Freeware Spotlight was a relatively innovative new feature in OS X. Sure, the idea and concept has been seen before, but to the average home user, being able to enter a keyword and find any documents, files and emails relating to the keyword, instantaneously, is an innovative feature. Previously youÆd have to search your entire computer for the right result and generally couldnÆt access you email within the same search.
Requires: Windows
2000, XP or Vista
FileZilla 3.0.0
Freeware Downloading files from the internet using ftp rather than Internet Explorer can be much faster. FileZilla is great for this and for posting web pages.
FileZilla will remember passwords for ftp sites and handles all of the commands for transfering files. You can see the files on your computer and the remote site with the dual panes.
Requires: Windows
2000, XP or Vista
Firefox Showcase 0.9.3.2
Freeware Provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you.
Requires: Windows
98SE, 2000, Me or XP
FaviconizeTab 0.9.7.4
Freeware Since tabbed windows became widespread, weÆve become rather lazy, opening multiple tabs to view different web pages. The big downside being that the more tabs you open, you have to then end up scrolling from left to right if you have more than, say, 10 tabs open at an one point in time.
The answer would be to reduce the size of the tabs to just the icon that represents each website, resulting in more tabs within your browser.
Requires: Windows
2000, XP or Vista
FinalBurner 1.19.0.102
Freeware Alternative to expensive CD and DVD burners. This 4-Mb application enables you to create data, audio, DVD disks and burn them onto any type of media, such as CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL.
You can also create an ISO image of a disk. Combines all the elements of a professional CD recorder.
Requires: Windows
98SE, 2000, Me or XP
FlashGot 0.6.4
Freeware Mozilla Firefox extension (compatible with Netscape and Flock, too), meant to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads with several external Download Managers.
With right-mouse button integration, you can quickly right-click on links.
