Tracking Down Great Software For You!
One of the coolest, and probably unknown, features in Google Talk is the ability to click on the title bar of a chat window and to have it collapse. It doesn’t exactly minimize the window but makes it smaller so that you reclaim your desktop space but you can also easily re-open the chat.
There is a program that provides a similar feature for all windows called WinRoll. If collapsible windows aren’t enough for you then maybe you will like a few of the other features:
Make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top. Minimize, maximize or close all visible windows, including minimizing to the tray area. Make a window translucent on Windows 2000 or above.
As you can see this program is great for clearing up your desktop space when you have a lot of programs open. Not only can you “roll the windows up” but you can also minimize them to the tray. Just like most of our favorite software this one is free! In fact, it is open source in case you wanted to mess with the code yourself.
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I’ve had this program for a few months (even though I hardly use it) and I have to say its pretty good. Although, I did have about 20 windows open one time and rolled about 15. After that it got a little confusing.
Here are a few other little apps i use in my daily life
Sizer
Resize any window to an exact, predefined size.
[brianapps.net]
UberIcon
extends Windows to perform new effects when you launch your icons and folders.
[punksoftware.com]
And a program I couldnt live without
Launchy
[launchy.net]
Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
I’ll stop there since I would probably be here all night
Ryan, isn’t Firefox Beta 2 supposed to come out today! What’s the hold up!?!
It’s being delayed a few days it looks like. I’m in the process of writing up a quick post about it.
Nate: And you never told me about those programs? That Launchy rocks and I’ll have to write an article about that tomorrow!
If you have some other cool programs you should shoot me an email at tech@cybernetnews.com so that I can let our readers know about them.
Many WindowBlinds themes will allow you to roll up your programs – then again unless you pay for it, WindowBlinds 5 Enhanced will pop up annoying Windows load messages.
Launchy is awesome!!! Thanks for the link. Now I will just have to remember that it is always available. My short term memory is not what it used to be.