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Windows 8 looks like Windows 7

Get Windows 7 Start Menu, Explorer And Task Manager In Windows 8

If you are one of the first users who grabbed the latest Windows 8 developer preview, you will find that a lot has changed since Windows 7. Among the visible changes are the Start Menu, Windows Explorer Ribbon, and Task Manager, all of which have been totally revamped by Microsoft. If you are a big [...] (more…)

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Tomboy Is Simple Note Taking Application That Syncs With Ubuntu One

Tomboy is an open source cross-platform note taking application available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. Tomboy provides the option to synchronize notes with Ubuntu One and Snowy, which enables viewing and managing the notes from a mobile device such as an Android or iPhone. Tomboy has a simple interface for quickly creating and managing notes within [...] (more…)

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Extend Windows Explorer Functionality In Windows 7 With Folder Options X

Folder Options X is a Windows Explorer add-on which customizes some Windows Explorer features for Windows Vista and Windows 7. The first option that it provides, allows you to disable full row select, which means that when you select a file in Windows Explorer it will no longer select the entire row. The second option [...] (more…)

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G+7 Displays Google+ Messages Feed On Your Windows 7 Desktop

G+7 is a Windows 7 gadget to provide constant updates from your  Google+ Stream. It allows enlarging a particular story from a Google Plus feed in order to view it in a large pop-up window for better visibility. G+7 can be a useful gadget for Google Plus users who may wish to keep track of their [...] (more…)

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Apple Magic Trackpad Control Panel Adds Trackpad Properties In Windows 7

Editor’s Note: Apple Magic Trackpad is a wonderful device that is only restricted to Mac OS X. If you plan on using it on Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), you will have to follow the long hectic process of downloading and extracting Bootcamp patch, finding and renaming Trackpad Bin file to .exe format and finally [...] (more…)

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Get Windows 8 Like Aero Color Rotation In Windows 7 With AeroRainbow

One of the many anticipated features of  Windows 8 is the ability to dynamically change Aero Glass color according to the color scheme of the current wallpaper. We last reviewed a third party application called Aura which brings this functionality to Windows 7. Aura was later updated with an additional feature i.e. to change Windows Aero [...] (more…)

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Bring Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Text Editor To Windows 7 With Lion TextEdit

TextEdit is a Mac OS X word processor and text editor which comes pre-installed with Mac. TextEdit was a replacement for the legacy text editor known as SimpleText. Mac OS X Lion TextEdit for Windows is a portable Mac style text editor for Windows which can be used as an alternative to the native Windows [...] (more…)

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Add Buttons To Windows Explorer Toolbar In Windows 7

Explorer Toolbar Editor is a portable application for Windows 7 which is meant to help you easily add buttons to the Windows Explorer toolbar. The best part is that rather than adding buttons for all files and folders, you can select which buttons should appear for each folder type and Libraries. For example, you can add extra buttons to [...] (more…)

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PowerResizer Extends Windows 7 Aero Snap Windows-Docking Features

Even though Windows 7 native application window docking and snapping features are arguably great, we often experience some specific annoyances. For instance, Windows 7 Aero Snap lets you quickly open two application windows side-by-side for doing comparisons, keeping tab on two active processes, etc, but it is unable to automatically adjust size and positions of windows when [...] (more…)

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Emulate Windows 7 On Your iPhone, iPad Or iPod Touch With iWindows

Don’t be too fooled by the title. Yes you can get the basic look and feel of the Windows OS on your iDevice, and a pretty realistic one at that, but still the functionality that iWindows provides is quite limited for now, rendering it a mere toy app. However, there is potential and promise there [...] (more…)

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Metro Sidebar Is Windows 8 Style Sidebar For Windows 7

It has become clear that Windows 8 will have a new user interface called Metro after Microsoft demoed the product. There have been third-part development efforts to replicate this Metro user interface in Windows 7. We have been reviewing a lot of such third-party applications like Mosaic and Metro Clock. Recently, we found another such application [...] (more…)

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StandAlone Gadgets Pack Brings Stylish Gadgets To Windows 7 Desktop

Windows gadgets provides an interesting way of keeping an eye on important updates and system tasks such as news, weather, time, RSS feeds, battery power, CPU utilization, etc and/or launching applications. Other than the Windows 7 default gadgets, people like using third-party gadgets as well. But what about a complete gadgets pack? StandAlone Gadgets Pack is a [...] (more…)