Run multiple programs with one click

I have a daily routine of booting into windows and launching a set of programs, files like browser, IM client, utorrent, Feedreader. But what if one could launch all of your programs with a single click? Runthemall is here.

What

Runthemall allows one to launch multiple programs with a single click.

How

• Download the stand alone .exe and launch it.
• Make groups of your choice, there is a default group
• Add programs to the groups.
• Select the desired group and Run all programs in it with a single click.

An example of group could include the programs or any type of files you use for a specific task. Like i launch Firefox, Windows Media Player, Feedreader as soon as i start working. So you can also make a groups as you like customized to your needs.

Why

Pros: Allows one to make unlimited groups and add any number of applications, files, executable etc. Also no installation required.

Cons: None i could find. Please do comment and tell if you find any.

Download Runthemall : Link1 Link2 Link3

Website: www.runthemall.com

Version: 1.00

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Make widgets from web pages

We had written about 360Desktop which had a feature of making widgets out of web pages, but if you only want to make web pages out of web pages then Snippage is a great tool.

What

Snippage is a utility based on Adobe AIR which can be used to make widgets or snips of webpages and displays them on desktop. Snippage is a really nice AIR implementation of the ‘web snippets’ concept. Just like you can take a clip of a website with Safari on the Mac and display it on your dashboard, Snippage brings you the same functionality cross browser with Adobe AIR.

Who

Snippage has been developed by Gabo Mendoza a flash developer.

How

Snippage is based on Adobe AIR. You need Adobe AIR installed to install snippage.

Use Snippage:

• Once you launch Snippage you are presented with a browser like window. Enter the webpage you want to widgetize.
• The snip highlight box has three hot corners.
• Move the snip marks with our arrowed mark on left top corner.
• Resize the snip with the pointer on right bottom corner.
• Snip the website to make widget with the scissor mark on right top corner.
• In the snip view one can set the refresh time of the snip to do not refresh, refresh every 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 3 hours.

Why

Pros: Snippage brings the “web snippets” function to your windows pc and it is really very tiny utility

Cons: Can’t adjust the refresh time manually.

Download: Snippage

Download : Adobe Air required for snippage to work

Version: 1.0 R12 beta for AIR 1.0

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Search leading websites in a single click

What

Joongel – “Get results from 10 leading websites, 100million users can’t be wrong.” That’s what’s Joongel all about. Its a web application for searching and navigating through most popular websites on the Internet.

Quoted from the Joongel website….

We created Joongel while thinking about how to make the Internet easier for you. We believe that just like us, you find the Internet to be from time to time a little bit like a jungle. Instead of presenting you with an enormous amount of scattered results from different subjects and websites, Joongel provides direct search results from the ten most viewed websites in a specific subject or subcategory. The Joongel application can be used in different platforms such as search plugins, expert websites and the Joongel main website.

How

Joongel is a search service with a collection of websites into various categories. There are 23 categories and each category has 10 websites which are the best in the category. So you have a total of 230 websites that can be searched at your click. So head on to Joongel and get great search results from over 200 websites in a single click.

Also one can add Joongel Plugin to IE or Firefox Search Bar. It requires no additional download or installation.

Why

Pros: Searches over 200 websites and is sorted according to categories. Plugin requires no installation or download.

Cons: None

Website : Joongel

Joongel Plugin

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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Socialise your browser

Want your browser to be a key to your digital social life? Yoono is here at your ease. Socialise on the web right away from your browser….

What

Yoono is a cool plugin for firefox that integrates all the major social services into your browser. Whether it be chat, IM, Google Reader, Digg, Last.fm, Youtube, GTalk, Gmail etc…. (phew!!). So now you can track your social life while browsing. Also you can create web notes and share with friends(more about web notes later) and many more things

Who

Yoono originated when several friends found the need to rapidly exchange information without necessarity having to contact each other. They came up with a program which could effortlessly centralize, share and broadcast their selection of information. 
By extension, they imagined a service based on word of mouth which allowed them to bring together web users around common interests.

Yoono was designed to combine productivity and professionalism with sharing and user-friendliness. We hope you have as much pleasure in using yoono as we had designing it.

How

Just install Yoono Plugin to Firefox (an IE plugin is on its way) and create a new account within the plugin. After that select the widgets you want to use and you are off into social browsing…

Widgets:-

• Friends: This widget allows you to connect with friends on Twitter, Gtalk, Yahoo! Messenger, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, FriendFeed etc. Here you can chat, send tweets to friends, update your facebook. All this widout leaving what you are doing.
• Discover: This widget shows websites of similar interest to what you are currently browsing, thus providing you great oppurtunity to discover content.
• Mail: This widgets allows you to read your emails from Yahoo Mail and Gmail.
• News: Gets latest news from Digg and your Google Reader account.
• Web Notes: This is a realy very great feature. Here you can drag and frop any text, image , video or any content into your notes and save it as a web note. These web notes can be shared with your Yoono friends. Web Notes are a great way to share relevant and useful information.
• Music: This feature allows you to listen live music from last.fm. Also connects you to imeem and seekpod.
• Videos: Gets the latest videos from youtube according to your preferences.
• Photos: Displays photos from current site, friends and desired keywords.

You can also mark a website as I love, I hate or Funny. Look at the video below for a demo of the plugin

Why

Pros: Provides a one click access to a number of social networks, email, chat and other featues all seemlessly integrated into your browser.

Cons:

• In the twitter widget the last update of all friends is shown instead of a normal timeline. This is confusing as it caused me to reply to a friends status which he had last updated an year ago
• While using Yahoo Messenger really loud and funny sound is made when you receive a message from a friend.
• My twitter status was once updated automatically wiht the website i was browsing without my knowledge which i couldn’t figure out how. (The website was i was browsing was a bit private which i didn’t want to share)
• So many widgets and features in such a small area makes it really cluttered.

Download: Yoono

Version: 5.0.7.2

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Website: Yoono.com

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Get unlimited desktop space with 360Desktop

Tired of the old boring windows desktop? Want unlimited space on your desktop? Get 360Desktop and great tool to customize your windows desktop….

What

360Desktop provides a panoramic view of your desktop and scrolls in a circular way, thus it provides additional desktop space.

How

Just download, install and launch 360Desktop. It changes your desktop into a 360 degree panoramic desktop. It has d following features:

• Scroll through the desktop like a circular panoramic area.
• Provides unlimited desktop space, a window or a program like Firefox can be open at one place and you can move to another area so there is no clue of a program open. Thus unlimited programs/windows can be open virtually.
• Web Pages, widgets, Rss Feeds, You Tube videos can be used as widgets on the desktop.
• A part of a web page can be selected and displayed, like if you want to keep an eye on changing cricket score or an eBay auction.
• One can also Create their own 360’s by default there are two of them.
• A gallery to download user uploaded 360’s.
• Widgets can be scaled and positioned according to user and can be locked.

Watch the Video on top for a better understanding about 360Desktop.

Why

Pros: Virtually unlimited desktop space, Ability to create 360’s, Widgets, web pages, RSS feeds can be used as widgets thus providing everything one accesses frequently on the desktop without clutter. The web content displayed on the desktop is independent of your browser.

Cons: Can’t make websites like Gmail a widget, more 360’s should be provided, despite exiting the program the process still remains in the task manager.

Download: 360Desktop

Version: 0.6.0.1588-BETA

Size: 6.37 MB

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Protect laptop from theft

Ever wanted to leave your laptop in public space for few moments but fear it being stolen? Laptop Alarm comes to rescue

What

Laptop Alarm is a tiny freeware which can protect your laptop from getting stolen when left in a public space like a cyber cafe or a library or a wi-fi spot. It does so by sounding an alarm.

Who

Laptop Alarm is a product of Syfer.nl

How

Just download the standalone .exe and run it. Set the password in options.

Following actions can sound an alarm

• Loss of AC Power which can be attributed to unplugging the laptop.
• Shutdown/ Log Off
• Unplug of USB Mouse
• Mouse Movement

Mouse movement sensitivity can also be set.

Why

Pros: The alarm is really very LOUD, no program can be launched when the laptop is locked not even task manager to end Laptop Alarm. Very small in size.

Cons: The program needs to be launched every time and can’t run in background. If someone removes battery nothing can be done. Doesn’t auto load on restarting the laptop so laptop will be unlocked.

Download: Laptop Alarm

Version: 2.0 beta

Size: 312 KB

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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What

DTaskManager is specifically engineered to give additional functionalities that the Windows bundled Task Manager (and other third party products) do not have. It does not even need an installation.

Who

DTaskManager is one of the small and useful programs by a programmer named Dimio.

How

Just download and run the standalone .exe file

Why

From the publisher’s website:

1. Three different ways to close a process, as the “termination request”, the standard “forced termination” with dialogue tolerance, and the “forced termination” of any type of process, bypassing all permissions (it can also terminate running system processes).

2. DTaskManager allows you to suspend and reactivate a process (as in Linux). This is useful, for example, to temporarily suspend a task that uses system resources when you don’t want to terminate it (such as a DivX encoding process).

3. DTaskManager allows you to select more than one process at a time, and terminate all of them “simultaneously”.

4. DTaskManager does not need any useless confirmation.

Pros: 

1. Options like Freeze and Suspend Task provide the ability to stop a process  that’s taking too much resources and resume it later.
2. Find Target File finds the file associated with the process
3. Trim RAM Usage and Trim RAM Usage to all processes trims the RAM used by a process in former and trims the RAM to all processes in the Latter option.
4. Set Default Task Manager allows DTaskMager to be set as default windows task manager

Cons: Suggest some if someone can find

Download: DTaskManager

Version: 1.51

Size: 100KB

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Protect yourself from keyloggers with KeyScrambler Personal

Hey!!! are you holding a business or making money transaction? Beware their is someone out there stealing your username, passwords, credit card details etc. .Yes, I am talking to you beware of those keylogger.Do not worry KeyScrambler Personal is here to defeat them.

WHAT

KeyScrambler Personal: A web- browser plugin acts as anti-keylogging which protects IE, Firefox, flock users from keyloggers. It encrypts all your information entered into forms like usernames, password, bank account details, credit card etc. and protects them from being stolen.

Who

Keyscambler is QFX software a company which develops cutting edge security software.

HOW

When u type on your keyboard, the keys travel a path before it arrives on your browser within the operating system. Keyloggers observe and record these keys and plant themselves along the keys and than the important information is collected.

How KeyScrambler protects:

IN order to defeat Keylogger, Keyscramble encrypts the keystrokes when you type within the operating system. When keystrokes reaches your browser it decrypts them so that you can see what you have typed. Keyloggers can record only encrypted keys which cannot be decoded ha!! ha!! poor keyloggers

Also you can look at the video below

WHY

Pros: KeyScrambler Personal protects you on three major browsers viz. IE, Firefox and Flock and on all websites. After installation your pc will work in the same manner as it used to.

Cons: Personal edition doesn’t encrypt more browser except above 3, instant messaging, office and password managers which is beyond browsing.

Download: KeyScrambler Personal

Version: 2.2.1

Size: 1.2 mb

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Camouflage web with Vanishd

So you want to browse websites which your employer doesn’t want you to be on, or you wanna watch a video on youtube or fill another job application or do online shopping but fear people around you or your boss might catch you? Then Vanish is for you.

What

Vanishd is a web service which camouflages or hides the website you are on with websites like google or even word or excel documents so that it seems you are working thus allowing you to surf the web privately when you are in office, at friend’s place or in a public space.

How

Head on to www.vanishd.com and register. In your account launch vanishd and voila you are on your way to private browsing publicly. The webpage you are browsing is covered by another webpage. Moving the mouse of the browser hides the underlying webpage which you are interested in. 

Also the size, shape and position of viewing area can be changed and also locked according to user needs.

A lock appears in the lower right corner which when clicked will freeze the viewing area so that it doesn’t auto hide. So features like password protection and stealth mode are available only in paid version.

You can more instructions here or watch the video below for a demo.

Why

Pros: Allows easy Camouflaging, really useful at work or public places.

Cons: Web history is still saved about websites visited, doesn’t support websites like gmail and yahoo mail maybe because of cookies issue, Vanishd button appears in free version.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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What

ClickGone is a free utility to kill any frozen or not responding program

Who

Stylet Software is a small group of ladies ,gentleman and programmers located in Belgrade, Serbia have made the software.

How

Just launch the utility and your cursor changes into a no-entry kind of sign. Click unresponding program window and its killed immediately.

Why

Pros: Instantly kills any i mean ANY frozen process/program with single click.

Cons: Could kill windows if clicked outside the program. No shortcut key to launch. In case of a full-screen program/game need 2 navigate and launch the program.

Where: Download Click&Gone

Size: 0.4mb

Version: 1.1

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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