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AquaSnap Brings Enhanced Aero Effects to Windows XP Through Windows 7

Windows: AquaSnap is a free multifunctional tweaking application that brings Aero-style effects to Windows XP and enhances Aero in Vista and Windows 7.

If all you’re interested in is taking advantage of Aero-style effects in Windows XP like snapping application windows to the edges of your monitor, AquaSnap has you covered. You can step beyond the basics in XP, Vista, and Windows 7 with additional AquaSnap tweaks.

You can set application windows ..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

Windows 7 Transfers Your Wireless Settings Easily

After discovering how easily WEP can be cracked and creating a long, secure WPA2 key, you’ve probably noticed it’s a pain to get friends connected to your Wi-Fi network when they stop by. Windows 7 makes this process easy.

Over at the How-To Geek site (my home away from Lifehacker), guest blogger Ciprian writes up the quick and easy process of transferring your wireless network settings from your Windows 7 PC to any other machine ..read more

Speed Up Slow Firefox 3.5 Windows Start-Ups

Firefox 3.5 pulls data from certain file locations for randomized security purposes. Sometimes, though, that can lead to annoying slow start-ups in Windows. You can speed things up by cleaning out certain folder locations.

For whatever reason, having too many temporary, history, or recent document files sitting in your Windows locations slows down Firefox 3.5’s data generation processes, as has been reported as a bug. The Mozilla Links blog recommends cleaning out these folders to ..read more