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Bring Outlook 2010 Inbox, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, And Tasks On Desktop

By Usman | Published: September 1, 2010

Outlook On The Desktop is an extremely useful application which brings the most important Outlook 2010 items including Calendar, Inbox, Tasks, Notes, and Contacts, right on the desktop. Since opening Outlook 2010 application each time to view Calendar, Inbox, Contacts, etc., is nuisance-driving, this innovative application eliminates the need of navigating through Outlook to access these items and offers a simple desktop solution. Previously we have reviewed a tool called DeskTask which only brings calendar and tasks on the desktop, Outlook on The Desktop puts the whole email client on the Windows Desktop.

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SLAG-FS: Music Playing Gadget That Syncs With Windows Media Player

By Usman | Published: August 30, 2010

SLAG-FS is a music playing sidebar gadget for Windows Vista and Windows 7. It comes with two viewing modes, one is the normalized compact view and other is a full screen display. It syncs with Windows Media Player playlists, letting you enjoy and navigate through your music collection with a single click. The full screen mode is designed for those who love to listen to music on big display setups or on theater televisions through HDMI or DVI (Digital Visual Interface).

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Chameleon Folder Allows Quick Folder Navigation From Anywhere

By Usman | Published: August 20, 2010

Chameleon Folder is a nifty application with two purpose – first it lets you quickly access favorite and frequently used files and folders from anywhere, and second that it makes navigation much faster. You can customize the menu and access it from windows explorer, save/open dialog box, archive extract window, desktop, etc with a simple middle click (usually associated with mouse wheel) or any user-defined hotkey. Read More…

Espresso Reader Is Full-Featured Visually Appealing Google Reader For Desktop

By Nakodari | Published: August 20, 2010

In the last few years, we have come across many applications claiming to provide the best feed reading experience on the desktop. Personally, I have seen countless of them but none are actually usable. Today, after much searching, I came across Expresso Reader. Not only is it usable but is also visually appealing, easy to use, and has almost every functionality that a user would expect. It is also the first 3rd party desktop Google Reader application that I actually plan on using.

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DeskAngel Offers Multiple Windows, System, And Desktop Features

By Rizwan | Published: July 21, 2010

DeskAngel is a free utility that enhances the desktop and windows functions in multiple ways. It offers various set of features such as;  System, Windows enhancement, and Visual effect features.

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Window Manager Enhances Windows Aero Snap Functionality

By Usman | Published: July 19, 2010

Couple of days back we have covered an awesome application windows manager called WinSplit Revolution, which can handle and adjust positions of up to 8 multiple windows instantly. Window Manager is a remake of eminent Windows build-in application Aero Snap. For those who don’t know, Aero Snap is a free Windows build-in application which quickly set position of windows by providing various drag & drop and windows snapping behaviors. It takes the same phenomenon to the next level by allowing user to set position of open windows seamlessly.

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ZapDev Customizes Desktop Wallpaper

By ASK | Published: July 12, 2010

ZapDev is an open source application which lets you scroll through specified pictures to illuminate desktop background. Put extra imaging effect on your favorite photos and get customized wallpapers easily. It helps when you get bored of same desktop wallpaper after some time, select the change background interval from its interface and you’ll view a different background after specified time.

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Quickly Adjust Multiple Windows On Desktop With WinSplit Revolution

By Usman | Published: July 10, 2010

Do you work on 3-4 applications simultaneously and need to open each window frequently for reference or for any other purpose. While working on a big project you may need to open multiple windows to meet tight project timelines, would you be manually switching & setting each window on the screen to get along with, well you can pretty much adjust the windows manually, it’ll be a serious nuisance and rather frustrating. WinSplit Revolution is a small yet powerful tool which can assist you out in handling this very situation.

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Turn Your Desktop Into A Real-Time Globe Image With Desktop Earth

By Aatif | Published: July 1, 2010

If you’re into aesthetics, have some explorer/scientist genes inside you, allow me to say that you will definitely love Desktop Earth! Basically it is just a live wallpaper for your Windows desktop that displays real-time images of the globe (depending on your time zone) as observed by NASA’s satellites. Check out the screenshot after the jump.

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Full-Featured Desktop Facebook Messenger

By Usman | Published: June 16, 2010

Users have been griping about the Facebook build-in chat service which lacks a ton of features when compared to traditional desktop IM clients such as; saving conversations, chat logging, clearing history, etc. Even though we have covered desktop clients supporting Facebook chat service along with simple IM desktop client featuring Facebook chat.

Now there is a full-featured Facebook IM desktop client,called, Chit Chat for Facebook. However not very prominent, it certainly provides multiple features to enrich Facebook chat service right on your desktop. Despite being able to provide only chat feature, it allows user to post on friend’s wall along with sporting sending private messages directly from within the application.

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Group And Organize Desktop Icons

By Usman | Published: June 7, 2010

Sometimes your desktop is about to burst with application icons, shortcuts, files, folders, etc, and in this very situation, finding the certain application, shortcut can also become difficult, as you need intensive navigation but wouldn’t it be great if you can manage the whole lot of icons, applications and other files & folder on desktop in desktop management tool providing an option of grouping up the desktop content? Desktop Manager BBox provides the very same feature.

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Change Windows Desktop Icons Into Explorer List View

By Nakodari | Published: June 4, 2010

A lot of us have an habit of throwing files on the desktop for quick access. What happens when the desktop gets cluttered and there is no more space to add files, shortcuts, and applications? One solution is to use Ctrl+ Mouse Wheel method to make icons smaller (read the tip here) but there is another way which is equally (or better) effective. DeskView is a small portable tool that will change the Windows desktop icons into Windows Explorer list view in just one click.

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Switcher Is The Right Implementation Of Mac’s Expose On Windows

By Aatif | Published: May 13, 2010

A while back we reviewed a tool called SmallWindows that provided similar functionality as Mac’s ‘expose’ feature for the Windows platform. The application was no longer in active development and many of our readers reported problems using it. Thanks to our reader ‘John’ for pointing out, we have a much better alternate, a utility called Switcher.

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Bring Mac’s Expose Feature To Windows

By Aatif | Published: May 10, 2010

Other than the brilliance of aesthetics that Macs display, they also come with some really useful features, one of them being Expose. For those who are not familiar with it, Expose lets you quickly bring focus to one open window/application from the clutter that may be occupying your desktop, and such clutters are really inevitable when you’re performing your routine tasks.

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Hide Mac Desktop Shortcuts & Files With Camouflage

By Aatif | Published: April 26, 2010

So your desktop is cluttered with files and shortcuts that you don’t know what to do about, and they’re ruining your beautiful desktop background? Camouflage is the tool you may want to check out. This application hides all your desktop icons and leaves nothing but the background wallpaper. Hidden icons can be easily toggled with hotkeys and right-click menu.

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