Five free Windows utilities you should download

You know me: I love a good freebie. Today I’ve got five of them for you, all Windows utilities that solve specific problems and/or make life a little easier

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Trick Gmail into thinking you’re on an iPad for two-pane goodness

Gmail's two-pane view on an iPad (click to enlarge). (Credit: Google) Google on Friday announced that it’s got an iPad-centric version of its Gmail Web app that gives users a two-pane reading view of their in-boxes

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Scanner Pro turns an iPhone into a document scanner

pdiv class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-right” style=”width: 270px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100219/Scanner_Pro_270×404.png” alt=”" width=”270″ height=”404″ / p class=”image-caption”Scanner Pro may not have the sexiest interface, but it#39;s great for capturing and sharing documents./p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Rick Broida)/span /div/p pProblem: You’ve just been handed a stack of papers that need to be signed and returned–and there’s no fax machine in sight./p pProblem: You’ve got a pocketful of receipts you’re tired of carrying around–and no place to file them./p pProblem: You need to convert a printed document into a PDF./p pThe solution for all these predicaments is a href=”http://download.cnet.com/Scanner-Pro/3000-2064_4-10972460.html”Scanner Pro/a ($4.99), which turns your iPhone into a mobile scanner that connects to everything from Dropbox to Evernote to MobileMe./p pHere’s how it works: Find the most well-lit setting you possibly can, run the app, then point your iPhone’s camera at a document. Assuming you’re happy with the capture (a handy Retake button is available if you’re not), tap Done, and Scanner Pro converts the page into a PDF./p p From there, the sky’s the limit–or make that the cloud. With a few taps you can upload your page(s) to any/all of the aforementioned services, as well as Box.net, Humyo, and a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV”WebDAV-compatible/a online storage./p pScanner Pro also lets you e-mail and print your scans (though the latter requires third-party app a href=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/print-n-share-for-advanced/id301656026?mt=8″Print n Share/a, which costs $6.99)

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‘The Cat in the Hat’ comes back…to the iPhone

pcenterobject style=”height: 344px; width: 425px”param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/j3uZq8S6oJc”param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always”embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/j3uZq8S6oJc” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” allowScriptAccess=”always” width=”425″ height=”344″/object/center/p pIt’s a good time to be a Dr. Seuss fan–and an iPhone or iPod Touch owner

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App Genie: 27 apps for 99 cents

div class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-right” style=”width: 270px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100204/App_Genie_270×404.png” alt=”" width=”270″ height=”404″ / p class=”image-caption”App Genie can literally take the place of 27 standalone apps./p /div pIn the grand tradition of the Ginsu Knife, a href=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/app-genie/id352781306?mt=8″App Genie/a is 27, 27, 27 apps in one! Even if you find only a handful of them useful, you’re definitely getting your 99 cents’ worth./p pApp Genie’s one-screen interface displays 20 attractive icons, which unfortunately are arranged randomly rather than alphabetically. Thus, finding what you’re after (like, say, the tip calculator) is more difficult than it should be./p pA few of these apps (like Tool Case) have various sub-apps, bringing the total number of tools to 26. After running App Genie a couple times, you’ll see a notification asking you to e-mail a recommendation to a friend

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The return of a classic and survival shooter mayhem: iPhone apps of the week

div class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-left” style=”width: 159px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100129/iPhoneLogoShot.JPG” alt=”iPhone” width=”159″ height=”142″ / span class=”image-credit”(Credit: CNET)/span /div pUnless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you probably already know that the iPad, Apple’s new tablet, is on its way in less than 60 days.

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