FreeShade's basic reason for existence is to provide window shading for Windows. It also does a bit more than this, but before getting to that, what is window shading?

Window shading is when you double-click on a window's caption and the window rolls itself up so that only its caption (or title bar) is visible. You can see window shading on Apple Macs, various window managers for X-Windows (on Unix, GNU/Linux etc) and presumeably other OSes/GUIs as well. So if things start off looking like this:

After double-clicking the caption bar you'll have:

So what? It reduces screen clutter, either for a brief peek behind the current window, or you can leave several shaded windows lounging around the screen. If you've regularly got lots of windows open and need to refer to several of them in close order, window shading can come in handy.

@) FancyMax-ing. Maximize windows vertically or _horizontally_, rather than just grabbing the whole screen. FancyMax also provides a non-rigid maximize, which means a window will grab most nearly all of the screen, but unlike a regular maximize, you can still move the window around.

Vertical FancyMax:

Horizontal FancyMax:

Stretchy hug to top left corner:

@) Forcibly stop the process which the window belongs to.