Taskbar Meters Monitor Your Windows 7 Hardware in the Taskbar

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

October 30, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Software  No Comments

AVG 9 Free Now Available for Download

AVG 9 Free Now Available for Download

Windows only: AVG 9 Free—one of the most popular free antivirus apps on the market—is now available for download.

A couple weeks back, the popular antivirus maker AVG released AVG 9 with performance improvements and other updates, but on launch only the commercial version of AVG 9 was available. The fact of the matter is that most AVG users are probably using AVG Free, the freeware version of the app, so if that’s the case ..read more

October 17, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Antivirus  No Comments

Microsoft Office Web Apps Will Be Available to Everyone

Microsoft Office Web Apps Will Be Available to Everyone

Microsoft offered up a Technical Preview of its web-based Office offerings yesterday, but the invites are long since gone. The good news is that anyone who can get a Windows Live sign-in will eventually have access to stripped-down office apps.

ReadWriteWeb notes that a limited preview is being offered to “partners” at the moment, with greater beta availability coming this fall. In the preview, Word documents are read-only, but can be shared and ..read more

September 23, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Software  No Comments

SimplyIcon Makes Icon Creation a Snap

SimplyIcon Makes Icon Creation a Snap

Windows: If you don’t want to spend time micro-designing an icon and you’ve already got a source image, SimplyIcon makes creating your buttons and icons a drag-and-drop matter.

Download the SimplyIcon package, extract the executable and DLL file to a folder, run the program, and you’re presented with a simple dialogue box and the instructions to drag and drop an image onto it. Once you drag and drop the image, SimplyIcon creates a variety of icon ..read more

September 18, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Freeware  No Comments


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