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Circle Dock 1.5.6 – A Unique, intuitive, graphically enhanced program launcher.

anti — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:11:21 +0000

The Circle Dock application was designed to help you launch your programs from a circular dock.. Circle Dock allows you to have multiple layers so that you can group similar, or allied, items within folders. Folders can contain other folders as well as documents and programs. Now for those who want a bit of technical information, Circle Dock is a multi-layered, multi-threaded application. At the base is the (hidden) Main Window which is responsible for controlling the application as well as sending and receiving messages from the Dock’s other windows. All the visible elements – the background, centre button, dock items and their labels – are all unique windows created, positioned, synchronised and controlled by the Main Window.The only time Circle Dock will consume a significant amount of memory is when the main Properties dialog is displayed; however once this dialog is dismissed, the program’s housekeeping routines quickly free-up memory and return it to the system pool.

What Circle Dock Allows You to Do:
• Launch your programs from a circular dock.
• Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular dock that you can re-size.
• Rotate the dock with either your mouse wheel or the keyboard arrow keys.
• Change the image shown for the icons and change the skins (compatible with icons and skins for Rocket Dock, Object Dock, etc.)
• The dock appears where your mouse is by pressing a hotkey (default is F1) or your middle mouse button, other options available.
• Tested on computers with multiple monitors, Windows XP/Vista/7, 32-bit & 64-bit, and requires only .Net Framework 2.0.
• Automatically works on all Windows Vista and 7 computers and most Windows XP computers.
• A new settings panel that allows you to customize many options. It updates your dock as you make changes. See it change in real time! No need to press an OK button.
• Multi-language capable. Just translate the English.ini file to the language of your choice. 50+ Languages currently available
• Change the image used for the dock icons with the easiest method out there: Just set the program to “Icon Replacement Mode” in the right-click menu of the center icon and you can change all the icon images by just dragging and dropping new PNG images onto them! Huge time saver when you are customizing your dock!
• Built in support for Windows HD Icons. Vector and detailed PNG’s come through with great clarity
• toggle the visibility of the dock by moving your mouse to any edge of your screen. By default, the left and right edges are used for toggling. No need to press a button!
• Rotate the dock with your mouse wheel or arrow keys (customizable).
• Reorder and Organize the dock items with new adjustment interface. Located via right click on an item
• By default, clicking on the center button does not open the start menu. You can enable this in the settings panel.
• New easy method of upgrading from older versions.
• Access help files from almost every setting window. Get the help you need immediately without having to search
• Standalone Stacks 2 are now integrate and access directly by left clicking and selecting a stack option (Additional Options added v1.5.)
• Portability creation has never been easier. Now with an improved Circle Dock Portable Maker for Back up and distribution, and excellent Individual and corporate solution!

Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

What´s New in version 1.5.6:
• Added an option to prevent the mouse-click that toggles the Dock’s visibility from being passed-on to other applications. This prevents ugly side-effects.
• The Toggle Button can display the mouse’s status and the name of the application under the mouse pointer.
• Added options to the actions for a left-click on the top level Centre Button.
• Repaired the bug that failed to load the “About” text correctly for languages other than English. (For English there was no problem).
• Change the “Loading Settings” graphic to one provided by “Archon of Fate” – for which, many thanks!.
• New object delete animation included (“Laser”).
• Added a new German translation by Eric Hoffman: “German (Hoffman)” – for which, many thanks!
• Added alternative translations for Hungarian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and Turkish.
• Fixed a problem with language detection.
• Tuned the “ellipse” routines to make it easier to configure. I’ve also added a new routine to calculate dock item positions using different formula: you can test this by selecting “Ellipse 2″ as a Dock Shape. “Ellipse 1″ uses the pre-existing calculations.
• Dock Item Labels can now contain more than one line of text. Press Ctrl+Enter in the text entry box to start a new line.
• Circle Dock requires to restart itself if either the Z-Order or UI Language settings are changed in the main configuration dialog. This happens automatically when the Settings dialog is closed.
• Drag-and-Drop operations for Dock Items have been enhanced.
• dded the ability toggle the display of Desktop Icons and, for Windows Vista and Windows 7, the Sidebar gadgets.
• The wrong colour appeared for “Add” sub-menu for the Centre Button and Background context menus; this has been fixed.
• Modified the Help Browser to select downloading new versions by Operating System. Choices are “Auto-Detect”, “32-bit” and “64-bit”. A check-mark appears next to the correct download for your OS and will be the version downloaded if “Auto-Detect” is selected.
• New included Applet: Wallpaper Auto-Changer.

SE-TrayMenu 1.4.3.26 – Free application launcher tools

Free Software — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:44:51 +0000

SE-TrayMenu is a free application laucher, it is easy to use and absolutely free, you can easily launch your frequent used application via popup. You can add any kind of elements to your tray, application, document, bookmarks, and much more, you can also assign a global hotkeys for its acces. To add application (or other) you just have to drag and drop to the GUI, and you can also automatically ad all your frequently used applications. SE-TrayMenu has a fully customizable skin with many layouts and color schemes. Currently SE-TrayMenu supporting english, deutsch, and russian language.

HDShortcutter 3.2 – Free lightweight shortcut manager and application launcher

Free Software — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:38:30 +0000

HDShortcutter is a shortcut manager and launcher application, you just have to drag your daily used application, file, folder, or anything else to the HDShortcutter interface and then it will create a shortcut for you, so you can open the application, file, and folders in an instant. You are abel to save anything to driver partition and then add the shortcut to the shortcut manager, and reducing the risk of losing data on your desktop when you are re-installing your windows operating system. With this shortcut manager, your dont have to put everything that commonly used as the desktop shortcut and get your desktop messy. HDShortcutter is light, efficient, and fully portable so you dont have to install it on your windows.

QuickWayToFolders 1.2.2 – Display your important folders in certain view option

Free Software — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:24:50 +0000

QuickWayToFolders is a shortcut launcher which able you to acces a folder in a flash! There are view option in how you use QuickWayToFolders, it can act like a desktop, which you can navigate through subfolders, or appear as a small browser like windows explorer, also it can display the folders in a menu, which you are able to create a multiple folders menu too, which displaying multiple folders content in just a single meny. Each of the entry is added to the taskbar notification area (near the system tray).

What’s New in version 1.2.2:

Added: “Show at software startup” option for explorer mode
Added: Japanese translation thanks to Asabukuro Dongorosu

Micro-sys Launcher 1.7.1 – Free Launcher Application with drag and drop interface

Free Software — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:10:38 +0000

Micro-sys Launcher is a free shortcut manager, you can launch all kinds of files and programs using this tools. Simply just drag and drops the executable file, or shortcut on the interface when you are on the “manage items” mode, then it will be added into the Micro-sys launcher list. You can create unlimited amound of shortcut for items, folders, or subfolders. Micro-sys will stay on background, minimized to system tray, you can turn it off by accessing the traymenu. Mycro-sys also has many GUI option such as customizable program font setup for the name and size.

SliderDock R10 – Launcher tools application with unique docking system

Free Software — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:15:08 +0000

SliderDock is an application launcher tools which you can easily customized just by drag and drop icons to accessing them later. It has an unique dock which you dont have to chase behind your icons for running an application, you just have to rotate your mouse wheel and the icon list will be appear.

Features:

Simple drag and drop function to add an icon
quickly launch an application
use the mouse wheel to let the icons come to you
smooth animations during icons rotation
Highlight effect around selected icon
customizable icons(compatible with objectdock and rocketdock icons)
Hide/Unhide application with the use of a shortcut key

Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.

Find and Run Robot – Application and Document launcher

Free Software — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:17:49 +0000

Find and Run Robot is an application for a maniacs of keyboard user – it helps you find programs or document everywhere in your from within the start menu. With a single keypress, you launch the utility – then just start typing the first letter of the application that you want to. The result given and shown is the best result – you just have to choose the number that represented the associated programmes.

Features:
* No configuration needed to start find and run
* The most customizable application of its kind, for those who love to tweak settings.
* Caches programs you launch for instantaneous repeat searches and adaptive scoring.
* Comes with dozens of built-in special alias commands that allow you to perform tons of different web searches and other operations.
* Create and share (xml) alias packs with your friends or download them from our site to add custom commands and menus.
* Install (open source) plugins to add advanced functionality.
* A dozen plugins are available at launch time, including a powerful clipboard monitor and searcher; a live calculator with history tape and persistant variables; a bookmark searcher plugin that supports firefox, internet explorer, and opera; plugins to manage running processes, uninstall programs, change the default printer, control external applications, and more.
* Low system overhead, fully portable and runnable from a USB thumbdrive, and doesn’t mess with your registry.
* Drag+Drop results from the result view; quick right click to access file system properties or advanced functions.
* No file indices are used, so results are always up to date with minimal memory use.
* Choose from dozens of skins and customize the fonts sizes of all graphical elements of the user interface, or turn off skins completely and revert to default Windows user interface. Choose between a compact small-icon mode, or an easy-to-read large icon mode.
* Full directory browsing function with live search filtering — manually browse and locate the files you are looking for.
* Customizable toolbar for common functions and operations (optional; with drag+drop support).
* Automatic updating for main program and plugins (optional).
* Customize hotkey triggers to launch and perform specific searches, or copy selected text to the clipboard at launch .
* Fully documented and actively developed with new features being added regularly based on user requests on our forum.
* Completely free; signup requested and donation recommended — your donations fund continued development!

HotKeyz – Launch application with a single keyboard button

Free Software — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:41:38 +0000

HotKeyz lets you easily create and maintain a categorized list of your hotkeys. Each direct access, a key combination on your keyboard, a launch command. You decide which commands go with which hotkeys. Some of these commands are internal commands and the rest is HotKeyz commands for Windows. HotKeyz help you to manage repetitive tasks on your PC with speed and minimal effort.
With Hotkeyz 2.7 you can launch applications, commands, open files and folders. You can work faster and more efficiently using your keyboard instead of your mouse.
The choice of parameter gives you the control parameter when launching another application like Internet Explorer and surfing to a specific site as parameter. For example C: Program Files Internet Explorer Iexplore.exe with parameter www.skynergy.com . It also features that launched its email window to compose a new mail even if your e-mail program is not active or focused.
Set shortcuts to launch files, minimizing the current active window, showing or hiding HotKeyz own o. The system tray icon of HotKeyz change to indicate a key press. The shortcuts work with modifier keys, the VICTORY, the CTRL, the ALT, the displacement and the majority of other keys of keyboard. You can even enable or disable unwanted Hotkeys without deleting the listed key.

ZenKEY 2.1.4 – A desktop application with program launcher and system information

Free Software — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:32:03 +0000

ZenKEY allows you to control almost all aspects of your computer using the keyboard and mouse. By using a single button you are able to do :

* Launch a program or focus on the program window
* Open a document, a folder or a feature of Internet
* Perform a search of the Internet
* Resize, move or change the window
* Send command means, as the game, the pause or volume up / down
* Start your screensaver or shutdown your computer
* Scope of hidden Windows utilities
* Control Winamp or compatible multimedia players (we love the player of QCD!)
* Simulate a series of introduction by keyboard
* Please immediately the whole menu of programs or actions at the mouse pointer

Using the value of setting ZenKEY, you can add any program, add or alter any menu, and give all keys to the introduction of perform any action.
A new feature of transparency ‘of the’ Auto-window allows the windows are made transparent and then wins or loses the focus.

Taskix 2.0 Beta – Free tools for reorder your taskbar

Free Software — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:04:18 +0000

Taskix is a free utility which allows you to order again the buttons in your on the spot taskbar of Windows Xp using your mouse. If you have similar button taskbar of group regulated, that also functions the groups piled up by interior! Extract simply the files starting from the Zipper in a file from your choice and begin the EXE. It is more frank to employ – drag-and-drop simply the button that you want to move -, it is fast and employs very few resources of the system. You also have the option to configure it to be restarted with Windows. There SA separates the version of 64 bits available on the banner page to employ with the windows 64-bit or waiter 2003 of Windows 64-bit

Features:
* Reorder taskbar tabs
* Scroll tabs with mouse wheel
* Close tabs with middle-click
* Supports UltraMon taskbars
* Quick access to Desktop
* Small – Simple – Effective

What’s New in version 2.0 Beta:
* Feature: Scroll programs with mouse wheel over taskbar
* Feature: Support UltraMon taskbars
* Feature: Show Desktop methods
* Feature: Maximize/restore windows methods
* Enhancement: Configuration options