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Dim the entire desktop except for the active window, to protect your eyes and gain focus, with Dimmer Pro

If you work a lot on your PC you may like to keep many windows open to monitor stuff, even when you work mainly on only one window. To protect your eyes from excessive brightness you can dim all of your dekstop, making everything darker, but bright enough to follow information you may need to […]

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Add tags for bold, italics and more, in plain text notepads, with AutoTagger

If you edit files with simple text editors such as the Windows Notepad or Notepad Plus, etc., you may need to add tags to your text, especially if you plan to publish it on line. AutoTagger aims at simplicity, providing the most common tags, bold, italic, underline, adding to them just a few more, to […]

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Best free screen saver utilities

Note that modern monitors are not in danger of burnings, so that a screen-saver may be nice to watch but not necessary to protect your monitor; in fact, the less is on the better so that if you want to protect just turn it off or get Sleeper to send your monitor to sleep with […]

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Best free wallpaper changers and managers

Wallpaper Manager is a free wallpaper cycling and management tool, especially designed for multi-screen systems. It will let you apply multi-screen wallpapers over all monitors; multiple single-screen wallpapers (one for each monitor) and choose between 3 different cycle modes; Cycle automatically in any given interval; Add new wallpapers automatically by watching a folder for changes; […]

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If specified text is not a valid building block name

What a disappointment! Suddenly Word refused to run this great Super Find macro! In the status bar I read a ‘cryptic’ error message, that “the specified text is not a valid building block name”! Take care! This message has nothing to do with this or perhaps other macros you try to run pressing the F3 […]

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Terminate and restart programs easily, with Revitalizer

If you have some programs that you need to close and restart, because they freeze, become unstable, or anything, Revitalizer may help. You won’t have anymore to open the task manager, find the proper process, terminate it, then open the Start Menu, find the program again and restart it. You can use Revitalizer to define […]

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A great modern theme for Thunderbird, with borders erased

What a stubborn piece of software Thunderbird is when it comes to aesthetics! I was desperate trying to change it completely, give it a modern Windows 10 look. Finally a solution appeared in a style created by Chris, which I modified and present right here: borders erased, scrollbars faded, white everywhere, empty space, air, openness, […]

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Move the cursor to the center or any side with a shortcut, using Mouseketeer

I use a fairly large monitor (27”, 2560×1440), but I don’t have the vision of an eagle! Sometimes (rather often) I can’t find the cursor, and I may need several seconds until finally this little thing appears for me. I know there are system options for the cursor to leave trails or for pressing the […]

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Open a Chrome URL in Firefox or Edge, with Snug

Some Chrome extensions supposedly able to open in Firefox a web page from Chrome, could not function unless they installed also a separate helper-app in the OS! This is the reason behind Snug. Snug can open a URL you visited with Chrome, not only in Firefox but also in Microsoft Edge, and vice versa, making […]

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Add the European Currency to your keyboard with the Euro Key freeware

Euro Key is a light and free (without any limitations) utility, safe and convenient, able to help you if your keyboard lacks the sign of the European currency (€). With a keyboard that misses this option, you can insert the Euro sign manually, if an application includes an option to insert symbols, or by typing […]

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