SoftwareOK unveils MultiClipBoardSlots
Freeware developer SoftwareOK has released MultiClipBoardSlots, a lightweight clipboard extension for Windows.
The program extends Windows with up to ten clipboards. You’re able to copy to any slot with Ctrl+<slot number> without overwriting anything else, and paste from it with Alt+<slot number>.
Sysinternals ships Sysmon 5.0, Process Explorer 16.20
Microsoft Sysinternals has released updates for some of its best tools, including Sysmon 5.0 and Process Explorer 16.20.
Sysmon gets a major update, with new support for recording file creations, Registry create and delete options, value sets and key and value renames.
Prevent forced system shutdowns and restarts with shutdownblocker
Shutdownblocker is a simple tool which intercepts and blocks shutdown, restart, logoff and related commands.
The program offers some protection from user mistakes or poorly designed software which forces a restart, as well as preventing forced Windows 10 Update restarts.
Combine clipboard text snippets with clipLogger
If you’re researching online, or maybe browsing a collection of local documents, you might sometimes want to copy chunks of text elsewhere for later reference.
Sounds simple, but most solutions are either bulky (use a web clipping service or clipboard manager) or tedious in the extreme (copy text to the clipboard, Alt+Tab to Notepad, paste and Alt+Tab back).
Malwarebytes 3.0 beta is now available
Malwarebytes has unveiled a beta of its next-generation, do-everything product, Malwarebytes 3.0.
The package combines anti-malware, anti-exploit, anti-ransomware and web blocking technologies for the maximum all-round protection.
Generate soothing ambient soundscapes with Halotea Free
If you like some background noise while working on your PC then it can be tempting to play music, stream video, maybe just turn on the TV. But that can be distracting, and you might not get as much work done as you’d hoped.
Halotea Free generates ambient soundscapes instead -- birdsong, rain, white noise -- which help you tune out distractions and concentrate on whatever you’re doing.
Marp creates PDF presentations from Markdown
Building presentations often involves mastering a heavy-duty GUI: layouts here, color panels there, transition previews, animation and more.
Marp strips all that away, and enables creating presentations with just a little GitHub-flavored Markdown. This makes for a very plain, distraction-free interface: just a left-hand pane where you type your code, and a right-hand pane with a preview.
Run multiple processes simultaneously with MParallel
Multi-core CPUs have been around for a very long time, but unfortunately most software is still single-threaded and has no idea how to utilize all that power.
MParallel is an open-source tool which offers one simple workaround, launching multiple processes in separate threads so that you can run them all simultaneously.
Open Hardware Monitor: it’s still alive!
After almost two update-free years, the Open Hardware Monitor project has jumped back to life with the release of version 0.8.
The open source project is a free tool for monitoring CPU load, clock speed and temperatures, fan speeds, voltages, video adapters, RAM usage and more.
Prisma-like NeuralStyler brings more creative control
Open-source video-to-art creator NeuralStyler has hit version 1.2 with some handy new features. A simple video trimmer allows selecting the scene you’d like to transform. It’s not precise -- you choose your start and end points by seconds, not frames -- but that’s still enough to save you a lot of time and hassle.
If you’re converting an image, a "Style Strength" slider instantly customizes the effect. Again, it’s basic, apparently just blending the converted image with the original, but we found it helped fine-tune the results.
(Un)colored is a rich content HTML and Markdown editor
#(Un)colored is a distraction-free HTML and Markdown-compatible document editor for Windows, Linux and Mac.
The program opens with an empty window, no toolbars, ribbons or anything else -- it’s just an empty frame where you can start to type.
Clean PC Smart is a fake Registry cleaner
Running Registry cleaners generally makes us nervous, as they're far more likely to remove some important setting than make any measurable difference to your system speed.
Most developers try to address this by building real intelligence into their code, but "Clean PC Smart" takes a different route: despite listing thousands of "issues" and claiming to fix them, it never deletes anything at all.
Capture and analyze your network traffic with Dripcap
Dripcap is a cross-platform open-source packet analyzer which allows even total network novices to inspect their network traffic.
The program is simple to set up, as there’s no installation or third-party capture tool required -- just unzip the download to any convenient folder.
LastPass is now available for free on smartphones, tablets and PCs
If you have considered LastPass in the past and deemed it too expensive it is now time to take another look at the popular service, as the password manager is finally offered for free across all types of devices it supports -- PCs, tablets and smartphones. Gone are the annoying limitations of before.
Previously, users who wanted to take advantage of the LastPass free plan were limited to syncing passwords only between devices of the same type -- for instance, only PCs. This was not only impractical, as few of us use only smartphones or PCs, but also a serious reason to give up on LastPass -- or free password managers altogether, for that matter. The move to a completely free LastPass is a big change in the right direction, however.
Explore malicious executables with Adlice PEViewer
Adlice PEViewer -- aka RogueKillerPE -- is a free tool for analyzing and exploring Windows executables.
The results can help you troubleshoot programs, find out more about what they’re doing, and perhaps identify malware that your regular antivirus tool has missed. It’s the free version of a commercial tool and a nag screen appears occasionally, but not enough to be annoying and there are no other major restrictions.
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