Aero Shake-Shake active Window to minimize windows
http://lifehacker.com/5082279/aero-shake-clears-your-pre+windows-7-desktop
Windows only: Free utility Aero Shake brings the Windows 7 Aero Shake feature—which we previewed last week—to your pre-Windows 7 computer. Like the new Windows 7 feature, shaking the active window with your mouse will minimize all other windows; shaking it again will restore them. This one was [...]
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Nov26th2008
Aero Shake-Shake active Window to minimize windows
Published November 26th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments
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Nov25th2008
DisplayFusion-Free Multi-Monitor Desktop Wallpaper Software
Published November 25th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
DisplayFusion-Free Multi-Monitor Desktop Wallpaper Software
http://www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/
DisplayFusion will make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) experience smooth and painless. Advanced multi-monitor wallpaper support, Flickr integration for image searching and fully customizable window management hotkeys are just a sample of the many things DisplayFusion can do. * Use a different desktop wallpaper image on each [...]
Nov25th2008
gMote-mouse gesture application Launcher
http://www.handform.net/gmote.php
gMote allows you to record gestures (mouse motions) and assign them to frequently performed tasks. Use gestures to bring up programs, websites, control your browser, media player, clipboard and much more. You can even assign your own key combinations to a gesture - make text bold by drawing a "b", lock [...]
Nov24th2008
winKeyLock utility enables to lock computer
Published November 24th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
winKeyLock utility enables to lock computer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winkeylock/
winKeyLock utility enables to lock computer access quickly. Disables the Windows keyboard and mouse so a DVD/Movie can be watched by a small child without changing anything! During lock the current screen stays transparent not like during screen server.
Nov24th2008
AeroSnap-resize arrange maximize snap screen edges
Published November 24th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
AeroSnap-resize arrange maximize snap screen edges
http://www.aerosnap.de.vu/
AeroSnap is a simple but powerful application that allows you to resize, arrange or maximize your desktop windows with just drag'n'drop. Simple drag a window to a side of your desktop to snap it or drag it to the top to maximize.When you drag it back to the last [...]
Nov21st2008
Taskbar Calculator
http://www.marcomaroni.it/TaskbarCalculator.aspx
Cool, silent, this calculator is positioned on the taskbar, the area of the desktop where the list of the open program appears (generraly on the bottom of the screen).When the Calculator box is active you can press the digits and play the operations of a common calculator, that is the four fundamental operations [...]
Oct19th2008
EasyDeskTicker-displays RSS news feeds as a flicker-free ticker bar on the desktop
Published October 19th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
EasyDeskTicker-displays RSS news feeds as a flicker-free ticker bar on the desktop
http://www.mn-software.com/easydeskticker.html
It docks to the top or bottom of the screen and displays news as a scrolling line, as known from TV stations. Headlines are constantly updated, one click and the full article is opened in your web browser.The program is highly customizable: [...]
Sep25th2008
Folder View-file explorer enhancements
http://www.folderview.com/
Welcome to the Folder View website. Folder View is a free (freeware) add-on for Windows that drastically enhances the way you browse the folders on your system.
Files are often scattered around many different folders on the harddisk and locations on the network. Every time you want to copy, move, open [...]
Sep25th2008
PowerMenu - extra menu to control window properties
Published September 25th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
PowerMenu - extra menu to control window properties
http://www.abstractpath.com/powermenu/
PowerMenu is a small application I wrote back in 1998 that some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options. The extra menus are: Always On Top, Transparency and Minimize To Tray.
Aug30th2008
SlowMousion-slows down mouse cursor speed
http://www.mystercrowley.com/sw_sm_en.php
SlowMousion is a (very) small application that slows down mouse cursor's speed when pressing and holding down a key or button. This provides you more sensitive mouse movements when drawing shapes, dragging something or anything you are doing with mouse.
Aug30th2008
WinExt - desktop with a horizontal bar
http://winext.hulubulu.net/
Customise your desktop with a horizontal bar that gives you easy access to all your programs and documents. WinExt is not an alternative to the windows shell, but a good expansion which gives your shell at set of new features.WinExt consists of a bar docked to the top [...]
Aug7th2008
TransparentAV-watch video in transparent window
Published August 7th, 2008 in Desktop and Media. 0 Comments Print
TransparentAV-watch video in transparent window
http://www.codeplex.com/TransparentAV
A tool, that let's you work, while watching videos, sounds weird… it is, but it's pretty fun, try it out.
TransparentAV (Audio / Video) is a fun little tool, that came to life, while I was playing with the WSEXTRANSPARENT function, it let's you "use" the computer while watching a [...]
Aug2nd2008
Desklayer-windows arrangement manager
http://www.lkrprojects.com/home.html
Desklayer is a windows manager that provides to arrange windows on the desktop in various types of layout. Desklayer allows you to move windows across all positions of the layout and arrange the windows size and the layout arrangement dynamically according to the size of the downsized window. Desklayer also re-arrange the [...]
Jul29th2008
Any Wallpaper-automatically change wallpaper
http://www.anyutils.com/
Want to get rid of your ever boring desktop? Yes, you can have a new wallpaper experience now! This small and simple program scans wallpaper folders and change wallpapers at your desired frequency.
It's time to make a change - and Any Wallpaper can do it for you.
Jul19th2008
Dazzo's Wallpaper Changer for Vista
http://mike.dazzos.com/ (Updated)
http://gocomusic.com/mike/
After switching to Window's new OS Vista, I went in search of a good Wallpaper changer. I could not find one, so I decided to create my own.
This wallpaper changer will monitor your chosen folder and recognize when new pictures are added or old pictures [...]
Jul12th2008
ClipSpeak-portable, lightweight text-to-speech tool
Published July 12th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
ClipSpeak-portable, lightweight text-to-speech tool
http://www.codeplex.com/clipspeak
ClipSpeak is a portable, lightweight text-to-speech tool that speaks text copied to the clipboard. It is intended to be as transparent as possible to the user, keeping user interface and interaction to a minimum. At this moment it simply uses the voice selected in the control panel's speech dialogue, but support [...]
Jul12th2008
360desktop-transforms your desktop into a panoramic workspace
Published July 12th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
360desktop-transforms your desktop into a panoramic workspace
http://www.360desktop.com/
Get almost unlimited desktop space; make desktop widgets from your favorite pieces of the web, plus create & share 360° interactive wallpaper.More room for everything you like to do
360desktop transforms your desktop into a panoramic workspace - with more space for everything. Slide around your new workspace quickly [...]
Jul6th2008
DESKonTOP-show desktop without minimizing all windows
Published July 6th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
DESKonTOP-show desktop without minimizing all windows
http://www.shuric.com/viewpage.php?page_id=2
DESKonTOP finally solves the puzzle. To launch a shortcut from your desktop simply click DESKonTOP icon near the system clock, and you'll see a small copy of your desktop with all shortcuts and icons. You can easily launch a shortcut from there, and that's it! No need to minimize [...]
Jul2nd2008
Find and Run Robot-launch menu
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/
Find and Run Robot (FARR) is a program for keyboard maniacs — it uses an adaptive "live search" function to rapidly find programs and documents on your computer as you type.
Press your chosen hotkey to display the FARR window, then just start typing the first letters of the application [...]
Jul2nd2008
Windows Vista Speech Recognition Macros tool
Published July 2nd, 2008 in Desktop and Media. 0 Comments Print
Windows Vista Speech Recognition Macros tool
http://www.microsoft.com/
Windows Speech Recognition Macros tool – or WSR Macros for short – extends the usefulness of the speech recognition capabilities in Windows Vista. Users can create powerful macros that are triggered by spoken commands which can perform a series of tasks from as simple as inserting your mailing address to [...]
Jun8th2008
Caledos Automatic Wallpaper Changer
http://www.caledos.com/lab/Caledos/Caledos.aspx
Are you bored to have always the same wallpaper on your desktop? Are you looking for a new exciting way to put images on it? Well, make your computer desktop more dynamic, interactive, useful, and fun with Caledos Automatic Wallpaper Changer. It allows your desktop wallpaper to change automatically. It also [...]
Jun8th2008
PasteCopy.NET-Simple .NET Paste Copy Clipboard Utility
Published June 8th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
PasteCopy.NET-Simple .NET Paste Copy Clipboard Utility
http://www.pastecopy.net/
small, simple clipboard utility, to help reduce the workload. I'm not sure where it's going, but I'll guess I just keep modifying it along the way.
Paste Copy is the very first application I've made in the programming language .NET, and I've only spent about 5 minutes to learn [...]
Jun8th2008
X-Mouse Button Control - remap your mouse buttons
Published June 8th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
X-Mouse Button Control - remap your mouse buttons
http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm
X-Mouse Button Control is a windows application to remap your mouse buttons. This software is designed and written for Microsoft Windows XP/2003 x64 Edition but I have also, from version 1.5, built a 32bit version.
You are able to provide an application specific mappings, which means one application [...]
Jun8th2008
Start++ create custom vista run command aliases
Published June 8th, 2008 in Desktop. 0 Comments Print
Start++ create custom vista run command aliases
http://brandonlive.com/2007/02/22/new-tool-i-made-for-vista-start/
configuration UI, which lets you create your own custom commands / aliases.
Like I said, this is kind of something I threw together, so it might still have some bugs, and I’ll probably add more to it when I get the time on weekends and such. Anyway, let [...]
Jun7th2008
MojoPac-portable desktop on any computer
Published June 7th, 2008 in Desktop and System. 0 Comments Print
MojoPac-portable desktop on any computer
http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/hellomojo.jsp
MojoPac is a technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC. Just install MojoPac on any USB 2.0 compliant storage device, upload your applications and files, modify your user settings and environment preferences, and take it with you everywhere.
Every [...]
