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Get Windows 8 Style Clock On Your Windows 7 Desktop

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 [...] (more…)

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Start Menu XP Displays Windows 7 Start Menu Items In Groups

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 [...] (more…)

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MaryFi Software Router Turns Windows 7 Computer Into WiFi Hotspot

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 [...] (more…)

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Create Windows Aero Stylish Tiles To Replace Desktop Icons With AeroTile

AeroTile is a portable application designed to provide you with stylish tiles, which can be used as a replacement for conventional desktop icons. It contains the option to create Aero based tiles for many useful Windows utilities such as My Computer, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Common Videos, Network, etc. (more…)

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HideIt Is Easiest Way To Minimize Application Windows To System Tray

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 [...] (more…)

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Make Your PC A Wifi Hotspot With MHotSpot

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 [...] (more…)

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Windows8Menu Brings Windows 8 UI For Tablets To Windows 7

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, [...] (more…)

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Windows 7 Theme Manager Downloads & Manages Wallpapers By Category

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 [...] (more…)

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Pulse Rotates Windows 7 Logon Screen Background & Wallpaper Periodically

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 [...] (more…)

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JumpPad Is A Mac Style Launchpad For Windows

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 [...] (more…)

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Forecaster Shows Weather Updates For Different Cities (Time Zones)

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 [...] (more…)

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

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 [...] (more…)