Oct 17

Reorder taskbar and system tray.

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taskbar shuffleWindows only: In addition to reordering your Windows taskbar items, previously
mentioned Taskbar Shuffle can now reorder your system tray icons as well. As
much as I liked previous versions of Taskbar Shuffle, its footprint always
seemed a little too big to gain startup privileges. After taking a look at the
latest, though—which includes taskbar reordering, system tray reordering (by
holding Ctrl while dragging), and middle-click window button closing—Taskbar
Shuffle has more than proved itself worth the 6MB memory footprint its uses. If
you’re obsessive about organizing your taskbar, the free, Windows-only Taskbar
Shuffle is a must-have.

Taskbar Shuffle
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Oct 17

Analyze and visualize hard drive usage with Baobab

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Baobab Analyze and visualize hard drive usage with Baobab
Linux only: Open source app Baobab is a disc usage analyzer that
visually represents the space taken up by various files and folders on your hard
drive. Baobab is the Linux equivalent of WinDirStat
for Windows and GrandPerspective
for Mac and possesses most of the functionality of those apps. Baobab can be
used to search for and locate unusually large files, and it is not limited to
your local hard drive — it can also be used to analyze folders over FTP and
Windows shares. Baobab is a free download for Linux only and can be installed
through the repositories in most distros with the installation hook
baobab or gnome-utils.

Baobab [via Of Zen and Computing

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Oct 17

Download TV shows automatically

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ted Download TV shows automatically
Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Freeware application ted
(torrent episode downloader) is like Tivo for BitTorrent,
providing an easy-to-use interface for setting up season pass downloads for your
favorite television shows. We’ve mentioned ted in
the past, and I’ve even posted a
step-by-step for getting the most out of ted, but since we last highlighted
it, ted has gone through some significant improvements, like its long list of
built -in shows complete with show information. When you add a show, ted will
download every new episode torrent of that show as it becomes available using
your default BitTorrent client. Ted is a free download for Windows, Mac, and
Linux. Not up to speed on BitTorrent? Check out our beginner
and intermediate
guides.

ted

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Oct 17

Virtual Desktop manager for Vista

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Virtual Desktop manager for Vista

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Introduction

Vista provides developers with the new DWM based aero
interface. A new set of thumbnail API’s can be used to access some of this new
technology. This virtual desktop program takes advantage of this new API and
uses some tricks of its own to provide a powerful virtual desktop manager with a
full screen thumbnail based preview. You can have as many desktops as you want
and can seamlessly switch between them.

But wait! What if you still are
using XP? Don’t worry, Vista/XP Virtual Desktops provides support for XP as
well, although window previews are not live since XP doesn’t have
DWM.

Vista Virtual Desktops is managed by Z-Systems.
The Z-Systems website also has a Vista Virtual Desktop page.

Awards

Up to Down Software
- Up
to Down Software (Spanish)

Features

  • Full screen desktop/window manager/preview with full drag and drop managing
  • Desktop switch indicator
  • An infinite number of desktops
  • Watch the windows move in real time as you drag them around in the window
    manager
  • Multiple monitor support
  • Window menus
  • Tray icons for each desktop
  • Per-desktop backgrounds
  • Configurable colors, fade speeds, hotkeys, etc.
  • Uses Vista’s live thumbnails
  • XP support
  • And much more!
  • Roadmap/Change
    Log
  • The
    Hack

Default Shortcut Reference

  • Windows Key + Z – Show the fullscreen “switcher”
  • Windows Key + W – Pop up the window menu for the active window
  • Windows Key + Numpad 1…9 – Switch to the corresponding desktop, if
    it exists
  • Windows Key + Arrow Keys – Move to the corresponding desktop
  • Windows Key + Control + Numpad 1…9 – Send the foreground window to
    the corresponding desktop

Current Release – 0.5

The fourth release, 0.5, is marked as a release
candidate version. This means that it is almost “production quality”. Feel free
to download it and test it out for yourself. If you notice any bugs, please post
them on the issure tracker section of this site. Any feature requests can be
posted either in the issue tracker or in the discussion forum.

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