Shankar Ganesh

If you’re a beginner learning the English language, you’re probably making a good use of your desktop references like dictionaries and thesauri. If you’re the kind of a person who spends much time in front of your PC, you may find it lazy to flip through hundreds of pages to look up a word in your dictionary, just like me

So, I’ve compiled here the most popular, useful and free dictionary tools for your Windows machine:

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If Winamp is your media player on Windows, and if you’re a fan of Windows Live – here’s something for you.

As you know, Winamp supports skins – you can always download one from the Skins Repository on the Winamp site and give it a cool new look.

Today, I found a stunning, yet free Winamp Skin that I wanted to share with you. The skin graphically resembles Microsoft Live’s site design. Have a look for yourself:

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Folks at BananaSecurity have created a program by the name BananaScreen that makes your face your password.
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The Vista Start Menu emulator adds a neat Vista like start menu to your Windows XP desktop. The start menu is not just graphically emulated, but also in terms of functionality.
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You’re waiting and waiting and waiting. But it doesn’t seem to respond. This is the case with the Add/Remove Programs applet in your Windows XP Control Panel. It’s sluggish and highly annoying, taking a lot of time to start up. It’s high time you start using some alternatives to the built-in Windows XP Uninstaller. Why not you try these?

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Apple has now released the Safari Browser for Windows. A very good news for web designers they say.

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Some noise from inside your PC’s cabinet. Probably your computer’s fan is not performing well.

SpeedFan is a very useful tool that might come in handy when you need to know your computer’s fan speed and temperatures of your motherboard or hard disk. In addition to this, this software will also be able to analyze your hard drive’s status and provide you with details on its performance using SMART or even SCSI. Fool proof your hard disk from a crash.

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DeskLoops, a very cool software from Xilokit, helps you manage scuffled windows.

Every so often, your screen gets messed up with a lot of Windows. Pain.

A lot of tools are available that let you organize your windows, saving you time. One such tools is DeskLoops, and it’s a bit different from other conventional ones.

Let me show you how it works:

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Most of you use Adobe Reader for reading PDF documents on your PC. But it’s a PC slowmaker. Earlier my PC used to crash whenever I used to open a huge PDF document on Adobe reader. Why not you try some alternatives to Adobe Reader?

Foxit Reader (Download Link)

Foxit Reader is the best available alternative to Adobe Reader. It’s extremely slick, less hungry on system resources and has features comparable to Adobe PDF Reader. Here’s its features list:

• Instant Loading: No annoying splashes, loads very quickly
• Annotation tool that helps you to add notes to parts of a PDF Document
• Fill forms easily on your PDF from your PC
• Multi-language support
• Printing feature enhanced in latest version
• Text converter: Convert an entire PDF File to text format
• Latest version has Javascript support
• Download size just around 1.5 MB!
• Portable version is available

Foxit Reader Homepage, Download Link

Sumatra PDF Viewer (Download Link)

This is another minimalistic tool that helps you view PDF files without any hassles. It’s just a stand alone EXE file: that means you can carry it around on your portable device. It’s also open source.

• It’s a simple tool, and has only the very essential features.
• Zooming, and a bit of shortcuts for navigation

That’s Sumatra. Get it here.

Which is your favourite? Or do you still prefer to use Adobe Reader? Share your views with us in the comments

Just see this:

Nice, isn’t it?

How about this?
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Cool again.

These are all called Stick figure animations, and are pretty easy to create. In a stick figure, everything is represented by straight lines, as Wikipedia defines it.

You might have probably seen this on your television. Know what? You could create such simple animations very easily with the help of Pivot StickFigure Animator.

This software allows you to create a previewable chain of stick figure frames, and you could add up your very own stick figures and spice up your animations.

Pivot StickFigure Animator software can still be used professionally, or you can use it just when you’re bored for time pass.

Pivot StickFigure Animator Homepage