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Get Mac OS X Lion Launchpad In Windows 7 With iPad Launcher

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If you are an iPad or Mac OS X Lion user and want a Launchpad on Windows 7, have a look at iPad Launcher For Win7. Even though this app launcher doesn't give you Mac Lion's Launchpad looks and functions, like swiping applications across the screen, etc. You can pretty much tinker around with its looks by adjusting the application icons in required way. Unlike Mac Lions Launchpad which runs in full-screen mode, it simply blurs out the desktop to make the launchpad items more prominent. It also comes with an elegant lock screen feature to lock your screen with a password. Read More

PhotoBooth For Windows 7 Brings Mac OS X Style Photo Booth To Windows

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Photo Booth is a photo taking application which comes pre-installed with Mac OS X and iPad 2. It allows taking pictures and applying effects to them such as Thermal Camera, Mirror, X Ray, Light Tunnel, Kaleidoscope, Squeeze, Twirl, and Stretch. If you are a fan of Photo Booth and would like to use it on your Windows 7 PC, check out PhotoBooth For Win7. It's a portable application developed by a third party developer to provide Windows 7 users with Mac's Photo Booth for quickly taking snaps and adding effects to them. Other than usual effects present in the original Photo Booth, PhotoBooth For Win7 also provides additional effects and sharing options to upload pictures to Facebook and Flickr. Read More

How To Add & Remove Buttons From Windows Explorer Toolbar [Windows 7]

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If you don’t like following tedious steps to add customized buttons to Windows 7 Explorer toolbar which first include tweaking with Windows registry and then rebooting the system, CutomExplorerToolbar can significantly save you the time and effort involved in adding and removing buttons from Windows Explorer toolbar. This Nirsoft’s utility is designed to easily customize Windows Explorer toolbar; you just have to select ready-made utility buttons to add them to Windows 7 Explorer toolbar without having to reboot your system or to tinker around with Windows Explorer related registry keys. Read More

Add More Items To Windows Send To Menu With sendtosendto

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The Windows Send To option in right-click context menu makes it easy to send a file to a specific location, to create a compressed zip folder, or to open files with selected applications. sentosendto is a shell extension which lets users easily add new entries to the Windows Send To option in the right-click context menu. You can now add more applications and folders to the Windows Sent to menu to make it easy to open and send files using Windows right-click menu. For example, one can add Dropbox to the Windows Send To context menu, in order to quickly send files and folders to Dropbox for synchronization. Read More

Add Web Service Search Connectors In Windows Explorer [Windows 7]

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Unlike previous Windows versions, Windows 7 has a way more revitalized system search capabilities. Apart from providing fast index-based system search, it also allows you to add their frequently used web services to search locations, so you don’t have to open web browser, navigate to web service and then initiate respective search. Search Connectors is a tiny Windows 7 feature in the form of XML based script which lets you add as many web services as you want to Windows Explorer. You just have to open the required search connector in Windows Explorer to begin searching from web service in question. Read More

Set Different Screen Resolution For Each Windows User With Carroll

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Windows doesn’t provide an option to set different screen resolutions for each user account. Thus, whenever a PC user changes the display resolution, Windows permanently applies it for all configured users account, leaving other users with no choice than to manually restore previously applied screen resolution. Since changing screen resolution each time you logon to Windows is quite a wearisome task, you need a tool like Carroll, which sets individual screen resolution for every user. Read More

Get Windows 8 Metro Clock And Image Slideshow On Windows 7 Logon Screen

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Metro Clock 2 is a logon screen tweak which bring the Windows 8 style clock and time display to Windows 7 with a slideshow of panoramic images. The Metro font and refreshing imagery makes Metro Clock 2 a much better application than the previously reviewed 8 Clock And Date for Windows 7. Metro Clock 2 is meant to add an expected Windows 8 functionality (i.e. date and time display on logon screen) to Windows 7. To install Metro Clock 2, copy MetroClock.scr file and MetroClock folder to C:\Windows\System32. Once done, run metro.reg to apply the changes. You can also run the MetroClock.scr file directly to lock your computer with the Windows 8 style Metro clock and image slideshow display. Read More

Get Windows 8 Style Clock On Your Windows 7 Desktop

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Windows 8 Desktop Clock for Windows 7 is a portable application which brings the Windows 8-style login screen look-alike clock to your Windows 7 desktop, with glowing text. Such attempts to port Windows 8 functionality to Windows 7 is frequent among the developer community and it appears that until the Windows 8 beta launch, we might get a set of tools to replicate the Windows 8 UI on our Windows 7. Having said that, W8 Desktop Clock is not just a Windows 8 replica application, but rather can be used to make your common wallpapers into a wallpaper clock. In an earlier post we showed you how to get wallpaper clocks for Ubuntu using Screenlets. However, even Screenlets only allows adding wallpaper clocks and does not transform your wallpaper into one. This give W8 Desktop Clock quite an edge and makes it a worthy application for transforming wallpapers into wallpaper clocks. Read More

Start Menu XP Displays Windows 7 Start Menu Items In Groups

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One of the biggest annoyance for Windows XP users after switching to Windows 7 was the elimination of the classic start menu. We have already reviewed Taskbar Classic Start Menu, which can be used to get the XP style classic start menu in Windows 7. Start Menu XP is a similar application which provides a standalone menu, which works pretty much like the XP style classic start menu. However, unlike Taskbar Classic Start Menu, Start Menu XP provides the option to create and edit expandable groups for easier viewing of start menu items. This eliminates the need of scrolling up and down the Windows 7 start menu. Read More

MaryFi Software Router Turns Windows 7 Computer Into WiFi Hotspot

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MaryFi is a software router for Windows 7 computers which is meant to turn your PC into a Wifi hotspot so that you can easily share your Internet connection originating from a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network. MaryFi is much similar to setup than the previously reviewed, MHotSpot, however, it provides many additional options which compliment the WiFi connection sharing process. For example, unlike MHotSpot, MaryFi enables setting a custom username and password for your WiFi hotspot, and provides a how to use guide (in PDF format). With this easy to use application, you can share your wireless internet connection with laptops, smart phones, music players, and even gaming systems. MaryFi works with both secure and unprotected wireless networks. Read More

HideIt Is Easiest Way To Minimize Application Windows To System Tray

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Windows 7 prevents user from cluttering up the taskbar, as it piles up all the opened instances or windows of an application under one icon. But netbook users still face problems when they move between several locations where they use display monitors with different resolutions. In such a scenario, you may get to see clean and tidy taskbar on big monitors, but when you switch to your laptop screen, taskbar icons seem spread wide across the taskbar area. HideIt is a small application (you can also call it an extension) for Windows 7 which allows you to minimize applications to system tray. You just have to right-click minimize button of any active window and it will be moved to system tray instead of taskbar. Read More

Make Your PC A Wifi Hotspot With MHotSpot

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Normally internet connections can be shared by home users by using ICS (internet Connection Sharing) or by making an Ad-hoc network to allow other devices to share a single connection. Other alternative methods require connecting multiple computers by using Ethernet cables connected to the modem. While you can use a Wi-Fi router for connecting an Android or Symbian phone to the internet, your router might not be able to support too many devices. MHotSpot is a portable application which simplifies the process of sharing your wireless network connection with other computers and devices such as Android, Symbian phones, printers and Tablet PC. MHotSpot does not have any complex settings and can share an available wireless network at your home or office. Read More

Windows8Menu Brings Windows 8 UI For Tablets To Windows 7

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The recently held Microsoft D9 conference revealed many new features of upcoming Windows 8. Amongst all the features and UI related enhancements, replacement of classic Windows Start Menu with Windows 8 Side Menu is the most significant. It adds a tile at the right side of the screen, allowing you to access Share, Connect, Search, and many other features. This newly designed Start Menu is however for Windows 8 tablets, but according to official dev community it will going to work smoothly on PCs running Windows 8 as well. It not only revamps the whole way to initiate system search but offers direct access to your most favored web links and apps too. If you’re a Windows enthusiast and can’t wait to use newly released Windows 8 Start search on Windows 7, Windows8Menu is a Windows 7 application that emulates somewhat similar design and functionality of Windows 8 Start Menu. Read More

Windows 7 Theme Manager Downloads & Manages Wallpapers By Category

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Windows 7 Theme Manager is an alternative theme manager for Windows 7 native theme management utility. It enables downloading vibrant theme packs for available genres, including, Movies, TV, Cars, Animals, Abstract, Games, Landscape, 3D, and Celebrities. Windows 7 Theme Manager downloads selected themes from its own database and lets you download hundreds of professionally designed themes for Windows 7. Its built in catalogue can be set to download newer versions of selected range of themes when they are updated. You can also switch between themes with single click and easily access all the themes installed on your system. Read More

Pulse Rotates Windows 7 Logon Screen Background & Wallpaper Periodically

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Remember previously covered Pulse which dynamically changes wallpaper based on the keywords after a defined time interval? It works on a simple principle; you enter keyword against which you want to initiate search for wallpapers on online resource and it will download and apply them automatically. Recently, Pulse has been updated with a huge online wallpaper archive and a feature to dynamically change Windows logon background. Furthermore, the problems we faced in previous version while downloading wallpapers in maximum available resolution has been resolved in this update. The new wallpaper source detects keywords in English directly (the previous version used Google Translate to translate English terms into Russian). Read More

JumpPad Is A Mac Style Launchpad For Windows

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JumpPad is a Mac OS X style Launchpad clone for Windows. It uses features like hot corners, adds start menu shortcuts to the launcher by default, has configuration options for icon size, folder paths to add shortcuts from and a reasonable memory footprint of 25 MB. It scans for specified folders and lists the available shortcuts to the launcher. Read More

Forecaster Shows Weather Updates For Different Cities (Time Zones)

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Just a few days back we covered WinThunder which showed both the weather and allowed you to create shortcuts in a jumplist from system tray. Unfortunately, it had limited weather-related functionality. Deviantart user laushung, inspired by WinThunder has now developed a similar app which focuses on Weather updates only. Forecaster is a portable application which displays a four day weather information from multiple locations (cities) simultaneously. The forecast can be viewed by clicking on the system tray icon, which changes its look according to current weather conditions. Read More

Add Windows 8 Style Time And Date To Windows 7 Logon Screen

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As the new features of Windows 8 get unveiled or leaked, many developers have taken the task to themselves to bring similar functionalities to Windows 7. 8 Clock and Date for Windows 7 is a portable Windows 7 application, which provides the functionality expected in Windows 8, i.e. the time and date display on the logon screen. The aim is to provide a stylish look for the logon screen with time and date display. It is worth pointing out that 8 Clock and Date for Windows 7 does not change the background of your Windows 7 logon screen, but merely adds the clock and date. Read More

RefreshPC – Restore System Back To Factory State To Fix All Issues

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What measures do you take to stave off an imminent system failure? Generally, it is recommended to stop all the user-generated processes, quit running applications, and wait until system resolves all the deadlocks. Going through such a lengthy procedure to take unload apps, services, and other threads off the memory blocks may reinstate your system back to normal, but what if there are issues with system related services. How would you tackle problems related with core system services, prefetch files, registry settings etc? A simple yet effective solution is provided by RefreshPC. It is a small tool which not only refreshes the system but attempts to resolve issues by resetting Windows services, cleaning Temp folders and prefetch files and by optimizing only system specific registry keys. Read More