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Keyboard LED as Indicator for Windows Incoming and Outgoing Network Packets

December 29th, 2009

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Network Lights is a Windows program, which blinks keyboard LEDs (Light Emitting Diode) indicating outgoing and incoming network packets on network interface, similar to the cable modem send/receive signal.
Network Lights lets you monitor network activity (upload/download) from your keyboard ScrollLock and NumLock indicators. Each LED will flicker when network traffic is detected.

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See any MP3 file’s TAG contents without opening it in a MP3 player

December 26th, 2009

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MP3 Hint is an InfoTip Shell Extension. After installation, hovering the mouse cursor above any MP3 file icon will display a hint which will contain information extracted from the TAG of this MP3 file. You’ll see title, artist, album, year, comment, genre and track number. Also this hint will contain two additional handy information extracted from the MP3 file: song’s bitrate and duration.

Hide Windows Drives with NoDrives Manager

December 24th, 2009

nodrivesHave a drive you’d like to keep hidden? No Drives Manager removes drives from the Windows Explorer, so casual users can’t see what you’re aiming to keep private.

NoDrives Manager lets you hide drives from Windows Explorer. The drive is still accessible to Windows, technically, and you could access it from the run dialogue or from the command line, but it won’t appear to non-invasive users on your machine.

While many people would discount this as a tool only suited for a lame attempt at hiding your porn stash, It can be used to view the drives which are really in use. This would be handy to hide/protect secondary drives or any external drives which you use to backup data and keep them safe from being tinkered by casual users.

VistaSwitcher : Speed Up Windows Alt-Tab

December 19th, 2009

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VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a nice box that shows a list of all running tasks, with their names and preview snapshots, and enables the user to take actions on them using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts. With just one click, you can switch tasks, minimize, maximize, restore the main window, or close the process.

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Repair & Fix Windows 7 & Vista problems with FixWin Utility

December 15th, 2009

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FixWin is a portable application to repair and fix common Windows annoyances and issues. The solutions to repair and fix 50 common Windows annoyances, issues & problems have been categorized under 5 tabs, viz : Windows Explorer, Internet & Connectivity, Windows Media, System Tools & Misc Additional Fixes. FixWin detects whether you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista installed and accordingly offers you the relevant fixes only.

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