Software Gadgets

Swept Away is a small AutoHotKey-based utility that will automatically minimize applications that you are not currently using after a user-controlled length of time (except for applications you put on an exclusion list). This Windows program was inspired by the Mac program SpiritedAway.
Operating System: WindowsPrice: FreeWeb Site: http://lifehacker.com/software/downloads/lifehacker-code-swept-away-windows-255055.php
Tags: windows utility, freeware, swept away, spiritedaway, auto-minimizer

Bowling Evolution is a freeware bowling game for your computer that uses very realistic physics.
Game features as listed on the game’s web site:
* Tenpin bowling* Challenge bowling* Online World Highscores* Realistic physics - pins bounce like in the real world* Nice 3d simulation* Different bowling balls* Multiplayer game* Replays* Runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista* Multi-language support: [...]

Pitaschio is a small enhancement utility for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Like those “utility knives” with can opens and scissors, Pitaschio combine a number of unrelated but sometimes useful windows enhancements into a single small program that run is the system tray. Among its many fetures are:
* Stick window to other windows when moving [...]

If you have ever wanted to try Linux but did not want to have repartition your hard drive or run Linux in a (slower and graphically limited) virtual machine, you will want to look at Wubi. Wubi will install the current version of Ubuntu (one of the most popular Linux distributions) in large files on [...]

I’m posting about this tiny utility more so that I can find it again than out of any expectation that hundreds of thousands of readers are going to run out and get a copy, so if this utility seems useless to you — I will not feel bad. I expect only one out of a [...]