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How To Pin A Program To The Taskbar Or Dock

11:00PM August 12, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

For quick and convenient access to your favourite programs or folders, pin them to the taskbar in Windows or the dock on Mac. Here’s how to set this up so you’re just one click away from what you use most. More »

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SimpleSndVol Adds Balance Control To The Windows System Tray

9:30PM July 12, 2011 | Alan Henry

Windows: SimpleSndVol adds balance controls to the volume control popup you get when you click on the sound icon in the Windows systray. The utility also allows you to bind volume and balance controls to keyboard shortcuts for quick access. More »

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Pokki Brings The App Store Experience To Windows 7

9:30PM June 28, 2011 | Alan Henry

Windows 7 only: New service Pokki wants to be an app store for Windows, complete with painless one-click installs and real-time notifications in the taskbar. More »

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Quick Access Bar Adds Organisational Bar To Windows Desktop

5:00AM June 1, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Quick Access Bar is a handy (and free) utility for Windows that provides you with a collapsible second taskbar containing commonly used folders of your choice. If you’ve got a desktop filled with folders, it provides a handy way to stay organised while still maintaining easy access to your stuff. More »

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Middle-Click Taskbar To Quickly Open And Close Windows

1:00AM May 31, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

Windows 7: Use the middle-click button on your mouse and the taskbar to open a new window for an application or quickly close a window. Here’s how. More »

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Bins Creates Stacks Of Applications In Your Windows 7 Taskbar

3:30AM May 3, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Windows: From the creators of Fences comes Bins, which is basically the Windows 7 equivalent of the “Stacks” feature in Mac OS X. If you want to organise your taskbar’s program icons into little convenient bins, this download is for you. More »

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Hotmail Shows Message Counts When Pinned In IE9

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1:00PM April 8, 2011 | Angus Kidman

If you use Hotmail (and it does stack up a lot better than it used to and are running IE9, here’s a handy feature: pin Hotmail to the Windows 7 taskbar and you’ll get an automatically updated message count. [via IEBlog]

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Customise Jumplist Entries In Windows 7′s Taskbar

11:40PM March 24, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

We love how productive Windows 7′s jumplists can make us, but some applications don’t have as many options as we’d like in the jumplist. Free program Jumplist Extender lets you add nearly any action to a program’s jumplist with ease. More »

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Close Explorer.exe To Save Yourself From Distractions

12:35AM March 2, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

If you need to get something done by constantly feel bombarded by distractions around your computer, there’s no need to block programs from running — you can just shut down your taskbar so you can’t reach them. More »

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What’s In Your Taskbar/Dock?

5:00AM March 1, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Your taskbar/dock are the places you pin your most frequently used applications. The contents may not be your favourite software, but the titles are often the most important. What do you pin to your taskbar or dock and why? More »