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Adjust Windows behaviour with XNeat Windows Manager
XNeat Windows Manager is a nifty little shell utility for WIndows XP and Vista that adds a few extra options to your taskbar, toolbar, and right-click context menus. For example, you can click on the toolbar of any window and set it to always display on top of other windows, minimize the window to the system tray, or hide a window from view entirely. You can also change the window's transparency level and behavior, or alter the priority of the window or the running process.
You can also use XNeat to change the appearance of your Windows taskbar by hiding elements like the start menu or the clock. You can even change the taskbar transparency/opaqueness level so that you can see through the taskbar to your desktop when it's not in focus.
These features are just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many things you can do with XNeat that the developers haven't even bothered to list them all on the product website. [via Download Squad]
- Make Perfect Wallpapers for Mobile Phones with Your Pictures
With flauntR, an online photo editing software, you can turn any photograph into a wallpaper for your cell phone that exactly fits the screen.
You first upload a picture from the desktop (or fetch an existing image from sites like Flickr, Picasa). Now pick a phone from the drop-down, adjust the focus window and crop.
Technically, you could do this in any image editing software but flauntR makes it very convenient - their database includes all popular phones from Sony, Nokia, LG, BlackBerry and Samsung plus you can add effects to pictures before turning them into wallpapers.
Once your crop the wallpaper image, save it to the desktop and transfer to your mobile phone via Bluetooth or USB Data cable.
Go to flauntR.com and select the mobilR option [via Digital Inspiration]
- Download Mp3 from Youtube Videos
Several web services have been created to convert the audio of Youtube videos into mp3 files. Most of them however require the url of the video as input which means that the process requires some heavy copy and paste operations if several videos are to be converted. And then MP3 Getter. appeared on the scene. MP3 Getter is a German service that combines video search and mp3 download in one service.
Although the website is completely in German it should not be a problem for non-German speakers to navigate the website. The process is easy and clear. A search term is entered in the only search box on the main page of MP3 Getter. Youtube is then queried and the results are shown on the next page. Ten results are shown with preview images and names and a click on any of them loads the video in the foreground.
The video starts playing automatically and a click on the button MP3 downloaden starts the process to split the audio from the video. It takes a while and a save file dialog box is presented once the mp3 file has been created.
MP3 Getter has the advantage over similar web services in two key areas. It provides a Youtube search which means that the user does not have to copy and paste the url of the video that he wants the audio from. The second is that the video is actually playing while the ripping is processed. [via gHacks]
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