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Mar 14, 2010 Software
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This Week’s Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
Mar 14, 2010 Software
- Tableau Public Brings Your Boring Data to Life (Windows)
Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualizations from your data and lets you publish them to the web, where users can interact with your charts and graphs with live updates. - SecondBar Puts a Menu Bar on All Your Mac’s Monitors (Mac)
Multiple monitors do great things for your desktop space, but your menu bar sticks to one screen. If you’re looking for more menu access, free utility SecondBar puts one at the top of each monitor. - Mini Wide Fullscreens Gmail, Is Very Netbook Friendly (Firefox/Chrome)
Small netbook screens make you really appreciate every last pixel on your device. The Mini Wide userscript for Gmail adds a “netbook mode” shortcut to Gmail that removes navigation and ads for a streamlined, netbook-friendly, message-focused view of your inbox. - Launchy 2.5 Beta 2 Improves Performance, Lands on Macs (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Launchy, the little application launcher that could, has introduced a Mac version with its latest beta. Bug fixes, performance overhauls, and new shortcuts and controls are also baked into this beta for every system. - Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer Tweaks, Enlarges Your Superbar Thumbnails (Windows 7)
Hailing from the camp of “software that does exactly what its name implies”, Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-tunes the size, spacing, and margins of your Windows 7 Superbar previews. - FeelHome Gives Easy Remote Access to Your Files Across Platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux)
If you would like to easily access, edit, and save files across multiple computers, free application FeelHome allows you to share files across operating systems and over the web. - SuperbarMonitor Puts System Monitoring Right on Your Windows Superbar (Windows 7)
If you like visual indicators for things like disk capacity, battery life, memory usage, and speaker volume, and you like them prominent and easy to find, SuperbarMonitor puts easy to read indicators right on your Superbar. - Alfred Is Another Nice Application Launcher, Quicksilver Alternative for Mac Users (Mac)
We’ve been fans of Quicksilver for years, but the universal application launcher and-then-some hasn’t been in active development for a while. Alfred aims to pick up where Quicksilver left off. - FastestChrome Soups Up Search, Auto-Loads Pages (Chrome)
Chrome is a terrific browser on its own, but FastestChrome makes it even better. It adds extra search options to the Omnibar, creates “endless scrolling” for multi-page articles, fixes text-only URLs, and tunes up other Chrome features. - Kiwi Monitors Your Running Apps, Performs Actions Based on Their Status (Windows)
Kiwi is a free utility that monitors any application and springs into action when that application meets any user-defined criteria within a set of basic rules-like restarting an application or emailing you when its memory use exceeds a pre-defined level.