brijmin on Tech

I have my home desktop set up with applications for a variety of tasks, but when traveling, at work or at a friend’s house (I’m often de facto IT for friends and family) I never seem to have the tools I need. I used to carry around a book of CDs with various applications, but [...]

There are a few widely-accepted ways to anonymize your browsing or torrent activity, but they all have their drawbacks. TOR is free, but it’s poor etiquette to use it for torrents and put a strain on the bandwidth of the nice folks who run TOR servers. Not to mention that it’s incredibly, stupefyingly slow. You [...]

Here are six (seventeen, really, but some are grouped) simple applications that will help – and they’re all free for personal use!
1. PC Decrapifier – A lot of people that drop their systems off for repair say “take out any programs that don’t need to be there.” Well, that’s exactly the kind of crud Decrapifier [...]

IconRestorer not only backs up and saves your desktop icon layout, it also lets you switch your icons to a space-saving list view.

DisplayFusion will make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) experience smooth and painless. With DisplayFusion you can add a taskbar to every monitor that works and looks just like the Windows Taskbar. Or take advantage of advanced multi-monitor wallpaper support, Flickr integration for image searching and fully customizable window management hotkeys.

Revo Uninstaller – Windows doesn’t always remove everything that a program leaves behind-file folders, Start menu items, menu entries, you name it. Revo Uninstaller does. It runs a standard uninstaller, then it searches your system for everything the program changed or touched while it was installing.

For some, downloading software is a daily habit. Spot, download, install, forget. Problem is, a lot of applications don’t have built-in tools for staying updated. Instead of checking each program-manually-to see if it’s up-to-date, RadarSync checks and updates all the apps on your system for you.

All-Glass Firefox v2 extends the super-slick Windows Vista Aero transparency effects to almost every piece of the Firefox interface.

If you’re a fan of portable thumb drive applications like previously mentioned PortableApps.com Suite, free application CodySafe brings similar portable computing to your thumb drive.

Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons.