Every month we take a look around some of the most interesting windows-related web sites. We collect the best free stuff and write tips to help you get more out of Windows. Below you’ll find wallpapers, icon packs, fonts, screensavers, and freeware we’ve found over the last 30 days. We’ve also put together our most popular windows guides.
Enjoy the overview of stuff you shouldn’t have missed in December 2008.
A round up of the best wallpapers on the web. Full credit goes to the image authors. Let us know about any others you really like!
Want More Wallpaper?
Check out more wallpapers in the the Wallpaper section of this site or learn how to use these wallpapers for your login screen too!
Last week’s competition winners are announced as follows:
Prize | Description | Winner |
Ring Tone Maker | Make Ringtones for your Phone Easily [Review] | Ana Hernandez |
A-squared Anti-Malware | Protect yourself from Malware [Review] | Lim |
Mamutu | Behavior-based malware detection [Review] | Bob Walters |
EASEUS Partition Manager | Manage and partition your hard drives [Review] | Carl Cronholm |
AnVir Task Manager Pro | Protect your computer from malicious tasks and services [Review] | Christopher Robert Lynch |
I recently misplaced my Microsoft Office product key and I needed to move it from one system to another. I couldn’t remember how to find the product key (I know they changed where they put it these days), so I did a Google search. In the process of looking, I found this very useful tool, which crawls your system for product keys. It works and I want to share it with you.
You can view core system information on your desktop such as: your current IP, free hard drive space and the logon domain with BgInfo. See the screenshot for an example.
Because BGInfo simply writes a new desktop bitmap and exits you don’t have to worry about it consuming system resources or interfering with other applications. BgInfo works with any Version of Windows after and including 2000.
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This week I’m giving away lots of prizes; thank you to the respective software vendors.
Prize | Description | How Can I Win it? |
Tidy Favorites Pro | Organize your favorites and create a custom browser homepage [Review] | Comment to this post with the word FAVORITES and why you want to win this program |
NetStat Agent 2.1 | Monitor you incoming and outgoing packets, analyze your network and more [Review] | Comment to this post with the word NETSTAT and why you want to win this program |
SafeBit (x3) | Create a password protected container on your PC for sensitive files [Review] | 3 Copies up for grabs! Comment to this post with the word SAFEBIT and why you want to win this program |
Invisible Secrets (x3) | Hide files within files on your PC, so only you know about them [Review] | 3 Copies up for grabs! Comment to this post with the word SECRETS and why you want to win this program |
YouTube Music Downloader | Download music & videos from YouTube [Review] | Comment to this post with the word YOUTUBE and why you want to win this program |
Want to ensure your hard disk is healthy? Ever wondered how many hours of life it’s seen? Crystal Disk Info will give you these answers and more.
There are so many fonts out there – but it seems you have to pay for all the good ones. Put your credit card away and enjoy these free fonts. Available to you are many more sets – linked below.
Check out more font collections on Mintywhite.com
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Most of these fonts have their copyrights in the zip file. Please respect the copyrights (if any) of these fonts, and be sure to thank the owners.
Merry Christmas everyone! I wish you the happiest Christmas and new year.
I hope you have fun with your family and friends.
I’ll be out of town between now and Monday Dec 29th (my birthday) I’ll get back to you all then, so keep the comments coming and be sure to keep the conversation going on Windows Forums.
P.S. we got Wii Fit from Santa… I was pretty excited.
Here are some Christmas links for you:
We’re heading up north today… hopefully the snow holds off. This was our car two nights ago:
A round up of the best wallpapers on the web. Full credit goes to the image authors. Let us know about any others you really like!
Want More Wallpaper?
Check out more wallpapers in the the Wallpaper section of this site or learn how to use these wallpapers for your login screen too!
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