GetFolderSize : Determine the Size of Folders

If you want to determine the size of a file in Windows, then all you have do is to hover your mouse cursor over that file and the file size along with some other bit of information pops up. But the same is not true in case of folders. What to do if you have to find out the size of a folder in Windows? There is a free software called GetFolderSize which can help you determine the folder size easily.

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NeverNote : Open Source Evernote Clone

Most of us are familiar with Evernote. Evernote is a piece of software designed for note taking and archiving. The note may be a text snippet, formatted text, a picture, a whole webpage or a webpage excerpt. Evernote is commercial software but also comes as a free but advertising supported edition. Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Chrome OS, Android, iOS and WebOS), and also offers online synchronization and backup services.

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Window On Top : Keep Any Window on Top

Recently I bought a new TV Tuner card. And now I want to watch TV and work at the same time. The main problem is keeping both windows in focus. I have to switch back and forth to work on a document and watch TV. What I wanted is to keep the TV window on top and at the same time work on my document. This is when I found out about Window on Top software. Window on Top is a freeware that may help you keep your selected window on top of the rest of the windows.

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Start Mozilla Firefox With Add-ons Disabled

Firefox is a very flexible web browser. This great flexibility comes through different add-ons which may add more features to the already feature rich Mozilla Firefox. But sometimes some add-ons may not act as they should and interfere in the normal working of the Firefox web browser. It is for the times like this, Firefox offers a simple and easy way to restart Firefox without add-ons. Starting Firefox without any add-ons may resolve add-on related problems.

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WPanorama : View Panorama Images Interactively

Earlier, we discussed about free software Hugin which can be used to easily create beautiful panoramas by stitching together many digital images together. You can view this panorama image using your favorite image viewer like IrfanView etc. But there is a specialized program called WPanorama using which you can view panoramas in a interactive manner.

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Hugin : Stitch Photos Together to Create Panorama

Few months ago, I watched an advertisement of a Kodak digital camera which involved famous pop singer Taylor Swift. She comes up and takes a panorama shot of all her fans and the digital camera automatically creates a panorama image. But not all cameras have this special feature. If you also do not have a camera with the ability of creating panorama images, then you can use the free Hugin software to stitch together many photographs into a single panorama image

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Wise Disk Cleaner : Recover Disk Space in Windows

My friend Kate has a huge 1 Terabyte hard disk but when she tried to copy some of the new movies that she recorded onto her hard disk, Windows threw up an error saying the computer did not have enough disk space. This was unbelievable. Where did all the 1 terabyte space go? I suggested that she should clean her computer with Wise Disk Cleaner and sure enough, she recovered more than 100 gigabytes of disk space.

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WinScan2PDF : Scan Documents into PDF Format

Fortunately my Canon printer comes with a function that can automatically convert scanned documents and images into PDF files. But not all printers have this luxury. If you use one of those printers, then you know the pain of first scanning a document and then converting it into a PDF file using a third party tool. But WinScan2PDF can save you from all this trouble because it has the functionality to scan any document or image straight into a PDF format file.

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CCEnhancer : Enhance Cleaning Features of CCleaner

Every Windows user knows about CCleaner. CCleaner is a free tool to clean obsolete entries from your Windows registry and other garbage from different locations in different programs installed in Windows. It also includes basic tools to uninstall programs, edit startup entries and create system restore points etc. This is pretty much what an average Windows user would need. But if you are still not satisfied, then you can enhance CCleaner using the CCleaner Enhancer tool.

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