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Real Temp Monitors Your Overheating Laptop CPU
2:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: System monitoring application Real Temp monitors your Intel CPU temperature from the system tray—so you’ll know when it’s hot enough to cook some eggs. More »
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Prism 1.0 Brings Dock/System Tray Integration To Your Webapps
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox: Prism, the Firefox add-on/stand-alone application that turns web sites into desktop windows, has hit a 1.0 release, promising to let you monitor and launch sites like Gmail from your Mac dock or Windows tray. More »
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Caffeine Disables Or Enables The ScreenSaver Easily
2:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Tiny utility Caffeine disables or enables the screensaver by simply double-clicking on the icon in the system tray—so you can watch that YouTube video without your screensaver kicking in. More »
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Customise Or Disable Windows 7’s Action Center
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows 7’s Action centre does a great job of compressing all of Windows’ update/alert/whatever notifications into one icon, but it takes some tweaking to make it show what you want, or disable it entirely. More »
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GO Contact Sync Keeps Google And Outlook Contacts Matched
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: GO Contact Sync is a handy little synchroniser that keeps your Google (G) and Outlook (O) contacts in line. You run it once or schedule it, and customise how it handles your data. More »
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GMinder Puts Google Calendar In Your System Tray
2:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: System tray application GMinder gives you quick offline display of multiple Google Calendars—and even alerts you of upcoming appointments. The application was created by reader Greg Todd, who wrote the application for his own use—but decided to release it for the rest of us to enjoy. Using the application is simple—just enter in your Google account information, click the Download button to get your list of calendars, and then select the ones you want to display. The only small issue is that Windows Vista users will need to select a different sound file in the options panel since the default one doesn’t exist on Vista—a small price to pay for an excellent application that bridges the gap between Google Calendar and your Windows desktop. Thanks, Greg! GMinder is free and open source, available for Windows only. Google Desktop users can also check out the powerful Google Calendar gadget, and readers using Firefox should check out our own Better GCal extension. Gminder More »
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Process Manager For Windows Updates, Adds Transparency And System Tray Minimizing
7:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: Free task managing application Process Manager for Windows adds options to the global context menu for all applications—adding quick access to control running tasks. We’ve mentioned this application before, but it has since updated with more features including minimising applications to the system tray, setting windows always on top, and assigning per-window transparency. Readers using Windows XP will also get extra features—the ability to completely hide a single window, or hide all windows except the current one behind the PMW tray icon—making this low-resource, portable application worth a look for anybody interested in better control over running processes. Process Manager for Windows is free and open source, available for Windows only. Process Manager for Windows More »
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Five Best System Tray Applications
2:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | The Windows system tray can be so much more than a parking lot for programs you don’t want cluttering up your task bar. Read on to see the five most popular tray tools readers can’t live without. More »
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POP Peeper Monitors Multiple Email Accounts
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: POP Peeper is a system-tray application that keeps you updated on new emails in your POP3 and IMAP-based email accounts. For multiple inboxes, it could save a lot of hassle. POP Peeper not only notifies you of the new mail, but allows you to read the messages in HTML, plain text and rich text formats. And the alerts come in many flavors, including a skinnable desktop alert window, sounds, flashing keyboard lights, or an active tray icon. POP Peeper supports plug-ins including screensaver-based notification, voice notification that reads you email headers, and the ability to function as a basic RSS feed reader. While it isn’t the most practical tool for reading all your feeds, it could be handy for rare but important alerts, like new software releases. POP Peeper supports unlimited accounts, and can be installed as a portable application. It’s freeware, Windows only. POP Peeper [via What's On My PC] More »
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