Archives for posts tagged ‘freeware’

XtreMP3 Player, an open source streaming radio player

XtreMP3 is a project which is started as a challenge to create the world most simplified media (mp3) player. So I originally created a player equipped with just one button…

When I Say Shut Down… Shut Down (or a way to “Better Shut Down” Windows)

My desktop computer is usualy loaded with programs or other custom made utilities which are running silently in system tray or sometimes I ’m running lot of programs just minimized to windows taskbar. Usually when I’m coming to shut down the PC, most of the times late at night before I go for sleep, I need [...]

bit.ly link shortener (and a freeware utility to download)

One of my favourites on-line services is the bit.ly link shortener. This a very useful function when I have to send by a chat or spell on the phone a long link to someone. In addition I can keep stats about my links on facebook for free. Now I offer to everyone a free utility to use this [...]

Superbar Monitor utilities

Florian Reimann’s idea was great and quite simple… He created five utilities which are utilizing the Windows 7 new behaviour to display the progress in the task bar icon (with the window minimized). With these little executables a Windows 7 user can have indication for CPU usage, Memory usage , Battery status, HDD usage and Volume level at [...]

Alternative to – a site that helps free software

I’m a fan of free and open source software. Free software is great nowadays and I think that its possible to do almost everything by using free and open source software. The main question is “which software I have to use to replace a commercial product?”. The answer is simple: “just go to AlternativeTo.net “. The site AlternativeTo [...]