October 21, 2009
Are you looking to spice up your system a little? Maybe you want a little something that your friends do not have? Maybe you want to impress that special someone (if they are as geeky as you are!) Do you want to add a window switcher that will knock your socks off? Well despite it’s name, [...]
September 18, 2009
I get frustrated from time to time when I have to navigate to the same directories over and over again. I have lots of different folders for lots of different jobs and functions. So it would be awesome for me to have a link to all of them that I could bring up with a [...]
September 3, 2009
Launcher applications have taken off and advanced so rapidly that it almost feels old fashioned to click on the Windows button and then browse through to the application to launch using your mouse. We have covered our fair share of launchers here on MakeUseOf, each having its own strong point. Blaze is yet another innovative [...]
August 20, 2009
Talk about doing repetitive tasks and you would think of the command line to be the best place to do them. However it is not always easy for everyone to remember how to run Windows commands. Commands in Demand provides you with an interface to perform a number of such tasks at the click of [...]
August 10, 2009
Numeric keys on your keyboard are mostly under-utilized. The arrangement is however extremely familiar and you use it all the time in mobile phones, calculators etc. Controlpad is an application that lets you takes advantage of the numeric key pad and literally turns it into a control pad for your computer. ControlPad allows you to [...]
June 22, 2009
Hit a key combination, type in a few characters and up comes Firefox. Onlookers think its magic, but you know you have installed a program launcher. Launchers are all the more useful for quickly opening commonly-accessed files, launch applications or when you are like us and your installed programs list fails to fit on the [...]
May 11, 2009
As a big fan of keyboard shortcuts, I was very pleased to stumble across today’s Windows download, AddToRun. I often find myself using the WinKey+R shortcut to run a program or a command line. In case you didn’t know the WinKey+R launches the run menu prompt. The problem is that the list of available shortcuts [...]
May 3, 2009
Not every application needs to always shows itself to be functional. Some just do their job quietly in the background while some hide themselves until they are needed. These are the perfect explanation on what menubar application do. Other positive points, they are really tiny ““ most are less than 1 Mb in size. Some [...]
April 3, 2009
To have or not to have a dock in Linux is really dependent on individual preferences. While popular Linux distros such as Ubuntu and Fedora do not come with a dock by default, there are plenty of dock applications around that one can easily install and create a dock for their desktop. Some Linux users [...]
March 16, 2009
I am not really a Windows person, but when I am on my Windows computer, I always keep a set of small and handy applications on my desktop to automate the repetitive tasks or to make the complicated things much easier to do. If you are like me, someone who like to be organized and [...]
