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.
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.
Windows: If you've got more than one monitor, you've probably tried fullscreening a Flash video on one monitor while working in another. The problem: Flash exits fullscreen as soon as you click on something. FlashHacker fixes this problem.
Windows: National Geographic's web site has some stunning photography, and a lot of it makes for good rotating desktop backgrounds.
Windows: drop.io is a quick way to share up to 100 MB in files, but it's easy to forget about. With a beta Outlook plug-in, drop.io can become your go-to means of sending really large files without annoying your recipients.Photo by the How-To Geek.
Four years ago we recommended TheFilter as a way to sort through your iTunes music and automatically build playlists. You can still get TheFilter as an iTunes plug-in but it's also a web-based suggestion engine for media of all sorts.