Best Free and Freeware Software and Games for Windows™

It’s not always the case that something quality has to necessarily cost $$$. Most of Windows users can have legal software in their computers without having to buy something. www.freeware-software.org collects freeware software for Windows OS which are fully capable of what even hellish expansive software can do. Office Applications, Graphics and DTP, Internet, Security and Privacy Protection, Multimedia and other tools and utilities. As nice extra, web has decent directory to games we used to play when we were all little younger, and have become cults over time.

[including, GTA, Fish Fillets, Super Mario, or even tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the U.S. government, financed through U.S. tax dollars and distributed free by the U.S. Army :]

Write Your Blog Within Microsoft Word

As stupid as it may sound, I have just discovered that one can type out his own blog directly within his Microsoft Office Word 2007. Nevertheless, this just underlines the general notion that this feature of new 2007 Office Package is not well known, therefore I decided to check it out. Actually, this post is being typed out in Word right now. So let’s see what it can do.

As any other document in Office, you open new blog exactly same way [It gives you nice option between Blank Document and New Blog Post]. If you are using this feature for the first time, a dialog box pops out asking you for your weblog provider [Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, SharePoint, Community Server, beloved WordPress, Typepad, etc.]. Even if yours is not listed, you should still be able to proceed with registration that follows right after, asking you for your login information so that Office knows where to send these blog posts to.

Immediately, after doing so, it brings you back to the blank page where you can write your post. Already predefined is the title, but you are free to create your own too, as you wish. As usual, the spell checker works very nicely too. At the same time you are free to change the style of your text as you wish [just like in regular Word document]. Classically Undo/Repeat buttons are there too [just like /almost/ anything you find in Microsoft Word]…

Bold, italics, underlined, strikethrough, different
fonts, sizes and all the other effects that we are used to,

maybe even more that your basic blog plans provide you with.

Again, inserting hyperlinks, symbols [©®™№],

,

Tables…

1st place	John Smith	Male
2nd place	Jane Smith	Female

Charts …

including SmartArt…

Different shapes…

Or clipart/picture of your choice…and then you can easily resize, edit, add special effects or control the text placement.

Once you are done with playing around and you want to categorize your blog post, you can simply do so by clicking on the “Insert Category” button. Then it will connect with your blog provider service. Just below your title, a new pop-down menu will appear, where all your previous categories [as saved on your blog server] appear and you are free to choose or create a brand new one. However, I experienced troubles with finding the way of choosing more that one category, which I have not been able to proceed with, yet. The same applies for tagging, so I believe one has to do so through the individual web-editors. If there is some other way, bring it up below in comments, please. Any other further management of your blog would have to be done online too. Microsoft Word is just a tool for writing the individual posts.

In case you own several blogs hosted by different service providers, you can easily manage add, remove or edit the existing one [with an option of setting one them as default]. One can even open already existing blog, such as my first one I wrote on Danny DeFisho, see below:

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This post was published to Danny DeFisho at 11:27:28 PM 12/23/2007

WoW

Category none

so here I am, typing out my very first blog post, ain’t dat amazing? I just wonder for how long I will be motivated enough to run this thing… the more you click on here, the better chance of getting out some juicy stuff about your president

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Directly from Microsoft Word you have “Home Page” button which takes you directly to your blog page on the internet. The publishing itself should be easy too, and if you are reading this post on my blog, then it means that it works!!! Before you publish, you have an option of publishing it directly or as a draft. Now, if it will all really appear on my blog as it does on here [which it does], than I have no reason [if am not a CSS capable due to my plan] to stop writing my posts from Microsoft Word [this shall apply the notion that you own your own computer, because for public places, you will have to stick with the web].

For further info visit Office Help Cente.

Get Rid Of The Automatic Updates

Windows is capable of pissing me of very often. The Automatic Updates are one of those most irritating moments, especially when one has s***loads of work to do and this dialog box won’t stop bothering. It is very easy to oversee this box when you are working on lots of stuff [too many windows opened] or you just ran away to get your orange juice cup , the possible damage I do not have to talk about.

I, being very spoilt user, would expect the system to download any update necessary quietly without bothering, and sit there until the next time I restart the system, or what?!

If you hate this [threatening] dialog bog , here is the quick fix. In the commad box type in the following:

sc stop wuauserv

P.S.: Don’t forget that some updates may be really important and will not become active unless manually restarted.

Mac-Like Window [Mini|Maxi|Close] Buttons

Recently, I came across very interesting software-Leftsider-that moves your window buttons [minimize|maximize/restore|close] from the right side [where we are all used to see them] to the left side, just like position of these buttons on Mac. It is not much of a change, but for Mac lovers, I bet this would solve this ‘little’ irritating problem, especially if you are running some kind of Mac theme for Windows, but it fails to move the positions of these buttons. It operates from a little icon in the taskbar, so that you can adjust the alignment anytime you wish. Enjoy. /XP and Vista 32bit/64bit versions available/

Get Rid Of ‘Too Visible’ Recent Documents In XP Start Menu

“When I click on the start menu there’s a tab which reads “Documents”. This tab keeps track of all the files I open, and I want to know how I can turn it off, or get rid of it all together.”

Does that sound any familiar? Yes, the My Documents folder in your Start Menu on your Windows keeps track of all the files you have accessed recently /like your favorite XXX files?/ and thus help you keep track of your recent works. Personally, I have never really used this option in Windows /maybe for couple exceptions/but at times it gets pretty annoying by its visibility, especially if your computer is used by somebody else as well, and you simple do not want them to know what have you been doing before they sat there.

For those of you who would like to get rid of this little problem, Ask-Leo.com gives good guide of “How do I remove the Documents item on my Start Menu.” In the end you realize that it is not very difficult to erase this list, but get rid of it completely as well. This could help you sleep better at nights.

Turn Your PC into MAC

Are you one of those ‘jealous’ people /just like me/ who do not have the privilege of working with MACs but PCs instead? Well, do not give up that quickly! There is an easy, yet powerful way of how to help yourself set ‘the mac mood’ by changing your working environment theme. I know there have been many /not too successful attempts to create more ‘eye pleasurable’ working spaces, but so far I came across only one quality for Windows Vista look /via Vista Inspirat/ and now this MAC OS look/FlyakiteOSX/. This freeware application transforms your system so that it convincingly looks like MAC OS while still running your good ol’ Windows. You get the complete package theme /from loading system screen to taskbar and so known dockbar as well/.

However, I believe that Vista users would have to wait for some later release, as they are not supported at current time.

Windows Users, do not hesitate and check it out at http://osx.portraitofakite.com/