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Windows only: Nomad.NET is a powerful alternative file manager complete with breadcrumbs, thumbnails, integration with explorer plugins—and even support for multiple tabs.

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Windows: You’ve got a web page, a file folder, and a chat window open, and they’re all about the same project. WindowTabs, a free-to-try utility, can group together all those app windows with top-most, Google-Chrome-like tabs.
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Yesterday we showed you how to move your home folder to another drive in OS X, and we’ve already done the My Documents move on XP; if you’re a Vista user, now it’s your turn. It’s pretty easy to do in OS X and XP, but as blogger Joshua Mouch points out (along with other readers), moving your user profile location in Vista is a bit more difficult. More »

Windows only: System notification tool Growl for Windows is a slick, customizable, universal alert system for your applications—so you don’t have to be jealous of your Mac friends anymore. After installing the utility, you’ll have to download plugins to support application-specific notifications—the current set of plugins supports iTunes, Firefox, Microsoft Outlook, Pandora’s AIR application, Visual Studio, and there’s even a command-line utility to send notifications to Growl, which you could launch from your own custom AutoHotkey scripts. More »

Windows/Mac OS X: Free remote desktop application CrossLoop—which we’ve mentioned once or twice before—has just released a Mac version, which means simple, cross-platform remote support and file sharing for your friends and family. More »

Windows 7’s Action Center does a great job of compressing all of Windows’ update/alert/whatever notifications into one icon, but it takes some tweaking to make it show what you want, or disable it entirely. More »

Windows only: Portable freeware application SiteShoter takes screenshots of web sites with a powerful array of features. Using the utility, which (like all of the excelllent NirSoft applications) requires no installation, is easy—just add the URL to the web site you want to capture, choose a filename to save the image to, and click Start to save the screenshot. What makes this utility great is the wide range of powerful More »

Windows only: SkiniTunes solves some of the deficiencies of iTunes’ mini player, adding album covers, lyrics, instant ratings, and a few other nice features. The $5 pro edition, however, locks down the global hotkeys. More »

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Close’n Forget, one of the runners-up for Mozilla’s Best Firefox 3 Extensions, has updated to, well, actually work more often, erasing any site’s cookie/history/AwesomeBar evidence from Firefox with one button click. More »

Windows only: We took a strong liking to controlling multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse nearly two years ago, and the concept’s still cool, but the software hasn’t updated. Synergy-Plus keeps the multi-control party going. As you can see in the screen above, Synergy-Plus offers much the same kind of multi-computer control as the Synergy2 download, More »