Archive for the 'Desktop Enhancement' Category

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 [...]

Swept Away Program Auto-Minimizer (Discovery)

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

Pitaschio — Windows Enhancement (Discovery)

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 [...]

Folder Guide — Fast Access to Folders in Open/Save Dialogs

It happens to me almost every day. I want to save a file in my Data directory on my D: drive, but the program insists on starting the save dialog with the My Documents directory buried deep on my C: drive. I have to click and click and click to get to the directory I [...]