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.
Reader pyreƒyre's minimalist desktop moves everything important down into small icons in the corners of the screen, with the weather, date, and application launchers all blended together with a fun wallpaper image to make a great overall desktop look.
Windows only: If you've got an application with a really ugly icon, or you just want to get some hard-core nerdy action with your desktop customization, Resource Hacker is the tool for the job.Over at the Tweaking with Vishal web site, he's put together a brief guide to using Resource Hacker to customize and replace graphical elements like icons, bitmaps, cursors, or even rename menu items for almost any Windows application.
Reader A.Nonymous decided to create his own minimalist "undesktop" to keep himself productive—clearing away everything unnecessary, auto-hiding the taskbar, and using keyboard shortcuts to get things done more effectively.The desktop is a combination of:
Reader t.click's desktop sports an amazing, totally transparent skin for the Opera browser that uses Aero Glass to render virtually the entire interface.
The Greasemonkey extension has long been one of our favorite tools for Firefox, allowing us to bend the web to our will with light and simple scripts written in JavaScript. Now most Greasemonkey scripts work in Chrome, no extension required.
Windows: If you use a 3rd-party application dock in place of the Windows taskbar, you may have noticed that you can't completely get rid of the taskbar. Taskbar Eliminator helps you turn it off and keep it out of the way.
Wallbase catalogs wallpaper to bring you over 350,000 unique wallpapers. Take a peek inside to find something new for casual Friday.
Windows: JDContextMenu is a small application that adds a variety of useful shortcuts to the right-click context menu in Windows.
Windows only: If you've ever thought, "That GPS lady is bossy," or "I wish my Garmin talked like a pirate," Voice Studio is the answer. With just a microphone, it lets you record and upload custom voices to your Garmin GPS.