Tag Results For: desktop

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trimDesk: Hide Taskbar, Wallpaper, Desktop Icons & Gadgets Using Hotkeys

Hiding all the icons, widgets and gadgets from the desktop becomes quite a tedious task, especially in a situation where one needs to take multiple screenshots without any icon and/or other clutter visible on the desktop. The default method requires users to manually hide desktop icons and gadgets from the View menu. If you regularly [...] (more…)

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Instagrille For Pokki: A Compact, Elegant Instagram Viewer For Windows

Instagrille is, in essence, a desktop client for photo-sharing giant Instagram. It is an app for Pokki that provides users with a quick way to view their Instagram feeds directly from within Windows, without having to open a browser and navigate to an online viewer. For those who are yet unfamiliar with Pokki, it is [...] (more…)

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Shock 4Way 3D: Customizable Virtual Desktop Manager With Awesome Transition Effects

Software that add multiple virtual desktops to Windows provide you with more work space without buying or attaching any extra displays. Virtual desktop tools are available in many functional forms; simple ones, such as mDesktop (an open-source application to enable up to 10 multiple virtual desktops on your screen with hotkey supported switching), and others with [...] (more…)

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Create, Sort & Manage Text Snippets With This Pastebin Desktop Client

Pastebin is a web-based application that lets users upload text snippets in order to share them with friends, colleagues and with public. Most software developers use this online service to paste large chunks of code modules to get help and feedback from other developers and users. Even though it allows you to store text for [...] (more…)

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ReSpaceApp Provides Easier Desktop Spaces Navigation & Window Management [Mac]

Desktop Spaces is not only a remarkable feature in OS X, but also the only way you can group your windows by tasks. There is nothing that suggests the feature is inconvenient, but for those of you who think there is always room for improvement, you can give ReSpaceApp a try. It a free Mac [...] (more…)

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minWE: Access Windows Explorer Contents From Quick Launch Bar

Previously, we have reviewed some very useful application launchers that allow you to easily launch applications either by adding them to a toolbar or specifying their shortcut path. Famulus, a previously covered app, lets you  launch files as well as websites using hotkeys, while Windows 7 App Launcher lets you effortlessly create application profiles so [...] (more…)

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Tiny Uploader: Capture Screenshots & Upload Images To Imgur & ImageShack

Websites such as 9Gag, Reddit and Digg don’t host the images posted by users on their own servers. That’s why most users upload images to online image hosting websites, such as Imgur.com, Minus, ImageShack.us etc. Imgur is an image hosting & sharing website that offers both account-based, as well as anonymous image uploading services. ImageShack [...] (more…)

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Screen Capturer: Set Custom Frame Rate For Recording Screencasts

Screencasts are digital recordings of your computer screen that allow you to demonstrate a certain sequence of actions on your desktop, or create a video tutorial. There are a lot of good free applications available for capturing screencasts, but it is hard to find good software that let you create screencasts of your desktop. Most [...] (more…)

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Feewhee: Use Mouse Scroll To Resize Windows & Adjust Their Transparency

When Windows Vista came out, the Aero-Snap feature revolutionized the way we resize our windows. It allowed users to quickly resize windows in different sizes to make efficient use of the available virtual work space. You can place windows side by side, place them vertically or automatically resize more than 2 windows horizontally and vertically [...] (more…)

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Disable Mac Dashboard & Rearrangement Of Desktop Spaces [Tip]

Desktop spaces are, by far, one of the most intuitive ways of managing your apps’ windows. For those that don’t know, the Desktop spaces don’t just group your windows; they’re actually smart to remember which ones you use most frequently, and rearranges them as per your preference. The feature is great, but if you prefer [...] (more…)

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MetroTwit Updated: Windows 8 Support With Filters, Undo Tweet Options

Twitter is one of the most famous social networking services out there. It allows you to keep yourself updated and get to know about events in real time. A lot of Twitter users prefer to use desktop clients rather than the web app because the desktop clients, such as TweekDeck, Seesmic, Sobees etc, provide much [...] (more…)

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Wallpaper Master Switches Between Wallpapers By User-Defined Rating

In the past, we have covered some great Windows 7 Themes, and applications like Mourao Wallpaper Changer,  SyncWall and Kuvva that automatically change desktop wallpaper after a specified time. Wallpaper Master is another powerful and highly customizable desktop wallpaper manager that allows you to cycle through specified desktop wallpapers. Apart from changing wallpapers after defined [...] (more…)

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Add Your Favorite RSS Feed As Animated Wallpaper On Mac [Tip]

We’ve covered apps that conveniently put your entire RSS feed on your desktop, thus saving you the trouble of visiting a browser window whenever you need to check for or read new stories. For those that only go through their feeds once a day, either at the start or end of it, having an app [...] (more…)

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[Giveaway] Droppy: Easily Move Files Between Desktop Spaces & Apps On Mac [Paid]

Desktop spaces in Mac make it easy to manage multiple apps and windows. Compared to Expose in Snow Leopard, Desktop Spaces, coupled with Mission Control, let you easily distribute and organize your work without overthinking it. While this feature is mostly convenient, it does get difficult to switch files from one space to another, or [...] (more…)

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Bypass Windows 8 SmartScreen Filter To Run 3rd Party Desktop Apps

Among Windows 8’s new features has been the rather-hyped SmartScreen Filter. The filter itself is nothing new, as users of Internet Explorer have been familiar with the said protection measure implemented in Microsoft’s internet browser to provide precautions against phishing websites and malicious downloads. With Windows 8, Microsoft brought the same security concept to third-party [...] (more…)