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FreeNote v1.21 - 1055 KB
FreeNote is a freeware application that let you place virtual sticky notes around your desktop.
What is the best place to write notes on? Of course your PC desktop, where they are all visible at a glance. FreeNote let you create a number of virtual sticky notes around your PC screen.
Using FreeNote is easy: install it and a yellow note icon will appear near the clock of your Windows' task bar, just double click on it to create a new note.
Click on the notes to activate and modify them, or use the right mouse button to let the note popup menu appear: it et you drop (remove) the note, automatically resize it, or access the note layout property panel.
For each note you can personalize the graphic layout choosing font face, font size, background color, text color and border color.
FreeNote had been designed to be simple and easy to use, and it is distributed at no charge, free to download and use.
Integrated search technology: right click on a note and select "Search the Web" to search main words on the Internet.
Now FreeNote is a multilanguage software supporting many languages.
http://www.mgshareware.com/images/fn_shot1.gif
MGShareware
support@mgshareware.com
http://www.mgshareware.com/fnmain.shtml
http://www.freerip.com/download/freenote.exe

NanoSkin - 6+4+2+1 KB
Change the look of your Desktop using no additional resources AT ALL! By far, the simplest skin makeover for Windows. Make your scroll bar, drop down and menu arrows.
Windows uses a True Type Font for its system glyphs. These include scroll bar, drop down and menu arrows, check marks and caption buttons (Help, Min, Max and Close). I modified the arrows to make them more visible and turned the 'Minimize' button into a down arrow. Actually, I saw a screen shot with a 'Minimize' button altered just that way, so I poked around until I found out how it was done. As far as I know, this trick will work on Windows 95 and should work with any Win OS that has the Marlett font.
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/Nano.gif
Tinker
tinker@execulink.com
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/MarNew.zip
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/GoldED.zip
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/GoldWB.zip
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/GoldWMU.zip

APPPLUS v3.3 - 954 KB
AppPlus is a menu bar or tray launcher that docks to your desktop, floats, auto-hides, or sits in your system tray. It includes the following features:
- Create an unlimited amount of graphic/text-based buttons that launch any number of programs, Websites, e-mail addresses, or folders (which open in the AppPlus Menu System).
- Each shortcut can be set by dragging & dropping any file or folder or by the Shortcut Wizard.
- Set hotkeys, custom icons, and the color for each shortcut.
- A tray-based icon gives you access to instant activation of your screen saver and Windows shutdown commands.
- On the toolbar, bands can be created that allow the toolbar and its shortcuts to be customized in any way imaginable.
http://www.appplusonline.com/images/toolbar2.jpg
The AppPlus Team
WebMaster@AppPlusOnline.com
http://www.appplusonline.com/download.html
http://www.appplusonline.com/SetupLite.exe
runtimes - 1380 KB:
http://www.appplusonline.com/AppPlusRuntime.exe

CountDown v1.0.4 - 11 KB
As it's name says, this program will count down to the date you specify. -1539 days 'till the new millennium ! Requires the VB5 Runtime Library.
Wim Heirman
wimh@yucom.be
http://allserv.ugent.be/~wheirman/wimsprograms/programs.html#cntdown
http://allserv.ugent.be/~wheirman/wimsprograms/zip/cntdown.zip

Timer v1.0 - 10 KB
This very simple program shows in the task bar how long it is running, as a sort of chronometer. You can use it to time anything you want, from the time you're online to how long you're playing Quake.
Wim Heirman
wimh@yucom.be
http://allserv.ugent.be/~wheirman/wimsprograms/programs.html#timer
http://allserv.ugent.be/~wheirman/wimsprograms/zip/timer.zip

WorldClock v3.1.15 - 133 KB
WorldClock shows you the time in different places over the world. Also included are the Swatch Internet Time, Julian Date and StarDate. You can also use it to synchronize the time with an atomic clock. Requires the VB5 Runtime Library.
Wim Heirman
wimh@yucom.be
http://allserv.ugent.be/~wheirman/wimsprograms/programs.html#wclock30
http://allserv.ugent.be/~wheirman/wimsprograms/zip/wclock30.zip

Mr. Notes v4.0 beta - 64 KB
Mr. Notes is a free system tray-based note taking software solution. Click on its icon any time you need to jot something down. It remembers its settings and contents from session to session. You can print, insert rich text and plain text files, and use bullets. Other features include the ability to manually paste in images, MIDI and .wav files, shortcuts, and more; exporting of text as plain or rich text; insertion of the date and time; and changing the font size with keystrokes. Options let you set font and colors, set a window size, and minimize the program on startup.
System Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
http://www.ryanware.com/images/notes_shot40.gif
Take a Hike Software
info@ryanware.com
http://www.ryanware.com/mr_notes.html
http://www.ryanware.com/mr_notes40.zip
version 3.0 - 27 KB:
http://www.ryanware.com/mr_notes.zip

Time Thingy v1.62 - 297 KB
Do you wish you could free up more taskbar space? Or maybe you wish you could easily see what the time and date are with your task bar on Auto Hide? Time Thingy does both! Time Thingy is a floating clock replacement designed to free up valuable taskbar space by allowing the user to remove the Microsoft clock and still be able to see the time! Time Thingy can be positioned anywhere on your screen (floats), and remains always on top making it a very easy clock replacement! With Time Thingy running you can see the time and/or the date even if your taskbar is on auto hide!
System Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
http://www.ryanware.com/images/time_thingy.gif
Take a Hike Software
info@ryanware.com
http://www.ryanware.com/time_thingy.html
http://www.ryanware.com/tthingy_setup.exe

Iconoid v3.5.0 - 572 KB
Iconoid is a Windows desktop icon manager.
- Make icon backgrounds transparent
- Select any color for icon backgrounds
- Save and Restore Icon positions for each (or every) screen resolution
- Select any color for icon text
- Automatically or manually select the best color for the text background
- Dynamically hide icons when you don't need them and show them when you do
- Quickly minimize all windows so that you can see your desktop wallpaper.
- See the help files (which include screen shots) for even more information.
http://www.sillysot.com/help/colors.gif
SillySot Software
sillysotsoftware@yahoo.com
http://www.sillysot.com/
http://www.sillysot.com/iconoid.zip

IconExtractor.exeIconExtractor (Size: 60 kb, Updated: 6/10/2004 5:00:50 AM)
Extracts all readable icons from files in a directory (and subs). This is a great way to get all the icons on your hard drive in one fell swoop (I've collected over six *thousand* icons with this little puppy). Source available.
1573 downloads
http://reliableanswers.com/download.asp?File=IconExtractor.exe

PS WhiteBoard - 65 KB
PS WhiteBoard - this cool little utility is designed to be your own personal White Board. Write on it, mark it up. Scrawl down your notes and important things to do so when you're sitting at your monitor so you don't forget those things you got to do!
Put it in your Startup folder and let it run in your system tray. This program makes jotting down reminders fun!
There is no setup program. Just download it, unzip it to the directory of your choice and let it go to work for you.
http://www.pindersoft.com/images/WhiteBoardPS.jpg
PinderSoft
admin@pindersoft.com
http://www.pindersoft.com/Freeware.htm
ftp://ftp.pindersoft.com/pswhiteboard.exe

Alarm Clock v1.7 - 529 KB
Alarm clock is a small program that sits in your system tray of the windows desktop. Includes 5 different chimes and a customized chime button for selecting your favorite custom chimes. It also features a popup message box to inform you of somes information on alarm time and an auto shutdown feature which you can use to log off, shutdown or make the computer standby at a set time.
http://www.zemsoft.com/images/screen/aclock.jpg
Zem Soft
info@zemsoft.com
http://www.zemsoft.com/aclock.html
http://www.zemsoft.com/downloads/aclock.exe

OEM Logo Manager v1.0 - 1561 KB
With this program, you can have your own logo and text appear on the system properties window. It is easy to use and you can save files to be used on several systems if you wish.
With OEM Logo Manager V1.0 you can choose from a whole range of pre supplied bitmap images or search your system for your own. On start up the program will add all bitmaps in the samples folder to the drop down samples box to make access to often used bitmaps easy. The program comes with plenty to choose from but if you put your own into the samples folder within the program directory they will be available to you in the samples combo box during use. If you try to use a file that is too large, you will be notified.
You can edit the text that appears and have up to ten further lines in the support information window. The manufacturer field holds the name of the computer. This can be anything you want up to 25 characters. The same goes for the model field. This also holds up to 25 characters. Lines 1 - 10 all appear after you have clicked on support information. These will give you 10 lines of 40 characters. The choice is yours what you use these fields for.
Windows only allows Bitmaps to be used for the logo. Although I could of let this program convert the image for you, I felt that as the size was also restrictive you are better off using an image editor.
Therefore, you need a Bitmap image that is no larger than 180 pixels wide and 114 pixels high.
Once again resizing an image to this size is better achieved through an image editor. You can use 24 bit bitmaps if you wish.
Too make a transparent bitmap you must make sure that the bitmap has been converted to Indexed 256 colour. 24bit Bitmaps will not make a transparent image. Make sure that pixel (0,0) in the top left most part of the picture has the colour you want to be transparent.
If you have a background colour that you do not want to be transparent put another colour at pixel (0,0), preferably 1 that doesn't appear in the rest of the image. Some image editors allow you to add a colour to the palette if needed.
In some cases setting colour 0 in the colour index also can help.
http://www.tontin.co.uk/images/oemscreen.jpg
TonTin Press
info@tontin.co.uk
http://www.tontin.co.uk/oeminfo.htm
http://www.tontin.co.uk/oemlogov1.zip

101 Clips - 1908 KB The free multi-clipboard and screen capture program. 101 is the simplest of all multi-clipboard programs. Just have it running minimized and it captures everything you cut or copy from other programs. It keeps the last 30 clips. When you want to paste one back, all you have to do is restore it and click on the clip you want. If you prefer to work entirely from the keyboard, you can choose a function key to restore and then paste any clip by typing the letter shown next to it. When you move the mouse over the clips, you can see them in the viewer. If the clip is text, you see several lines and if it is a graphic, you see a thumbnail. To capture the entire screen press Prt Scr. To capture the active window press Alt+PrtScr To capture an individual graphic from Internet Explorer or AOL, point to the graphic, right click and select "Copy" from the drop down list. One of the features is that you can paste any screen or graphic directly into the body of an Outlook Express email. With most other programs, you have to save graphics as JPEGs and then attach them. http://101clips.com/freescreen.gif 101 Software support@101clips.com http://101clips.com/freeclip.htm http://wcarchive.cdrom.com/pub/bws/bws_46/oneoone.exe

NoteTab Light v4.95 - 1796 KB NoteTab Light is the ultimate free Notepad replacement and a capable HTML editor. A slimmer version of the award-winning NoteTab Pro, this slick application makes text editing a breeze. Move quickly around a stack of large files with a simple tabbed interface. Format your text to your heart's content. Write with the font of your choice, fixed-width or proportional. If you need to cut and paste chunks from a pile of files, forget the Clipboard: you can set up a Paste Board file to save text clips automatically. Strip HTML tags from your files. Call up complete document statistics instantly. Use powerful, system-wide search and replace tools. Speed up your work with text macros: you can use them as shortcuts, or even to auto-replace those persistent typos. Handy sample macro libraries are supplied, and you can easily build your own. Make the most of NoteTab's many options to suit your own workstyle. There's more, much more, in this package -- try the finest piece of freeware available today! Note that prior to version 4.5, NoteTab Light was called "Super NoteTab Light". http://www.notetab.com/ntl.gif Fookes Software author@fookes.com http://www.notetab.com/ntl.htm http://www.fookes.net/ftp/free/NoteTab_Setup.exe manual - 332 KB: http://www.fookes.net/ftp/other/notetabpdf.zip

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