Do you like to customize your operating system’s look and feel? Do words like “sleek”, “minimalistic”, and “metallic” turn you on? If so then read on: 7Conifier (pronounced “iconifier”) is a free tool that can customize your Windows 7 taskbar and start menu icons by replacing →
AltRun: lightweight application launcher
AltRun is an open-source, lightweight launcher that launches applications, documents, and folders with just several keystrokes. This software also provides the flexibility to perform a wide range of tasks; examples of these include, but are not limited to, quickly running web searches, controlling on-screen windows, sending →
DriveGleam: display your CPU, RAM and drive usage as icons in the system tray
DriveGleam is a free app that installs a handful of activity indicators as icons in your system tray, including a CPU usage, a RAM usage, virtual RAM usage, as well as an icon that displays hard drive activity for each of your partitions. You can pick →
Quick Cliq: on-demand launcher provides a wide range of shortcuts and functions right at your fingertips
Quick Cliq is a free, small app that provides instant access to program, folders, files, and URLs. Created by the same developers that brought us previously mentioned JumpTo, Quick Cliq offers a slew of additional functions, including “folder menu” shortcuts that automatically display all sub folders →
Hot Corners: launch favorite apps, files and folders by touching the corners of your screen
This program provides an interesting way to access favorite folders and files or performing any of range of functions (running any program, running the screensaver, searching Google, showing the desktop, etc.) by hovering over any of the four corners of your screen, which apparently is inspired →
JDcontextmenu: enhance Windows’ right-click menu with a host of useful functions
JDcontextmenu is a free app that installs a wide range of commands in Windows’ right click context menu. You’ve seen many of these before; here’s a list: “copy full path”, “”copy name”, CMD line here, MD5 checksum, FileDateTime Stamp, Create new folder(s), send fullname by email →
How to change the icons used for any file type on your PC
Description: ResizeEnable
is a small, free windows
hack that gives you the
ability to resize any window
by dragging and dropping
its lower right corner -
including those windows
that normally do not allow
you to resize them.
Reasons why you would
need a program like this (a)
if a program’s
windows exhibit strange
behaviors when run under
different resolutions from
the one used by the
programmer, a program like
this can be a lifesaver in
that it will allow you to
resize the window such
that it works for you (b)
sometimes if you have an
unusual screen resolution
some windows may behave
strangely, or (c) because
you can, and you would
like to →
Customize your folders with StyleFolder
Freeware program StyleFolder can perform a handful of interesting folder customizations straight from the Windows right-click context menu, including changing the folder’s icon, using an image as folder background, and changing the font color used inside the folder. All customizations are saved into the folder itself →
KlipFolio
KlipFolio is a desktop-based interactive widget engine.It is designed to be a personaldashboard that monitors any type of online information (such as news, videos, email, RSS feeds, stocks, weather, ebay auctions, etc), but also offers offline tools such as memory/cpu/folder monitoring. It features a slick, customizable →
gTrans
gTrans (short for Google Translator Interface) is a free, memory resident program that can do on-the-fly text translations using the Google engine. It is a small program that can be accessed through the system tray and supports multiple-language translations. Ever found yourself humming a song and →
FirmTools ShellExtension
FirmTools ShellExtension adds 3 image-file related functions to the Windows right click menu (a) a ’convert’ function for image-format conversions on the fly within explorer, (b) thumbnail previews for images within the context menu, and (c) a print function which prints a centered image with the file →
FreeSpell
Freespell is a memory-resident spell-checker that can be be invoked through a hotkey combination from within any application. It uses the Aspell open source engine. Here’s how this progam works: From any application, select the text that you would like to spell-check and press the hotkey →
