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> <channel><title>gHacks Technology News &#124; Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials &#187; window software</title> <atom:link href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/window-software/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.ghacks.net</link> <description>A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:24:54 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com"/><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://superfeedr.com/hubbub"/> <item><title>Reminder Software Remind Me In</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/31/reminder-software-remind-me-in/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/31/reminder-software-remind-me-in/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:22:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[alarm software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[remind]]></category> <category><![CDATA[remind me in]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reminder]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reminder software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[timer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[timer software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[window software]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14940</guid> <description><![CDATA[Remind Me In is a basic but lightweight reminder software program for the Windows operating system. It should be compatible with most editions and versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows XP and Windows Vista. An icon will be placed in the Windows system tray after installation which can be used configure the reminders. A right-click [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/microsoft_windows.jpg" alt="microsoft windows" title="microsoft windows" width="128" height="128" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11907" />Remind Me In is a basic but lightweight reminder software program for the Windows operating system. It should be compatible with most editions and versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows XP and Windows Vista. An icon will be placed in the Windows system tray after installation which can be used configure the reminders.</p><p>A right-click on the icon of the reminder software opens a menu that can be used to set a reminder for a specific time in the future. About a dozen different options like setting one or five minute reminders are offered as presets. Another option is the ability to create a custom reminder by entering a value in minutes.</p><p><span
id="more-14940"></span><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/reminder_software.png" alt="reminder software" title="reminder software" width="276" height="89" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14941" /></p><p>The only other option that is provided by Remind Me In is the ability to pick a sound file that will be played when the time is reached. Remind Me In is therefor more of an alarm clock software than a reminder software. It still can have its uses for some users, for example to remind the user to take the pizza out of the oven.</p><p>The software uses only about three Megabytes of computer memory while running. It would be excellent if the developer would add an option to add a note to the reminder. Remind Me In can be downloaded directly from the developer&#8217;s website.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/31/reminder-software-remind-me-in/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Flickr Tools: Flickr Downloadr</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/16/flickr-tools-flickr-downloadr/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/16/flickr-tools-flickr-downloadr/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:54:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[download photos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flickr]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flickr download]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flickr tools]]></category> <category><![CDATA[photo host]]></category> <category><![CDATA[photos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[portable software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[window software]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=11262</guid> <description><![CDATA[Flickr is one of the most popular photo hosting websites on the Internet. This makes it attractive for software developers to produce Flickr Tools as they can reach a huge audience with them. Flickr Downloadr is a new software program to download photos of Flickr. The first version of the tool has been released recently [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flickr is one of the most popular photo hosting websites on the Internet. This makes it attractive for software developers to produce Flickr Tools as they can reach a huge audience with them. <a
href="http://flickrdownloadr.codeplex.com/">Flickr Downloadr</a> is a new software program to download photos of Flickr. The first version of the tool has been released recently with several feature disabled that have not been implemented yet.</p><p>As of now it is only possible to download photos from one specific user. Only photos that are not licensed with all rights reserved will be downloaded while the rest will be skipped. The Flickr tool only works under Windows Vista or Windows 7. It is on the other hand a small portable application that works great if you regularly download files from the photo hosting website.</p><p>The application will display the option to download photos by user, group or everyone with only the user option enabled. The next page will display a simple form that accepts a name as input. It will search Flickr for that username and display the photos as thumbnails on the next page of the software program. There are two additional options that only search the favorites or contacts of a person.</p><p><span
id="more-11262"></span><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/flickr_tools.png" alt="flickr tools" title="flickr tools" width="500" height="420" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11263" /></p><p>Options are provided on that page to change the number of thumbnails that are displayed at the same time. It is furthermore possible to navigate the photo collection. Copyrighted images are displayed with a C on the thumbnail. A click on the Next button will initiate the download of the photos to the local computer.</p><p>We have covered similar tools in the past that provide additional options. Those are <a
href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/07/backup-flickr-accounts/">Backup Flickr Accounts</a> which is offering to pretty much download anything that is available on Flickr, the Firefox extension <a
href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/27/flikr-download/">Flickr Download</a> which gets rid of the dreaded <a
href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/how-to-avoid-saving-spaceballgif-at-flickr/">spaceball.gif</a> image, <a
href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/24/flickr-mass-downloader/">Flickr Down</a> which also allows to download photos or <a
href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/19/flickr-autodownloadr/">Flickr AutoDownloadr</a> which offers the same functionality.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/16/flickr-tools-flickr-downloadr/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Automatically Identify Running Processes</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/29/automatically-identify-running-processes/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/29/automatically-identify-running-processes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:45:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[assassin le]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freeware]]></category> <category><![CDATA[identify processes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[process explorer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[process identifier]]></category> <category><![CDATA[processes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[security-software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[window software]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10201</guid> <description><![CDATA[Assassin SE is a software program for that will scan, identify and rate all running processes on a computer system running Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista. The program will automatically scan all running processes during startup and display information about them in a table. Among the information provided are the name, [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Assassin SE is a software program for that will scan, identify and rate all running processes on a computer system running Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista. The program will automatically scan all running processes during startup and display information about them in a table. Among the information provided are the name, process ID, company that developed it and a rating. The ratings range from safe to malicious and unknown. This makes it easy to identify problematic processes that require further investigation.</p><p>The program comes with a process modules viewer which will display the various modules a process is accessing on a computer system. The modules are rated with the same rating system and can give additional information about the process in question. Additional options include the ability to explore the system directory of a process and to perform a action on selected processes.</p><p>Actions can be to ignore (the default value), close or delete a process on the computer system. Closing will simply kill the process on the system while deleting will try and delete the file on the hard drive so that the file cannot be executed anymore.</p><p><span
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src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/process_rater.jpg" alt="process rater" title="process rater" width="462" height="417" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10202" /><br
/> <img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/process_modules_viewer.jpg" alt="process modules viewer" title="process modules viewer" width="292" height="372" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10203" /></p><p>Microsoft processes can be removed from the display to get a better overview of the non-system processes that are running on the system. The main problem of Assassin SE is the lack of ratings for several known applications. It was not able to identify True Crypt, Foxit Reader or Newsbin Pro which are common applications. It did however identify Firefox, uTorrent and Skype.</p><p>The software program can be helpful when checking the processes that are running on a computer system. It still requires some manual research after being left with unknown and potentially dangerous processes but it helps at reducing the amount of processes that have to be checked.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/29/automatically-identify-running-processes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Window Management Software Taekwindow</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/10/window-management-software-taekwindow/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/10/window-management-software-taekwindow/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:21:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category> <category><![CDATA[portable software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[taekwindow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Window Management Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[window software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[window-management]]></category> <category><![CDATA[windows software]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8875</guid> <description><![CDATA[Taekwindow is a lightweight portable Open Source window management software which combines several much needed window management features. The tool uses about 1.7 Megabytes of computer memory while running. It requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 and should be compatible with most versions and editions of Microsoft Windows. The window management software adds three configurable [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://taekwindow.sourceforge.net/">Taekwindow</a> is a lightweight portable Open Source window management software which combines several much needed window management features. The tool uses about 1.7 Megabytes of computer memory while running. It requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 and should be compatible with most versions and editions of Microsoft Windows.</p><p>The window management software adds three configurable features to Windows. Those are the ability to resize or move a window and to scroll the contents of a window. The resize and move options allow to do that to the active window without having to move the mouse to a border of the active window. Resizing the window is for instance possible from anywhere by pressing [ALT] and pressing the right mouse button.</p><p><span
id="more-8875"></span>The same is true for moving the active window only that this is done with the left mouse and [ALT] from anywhere.</p><p><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/window_management_software.png" alt="window management software" title="window management software" width="370" height="417" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8876" /></p><p>The scroll feature can change the default Windows behavior. The window that has the focus will be scrolled by default in Windows. This can be changed in the program&#8217;s options to scroll the window that lies under the cursor position. This makes it possible to scroll a window without changing focus.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/10/window-management-software-taekwindow/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Play Random MP3 Albums In Winamp</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/26/play-random-mp3-albums-in-winamp/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/26/play-random-mp3-albums-in-winamp/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:01:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[copy mp3]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mp3]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mp3 albums]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mp3 random]]></category> <category><![CDATA[music software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[random mp3]]></category> <category><![CDATA[winamp]]></category> <category><![CDATA[winamp software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[window software]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8548</guid> <description><![CDATA[RandoMP3 is a lightweight software program for Winamp that offers two interesting features. The first feature called Audition will randomly select a MP3 album from the music collection and start playing it in Winamp. The program provides the means to move or delete the folder as well which makes it an ideal application for testing [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://cyber-d.blogspot.com/2008/05/cyber-ds-randomp3-201.html">RandoMP3</a> is a lightweight software program for Winamp that offers two interesting features. The first feature called Audition will randomly select a MP3 album from the music collection and start playing it in Winamp. The program provides the means to move or delete the folder as well which makes it an ideal application for testing new mp3 albums before making them part of the music collection.</p><p>The user has to pick a root folder of the mp3 collection at start of the application. That root folder remains as long as it is not changed in the options to another folder. RandoMP3 can be closed after Winamp starts playing the mp3 album.</p><p>The root folder has to be rescanned when new mp3 albums have been copied into it. The second application is Charger which can fill a removable device with a specific amount of Megabytes of music. Alternatively it can fill the device until it reports to be full. This program is only directly available in the program folder that RandoMP3 gets installed into.</p><p><span
id="more-8548"></span><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mp3_album.png" alt="mp3 album" title="mp3 album" width="400" height="342" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8549" /></p><p><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mp3_copy.png" alt="mp3 copy" title="mp3 copy" width="326" height="272" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8550" /></p><p>Charger supports multiple profiles which are useful if multiple users want to work with the software or if multiple devices are in use. The software remembers songs that already have been copied which ensures that no songs will be copied again if new songs that have not been copied yet are available in the mp3 collection.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/26/play-random-mp3-albums-in-winamp/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Control iTunes Playback With Shortcuts</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/25/control-itunes-playback-with-shortcuts/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/25/control-itunes-playback-with-shortcuts/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:25:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[apple]]></category> <category><![CDATA[itunes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[iTunes media keys]]></category> <category><![CDATA[iTunes Playback]]></category> <category><![CDATA[itunes shortcuts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[itunes software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[itunes tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[music player]]></category> <category><![CDATA[portable software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[window software]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8532</guid> <description><![CDATA[If you like to listen to music in iTunes you might have noticed that iTunes does not provide keyboard shortcuts to control the playback when iTunes is running in the background. Other music players like Winamp or AIMP provide that feature which might be interesting for many users. The developer of iTunes Media Keys released [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you like to listen to music in iTunes you might have noticed that iTunes does not provide keyboard shortcuts to control the playback when iTunes is running in the background. Other music players like Winamp or AIMP provide that feature which might be interesting for many users.</p><p>The developer of iTunes Media Keys released a public alpha version of his software. The software adds global shortcuts which can be used to control the playback in iTunes.</p><p>To be more precise it adds four shortcuts that can be used to play / pause, stop and to switch to the next and previous track. The default shortcuts are assigned to [Shift UP, DOWN, RIGHT or LEFT]. It did also recognize a Logitech media keyboard and changed the shortcuts automatically to the media keys instead.</p><p><span
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src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/itunes_media_keys.jpg" alt="" title="itunes media keys" width="271" height="231" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8533" /></p><p>The developer plans to add additional features to his software program like being able to rate songs and better hotkey integration.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/25/control-itunes-playback-with-shortcuts/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Download Music From Last.fm</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/27/download-music-from-lastfm/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/27/download-music-from-lastfm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:28:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Music and Video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[download-music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[last sharp]]></category> <category><![CDATA[last.fm]]></category> <category><![CDATA[last.fm music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[music-download]]></category> <category><![CDATA[portable software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the last ripper]]></category> <category><![CDATA[window software]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7901</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last.fm is one of the largest music websites on the Internet. Users can listen to music on the site, discover related musicians and communicate with other users. The music portal provides access to a feature called Radio which essentially makes it possible to stream music that is related to artists, tags or users. This radio [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last.fm is one of the largest music websites on the Internet. Users can listen to music on the site, discover related musicians and communicate with other users. The music portal provides access to a feature called Radio which essentially makes it possible to stream music that is related to artists, tags or users.</p><p>This radio feature is being used by Last Sharp, an application that can be used to download music from Last.fm. Last Sharp requires the Microsoft .net framework 2.0 and an operating system that is either Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista. The application itself can be unpacked and started from any directory on the hard drive without installation. The only other requirement is a Last.fm user account to be able to tune in and download the music.</p><p>The default language of the interface is German but it can be set to English in the options. The options are in the lower left corner. The user can set the download directory, add a proxy, enable continuous downloads or select to normalize mp3 files with MP3 Gain.</p><p><span
id="more-7901"></span><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/last_fm-500x296.jpg" alt="last fm" title="last fm" width="500" height="296" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7902" /></p><p>The heart of the program is the Tune In section which can be used to load a 30 track playlist filtered by tag, similar artists or account specific parameters. All tracks of the playlist are selected by default and can be downloaded by right-clicking in the window and selecting the Download option from the context menu. Tracks that are not wanted can be unchecked. The Remember Downloads setting in the option is handy to prevent that already downloaded tracks are downloaded again.</p><p>It should be noted that the downloads have to be in order. Selecting a download from the middle will prevent downloads of tracks that are listed above it in the playlist. It is however still possible to recreate the playlist which will be populated with songs that can be downloaded.</p><p>One interesting parameter is continuous download. It will automatically pull the next 30 track playlist from Last.fm once the end of the last has been reached. This effectively means unlimited downloads for as long as the application is running.</p><p><a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7639</guid> <description><![CDATA[Data recovery tools provide means of recovering data that is not readable anymore. While companies should probably hire data recovery specialists to recover the data home users might want to try free recovery tools before thinking about other possibilities. Encopy is a free portable data recovery tool that can be pointed to files to try [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Data recovery tools provide means of recovering data that is not readable anymore. While companies should probably hire data recovery specialists to recover the data home users might want to try free recovery tools before thinking about other possibilities. Encopy is a free portable data recovery tool that can be pointed to files to try to recover the data. It works with any hard drive and optical drive connected to the computer.</p><p>Its portability make it an excellent companion for a tool collection on an USB device. The usability of Encopy has a severe limitation. The file browser can be pointed to select exactly one file from the medium or folder. Users who rely solely on the file browser will be dissatisfied by this. It is possible to use wildcards to include multiple files in the data recovery process. To copy all executable files from hard drive d one would use the wildcard d:\*.exe to do so.</p><p>Encopy comes with a set of options that define and alter the data recovery process. It is for example possible to verify the data after, force faster copying or skip system files.</p><p><span
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src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/data_recovery_tools-500x445.jpg" alt="data recovery tools" title="data recovery tools" width="500" height="445" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7640" /></p><p>Encopy lacks the visual eye candy that many data recovery tools come with but makes this more than up by the impressive size of only 69 Kilobytes and the quality of the data recovery. It did throw a few runtime errors on a test system which could not be reproduced the next time though.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/15/data-recovery-tools-encopy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
