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You’ve got your collection of Photoshop brushes and plugins but you feel like something’s still missing. How about actions?
Photoshop actions are a series of recorded commands. You can use actions for repetitive tasks like adding bevels and shadows, and you can also use actions to apply more complicated effects in seconds. Sounds good right?

Let’s take a look at another free Windows app that makes our digital life easier.
Text Mining Tool is a free application that lets you extract all the text from any pdf, doc, chm, rtf, and html file even if you don’t have Acrobat or Word installed. This is useful when you just want to read […]

If you’re like me, you want to know what’s eating up your hard drive space. There are a lot of great tools you can download so let’s talk about one of them. Xinorbis is a free utility for Win 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista that will let you analyze your hard disk while giving you a complete overview of […]

Disk Cleaner is a free application that lets you clean your hard drive in a snap. The program frees up disk space by letting you delete files in your system temporary folder, browser cache, Recycle Bin, and other parts of your computer.
Unlike the built-in Disk Cleanup utility in Windows, Disk Cleaner lets you delete typed […]

If you weren’t lucky enough to get a new computer for Christmas, don’t despair. There are plenty of ways to give your rig a new look. Let’s take a look at WindowBlinds themes. For those unfamiliar with it, WindowBlinds lets you change the look and feel of Windows by applying a new skin.
Here are 15 […]

ExplorerXP is a free file manager for Win 2000/XP that comes with features that the regular Windows Explorer lacks.
The biggest feature you’ll notice right away is that you can browse multiple folders within a tabbed interface. This feature alone is enough reason to download the app heh. Folder sizes are displayed, as well as the […]

If you’re the type of user who doesn’t want to bother with Vista’s User Account Control or configuring Windows Defender, here’s what you need.
Vista4Experts is a free application that will let you tweak various Windows Vista settings using one program. Aside from getting rid of the more common annoyances, you can set the start menu […]

We’ve all thought about running our own file sharing server for our own network of friends. We don’t actually go through with it since running a file server is not for the average computer user. For those of you looking for an easy way to run your own file sharing server, this should help you […]