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Archive for October 30th, 2009

Taskbar Meters Monitor Your Windows 7 Hardware in the Taskbar

Windows 7 only: If you’re not into Windows desktop gadgets, there is another way to easily monitor your computer’s CPU and RAM: Taskbar Meters puts simple, attractive resource monitors right on your Windows 7 Taskbar.

Taskbar Meters contains two programs that you can pin to your taskbar—one that monitors CPU, one that monitors RAM. Each has a colored bar that shows how much of that resource you are using, complete with color ..read more

iTunes Updates to 9.0.2 with Support for Apple TV 3.0

Apple TV released a 3.0 update today with a new user interface and support for new iTunes features like LP and Genius Mixes, and following suit, iTunes has updated to 9.0.2. For the most part, the iTunes update is there to support the Apple TV update, though it also lets you change the background of iTunes’ Grid View. If you don’t care about the Grid View and don’t have an Apple ..read more

LongBar is a Slick, Open-Source Sidebar for Windows

Windows only: Desktop sidebar LongBar hosts mini-applications as “tiles”, giving you application launchers, system stats, Facebook updates, sticky notes, and more on the side of your screen.

Once you’ve installed and launched LongBar, you can use the tiny arrow at the top of the bar to access the settings menu, where you can move the sidebar to the right-hand side of the screen, and change between a couple of available skins. Unlike most sidebars, ..read more