sizes. It can achieve the compression through a multitude of optimizations and compression levels. It can re-compress the embedded images in such a way as to reduce their size without affecting the quality that much. For my files, it could compress them to around 90% of the original file size.