Background Switcher

John’s Background Switcher (or JBS for short) periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day) to something interesting. You can specify which pictures to choose from:

* Individual pictures on your computer.
* Folders containing pictures on your computer such as ‘My Pictures’.
* Flickr photo sharing - selecting pictures by person, tags, sets or just plain random. You never know what you’re going to get next!
* Phanfare web albums - keep up to date with your friends and family.
* smugmug photo galleries - yours, your friends, anybody’s!
* Picasa Web Albums - choose from specific albums or any search text.
* Facebook - your friends photos on your desktop!
* Yahoo! image search - the internet is your oyster!
* Any Media RSS feed - choose pictures from sites like DeviantArt, Photobucket, LOLCats and Zooomr amongst many others!

http://www.johnsadventures.com/software/backgroundswitcher

Easycapture

EasyCapture Screen Capture is a powerful and easy-to-use free screen capture software. It allows you to capture screen shot, include windows screen capture, scrolling windows screen capture, selected-regions screen capture. It also allow you to edit the screen captures and add balloon stamps.

http://www.xydownload.com/easycapture/

Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep".

http://www.electricsheep.org

Keylink

Keylink "launch programs using visual keyboard".
Keylink is a tool that allows to launch programs without searching the start menu or directories.
Keylink works similar to the search in the start menu that is integrated in Windows Vista.

http://www.strgwin.de/?lang=1

Launchy

Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

http://www.launchy.net

Magnifier Glass

Virtual Magnifying Glass is designed for visually-impaired and others who need to magnify a part of the screen. Unlike most similar programs it does not open a separate window for the magnification but instead puts a movable magnifying glass on screen.

http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/

Objectdock

ObjectDock™ is a program that enables users to organize their shortcuts, programs and running tasks into an attractive and fun animated Dock. By allowing users to have more control over how they organize their desktop, users can take control of their desktop icons and shortcuts to have them be available when where and how they need them. This, all with the unique style and top-rate performance that ObjectDock is known to deliver!

http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock

Powerstrip

Dit programma is een handige alles-in-één tool om de videokaart en het beeldscherm te tweaken. Zo is het mogelijk om de refreshrate stapsgewijs aan te passen en het videogeheugen over te klokken. Ook kunnen niet-standaard resoluties worden toegevoegd, bijvoorbeeld voor gebruik op een breedbeeld televisie of een dataprojector. Het programma is beschikbaar in twee versies; de eerste bevat alleen de Engelse taal, de andere bevat meerdere taalpakketten.

http://entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm

Quickchanger

Quickchanger is een bijzonder uitgebreid programma om wallpapers te laten rouleren. Meestal toont dit soort software domweg alle wallpapers in een map, maar met Quickchanger kun je de wallpapers ook in groepen onderbrengen. Je kunt vervolgens snel en makkelijk switchen tussen de groepen.

http://www.itips.nl/2008/04/quickchanger.htm

Rocketdock

RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.
Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.

http://rocketdock.com

Stablauncher

This tool helps finding and launching your favorite programs, web pages, folders, or any type of files in a fast and easy way. Taking up fewer resources as possible, and allowing you to personalize the appearance in many ways, by changing colors, images, transparency, animations, and many other options to make it blend in with your desktop.

http://stablauncher.com

VirtuaWin

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow. VirtuaWin is designed to be simple and elegant to use yet still be highly configurable and extensible.

http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net

Vista Gadgets

There are too many vista gadgets going around but if you like the sidebar you can surf to the following sites to see what you like :

http://buildagadget.com/

Visual Task Tips

Visual Task Tips is a lightweight shell enhancement utility. It provides thumbnail preview image for each task in the Windows Taskbar, as seen in the Microsoft Windows Vista.

Windows XP or Vista (Classic theme) is required to run Visual Task Tips.

http://www.visualtasktips.com/

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