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When you type your password in a login form, usually you won't know whether it is typed correctly or not since the characteristics are displayed as asterisks. If you think this asterisk thing bothers you, then try to use Unhide Password.

Unhide Password is a Firefox extension replacing the asterisk with the real character so you can know it is typed mistakenly before you press enter. Of course you should instal it only if you aren't afraid of someone looks over your shoulder to see your password.

For: Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0

Download it here

TaskBar Shuffle lets you to reorder buttons in your windows taskbar just by dragging and dropping, and it allows you to manage the order of the icons in the system tray, too.

All similar taskbar buttons can be grouped into three conditions:
1. Grouped in order started.
2. Grouped into one button for certain configurable number of windows.
3. Placed closely to each other but never grouped into one button.

Your mouse middle-click can also be utilized to close a group or an individual button.

License: Freeware
For: Windows XP/Vista/2000/NT/95/98

Go to the homepage to get the newest version.

Imagine if Windows explorer can create tabbed window inside just as what a browser like Firefox can do? You can open multiple folders in one window, navigating them through tabs, file and folder management becomes easier and faster, and your taskbar doesn't cluttered with several opened Windows explorer anymore.

Luckily, a creative guy has created a free aplication called QTTabBar allowing us to make the imagination above comes true. Yes, it adds the tabbed-browsing functionality to Windows explorer. In fact, it is equipped with many features that optimize the tabbed-browsing efficiency.

What can you do with it other than open multiple folders within one window?

Grouping folders to be opened later simultaneously
If you happen to run a certain project that makes you often open same folders, you can save them as a group. Whenever you run the group later on, all the folders saved within will be opened at once without you have to open them one by one. Of course you can make different groups for different projects.

Control the behaviors and appearance of the tabs
For example, add custom image as tab's background instead of displaying the folder icon, change the color and font.

Automatic preview
A small preview of an image file will be displayed when your mouse is pointing at it. There are also other file type supported for the preview. This preview ability can be disable.

Of course there are still many more you can get from this nifty freeware. I myself simply like that it adds the tab functionality to Windows explorer so I can manage my files more efficient than usual. This is a software I recommend you all to use.

License: Freeware
For: Windows XP/Vista (.NET Framework 2.0 is required for Windows XP)

Download the newest version of QTTabBar

FavoritesTown offers a unique way in keeping all your favorite stuff like files, folders, programs, and webpages. Contrary to other similar application, FavoritesTown stores and manages all of them inside a virtual town. The idea is that graphic or image is the thing easier to remember and can deliver more fun.
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This town has different buildings from home, shopping, or business building. To save a link, you should pick the most suitable one, click it to enter, and store it within any clickable item. You can even put a link in a magazine. To launch a link, you should enter the building, find where you put it and click it.

License: Freeware
For: Windows XP

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You may often find that a file somehow cannot be deleted. A message shows up saying that it is being used by another program, but doesn't tell you which program is using it. You close all windows, but it is still locked. Only after restarting your computer then the file can be deleted normally.

If it happens so frequent to you and it starts to get you headache, you should try this unlocker. This is a free software that can reveal what process is locking a file and then try to stop it.




By using Unlocker, you can right-click the file that refuses to be deleted, see the locking information, and do proper action simply by clicking the available buttons.

Task Killer is a Windows's built-in task manager replacement that is simpler, faster, and more flexible to use. It also consumes only small memory.

The hotkey is great...

Probably the most sweet thing from this app is that you can assign a hotkey to display the list of all running processes and services. It will pop-up under your mouse cursor when the hotkey is pressed. The default display is when you click the app's icon in the system tray, but I prefer to use this configurable hotkey.

Moreover, the hotkey can be configured to display all or certain tasks. So, if you happen to kill the explorer.exe when it gets unstable, just press the hotkey specifically created to display only the process instead of displaying all the tasks. This is just an example of how you can do several things more efficient by using this tiny program compared to what the Windows's built-in task manager can do.

Another nice thing is...

You can choose any processes and services from the list to be not displayed. This is good since you can become easily identify all the content of the list. The icon for each item ease the identification as well.

All in all, it is designed at least to:
1. Provide you speed in detecting which running process or application that eats up memory a lot.
2. Stopping any process in one-click, or two-clicks if you enable the prompt.

However, I found that services can't be terminated or started. It only displays all the services without giving any additional information whether it is active or not. I hope this will be fixed on the next version update.

Publisher: RSD Software
For: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP
License: Freeware
Version reviewed: 2.30

Visit the homepage of Task Killer to download it.

Every email provider has different policy about the maximum size allowed in sending an attachment. If your file happens to be very big or you just think that sending via email is just too slow, then you can try the free service offered by PipeBytes.




What you can get from it:

Simple user interface
This makes anyone can easily use all of its functions without any difficulty.

Upload and download at the same time
It may be the unique side of this service. It is possible for you to download a file that is being uploaded by a friend of yours. Both of the tasks are executed simultaneously.

No size limit
It allows you to transfer file in any size. However, keep in mind that too big size can make the upload/download time is very long to be finished.

Privacy is a concern
Give your friend the access code to download your file. This access code needs to be entered when he or she wants to pick it up.

Test the PipeBytes now.

AVI Preview makes you possible to watch or play an AVI movie which is being downloaded. The benefit of this unique feature is that if later you find that the movie is actually not good, you can stop downloading it immediately.

Other benefit you can get is that you can play a partially downloaded AVI movie.

As you can see form the screenshot, the user interface is simple. And according to its publisher it has beed tested extensively with P2P and FTP software.

It also supports divX, MPG, MPEG and VideoCD files.

Publisher: Andrei Jefremov
License: Freeware
For: Windows

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