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Reorder taskbar and system tray.

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:38:08 +0000

Reorder
your taskbar and system tray with Taskbar Shuffle

Windows 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.

Analyze and visualize hard drive usage with Baobab

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:33:18 +0000

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.

Microsoft hyperlink checker

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:15:02 +0000

Featured Windows Download: Manage Hyperlinks with the Word Hyperlink Checker

Manage Hyperlinks with the Word Hyperlink Checker

Windows only: Freeware Microsoft Word add-in Word Hyperlink Checker
manages hyperlinks in Word documents and checks for suspicious or
broken links. While the internet has progressively become a more viable
source of cited information in documents, Word doesn’t manage links all
that well by default. The add-in scans your document for links that
appear broken or “suspicious” (it’s unclear what that entails), then
aggregates and marks them as suspicious. Word Hyperlink Checker is a
free download, Windows only, Word 2000 and up.

Filemenu for your right clicking pleasure

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:10:50 +0000

Download of the Day: FileMenu Tools (Windows)

Windows only: Freeware app FileMenu Tools lets you customize the Windows right-click context menu.

For starters, with FileMenu Tools you can customize the Send To menu,
which can come in really handy if you’ve got a go-to folder you need
quick access to. Beyond that, it allows you to define all kinds of
custom menus depending on what sort of object you right-click on. In
addition to the plentiful customization, FileMenu Tools also comes with
several built-in commands you can add to the right-click menu, like run Command Line From Here, Move To, Copy To, Copy Path, and a whole lot more.

As
you can see, FileMenu Tools rolls several simple utilities we’ve posted
about before into one nice package. Add to that the ability to create
your own custom commands (your imagination is the limit, really), and
this freeware, Windows-only tool looks pretty good. — Adam Pash

FileMenu Tools

Ave’s Vista Stuff

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:36:04 +0000

Ave’s Vista Apps

Here are some great applications to make your vista experience much more enjoyable.

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