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BioniX Wallpaper 5.14

Alligator — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:06:31 +0000

submitted by Alligator 2 days, 9 hours ago

BioniX Wallpaper supports JPG, GIF, BMP, ICO, EMF image files. Soon it will support more image types. This program lets you set the time interval at wich your deskop wallpaper will be changed. You can chose it between one secon and a few years - time elapse gauge. Also, the wallpaper manager has "don't disturb user" mode (through "automatic shut down" option): images will be changed automatically when Windows starts, then the program will close without user intervention. Like Winamp, it gives you the posibility to gather images from all over the hardisk in one playlist, without changing their physical location. The images can be stored in different directories, on different harddisks, even on different computers. Also, you can make multiple tematic playlists and switch between them whenever you want to.... more

lastest changes

Mirror effect for tiled images
The log is automatically saved to disk as "BioniX Log.TXT"
New type of license: The â€œInsaneâ€ license was added started with this version
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Desk Drive 1.7

bchick — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:04:44 +0000

submitted by bchick 2 days, 9 hours ago

Desk Drive solves a really annoying problem. You pop a USB thumb drive or DVD into your computer and then you have to open Window's Explorer and find the mapped drive or folder. Desk Drive adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically. Remove the media and the shortcut goes away. Brilliantly simple and effective. Desk Drive sits quietly in the system tray. Configuration (image at right) is just a click away and allows you to specify which types of media to monitor. So simple, it just works. Download it today.... more

lastest changes

Shows size and free space of removable devices (i.e. USB sticks) in shortcut label
Russian translation added
Polish translation added
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EarthView 3.10.1

Alligator — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:03:39 +0000

submitted by Alligator 5 days, 7 hours ago

EarthView is a dynamic desktop wallpaper and screen saver, which displays beautiful views of the earth with daylight and night shadows. It produces high quality images for every screen resolution - even beyond 1600x1200. The program supports map and globe views, urban areas, city lights, geo-political boundaries and much more. Many options allow total customization of all view parameters.... more

lastest changes

Fix: application crash due to time zone corrections for 2009

Fresh UI 8.22

macyzhu — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:02:25 +0000

submitted by macyzhu 5 days, 9 hours ago

Fresh UI is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings, this software covers the customizing and optimizing technique that you'll be glad to know: Customizing Windows User Interface, Optimizing system settings, Optimizing hardware settings, Customizing Windows application settings, and Control user environment with policies.... more

Alwact Clock 1.3 Alpha

bchick — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:02:59 +0000

submitted by bchick 1 week, 1 day ago

Alwact Clock is an analog desktop clock featuring skins, transparency and zoom. It is possible to set the refresh delay ranging from a few milliseconds (continuous second hand rotation) to a minute. You can also make your own skins using any image edition software supporting PNG.... more

SimplyMEPIS Linux 8.0 RC 1

gnuclear — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:01:52 +0000

submitted by gnuclear 1 week, 2 days ago

ProMEPIS Linux is a Linux OS based on Ubuntu that can be run from your CD drive without installation. Where it shines is its easy, 100% "point and click" installation, and automatic detection of not only "normal" computer hardware but also popular webcams, the latest wireless network cards, "Winmodems" that usually work only with Windows, digital cameras, scanners, and other devices. The difference between SimplyMEPIS and ProMEPIS is that SimplyMEPIS will continue to be a freely available desktop MEPIS bootable CD and ProMEPIS will designate an upcoming multi-CD packaged version of MEPIS.... more

StickIt 3.0.6

MGSolid — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:07:54 +0000

submitted by MGSolid 1 week, 2 days ago

StickIt is a Windows desktop sticky note application. Create notes and place them anywhere on your desktop. The notes will stay where you left them until you close them - they will even reappear after rebooting your computer. The notes can customized by you. You can select from a wide range of text colors and background colors for your notes.... more

lastest changes

ADDED: CTRL+Enter can now be pressed at the StickIt Note Editor window to create/send a note
FIXED: "&" now properly displayed when used in note text
FIXED: StickIt tray icon was not reloading after Windows Explorer crashed

HashTab 2.1.1

Akimoto — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:02:17 +0000

submitted by Akimoto 2 weeks, 1 day ago

HashTab is a Windows shell extension which adds a tab called "File Hashes" to the Windows Explorer file properties. The tab contains the MD5, SHA1 and CRC-32 file hashes. These are common hashes that are used to verify the integrity and authenticity of files.... more

lastest changes

Added drag and drop support for comparing files. Once the hash has completed, files can be dragged onto the HashTab. The dropped file will be hashed using the selected hash algorithm and the result is put in the text box and compared. This will make has
Updated translations for German, Japanese, Italian, French, Ukrainian, Spanish, Finnish and Chinese
Fixed hash settings listbox layout
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System Mechanic Professional 8.5.2.4

beta — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:03:48 +0000

submitted by beta 2 weeks, 1 day ago

System Mechanic is a nice set of tools that will help you with regular maintenance of your system. Tools include disk clean up, fix broken shortcuts, remove duplicate files, securely delete files, clean registry, safe installer, remove invalid installed info, startup manager, Internet privacy (deletes temporary Internet files and history), and Internet speed up which tweaks your registry settings for you so you get faster connection speeds.... more

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 2

macyzhu — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:01:55 +0000

submitted by macyzhu 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases (every six months), a clear focus on the user and usability (it should "Just Work", TM) and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of support for every release. Ubuntu ships with the latest Gnome release as well as a selection of server and desktop software that makes for a comfortable desktop experience off a single installation CD.... more

openSUSE 11.1

macyzhu — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:03:13 +0000

submitted by macyzhu 2 weeks, 6 days ago

openSUSE provides everything today's Linux user needs for home computing and computing-on-the-go. This product includes a Linux operating system plus dozens of essential integrated tools that showcase the latest that open source has to offer.... more

Talisman Desktop 3.0 Build 3006

Akimoto — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:02:55 +0000

submitted by Akimoto 3 weeks ago

Talisman is a replacement for Windows Desktop and shell replacement. You can build any interface for your computer. It hides the standard desktop of Windows. Place any number of icons, buttons, pictures or other objects. These objects can have any form or dimensions. All objects can run external programs or internal shell commands. The number of forms (desktops) is not limited. Any screen object can be set to switch from one desktop to another. All settings and pictures are stored in a theme file. You can even make many themes and use objects with links to go from one theme to another. You can add HTML-pages and Flash movies to the desktop and add sounds todifferent events. It supports Windows XP icons of any sizes from 16x16 to 128x128 pixels. It is posible to create different "zoomer" objects from such icons and to place the icons of different sizes on desktop.... more

VirtualBox 64-bit AMD Processors 2.1.0

asmith — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:11:43 +0000

submitted by asmith 3 weeks ago

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Only on Windows x64.... more

VirtualBox 2.1.0

asmith — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:11:17 +0000

submitted by asmith 3 weeks ago

Fast Folder Access 1.8.3

Alligator — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:03:52 +0000

submitted by Alligator 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Fast Folder Access is a shell enhancement that gives you a quick jump to your favorite folders in Common Open/Save dialogs, in Windows Explorer, the desktop and the Start Button. You access the Fast Folder menu by right-clicking anywhere in the File, Directory, directory background (right pane) of Windows Explorer, the "white area" of Common Open/Save - dialogs,on the desktop and the Start button. In the menu that pops up, there will be a new item called "Fast Folders" with a list of folders that you have added from within Fast Folder Access or from the item "Add to Fast Folder" on the pop-up menu by right-clicking the directory in Windows Explorer. Then you can fast and easy browse these folders.... more

slimKEYS 1.2.8479

gnuclear — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:09:48 +0000

submitted by gnuclear 3 weeks, 1 day ago

slimKEYS is a universal hotkey manager that monitors the global hotkeys of your choice, and informs hotkey handlers when their associated hotkeys are pressed. Each type of hotkey handler (also known as a hotkey provider) is a simple managed DLL implementing a few abstract classes.... more

QT TabBar 1.2.3 Beta 2

Arthas — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:06:43 +0000

submitted by Arthas 3 weeks, 2 days ago

QT TabBar is a tab bar for Windows Explorer. It allows you to operates files and folders like tabbed browser: folder grouping, histories, etc.... more

lastest changes

Change in image cache behaviour is undone
Minor update of QTPluginLib.dll (1.0.0.3)
Add a command to set search box texts
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SLAX 6.0.9

Akimoto — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:01:53 +0000

submitted by Akimoto 3 weeks, 5 days ago

SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without installing. The Live CD is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and uses Unification File System, allowing read-only filesystem to behave as a writable one, saving all changes to memory.... more

Winstep Xtreme 8.11

DoubleEagle — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:06:35 +0000

submitted by DoubleEagle on 10-12-2008

Winstep Xtreme is a complete integrated Desktop Environment featuring the next generation of award winning Winstep user interface enhancements: NextSTART and WorkShelf. While most Windows customization software focuses on eye candy, Winstep applications raise the usability bar to another level: they give added functionality to Windows and complete control over every aspect of the user interface. NextSTART is a complete Start Menu, Taskbar and System Tray replacement, famous for its unmatched flexibility. WorkShelf is a desktop replacement and tabbed program launcher. Like a dock, but better. It enables you to organize your most often used applications and documents into categorized shelves while taking as little screen space as possible.... more

TimeLeft 3.40

MGSolid — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:02:41 +0000

submitted by MGSolid on 10-12-2008

TimeLeft is a clock, reminder, and countdown using Winamp skins to show digits and text. Reminder can be set to specified date/time or run periodically. It also can remind you before specified event or repeat reminding after. Countdown counts how much time (year, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds) is left to (or elapsed from) reminder run.... more

lastest changes

Work days and work hours countdown
Various fixes and improvements

Gadwin PrintScreen 4.4

Arthas — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:05:01 +0000

submitted by Arthas on 09-12-2008

Gadwin PrintScreen captures the contents of the screen with a single keystroke. The captured screen can then be sent toÂ the printer or saved to disk as a file in 6 different graphics file formats. It can capture the entire screen, active window, or specified area when the hot key is pressed. The hot key defaults to the PrintScreen key, but users may also define other keys to initiate a capture. Also allows you to e-mail the captured images to recipients of your choice.... more

Vista Start Menu 3.02

Alligator — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:05:05 +0000

submitted by Alligator on 09-12-2008

Vista Start Menu is a convenient alternative to the Start menu. It is much easier to find and run the program you need. Everything is visual and extremely easy to use. Your applications are arranged in a table with icons divided into groups, which makes it easier to work with a lot of programs.... more

lastest changes

Fixed bug with icon size in Main Menu

Snow Christmas Tree 1.6

Alligator — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:02:48 +0000

submitted by Alligator on 08-12-2008

Snow Christmas Tree can countdown days until Christmas or New Year and notify you about the incoming holiday every half hour or hour by a funny ringing bell (if you wish, of course). Besides, the program does not limit your choice of one tree - You can choose one from several skins.... more

TimeRecorder 4.39.14

Alligator — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:02:38 +0000

submitted by Alligator on 08-12-2008

TimeRecorder is a timer and reminder software. It can remind you of things at scheduled times, record and keep track of how long you engaged in an activity along with what you did. It can also save what you write or copy it to the memo.... more

Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2

Alligator — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:06:11 +0000

submitted by Alligator on 05-12-2008

Windows Vista introduces a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience. The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently.... more

lastest changes

Update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from customers