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Cairo-Dock 3.0.0, a pretty, lightweight and convenient interface to your desktop, able to replace advantageously the system panel or the Unity launcher, has been released. A lot of effect went into Cairo-Dock 3.0.0 and it shows, even if we look at the sheer number of changes and updates. A complete list of new feat... |
18 April 2012
10:10 GMT |
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In Windows 8, the Taskbar will no longer be limited to a single display when users connect multiple monitors to the same computer. Customers running older releases of the Windows client, Windows 7 included, and also leveraging multiple monitors have undoubtedly been frustrated by the limited functionality of the ope... |
10 June 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Despite being highly functional, the taskbar in Windows 7 is also pretty inflexible, as it does not offer too many possibilities to change some aspects. 7 Taskbar Tweaker comes to solve the problem by allowing you to modify taskbar’s reactions to your mouse actions. To put it simply, the application lets you as... |
26 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Users of touch-enabled computers running Windows 7 are bound to notice that one element of the operating system’s functionality is missing from their machines. Microsoft confirmed that computers for which touch screens are used as the main interaction model, such as Tablet PCs or slates, do not feature su... |
24 January 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Forget about the Superbar, Windows 8 needs an Uberbar. Think about it in the lines of the Windows 7 Superbar, but on steroids. The new Windows 7 taskbar made the first appearance in May 2008, in a demonstration offered by Julie Larson-Green, Corporate Vice President, Windows Experience. At that time, the small ... |
11 September 2010
05:21 GMT |
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Not many people might be aware, or remember this detail, but the Jump Lists feature in Windows 7 made its public debut with Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 back in November 2008. At that time, Build 6801 of Windows 7 had the features which truly represented the evolution of the Windows client, locked, but thanks to a h... |
5 January 2010
09:42 GMT |
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There’s no disputing over the fact that Windows 7 brings a consistent overhaul of the graphical user interface that has become synonymous with the Windows operating system. One critical aspect of the Windows 7 GUI redesign is the revamping of the Taskbar, which is now affectionately referred to in some circles... |
24 November 2009
09:05 GMT |
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It was almost 14 years after the initial introduction of the Start button and menu that Microsoft signed off on the latest Windows client containing a revamped Windows Aero graphical user interface. It was on August 24, 1995 that the Redmond-based company released Windows 95, taking the Windows GUI to another level, ... |
25 August 2009
11:33 GMT |
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Dockland Software has released Fantasktik 1.4, the latest version of its taskbar application for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The new release adds the ability to close windows from the taskbar, launch Expose on any open application directly from Fantasktik, the capability to exclude apps through the right-click menu, and m... |
29 June 2009
04:48 GMT |
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How much does it take to close a bunch of applications minimized in Windows taskbar? It is a simple operation requiring just a right-click routine and picking the “Close” option. But closing multiple apps at once has never been among the choices. JustCloseSomeTasks gives you the possibility to automatical... |
30 January 2009
12:43 GMT |
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As an integral part of the move from Windows Vista to Windows 7, Microsoft has introduced a new model of interaction (the Natural User Interface), and delivered changes to the graphical user interface to accommodate the NUI. On the surface of the next iteration of the Windows client, one of the first traditional Wind... |
21 November 2008
15:51 GMT |
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One of the elements of the Windows graphical user interface that is evolving past what end users have come to traditionally associate with it is the Taskbar. The GUI evolution delivered by Windows 7 is designed to bring what Microsoft is internally referring to as the Superbar, or the enhanced Taskbar. The new Taskba... |
4 November 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is laboring to deliver a new level of personalization, choice and control with the Windows 7 desktop, according to Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Steven Sinofsky. The new graphical user interface designed for the next iteration of the Windows client made its first appeara... |
3 November 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Windows 7 pre-beta build 6801 was showcased and subsequently released at the Professional Developers Conference at the end of the past month in Los Angeles, Microsoft still has some aces up its sleeve when it comes down to the next iteration of the Windows client. In this context, there are disc... |
3 November 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to detail the evolution of the Windows client graphical user interface, in just one month, at the Professional Developers Conference 2008, and then at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2008. One of the aspects under the microscope will the taskbar, a Windows 7 desktop item on which M... |
30 September 2008
13:18 GMT |
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Fantasktik, a very useful piece of Mac software coming from the folks at Dockland Software, has made it into our Mac-driven hearts thanks to its offering a dock for application windows. Having been updated to version 1.1 just recently, we decided to let more readers in on this app, and the enhancements it has receive... |
18 September 2008
14:11 GMT |
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"Fantastic" is probably the first adjective that comes to mind after using Dockland Software's app for OS X Leopard. As soon as I downloaded the free trial version, my desktop, as well as my mind, suddenly became more organized.This Dockland Software-developed app, which lives quietly in your System Preferences,... |
20 August 2008
12:29 GMT |
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Microsoft has sort of timidly started to share a couple of rather anodyne details about Windows 7, the next version of the Windows client due by the end of 2009, according to the company's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. Christopher Flores, Director Windows Communications even made available a video demon... |
29 May 2008
13:55 GMT |
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In future versions of the Windows operating system, users should expect a completely reinvented Windows taskbar. Microsoft has already evolved the strip of desktop real estate at the bottom of the screen in accordance with various versions of Windows; still, the taskbar has remained essentially loyal to the same conc... |
24 July 2007
09:52 GMT |
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