Treesize Free is one of my favourite freeware programs, because it’s so darn useful. Every so often I pop it open and press scan to take a look at the files and folders that are hogging space on my hard drive. And I never cease to be amazed at the results. For instance yesterday I ran a quick scan and discovered that Joost is using a whopping 1 GB + of my drive for goodness knows what (caching?). And that…

Icon Restore lets you save and restore your Windows desktop icon layout at the click of a mouse button. Well actually you need to right mouse click on My Computer and select Save Desktop Icon Layout. Then if your icons get scrambled you restore them by doing the same process and selecting Restore… Neat.  After installing Icon Restore, simply place your icons wherever you want them on your desktop, right click My Computer (or any ‘system’ icon) and left click on “Save…

Magic Boss Key is a tiny freeware program that lets you hide your Windows activity and mute the sound with one keypress. I’m not going to suggest uses for this baby, you’ll just have to work it out.   Magic Boss Key allow you to hide active program window immediately using a hot key!You can hide the browser windows,folder windows,applications windows,all your desktop icons and taskbar when your boss or anyone else you don’t want to see your screens comes…

SSC Service Utility. You own an Epson printer right? You’re fed up with the company owning your soul in terms of not being able to refill cartridges, reset counters etc? Fret no more. This little freeware utility promises to let you reset your Epson chip, freeze ink counters, clean your heads when you want, hot swap cartridges and more. It supports over 100 models, but do understand that using this software MAY WRECK YOUR PRINTER AND WILL DEFINITELY VOID YOUR…

Tweakmaster is a freeware broadband connection optimizer which comes with all sorts of cool features to help you improve your throughput. The best bit is a easy to use wizard which you can set and forget in about 20 seconds. I used it recently to try and enhance one of my ADSL connections and it worked (giving me a 5x improvement). You’ll have to register to get rid of the freeware nags, and there’s a Pro version too if you feel the need…

Send To Toys is a simple, single function freeware utility that adds glitter to your right mouse Send To command. It’s great for setting up regular folder destinations, or even regular email recipients of files and suchlike. No frills, no spills.  Send To Toys is an enhancement of the Send To system menu. – Send To Toys Control Panel Applet allows you to manage the Send To system menu content, and configure the various Send To Toys settings. – “Add…

Learn Chinese Characters. Not that we want to suggest anything, of course, but now may be a good time to think about downloading this little freeware program to brush up on the old Chinese lingo a bit. Just in case the credit crunch doesn’t pan out as expected, know what we mean?  LCC (Learn Chinese Characters) is a multimedia program which lets you learn it by yourself. For each character entry, it gives the English definitions, Pinyin and Zhuyin annotations, cross…