Like most people, you may copy pieces of Web sites to a word processor when you research online. And, like most people, you probably have to battle all of the codes and images that end up on your Clipboard when you copy a section of most sites. To make things easier, there’s a freeware product, PureText.

PureText strips images and typeface codes from anything on your Windows XP Clipboard. Load it into memory, and the program lets you assign its paste command to a key combo such as Windows key-V so that the current contents of your Clipboard will paste into an application as unformatted text—and only text. Read the full story

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Recently I came across this little free tool called Sideslide that I find extremely useful in my daily computing.

Sideslide is basically a desktop extension that helps you unclutter your desktop and is highly configurable. It has a great set of tools that any typical computer user would need in his everyday work. The main workspace is your ‘drawing board’ to which you can add different kinds of objects: Containers, news feeds, pictures, reminders, file and directory shortcuts, command prompt commands, web URLs and notes.

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