Apps for Windows: Get weather information in Windows 7 Taskbar using WeatherBar
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Apps for Windows: Get weather information in Windows 7 Taskbar using WeatherBar

In my opinion, the new taskbar or Superbar in Windows 7 is probably the best feature in the operating system. Jumplists and lively taskbar buttons have really given developers opportunities to create excellent widgets, even better than what you can get with the Windows Gadgets platform. Some widgets we have covered in the past include a Gmail...

By Imran Hussain  |  177 days ago  |  11 Comments

Firefox 3.7 to get the Office Ribbon UI

Firefox has the worst UI amongst all the popular browsers. Almost all other browsers ( IE, Chrome, Safari ) have a new and better UI along with some sort of Windows 7 integration ( Aero Glass, jumplists, Aero Peek, thumbnail previews etc ), where as Firefox has none. The UI is still stuck in the Windows XP era. Mozilla has plans to change...

By Imran Hussain  |  233 days ago  |  5 Comments

Make your Windows 7 Superbar icons centralized like OS X’s Dock

The new superbar in Windows 7 has big icons like the dock which are moveable as well, but you can’t centralize them on the taskbar like OS X Docks’ icons. Well, here’s a trick that lets you do just that as shown in the above image. … ...

By Imran Hussain  |  261 days ago  |  9 Comments

Apps for Windows: Get OS X like stacks in Windows 7 Taskbar using 7Stacks

A long time ago I covered a method to create stacks in Windows 7 that resemble their OS X counterpart. The method was a bit tricky one and was more of a hack out of a Windows XP and Vista application. 7stacks solves that issue and creates simple to use yet native looking stacks in the Windows 7 taskbar. The feature list is awesome:In 7...