Firefox

The award-winning Firefox web browser is better than ever. Faster, safer, and easy to use, Firefox delivers a better Web experience.

Here are some of my favorite extensions - small files that enhance the operation of the browser :

Scrapbook - ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are: Save Web page, Save snippet of Web page, Save entire Web site, Organize your collection in the same way as Bookmarks, Full text search and quick filtering search of your collection of pages and Editing of the collected Web pages.

deskCut - This extension adds desktop shortcut creation to the context-menu.

AllPeers - AllPeers is a closed-source, freeware extension for the Firefox 2.0+ browser. The extension allows building a social network and sharing files on a P2P basis using BitTorrent technology. It uses a darknet style of peer-to-peer communication; files and information shared between users are only accessible as long as the users have each other on their respective buddy lists - their 'trusted private network'.

Download Statusbar - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

gTranslate - With gTranslate, you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text.

Print/Print Preview - Replace the default "Print" button with the Mozilla Suite style "Print/Print Preview" toolbar button/menu. Based on requests, now also includes the "Page Setup" option and addition to the context menu.

Forecastfox - Gets local and/or international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this HIGHLY customizable and unobtrusive extension.

Save Image in Folder - Easily save images in personally customized folders with just a right-click.

SessionSaver - SessionSaver restores your browser -exactly- as you left it, every startup, every time. Not even a crash will phase it. Windows, tabs, even things you were typing - they're all saved.

Mozilla Archive Format - Allows complete web pages to be saved into a single MHT archive file. Open the MHT 'container' file inside Internet Explorer.

FoxyTunes - Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? Now you can control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more... Supports WinAmp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Xbox Media Center, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many other players - gust click on the orange note and select the player you'd like to control. Also can install this plugin to Thunderbird email software.

RSS Ticker - RSS Ticker loads your Live Bookmarks and scrolls their entries across your screen while you surf. It's perfect for staying informed without having to actively browse entries in an RSS reader. The ticker can be placed at the bottom of the screen (below the status bar) or at the top of the screen (underneath your bookmarks toolbar). Nearly all aspects of the ticker's display are customizable, including the scroll speed, smoothness, and link width. You can even set a limit for the number of items that appear from each feed. You can decide which of your Live Bookmarks you want scrolled in the ticker by checking or unchecking the box in the bookmark's properties dialog (right-click on the Live Bookmark in the Bookmarks menu and choose Properties), or by managing all of your feeds in the ticker's feed manager (in the RSS Ticker options dialog). You can choose to have RSS Ticker shuffle all of the entries from all of the feeds so that you always have a variety of links showing in the ticker, and since RSS Ticker shows the feed's favicon (favorite's icon) next to each entry, you'll know exactly which feed each entry is from. The ticker and the items in the ticker have a context menu, which allows you to open each item in the current tab, a new tab, or a new window, mark an item as read without opening it, mark an entire feed as read, or mark all feeds as read. You can also open items in tabs in a variety of ways. There is also an option to manually refresh your feeds. The context menu is customizable, so you can choose to hide the options you don't want to see. Note: Since version 1.7, you can mark an item as read by Ctrl-clicking on it. You can move the ticker back and forth manually using the scrollwheel on your mouse, so if you just missed something interesting, you can easily reverse the ticker and get to the link you want. RSS Ticker reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds, and the ticker can be disabled and hidden when you're not using it, unlike many other ticker extensions. You can also have it hide itself when it's empty, perfect for saving valuable screen space.

IE Tab - This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox. An extension from Taiwan that features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. If a page doesn't look quite right rendered in Firefox or the page says its incompatible with Firefox, use this extension to render it INSIDE Firefox using the Internet Explorer rendering engine.

IE View - Lets you load pages into an external Internet Explorer window with a single right-click, or mark certain sites to *always* load in IE. Useful for incompatible pages, or cross-browser testing.

(FLST) Focus Last Selected Tab - Brings focus to the last selected tab when closing the active tab. Or you can click on the active tab to get to the last active (tabflipping).

Yahoo! Widget Engine

Widgets require Yahoo! Widget Engine to run. More widgets can be found here. They are mini, self-contained little programs that just require a double-click to start. Right-click on a particular widget while it's running to change its properties. After you download and want to keep a widget, you should place it in your "My Widgets" directory (look in your "My Documents" folder) for best results.


HANDY TIP: Press the [F8] key at any time, in any application, to bring up the Widget Dock

here are some of my favorite widgets :

• desktop weather here, here and here
• New England Doppler radar
  TV Tracker - Keep track of your favorite shows and channels with this TV listings Widget. Supports US listings only. Also try the WhatsOnTV widget.
• NPR Addict - For you NPR addicts out there, you can use this Widget to select an NPR program by date to stream via Windows Media or RealPlayer on Windows or Mac. There are several other public radio streams and archives that are added over time (e.g., CarTalk, A Prairie Home Companion, and others). Also try the NPR Player and the NPR News Headlines and Radio Player widget.
• BBC Radio Player - All in one BBC Radio Player for 52 BBC local and global stations. See the Widget info page for the full list.
• Ambience - Ambience sets the mood on your computer by altering the wallpaper based on the current weather and time. You can set different images for sunny, cloudy, rainy, foggy, stormy, or snowy weather. All of these conditions can also be altered based on the time."
• LexiPuzzle
• iTunes Popup - This is a simple Widget that stays hidden most of the time. When iTunes starts playing a new song, it pops up on the corner of the screen and announces the track name, artist, album, and shows a thumbnail of the album art.
  
• Yahoo! Notepad widget - Never loose another sticky note! Write your sticky note, then save it to an online folder. Retrieve your sticky note from any computer with an Internet connection.
• Yahoo! PictureFrame - Randomly displays your photos on your desktop. Automatically rotates pictures from Yahoo! Photos, Flickr, or your computer. Drag files into the Picture Frame to quickly upload to Yahoo! Photos or Flickr.
• Desktop Favourites - Use this Widget to create links to your favourite applications, folders and websites in an organised structure on you desktop. Create Favourites to launch applications, folders and websites by dragging them onto the Widget. Create your own Headings and Subheadings to enable you to organise your favourites. Reorder the Headings, Subheadings and Favourites by clicking at the end of their bar and dragging. Minimise and maximise the Headings and Subheadings to save space on your desktop. Personalise the colour scheme.
  
• VIBE.FM christmas music - It's that time of the year once again. It's Christmastime on VIBE.FM! As every year VIBE transforms into the Christmas station during the week of November the 1st till the first week of January. Christmas songs non-stop, commercial free, 24 hours a day!
• Wikipedia - Wiktionary - This is a Widget to search the free Encyclopedia Wikipedia,Dictionary Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource and Wikibooks. This is possible in English, German, Spanish, French, Netherlands, Polski, Svenska,Italiano and Portuguese!
• Vonageer - Access your Vonage account online to retrieve a list of received and dialed calls as well as voicemail. Vonage is an alternative to home telephone service from Cox or Verizon - it uses your high speed internet connection along with an ATA to place and receive calls.
• Portland/Oregon traffic - View cameras from all over Portland and the state of Oregon with this Widget. Here's what you get: 369 Traffic Cameras, 26 Scenery Cameras and 3 Airport Cameras
• RioCams - Based on the original Widget SwissCity by Francillon Cristoph, with this Widget you can choose between more than 70 webcams in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
• Notebook Status - Displays what notebook users most want to know: battery level/status and wireless status/strength!
• Yahoo! News Slideshow - Stay up-to-date with current events with this Widget that displays Yahoo! News photos as a slideshow on your desktop. Choose from three different sizes and two layouts.
• SATellite images - Allows the user to view many different satellite weather maps of USA including 10 day forecast. Also does Sea Surface temperatures, Earthquakes, Oceans, Solar Activity, and almost the entire world of Geology, including all 50 states and 76 cities.
• TicketGadget - TicketGadget Widget tracks ticket availability to concerts, theater, events and sports such as baseball, basketball, NFL and hockey. Just set your city and the type of event you are interested in. Updates regularly so you won't miss another show.
• Mahjongg - an awesome tile game
  
• eBay widget
• NY Times reader - RSS feed reader for the New York Times website. Comes in both white and black. Also try this NY Times reader.
• Wickr - To search for photos, enter in tags. Each tag should be seperated by a blank space. Tags with multiple words should be in quotes, or joined together into one word. For example, the tag new york should be "new york" or newyork. A blank search will give the most recent photos uploaded to Flickr. To view photos from a user, just enter the username or email. You can also view a user's photostream, favorites, contacts, groups and photosets by clicking on the user's buddy icon.
  
• Flickr Watchr - Flickr Watchr brings new photos from your favorite Flickr contact or group right to your desktop! Leave Watchr running, and it will "watch" those contacts for you and automatically display any new photos from them as they become available. When you move over a specific photo, it displays a larger image for more detail. Clicking on the photo will open that photo's Flickr page.
• SA.FM streamer - SAFM is a South African Radio Station based in Cape Town and Durban, however it broadcasts all over South Africa
• 702 talk radio - This Widget will simply and elegantly play (stream) the 702 talk radio live stream directly from South Africa. 702 Talk Radio is based in Joburg South Africa
• 94.7 radio - This simple Widget plays one of South Africa's hottest radio stations, based in Joburg; 94.7 Highveld Stereo.
• 5FM radio - 5FM Stream Player will simply play the 5FM Live stream. 5FM is a very well known and popular South African radio station based in Johannesburg. It plays all sorts of music, especially the Top 100's sort of music.
• South African Radio Streamer - South African Radio Streamer will simply play a selected live radio stream. This Widget allows you to choose from a variety of South African radio stations, the list includes 5FM, 94.7, 702, Metro FM, Radio Algoa, and many more!
  
• 95.5fm WBRU Providence streaming widget
  
• 94.5fm Boston WJMN - This is a Widget that allows you to listen to Jamn 94.5 boston from your desktop. Jamn 94.5 is Bostons official #1 for blazin' hip-hop and R&B. Also try 107.9fm KISS-FM Boston and its HD2 station, 107.3fm WAAF Boston, 850am WEEI Sports Talk Radio Boston and WBZ 1030am Talk Radio Boston.
  
• Multiple City Traffic widget. Also try the Boston traffic widget.
  
• Boston Traffic Camviewer and Connecticut Traffic Cams widget. Also try CT Traffic Cams widget.
  
• FileAway - The Widget has three drop windows representing three directories which user can set up. Dropping files onto each button moves the files to that directory. Clicking on each button will open up the directory in the Windows Explorer or Mac Finder, depending on platform. Based on the Sort It Later Widget.
  
• Monitor Off - Monitor Off puts your monitor on standby with a click. A simple move of the mouse or keyboard press will wake up the computer in a few seconds. Click on the icon to put your monitor to sleep. Hold down CTRL key to move the Widget around. A typical 17" CRT monitor consumes 80 watts electricity; putting it on on standby reduces it to about 0-15 watts. Setting computer monitors to Power Save Mode saves money, electricity and reduces carbon dioxide emissions. After all, money isn't all you're saving.
  
• Scientific Calculator - This two-line scientific calculator provides the look and feel of a real calculator. With a dedicated line for the equation and another for the result, complex equations can be written with ease. Numbers and simple functions can be input via the keyboard, while more advanced functions are available using the normal calculator buttons. Also try Calculator, miniCalc, Kalculator and Koncalculator.
  
• Sys Monitor - Shows you all the local system information you need. Fully configurable for displaying system uptime, CPU load, memory, battery, wireless, storage volumes (drives), network cards (LAN) and remote IP address.
  
• FareCompare Tracker - This new version includes the ability to track airfare to international destinations as well as USA and Canada.
  
• WiFi Meter, CPU Meter and Memory Meter widgets by Martin Cannings
  
• Universal Shipment Tracker - The Universal Shipment Tracker will track all of your FedEx, UPS, DHL, Purolator, and USPS packages and display their current status and location (for some carriers). You can choose to hide shipments from carriers you do not use. The Widget checks for updates automatically at user-definable intervals. Also try FedEx package tracking , UPS package tracking and DHL package tracking widgets.

more Yahoo! Widgets...

Live365 Now Playing - The Live365 Now Playing Widget will show the songs currently playing on any radio stream at live365.com. After entering your Live365 account name and password, any of your station presets can be selected. The Widget will show from the last one to ten songs played, can be resized and has multiple color themes available.

SHOUTcast Monitor - Feed this Widget with the URLs of your favorite SHOUTcast stations and keep an eye on what is playing!

Barcode - Generate barcodes with this Widget. Enter the barcode digits and an (optional) description label. Click on the generated barcode to open it in a browser window to save or print.

SuperFileAway - This Widget is an expansion and polishing of the Fileaway Widget in both function and interface. It has five drop windows that you set and one that when dropped to will allow you to select the folder the file is going to. Holding the Control key as you drag and drop will copy the file instead of moving. Clicking on each button will open up that specific folder.

Sort It! - Clean up your desktop with Sort it!. Sort it! is a simple and easy way to keep yourself organized.

Quick Dock - QuickDock is a Quick Launch Toolbar replacement for Windows systems only. It grabs all your links and shortcuts in your Quick Launch directory and makes the available via an expandable fish-eye floating Widget. It also allows you to make an alternate directory for shortcuts anywhere on your system.

Simple Date and Time - A simple Widget that shows the date and time on one single line. The date and time format can be customized and three different skins are available.

Wage Widget - Keeps a running total of the amount of money you've earned. Input your hourly wage and watch how the moolah adds up while you surf the Internet, go to the bathroom, yap with your co-workers and occasionally work.

Fresh Art Daily - The Fresh Art Daily Widget features original oil and watercolor landscape and still life paintings by two contemporary American artists, John Hulsey and Ann Trusty.

stcVolume - Allows to set the volume of the system with a hotkey (by default ctrl+arrow up and ctrl+arrow down) or using the mouse. Volume can be changed using mouse, double click to mute/unmute and wheel now turns if volume is changed by another application.

All Audio Recorder

~ DOES NOT WORK WITH WINDOWS VISTA ~

All Audio Recorder is a powerful real-time sound recorder software.It enables you to record from any resource such as MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA, RAM, OGG, VQF, CD, DVD, MPEG, AVI, MOV, GAME, FLASH, Streaming Audio on Internet... even from all peripheral equipment such as microphone, cassette tape, TV, radio, electronic organ, video tape, CD Player, DVD Player...

Democracy Player

"Want to see the future of Net video? Download the open source Democracy Player" -Wired Magazine

It's pretty simple. You get a better internet video experience with Democracy Player because you can do more and you can do it more easily. Some people call it a 'TiVo for the internet' or a 'Firefox for videos'.

Democracy Player is free, open source, and built by a non-profit organization. Our goal isn't to make money off of you. Our goal is to give you the best possible video experience.

Democracy Player is a powerful TV viewer that downloads, manages and plays the latest videos on your computer. There's no need to squint-- the Democracy Player can play the highest quality videos in full-screen, and will play them one after the other, just lean back and enjoy.

Once Democracy Player downloads to your computer, install it and start it up. You will see the channels that come pre-subscribed with the player, and you can subscribe to new channels in the Guide. Hit play on New Videos and any new videos will play one after the other. Democracy Player can be as simple to use as turning on your TV.

Search for videos from YouTube, Google Video, Revver, and more. Better yet, turn a keyword search into a channel with the "Add This Search as a Channel" button. Democracy will automatically watch for new videos tagged with your keyword -- when new material is found, it'll be downloaded and waiting for you. You can also easily find videos inside your collection and channels with the search field at the top of the screen.

You can add channels manually with "Channels > Add Channel" (Ctrl+N). Just paste in the URL from webpages with video or RSS video feeds and Democracy Player will handle the rest. If you want to unsubscribe from a channel, just right-click on the channel's name and select "remove" (you can re-subscribe anytime).

The "New Videos" channel makes Democracy Player into a simple TV-viewing application. Whenever a new video is downloaded to your computer, it is added to this list. You can browse and manually pick certain videos to watch from the list. Click the video at the top and all new videos will play in order, one after the other. When you're done watching your new videos, you can choose to save them by clicking on the "Save" button to the right of the video description. If you don't do anything, the videos will automatically expire after a set time (6 days by default) freeing up space for fresh videos. You can always re-download videos that expire.

Auto-downloading makes using Democracy Player really simple. When enabled, the Democracy Player will grab new videos from a channel as soon as they're available. You can turn auto-download on for any channel by checking the box off at the top of the channel view. As soon as you know you like a channel, there is no need to think about it again; let Democracy Player handle the downloading.

Creating playlists of your favorite videos is simple. Just drag any video you've downloaded onto a playlist in the sidebar. You can rearrange the order of videos inside a playlist by dragging them up and down. To create a new playlist, choose Playlists > New Playlist (apple+P).

Telling friends about videos and channels you like is easy in Democracy Player. When you click on the envelope button for a given video or channel, Democracy Player opens up Video Bomb's share page. Also, you can "star" videos you like and Video Bomb will automatically create your own personal feed of favorites. Pass your Video Bomb channel around -- you are a filter for your friends' media.

Audacity

Audacity is a fast multi-track audio editor and recorder for Linux, BSD, Mac OS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo.

     * portable (self-contained) version HERE

Picasa

Picasa is a powerful, yet easy to use and attractive tools suite to manage and organize your digital images and photos. It offers one simple place to organize, enjoy, and share your pictures. After installing, the software can automatically scan your drive(s) for images and intelligently sort them into photo albums, ready for you to customize and organize. It offers different interface layouts and ways to view your pictures, including slideshow and a unique timeline feature. Picasa supports import from twain devices, including digital cameras, photo emailing, printing and much more. A great, all-around imaging tool! Now with Picasa Web Albums, this allows you to upload free image galleries, hosted by Google.


Find the pictures you forgot you had
Picasa instantly locates and organizes all the pictures on your computer. Picasa organizes your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date.

Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa
Want to clean up messy folders and move pictures around on your computer’s hard drive? Simply drag and drop pictures from one folder in Picasa to another. Picasa will make the change permanent after double-checking with you. Want to change a picture’s filename from 671056398a.jpg to Lisa.jpg? In Picasa, it only takes seconds to re-name one picture or a group of pictures.

Make an album
Use the "Albums" collection to tag your photos into quick groupings inside Picasa. Viewing and sharing the pictures you grouped under an album is easy – they make great slideshows and movies or you can email them to friends.

Add a star rating
Give a gold star to any photo you love: it turns your favorites into visual standouts at a glance. Picasa even has a star search that reduces your entire photo collection to the best of the best in less than a second.

Keep one picture in multiple albums
Picasa creates a new “instance” of each photo you label without taking up more space on your computer, so you can put the same picture into multiple albums.

Basic Fixes are back – and better
Picasa's Basic Fixes are buttons that make it fast and easy to crop, remove red eye, fix the contrast and color, and enhance your digital pictures.

Amazing effects turn so-so pictures into works of art
You can see how much Picasa's 12 new visual effects can improve your photos – and in seconds, not hours. Go sepia. Warmify. Make pictures pop with color or try austere black-and-white. Try easy one-clicks or the more finely tuned sliders for better control where you want it. And of course, you can undo your changes at any step along the way.

Write captions that stay with the picture
Picasa makes captions the way journalists do – using the IPTC standard. That means your captions are saved within their pictures and stay with them, whether you export as a web page or make a CD presentation. Picasa captions are fully editable and searchable, and you choose whether to display them or not.

Zoom. Pan. Tilt. Get the angle you intended
So you did not get the shot? With Picasa, that is not the end of the story. Go in closer and move the focus slightly to the left. Your camera was slightly crooked? So what? Your picture is perfect anyway.

Know how to use a camera in manual mode?
Photography aficionados can now fine-tune their photos with Picasa's EXIF display. This window shows you all the camera data that is stored in a picture's original file - such as camera model, date the photo was taken, even if a flash was used. The EXIF display also has a RGB histogram, a real-time graph that shows the intensity of colors in your picture and how they change when you make edits in Picasa.

Send photos via email that are a joy to receive
The hardest part of sharing your pictures is choosing your favorites. Take the guesswork out of sending photos. Picasa automatically resizes and attaches pictures to email messages at sizes your friends will be able to open. Works with most email programs, including Google's Gmail.

Put pictures on your own site, for free
Picasa Web Albums is the fast and easy way to put your photos on the web. Just select the photos in Picasa that you want to share and click to publish. In seconds, those photos are on your own web page, ready to share with the people you know. Check out a few things you can do with Picasa Web Albums. If you're looking to post multiple photos onto your blog, Picasa's "BlogThis!" button does the hard work for you by automatically transferring selected photos directly to Blogger.

Make beautiful slide shows
With Picasa, you can turn a group of photos into a presentation with one click of the "Slideshow" button.

Move to any device or folder
You can take your photos with you no matter how you like to carry them. Picasa works with all the newest compact flash devices.

Custom and standard sizes are now fit to print at home
Print beautiful pictures at home with more custom sizes or order prints, gifts and books from your favorite online companies. Picasa automatically fits your pictures perfectly onto the expensive paper used by your home printer. It’s finally easy to print wallets, 4×6, 5×7, full pages, more sizes and even (hallelujah!) more than one picture on a page.

Export pictures to popular photo processing websites
You can pick photos straight out of Picasa and upload them directly to your favorite photo finishers to order prints and other products.

Burn to CD or DVD for archive purposes
Don't lose your digital memories. Safely back up your photos with Picasa. Picasa makes it easy to protect your pictures by archiving them on a CD or DVD. Picasa even displays the pictures that haven't been backed up yet to make absolutely sure you don't make mistakes with images that matter.

Give gift CDs with slide shows
Effortlessly create slide show CDs for friends and family.

Create a network backup of your pictures
Save to a folder on your computer, plus any device that is an external drive or disk. Moving edited pictures out of Picasa has always been as easy as clicking the Export button. Now you can also control the quality and sizes of your exported pictures. Picasa even will save photos back to any drive, including the newest flash memory cards and sticks.

Turn your photos into a movie
Enjoy your pictures in fun, creative ways – it’s what photography’s all about! It’s so easy to play filmmaker with your pictures. Select your best shots, then adjust the delay time, dimensions, and video compression settings. That’s it – Picasa will render a movie, complete with title graphics, that you can play and share.

Make a personalized desktop picture or screensaver
Your best pictures are now on display. Pick a favorite photo as your desktop picture or add several into your screensaver rotation. What better way to enjoy your photographic genius at your desk?

Create a poster
Picasa can tile any picture you select, allowing you to print each part and reassemble them at poster size – up to 1,000% larger than the original.

Make picture collages
Select a group of pictures, choose one of the beautiful templates, and Picasa will create a collage that expands your creative horizons. Picture pile it. Make a multi-exposure image. Create a contact sheet. Done? Simply save your collage to a folder, as a new desktop background or as a screensaver.

View pictures on your TV with TiVo®
Picasa’s automatic photo organizer exports your pictures to any TiVo® Series2™ DVR connected to a home network.

Bubbles

Bubbles allow you to shrink any web-site into your system tray, keeping it handy and accesible at any time. When the bubble comes up, it gives you the pure web-page, and nothing else.

• Bubbles keeps your favorite web-sites a click away, on the system-tray.
• Enjoy new features in existing web-sites with Smart-Bubbles.
• Enhance your browsing experience with notifications, drag & drop and shortcut menus
• Avoid the clutter of the browser, focus on your web-sites.

Version 1.13 allows .bblbox files (Bubble files, these describe what a bubble shows/how it interacts/etc) to contain JavaScript code that is invoked on a per-page basis. This allows rewriting of links, turning alerts into Bubbles - and basically anything you can come up with.

When we showed Vadim this feature, the first thing he did was write a .bblbox file that converts Google-Calendar alerts (e.g 'dinner begins in 5 minutes') into Bubble Balloons, meaning you can minimize your Google-Calendar to the tray and continue receiving your calendar-alerts, GREAT!

We've just added a new IE Tool Bar Icon that allows you to create a bubble from the current url being viewed. This should make creating bubbles easier and swifter for many users who preffer this method of creating new bubbles.

Folder Marker

How many folders do you have on your computer? Scores of them? Hundreds? Thousands? Are all of them are alike: yellow folder, yellow folder, yellow folder, yellow folder... It's so easy to be confused with such a routine!

Folder Marker is your small assistant, an ardent fighter for your convenience and comfort in any kind of computer work. Use Folder Marker to mark your folders. One mouse-click and it becomes clear at once, which documents have a high priority, and which of them have normal or low priority. Which operations are finished completely, which are half-done and which haven't started yet.

Do you fear that someone might unintentionally delete information necessary to you? Mark a folder, and other users will notice at once that that folder contains important information for you.

Changing folder icons, Folder Marker will help you to cope with the standard yellowness. Folder Marker adds an item "Mark Folder" in the folder popup menu. Changing a folder icon is now a piece of cake.

Folder Marker is for anyone who wants to make his work with a computer more convenient. Folder Marker is for you. Download Folder Marker now!

Key features:

• Folder Marker can change a folder icon with one mouse click
• Folder Marker can mark folders by priority (high, normal, low), by degree of work completeness (done, half-done, planned) and by the form of the information contained in a folder (work files, important files, temp files, private files).
• Folder Marker can change a folder's color
• Folder Marker changes folder icons from a popup menu of the folders. To mark a folder, you don't even need to run the program!
• Folder Marker's menu can contain convenient category submenus.
• Folder Marker contains a User's Icons tab. Add up to 10 of your favorite icons and mark folders with them. It's easy!
• Folder Marker can work with several folders at once
• Folder Marker can assign an icon to a folder from: ICO, ICL, EXE, DLL, CPL or BMP file
• Folder Marker supports 32-bits icons
• Folder Marker can change the icons of ALL folders in your system. This is the favorite feature of customization lovers. Get rid of monotony! Make your folders your own!

And what's more - Folder Marker is FREE!

Microsoft Image Resizer

Image Resizer enables you to resize one or many image files VERY QUICKLY with a right-click. VERY sleek and efficient program from Microsoft...

! Does NOT work in Windows Vista !