<Date: 2010-03-13>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Apps for Windows, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7>
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 notifier, 7Stacks, StandaloneStack and Taskbar Meters. Lee Matthews from Download Squad has covered a taskbar widget called WeatherBar which puts weather information in the taskbar. WeatherBar uses tasbkar overlays, jumplists and taskbar button progress bar to show information at just a glance. Read more...
Permalink: Apps for Windows: Get weather information in Windows 7 Taskbar using WeatherBar
<Date: 2009-09-23>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Windows>
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 all that with Firefox 3.7 release. Read more...
Permalink: Firefox 3.7 to get the Office Ribbon UI
Aero,
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Firefox 4.0,
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Jumplists,
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new,
Peek,
Progress Line,
Superbar,
taskbar,
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Vista,
Windows 7
<Date: 2009-07-29>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Windows>
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. Read more...
Permalink: Make your Windows 7 Superbar icons centralized like OS X’s Dock
<Date: 2009-07-02>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Apps for Windows>
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: Read more...
- In 7 and Vista, 7stacks uses Aero, making the stacks look like part of Windows itself.
- Browse subfolders within a stack, just like in OS X Snow Leopard.
- 3 different styles of stacks: Normal, Grid, and Menu
- Normal displays a stack of icons vertically, with a text description next to it.
- Grid displays a "squarish" grid of icons only; useful when displaying a large number of items like document folders.
- Menu displays a cascading menu of items, with a very small icon and a name next to it. Hover over subfolders to browse inside those folders.
- In Windows 7, create a new stack by right-clicking on any stack and selecting "Create New Stack" from the JumpList entry.
- In Menu mode, 7stacks doesn’t even need to be in a toolbar. You can use it right from your desktop, or any other folder.
- Pin up to 10 different stacks on the Windows 7 taskbar
Permalink: Apps for Windows: Get OS X like stacks in Windows 7 Taskbar using 7Stacks
