May 17, 2011
The Windows 7 taskbar is quite swanky looking, but it also packs a wallop in terms of functionality. Sure, anyone can activate an application by clicking its icon. But do you know what happens when you middle-click? Did you know there’s a way to run an application as an Administrator right from its taskbar icon? Read on to see how!
February 14, 2011
Ever since I upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista, a lot of things of have gone much more smoothly. For instance, I don’t have to deal with Vista’s spotty disk management utility, which didn’t help me at all when I wanted to shrink volumes that had at least 100GB of free, unused space. Another great [...]
February 1, 2011
I have never understood the need for thick docks with big icons dominating the lower portion of the screen, especially on a laptop. Since most laptops and monitors are widescreen, it just doesn’t make sense for me that I’d need more chunky docks occupying precious screen real estate. Thus, I’ve always docked my taskbar vertically, [...]
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 [...]
June 24, 2009
I’ve been a PC my whole life, but have always harbored a secret Mac envy. I love how Macs are simple to use, that the hardware and software interface so well together, and that everything on Mac OS appears to be tailored to improving the user experience. There are a ton of advantages to Windows, [...]
March 5, 2009
The Windows task bar is in itself a minimalist solution to the problem of a usable GUI OS. However it is not everyone’s favorite way, and it shouldn’t have to be. In Vista they have made it real tricky to remove the Windows taskbar all together. So here I will cover three ways to get [...]
February 28, 2009
TrayIt! is a very small but powerful tool for helping you manage your Windows task bar and system tray. Basically, it offers a simple solution to keeping your windows taskbar clean by letting you minimize programs to system tray where they only appear as a tiny icon. Neat! TrayIt is only about a 300k download [...]
February 17, 2009
There are about a million ways to enhance the functionality of Windows and the beauty is that there are many cool tools out there making it possible. Here is a tool that enhances the right-click menu of title bars and taskbar icons. PowerMenu has been around for over a decade. It’s a very simple, yet [...]
December 24, 2008
Are you tired of having hundreds of windows opened, cluttering your task bar? Have you had bad experiences with other programs that claim to minimize programs to the taskbar – yup we know they just create hundreds of system tray icons then! One is definately not better than the other. Enter MiniMe. The minimizer that [...]
December 7, 2008
There is no doubt, Microsoft is going to dominate the operating system market through Windows 7. Who knows where we will be after that. At that point we will likely be looking at some type of open source product, such as Ubuntu? Maybe even we’ll move to our smart phone(s) full time? Whatever the case, [...]
