Taskbar Alternatives

Ancient Egyptians used the shadow clock (gnomon) to determine correct time. The Greeks used the water clock, or clepsydra. The first mechanical clock appeared in the fourteenth century. Then, in 1929 first electronic timepieces appeared. As time changes, so do the time-keeping devices....

Skinny Clock is a freeware utility helping you to show date and time in the way you like. One way to watch the time is a clock window, whose look can be adjusted via a skin. There are several pre-made skins available within installation, or you can even design your own skins. Each skin can...

urlSpell is an extension that suggests alternatives to common spelling errors in URLs. Suggests alternatives to common spelling errors in URLs. Tries to correct common spelling errors like .cmo or .con, plus many more..


Platforms: *nix

Enhance your windows task bar with brand new themes and features with ViGlance! ViGlance makes your life simpler and less complicated. Its now easier for you to manage your programs on the task bar and at the same time gives your task bar a brand new look and feel with different themes to choose...


Platforms: Windows

trimDesk is a smart desktop tool, which can help to handle easily the Windows desktop. trimDesk can hide or show desktop icons, gadgets, taskbar and wallpaper, or start applications with your favorite desktop settings. You can define also keyboard shortcuts for all the functions. trimDesk...


Platforms: Windows

Windows taskbar replacement. Can assign colours to programs and windows, allows quick access to groups of task, can group and ungroup tasks easily, by drag'n'drop. Can show small info about running programs. Can run programs from taskbar. Taskbow has quick launch bar, all running programs can be...


Platforms: Windows

4t Tray Minimizer lets you running applications minimized as System Tray icons, which helps in adjusting free space on your taskbar. To minimize any application to the task bar, simply left click the minimize button as usual or press keyboard shortcut. You can configure 4t Tray Minimizer to...


Platforms: Windows

Bins is a small but very useful application that will allow you to combine multiple files under the same "bin" in your taskbar. For the fans of the old Quicklaunch bar, Bins might be the answer to all their problems. Give Bins a try to see what it's really capable of! Group your taskbar...


Platforms: Windows

Win7shell is a simple plugin for Winamp, that integrates it with the new taskbar of Windows 7. As you may know the taskbar offers lots of new features, which you can read about everywhere, including here. Why would you need this? The new taskbar features were designed to improve the convenience...


Platforms: Windows

ViGlance is a nice utility that was designed in order to bring you the beautiful effects and the enhanced functionality of Windows 7 taskbar. Dynamic Window Thumbnails We tend to respond better to pictures than writing. ViGlance (the summer edition) adds a new window thumbnail feature that...


Platforms: Windows

Start Killer removes the Start button from your taskbar. When you run Start Killer it remove the Start button from taskbar and give you additional space on taskbar, when you close Start Killer the Start button is again shows. Though the Start Button is removed, you can still open Start Menu...


Platforms: Windows

OpenSIS, is a free student information system that rivals costly commercial alternatives in looks, functionality, ease of use and administration.OpenSIS is the centerpiece of an evolving set of integrated open source education applications that support schools and districts. openSIS is a game...


Platforms: PHP

AlternativeTo is a website dedicated to give you alternatives to software. This plugin let you display information about the application you write about on your blog and also a list of it's top rated alternatives.The plugin is using our API and we really encourage you to try it out. And if you...


Platforms: PHP

With IBM raising the cost for software development packages people are searching for alternatives. Some can be found in the open source world. There is a practically a software package available for every aspect of development. Sometimes it is a real problem to pick the right one especially if...


Platforms: *nix

Protect important information on your computer from other users or intruders. Do you ever forget your passwords or pin numbers? Now you can put all of your account usernames, passwords and pin numbers in a document and then safely lock it from anyone but you. Credit card and debit card...

This program allows you to terminate applications quickly, ie. you may "kill" a frozen application by clicking on the taskbar's Task Killer icon and choosing it from the list. You will forget clumsy key combination Ctrl-Alt-Del forever!


Platforms: Windows

4t Tray Minimizer lets you running applications minimized as System Tray icons, which helps in adjusting free space on your taskbar. To minimize any application to the task bar, simply left click the minimize button as usual or press keyboard shortcut. You can configure 4t Tray Minimizer to...


Platforms: Windows

Free Launch Bar is a Free replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in Free Launch Bar. However, the Free Launch Bar is fully compatible with Quick Launch because it uses the same folder for shortcuts. But there is one huge difference. Free...


Platforms: Windows

ObjectDock is a program that acts as both a task manager and a program launcher. It lets you organize your short-cuts and running tasks onto an extremely customizable dock that sits on your desktop. Users can customize the look of each item on the dock and set various animation options for when...


Platforms: Windows

Sarbyx TrayClock is the replacement for standard Windows clock, it builds itself right into the taskbar and doesn't eat any desktop space.


Platforms: Windows