Tools

SEAMonster, a personal project of Mike Swanson's, has nothing to do with the cool SeaDragon technology, despite the similar name. Instead, SEAMonster is an app that lets you perform seam carving on your photos. What is seam carving? It's a photo-resizing algorithim developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel…

Not a fan of using the taskbar? Skip it with an application called miniMIZE, you can minimize windows to thumbnails that stick to your desktop instead. miniMIZE, a clone of a discontinued app called MINt, has a lot of features, making it a more flexible choice than similar programs, like…

Want to know what’s eating up your disk space on your PC? In the past, we’ve shared some tools that help you analyze your disks, but now there’s a new one to try: Disk Space Finder. This new tool is sleek, running on WPF, and simple to use. While some tools present their findings in ways…

If you have a Windows Home Server then you’ve probably been having fun trying out the numerous add-ins that have been made available for WHS users. These add-ins let you do all kinds of things from running Outlook to syncing your TV shows from Media Center to listening to the radio and so much…

The Snipping Tool has got to be one of the most indispensible additions to Windows, and yet many people aren’t even aware of its existence. Sitting quietly in the Accessories folder, you’d hardly know it has become one of the most prized tools in this blogger’s kit. There are only sparse options for…

 I still remember the excitement when the first Cakewalk Sequencer for Windows came out.  It was the first time that people without Amigas (but with cash or amigos) could do real professional-quality sequencing. Cakewalk has grown far beyond their roots in sequencing, and is dominant…