Archive for May, 2007

IcoFX — Powerful Freeware Icon Editor

About a year ago, I reviewed SnIco Edit here at Software Gadgets. It was a nice little icon editor, however, its web site has disappeared and I’ve recently found an icon editor I like much better: IcoFX.
From the IcoFX web site:

IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for [...]

HandyFind — Finds Words As You Type (Discovery)

Bringing up a find dialog box can be a pain in some peograms — and other programs don’t even offer a search feature. HandyFind makes searching text easy in most Windows programs. Type the hot key (control-space is the default) and start typing your search term. The highlight will jump to the first match. Use [...]

Windows in a Box (Discovery)

Windows XP has hundreds of settings scattered all over the place. Finding them can be a problem. Most can be reached through Control panel, but some are found in other places most people, including your writer, never can seem to remember when they are needed. Enter Windows in a Box, a freeware program designed to [...]

ScholarCite — Create Standards Compliant Bibliographies (Discovery)

I probably would have killed for a program like this when I was in high school and college. Of course, computers filled rooms back then and I didn’t have one.
From the ScholarCite web site:
ScholarCite is a free program that helps you write standards compliant literature references. ScholarCite is very intuitive. Simply fill out some fields, [...]

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner (Discovery)

If you ask me, the Windows Registry was one of the worst ideas Microsoft ever had. Collect all the settings for the Windows operating system and 99% of the the programs you have on your computer in one huge database file. If anything goes major wrong with the registry, chances are good you will [...]