Monthly Archives: September 2008

Show Outlook appointments and tasks on desktop

People like me always add many events in Outlook to remind myself. The freeware DeskTask help you display those appointments and tasks on Windows desktop transparently. Download DeskTask 1.1 beta1

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Press F2, selects filename without extension

With the help of a small program called Phlox, Windows XP users will get the same result as Vista users when pressing F2 key to rename a file – select filename only, not with extension. Phlox is freeware, and can … Continue reading

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Download Google Desktop 5.8

Google has claimed that the new version of Google Desktop get improved performance. With the performance tests and the user experience data sent anonymous by the users, Google found defects and has made the changes to run the program faster. … Continue reading

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Drag texts URL and images in Google Chrome

Similar to Firefox, Google Chrome has the features to drag and open text links, hyperlinks, images in the current tab, new tab. For example, there is a plain text of a URL, you can just highlight the URL, and drag … Continue reading

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Send someone a self-destructing message online

Remember in the movie Mission Impossible, after the agent(you mean Tom Cruise?) reading some confidential message, the device(or message) get self destroyed, and nobody else is able to know what is in the message. That cool. Now you can make … Continue reading

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Store multiple entries in Windows Clipboard

The Windows Clipboard can only hold one entry of the content the last time you perform copy or cut action on. Good enough for most of us, but there are times that we will be happier if Clipboard can hold … Continue reading

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