{"id":12883,"date":"2009-10-26T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=12883"},"modified":"2009-10-26T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:04:43","slug":"techbite-5-free-tools-to-tickle-your-pcs-fancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/techbite-5-free-tools-to-tickle-your-pcs-fancy\/","title":{"rendered":"TechBite: 5 Free Tools to Tickle Your PC&#8217;s Fancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stevewp.jpg\" alt=\"stevewp\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7654 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Steve Bass<\/p>\n<p>I know you  like new tools to try (I do too), so here are a stack. Play with them, see if  they fit your working style, and maybe you&#8217;ll find a couple of keepers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"geek\" id=\"geek\"><\/a>Geek Alert: Tune Up Your LCD<\/strong><br \/>\n  Listen, you  know why the subtitle is <em>geek alert?<\/em> It&#8217;s because you need to like to take computing risks and you need some  semblance of knowledge about LCDs. So before you read about Nicomsoft&#8217;s free <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/nicomsoft.com\/dtuner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Display Tuner<\/a>, I want  you to know that you can&#8217;t write me to complain the tool turned your LCD into one  side of a 21-inch bookstand. (Or formatted your drive, or caused your spouse to  leave you, for that matter.) Monitors are weird and even the program&#8217;s author  has a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/nicomsoft.com\/dtuner\/warning.htm\" target=\"_blank\">stern  warning<\/a> for you. Got it? Okay, cool, carry on.<\/p>\n<p>I never seem  to get either of my ViewSonic LCDs tuned just right. And I really don&#8217;t like  fiddling with those silly, hard-to-use buttons on the front of the monitor. Display  Tuner lets you do those adjustments &#8212; such as geometry, color, and brightness  &#8212; from within Windows. You can also set profiles for different viewing  situations, say, watching videos, or reading text. That&#8217;s terrific. There are  two limitations: If you have a dual monitor display, Display Tuner will support  just one monitor and ignore the second one. And the tool works only with  monitors that can be managed by software (they must support DDC commands). That  leaves my ViewSonic LCDs out in the cold.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"Xinorbis\" id=\"Xinorbis\"><\/a>Xinorbis Analyzes Your Hard Drive <\/strong><br \/>\n  Is your hard  drive stuffed? Chances are good you don&#8217;t know half of the junk you have stored  in some of the folders. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freshney.org\/xinorbis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xinorbis<\/a> analyzes your hard drive and shows you the contents,  the structure, and how the files are distributed. It&#8217;ll look at local,  removable, and networked drives. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freshney.org\/xinorbis\/images\/3b.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" width=\"350\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>You&#8217;ll say OMG  once you see how many video files you&#8217;ve got stashed away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"quick\" id=\"quick\"><\/a>Quick, I Need My Screensaver<\/strong><br \/>\n  Picture this: You&#8217;re  playing a computer game, or maybe a sensitive spreadsheet (or worse, a  sensitive video) is on screen. In walks the head of HR. In my case, it&#8217;s  Popcorn, my 12-year old terrier, and nothing offends or surprises her. But you might  want to get your screen saver running, like, pronto. Use <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brianapps.net\/saverstarter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saver Starter<\/a> to hover your cursor over a hot spot on your screen and instantly pop open the  screen saver. While you&#8217;re on the developer&#8217;s site, check out <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jugglesaver.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juggle Saver<\/a>, a nifty  screen saver.  <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jugglesaver.co.uk\/5clubani.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"173\" width=\"147\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"hey\" id=\"hey\"><\/a>Hey, I&#8217;m Offline!<\/strong><br \/>\n  There are lots  of reasons it can happen; I talked about some fixes in <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techbite.com\/newsletter\/3\/help-i-cant-get-online\" target=\"_blank\">Help &#8212; I Can&#8217;t Get Online!<\/a> One tool I didn&#8217;t mention in that  newsletter is the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclive.com\/internet-connection-repair-tool.php\" target=\"_blank\">Internet  Connection Repair Utility<\/a>. It fixes invalid Registry settings, checks and  repairs Winsock settings, and helps you figure out exactly what&#8217;s wrong. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"have\" id=\"have\"><\/a>Have a Messy Link? Let URLRun Clean It Up<\/strong><br \/>\n  You ever get a  long link in e-mail? Sure you do, and when it spans a couple of lines, it  doesn&#8217;t always work when you click it. So what do you do? You copy and  paste it into your browser and hope it works. The problem is you take along detritus &#8212; spaces  or maybe an angle bracket character or two. Try using <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sellsbrothers.com\/tools\/#urlrun\" target=\"_blank\">URLRun<\/a>, a tiny tool that strips all the junk from a link and  automatically pastes it into your browser. Even though the site (which, in  computing terms, is ancient) only works with Internet Explorer, URLRun will work in your default browser; it  works for my in Firefox.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;<br \/>\n  URLRun needs  no installation. Download and unzip it right onto the Desktop. You can leave it  there, but it&#8217;s much better to right-click it and drag it to the Quick Launch  portion of your task bar. Then just highlight any URL, press Control-C to copy  it, and click on the URLRun icon. The cleaned-up link is in the clipboard and  URLRun whisks it into your browser&#8217;s Address field. Make the magic work right  in Microsoft Outlook using the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cheztabor.com\/UrlRunAddIn\/\" target=\"_blank\">URLRun add-in<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stevewp.jpg\" alt=\"steveb\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Steve Bass<\/p>\n<p>I know you  like new tools to try (I do too), so here are a stack. 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