 Active Desktop Calendar - Developer's Site
Description: Active Desktop Calendar is a personal information manager which acts as Windows wallpaper – never miss an appointment or a meeting again! The calendar display is attractive and completely customisable, so you can show as many of your dates, notes, tasks and alarms as you need. You group the data in layers, just as are you would in a drawing program, and you can share layers across a network. If you use Microsoft Outlook, you can integrate Active Desktop Calendar with it, showing your Outlook calendars on your desktop. This latest version includes additional preset calendar files.
Price: Trial Version (42-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.xemico.com/adc/index.html
Size: 2.22 MB
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Ashampoo PowerUp XP Platinum 2 - Developer's Site
Description: New features of Ashampoo PowerUp XP Platinum 2 include SwitchDesk that lets you create multiple desktops and switch between them, the AutoStart programs manager that lets you control which programs start automatically with Windows, and the XP firewall monitor, which keeps track of the Windows XP firewall settings and Internet connections.
Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 server
Download: http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/products/php/product.php?session_langid=2&idstring=0405
Size: 9.9 MB
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Attache Transparent Clock - Developer's Site
Description: Transparent desktop clock with fully customisable shape, alarms and atomic time. It may have a digital or analog clock face of various colours, sizes and shapes - you may even set individual parameters for each application you run, so that the clock were clearly visible in any environment.
Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.softdemon.com/clock/index.html
Size: 1.49 MB
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Batz! - Developer's Site
Description: With Batz on your Macs, Balin and his bat buddies fly around your screen hunting for food. A full moon shines, and the gentle sound of crickets can be heard in the background. Mesmerising, and very relaxing.
Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Mac OS X
Download: http://www.skyrocketsoftware.com/BatzSaver/index.html
Size: 1.81 MB
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BloodSpotz - Developer's Site
Description: What colour does your Mac bleed? Gross out your friends and family with ewey gooey spatters of Red. With BloodSpotz, your screen will drip blood this Halloween. You get Red Human Blood, and with registration you'll also get, Green Dragon Blood, Purple Alien Blood, Pus, and Mercury Cyborg Blood!
Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Mac OS X
Download: http://www.skyrocketsoftware.com/BloodSpotz/index.html
Size: 322 KB
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Catfood Desktate - Developer's Site
Description: Catfood Desktate is a unique map that displays night and day as it changes around the world. You can use the map as Windows wallpaper that's continually-updated, or as a screensaver. The map is rotatable so you can always keep your favourite place in the centre of the screen. Two night and day images are included. If you want more, go to the developer's Web site to download them. You can add cities to your maps, as well as country borders or timezone layers.
Price: Trial Version (7-day trial)
Platform: Windows 2000/XP
Download: http://www.catfood.net/products/desktate/download.asp
Size: 3.18 MB
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Chameleon Calendar - Developer's Site
Description: Personalise your desktop with Chameleon Calendar. This program analyses your current desktop wallpaper and adapts a calender to the best possible position on your desktop.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Windows
Download: http://www.softshape.com/download/#chamcalendar
Size: 2.77 MB
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Chameleon Clock - Developer's Site
Description: Not only is clever Chameleon Clock great to look at, it's packed with features, including worldwide time. Once installed, it replaces the traditional Windows clock. A huge number of skins let you change the clock to suit your mood and you can display it on the desktop or confine it to the system tray. Choose your own alarm options: display information, play music, or start an application (handy if you always forget to backup your data).
Price: Trial Version (Nag Screen)
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.softshape.com/download/#chamclock
Size: 1.58 MB
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Chimera Virtual Desktop - Developer's Site
Description: Chimera Virtual Desktop is a brilliant time-saving application — don't waste time opening and closing applications. The program lets you create up to nine virtual desktops, organised in precisely the way you want. You can create desktops for projects, or for tasks, like browsing the Web, or managing your file backups. Switching between desktops is easy: just use the tabs, or mouse gestures or hotkeys. While you're working, you can send applications to another desktop, or drag them there. Each desktop can have its own wallpaper and icons, and can be protected with a password.
Price: Trial Version (14-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.chimera.hu/virtual_desktop/
Size: 1.33 MB
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Clock Tray Skins - Developer's Site
Description: Clock Tray Skins is the advanced replacement for the standard Windows tray clock. See the time, seconds, day, date and system UpTime in different skins. It displays the time for any of the time zones and over 90 skins are included in the distribution.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Windows 2000/XP/2003
Download: http://www.drive-software.com/clocktrayskins.html
Size: 908 KB
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CoolTabs - Developer's Site
Description: Can't see your desktop for a mess of icons? If your computing environment is chaotic, CoolTabs helps you to take back control. As the name suggests, CoolTabs creates docks and tabs that you can organise in any way you wish. You can drag files, folders, shortcuts and URLs into your docks, and they can be layered, with tabs to navigate between them. Since CoolTabs can be attached to any side of the screen, they’re out of your way. You can create separate settings for all your docks, to get them to work in exactly the way you want.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Windows 2000/XP
Download: http://www.alerma.com/download.html
Size: 6.34 MB
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Cute Reminder - Developer's Site
Description: Cute Reminder is a powerful sticky notes program with Personal Information Management features that are contained in four modules: Schedule, Reminders, Notes and Ideas. The program's Control Centre takes up minimal room, and you're not bothered with information that you don't need immediately; there's just a small reminder at the side of your screen. You can add information and control the program at a click, as well as customise the interface. Although the program is packed with features, it's easy to navigate, even for computer novices.
Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.cutereminder.com/downloads/
Size: 1.73 MB
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Desktastic - Developer's Site
Description: Use your desktop for more than just a mess of icons? Sure! Desktastic 3.0 lets you take notes, visually demonstrate, draw stupid pictures and much more!
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X 10.1
Download: http://www.panic.com/desktastic/
Size: 190 KB
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Desktop Decorations 2004 - Developer's Site
Description: Desktop Decorations 2004 is a compact application, which displays holiday lights across the top of your desktop while you work. Because the lights are adjustably transparent, you can still see your work behind them. When your mouse comes near to a light, it quickly rises up out of view so as not to interfere.
Price: Trial Version (7-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.tjco.net/prg/desktop_decorations_2004.htm
Size: 430 KB
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Desktop Puddle - Developer's Site
Description: Watch your desktop through a puddle of water with this realistic looking water effect screensaver. As the water ripples around your screen, your desktop is refracted through it, making it amazingly hypnotic to watch!
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X
Download: http://www.uselesscreations.com/mac/puddle/
Size: 428 KB
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Desktop Themes 1.89 - Developer's Site
Description: The amazingly popular Desktop Themes utility lets you use the thousands of free desktop themes available on Windows 95/98/ME and NT4/2000/XP systems without having to buy Microsoft Plus!. You can also edit and create your own themes using the built-in editor!
Price: Shareware $30 registration
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/X
Download: ftp://ftp.lss.com.au/desktopt.zip
Size: 460 KB
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dtSearch Desktop With Spider - Developer's Site
Description: dtSearch Desktop provides instant searching of desktop-accessible files.
Price: Trial version - 30 days trial
Platform: Windows
Download: http://www.dtsearch.com/PLF_desktop_2.html
Size: 17.7 MB
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EarthDesk - Developer's Site
Description: EarthDesk replaces your static desktop picture with a stunning dynamic image of our planet continuously updating in the background while you work.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X 10.2+
Download: http://www.xericdesign.com/
Size: 5.47 MB
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Filing Cabinets - Developer's Site
Description: Clear up cluttered desktops completely, store frequently used shortcuts and folders in discrete Cabinets that slide in and out from the sides of your monitor.
Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.macroworx.com/download.php
Size: 3.28 MB
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La Boss Key - Developer's Site
Description: A tool for your privacy and productivity needs.
Price: Trial Version (10-day trial)
Platform: Windows 2000/XP/2003
Download: http://www.evaze.com/bosskey/
Size: 382 KB
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LaunchIt NOW! Plus 2005 - Developer's Site
Description: LaunchIt NOW! Plus 2005 clears your desktop and organises your most-used tools and applications in a multi-desktop mini-window, with tabs, which is located in the system tray. If you've got dozens of icons and are always searching for programs or documents, you'll appreciate this unique and clever program. The program's add-ons: Shutdown NOW!, Cleanup NOW! and RevealPassword NOW! give you one-click access to extra features.
Price: Trial Version (15-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.gemiscorp.com/english/launchitnowplus/info.html
Size: 3.22 MB
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LivePad - Developer's Site
Description: Wouldn't it be great if you could treat your desktop just like a real desktop? LivePad gives you an area where you can do just that. You can treat your LivePad work area just like a desktop: put notes, images, audio, email and other items just where you want them, and draw and write anywhere you like. You can create order by stamping items To Do, Important, Meeting – any notation that gets you organised and keeps you in control. You can share your workspaces with others across your network, so that you can keep pace with colleagues.
Price: Trial Version (20-day trial)
Platform: Windows ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.seeplain.com/
Size: 4.27 MB
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Looking Glass - Developer's Site
Description: Looking Glass is a safe and simple preference pane that will allow you to set your desktop picture to a streaming online Webcam. A constantly refreshing desktop can give your home or office a friendlier feeling. Watch constantly changing views from all over the world.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X 10.2 and higher
Download: http://dragon-forged.com/lg.htm
Size: 149 KB
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Magic Notes - Developer's Site
Description: Magic Notes is a networkable sticky notes program with an autosave feature, so that you won't lose any of your notes. Store miscellaneous bits of information like shopping lists, phone numbers and to-do lists right on your desktop. Any URLs you store are clickable, giving you instant access to important Web sites. The program's handy icon bar lets you move it out of the way when you need to. You can set repeating alarms on your notes, and operate the program via keyboard shortcuts.
Price: Trial Version (45-day trial)
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.magicnotes.com/index.html
Size: 851 KB
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MenuStrip - Developer's Site
Description: Create custom menus and shortcuts for your menu bar or control strip. Access your address book, control iTunes and more.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Download: http://www.macpoweruser.com/menustrip/index.html
Size: 744 KB
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Multi User Desktop 2004 - Developer's Site
Description: You and everyone else who uses your computer can create as many 2D and 3D desktops as you need, for all the different tasks you do on your computer. You might have a desktop for browsing the Web, another for playing games and another for managing your finances.
Price: Shareware - 14 day trial
Platform: Windows 2000/XP/ 2003 server
Download: http://www.gamerstower.com/download/
Size: 2.81 MB
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PhotoAdvent - Developer's Site
Description: Just for young children: celebrate the 25 days leading to Christmas with this December Advent calendar. The program has 25 photos, and you can import your own, with a limit of five images in the unregistered version. In the calendar, each day's date is a window, click on it and then drag your mouse to gradually reveal the image. Snow falls in each open window, and in the main program screen. You can customise the program to preview the photos if you wish.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.photoadvent.com/download.html
Size: 688 KB
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PhotoStickies - Developer's Site
Description: PhotoStickies displays one or more photos (located on your local drives or on the Internet) on your screen, shows Webcam pictures, acts as a fast image viewer, and records and replays slideshows. Also, PhotoStickies can be used as a wallpaper utility.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Download: http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/shareware/shareware.php
Size: 886 KB
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ShapeShifter - Developer's Site
Description: ShapeShifter is a revolutionary new product that lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using 'themes'. We're not talking about just desktop backgrounds and icons here, we're talking about everything - the look of windows, menus, apps, buttons, absolutely everything.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS
Download: http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter
Size: 2.91 MB
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Snow for Mac OS X - Developer's Site
Description: Let it snow on your desktop and have Santa and his reindeer fly around your screen for that Extra Festive Season cheer, while snow piles up on top of your windows (really!). Maybe there's a polar bear somewhere too.
Price: Trial Version (10-day trial)
Platform: Mac OS X
Download: http://www.xs4all.nl/~janswaal/MacOSXSnow/
Size: 404 KB
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Snow for Windows - Developer's Site
Description: Snow for Windows let it snow on your desktop, on your windows and have Santa and his reindeer running around your screen for that extra Festive Season Cheer. Screen saver and polar bear included.
Price: Trial Version (10-day trial)
Platform: Windows NT/98/95/ME/2000/XP
Download: http://www.xs4all.nl/~janswaal/WinSnow/
Size: 1.64 MB
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Stattoo - Developer's Site
Description: Your digital life has a lot of statistics; incoming mail, appointments, disk space. Stattoo "tattoos" stats right on your desktop picture: out of the way, but always handy!
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Download: http://www.panic.com/stattoo/
Size: 766 KB
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StickyNote - Developer's Site
Description: All you need to do to create a note is double-click on the StickyNote system tray icon - an empty note will appear and you can start typing - it's as easy that! With StickyNote you can also write notes containing URLs or file attachments (just drag and drop in a file from Windows Explorer) and create reminders by specifying an alarm time for the note. You can even email notes to other users on your network or attach them to a window or document. Notes can be hidden and restored, printed out or saved as plain text files. Give StickyNote a try and wave goodbye to the paper clutter you used to put up with.
Price: Trial Version (15-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.tenebril.com/downloads/
Size: 4.51 MB
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SureType - Developer's Site
Description: Perform common tasks -- opening websites and applications, and typing commonly-used text -- just by typing a regular word.
Price: Shareware - 14 day trial
Platform: Windows 98 or higher; Mac OS X
Download: http://www.suretype.com/download.html
Size: 1.01 MB
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Talisman Desktop - Developer's Site
Description: Talisman Desktop lets you completely customise the Windows interface and shell, so that your Windows machine looks the way you want it to, and does what you want. Although primarily created for experienced users, novices can get started customising their PCs by using Talisman Desktop's default themes and downloading themes created by other users, so extensive know-how isn't obligatory. You can create themes for your children, for individual users, for games and entertainment, and for the work you do on your PC.
Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/ 2000/XP
Download: http://www.lighttek.com/talisman.htm
Size: 5.46 MB
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ThemePark - Developer's Site
Description: Use ThemePark to create or modify the way Mac OS X looks, as well as to change the appearance of individual applications. Just draw title bars, buttons and other widgets in the graphics editor of your choice, and move them into ThemePark to create a new theme or modify an existing one.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X
Download: http://www.geekspiff.com/software/themepark/
Size: 2.91 MB
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WeatherPop Advance - Developer's Site
Description: Be in touch with what it's like outside right now. Let the current conditions and temperature in your menu bar serve as a gentle reminder to get outside, go for a walk, and stop working so hard.
Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X
Download: http://www.glu.com/products/weatherpop/index.html
Size: 3 MB
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WikityWidget - Developer's Site
Description: Bringing wiki to the Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard. You can think of it as StickyNotes on steroids, or a digital Moleskine™ notebook. Create notes, search for them, and link notes together automatically.
Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Mac OS X
Download: http://inkspotting.com/wikity/eula.html
Size: 203 KB
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WindowBlinds - Developer's Site
Description: WindowBlinds is the first utility of its kind. It extends Windows XP, Windows 98, ME, and 2000 to have a fully skinnable user interface. You can change the style of title bars, buttons, toolbars and much more. It gives you total control over your graphical user interface.
Price: Shareware $19.95 US registration
Platform: Win 98/ME/2000/XP
Download: http://www.windowblinds.net/default.asp?page=download
Size: 3.32 MB
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X1 Desktop Search - Developer's Site
Description: Although expensive, X1 Desktop Search saves you time and energy. The program features a real-time search: as you enter letters or words, the program displays instant results, updating the results as you add more information. The program indexes around 225 different popular file formats and multiple e-mail clients, including Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Eudora. X1 Desktop Search lets you set indexing parameters for every folder on your computer and on your local network.
Price: Trial Version (15-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.x1.com
Size: 7.31 MB
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Xpression 1.0 - Developer's Site
Description: Xpression!™ is the premier Mac OS X icon customization utility. It enables users to customize the look of Mac OS X or, with a few simple clicks, apply "Themes" to their whole system, removing about 160 steps from the process of giving your Mac a complete makeover.
As a Cocoa preference pane, Xpression! integrates with Mac OS X's System Preferences application. With a few clicks, you can change the look of the Finder's default icons, including the icons of some Applications.
Price: $24.95 US
Platform: Mac OS X 10.1.5, or Mac OS X 10.2
Download: http://download.freeverse.com/index.php?game=xpression&platform=osx
Size: 8.4 MB
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