Cut, crop and rotate movies with Video Clip QuickTool
Video Clip QuickTool is a simple utility for cutting, rotating and cropping individual digital video files. Installation is quick and hassle-free. There’s no adware, no bulky dependencies and the package takes minimal space on your hard drive.
Video Clip QuickTool’s interface is basic. There are no button-packed ribbon controls, no toolbars or function-packed dialogs -- it’s just a couple of video preview panes, with a scattering of buttons and controls.
Opera 43 adds 'instant page loading', classic link selection
Opera Software has released Opera 43 to the stable channel with enhanced performance-boosting tools and a welcome productivity tweak.
Instant page loading is a pre-rendering technology which attempts to predict URLs as you type, and starts to load the site in the background before you even hit enter.
NirSoft releases LoadedDLLsView
Freeware machine NirSoft has unveiled its latest system tool, LoadedDLLsView (32-bit version).
If you don’t know what the program does from the name then you’re not in the target audience, but essentially it scans all the running processes on your system, detecting and listing whatever DLLs they’re using.
Artpip sets beautiful artworks as your desktop wallpaper
Artpip is a free Windows and Mac app which sets your desktop background to a beautiful new artwork every day.
We’re not sure how large the library of images might be, but artists include Manet, Munch, Renoir, Whistler, Van Gogh, Gruner, Pissarro, Cezanne and more.
Clean, secure and optimize your PC with Steganos Tuning PRO
Steganos Tuning PRO is a PC maintenance suite for cleaning, optimizing and securing your PC. It’s a commercial product, and pricey at $49.95 for a year, although that does at least cover you for 3 devices.
The program offers all the core functions you’d expect: junk file removal, Registry cleaning and defragging, startup program control, automatic updates for applications and drivers, tuning of Windows settings, power optimizations, a defragger for your hard drives, and more.
Detect missing software updates with UCheck
RogueKiller developer Adlice Software has released a beta of UCheck, a simple software update-checker and application manager.
The program supports around 40 packages, including 7-Zip, CCleaner, Chrome, Firefox, Flash, GIMP, iTunes, Java, LibreOffice, Malwarebytes Anti-malware, OpenOffice, Opera, Skype and VLC Media Player.
LightBulb reduces eye strain by shifting screen gamma over time
LightBulb is a f.lux-like application which smoothly adjusts screen gamma to make colors seem warmer at night, reducing eye strain and making your PC more comfortable to use.
Install the program and it goes to work automatically, detecting your location, figuring out the sunrise and sunset time and updating your display color temperature to match.
Bing Wallpaper updates your desktop with Bing's image of the day
Bing Wallpaper is an open-source application which sets your wallpaper as Bing’s image of the day, then keeps it up-to-date.
Download, unzip and run BingWallPaper.exe and it immediately updates your wallpaper, displays a notification and minimizes to your system tray.
Optimize images for the web with pingo
Pingo is a free PNG and JPEG optimizer which supports both lossless and lossy compression. There are plenty of similar tools around, but pingo stands out from the competition in several ways -- some good, some not.
The program is a compact 521KB download, unpacking to a single executable which you must run from the command line.
Winstep Nexus and Xtreme updated to 17.10
Winstep Software Technologies has updated its flagship products, Winstep Xtreme and Winstep Nexus, to version 17.10.
Winstep Xtreme, the company’s powerful set of desktop applications, gains a new Moon Phases module which shows you how the moon will appear on any day of the month.
DevDocs offline API browser now available for desktops
Last month we wrote about DevDocs for Chrome, a free extension which gives access to API documentation for around 200 programming languages and technologies.
Now an unofficial Electron-based applet, DevDocs, brings the service specifically to the desktop, with downloads available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Create strong passwords and software keys with SterJo Password Generator
Freeware developer SterJo Software has unveiled SterJo Password Generator, a free tool for creating strong and random passwords.
A simple interface enables choosing the length of each password and the type of characters it should include: upper or lower case letters, numbers and/ or special characters.
temps is a gorgeous weather app for the desktop
temps is an open-source Electron-based weather app for just about every desktop: Windows, Linux and Mac. There’s no installation required, just unzip and run, and in a few seconds you’re looking at temps’ stylish, app-like interface.
An icon represented our current weather; there are background rain, snow and thunder animations; a temperature, four-day weather forecast, and status information including location, date and time.
Tabby Cat generates a feline friend for every new Chrome tab
There are endless Chrome extensions which replace your new tab page, typically to give you gorgeous photo wallpaper or equip your browser with productivity-boosting tools.
Tabby Cat has a simpler aim: it generates and displays a cute new cat on the background of every tab you open.
WayBack Machine's official Chrome extension gets a major update
It’s barely a week since we looked at the WayBack Machine’s simple Chrome extension, but it’s just had a major update which makes the add-on much more useful.
Clicking the WayBack Machine icon now displays buttons to show the first or most recent archived copies of the current URL, as stored in the WayBack Machine -- perfect for seeing how a site has changed over time.
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