Notes fully customizable. Choose your favorite color scheme. Customize the font, color and styles of writing. Insert images and pictures. Size and position of the note fully customizable. Automatic recognition of web addresses and emails. Sort your notes with a click. Drag and drop to create shortcuts to your documents. Run them by clicking on the icon in the note. Copy and paste text from your documents to the notes or vice versa. Individual alarm system for each note. Alarms will show your note on the screen at the time and day you choose. You can add a warning sound and run a program or document if you want.

Innovative presentation of the notes. These do not interfere with your other windows. Simply slide the mouse over the icon and the notes will be displayed, set it aside and they will be hiden automatically. With a simple click, you can still leave them on the screen. Drag and drop to create shortcuts to your documents. Run them by clicking on the icon in the note.

Especially useful for anyone who needs to remember appointments, shopping, events, etc..

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Nokia Music for Windows 8 is a desktop version of Nokia’s streaming radio service available on Windows Phone 7.5. Similar to Pandora and Spotify, Nokia Music allows unlimited audio streaming of “Mixes” categorized by artist or genres. You can also download Mixes for offline use or use Nokia Music for local music on your computer. While Nokia Music for Windows 8 has a $3.99 monthly subscription, there is a seven day free trial that includes all features.

How it Works

Nokia Music uses streaming Mixes which are similar to Pandora. You cannot select specific tracks for on demand listening. Instead, each Mix is a radio station that focuses on an artist or genre and provides similar sounding tracks. You can browse through Nokia’s premade Mixes or create your own. The default Mixes include various genres, top charting music, recommendations from popular musicians, sponsored music, and more. Nokia’s library is large and includes various genres of music, standup comedy acts, and songs from TV ads. If you are not a subscriber you will be limited to only 30 second previews per track, which is far too short. Subscribers will be able to listen full length tracks.

Creating your own mix is much more limited as you can only search by artists and not other categories such as genre or time period. You can also only add in three artists at most, resulting in a limited selection of music. On the plus side any Mix, premade or your own, can be downloaded for offline listening. Offline tracks are unfortunately disabled for non-subscribers. If you’re not satisfied with Nokia’s selection of music you can also use the app to listen to your own local files.

How it feels

The layout is comprised on large and medium sized tiles grouped into sections. The sections of Nokia Music include the track you are currently listening to, previously Mixes, default Nokia Mixes, your own creations, downloaded music, and local music. On the main track page there are buttons to display a song’s lyrics or open a menu with the band’s information. Depending on the artist, this can include a bio, image gallery, their Twitter feed, upcoming shows, similar artists, and Mixes they appear in. This is a wealth of information that will help you learn more about bands and discover new music.

Right clicking on Mix will provide buttons to download the track, buy it from Nokia’s store, or remove it from the front sections. The options menu includes changing accounts, updating subscriptions, providing feedback to Nokia, troubleshooting, and permissions. Settings allow you to adjust audio quality based on your connection type (Wifi or mobile), permission to send personal data back to Nokia, display wallpapers, and if the app runs is allowed on the Lock screen. Nokia Music subscriptions are relatively new, yet the amount of options is surprisingly plentiful.

Quality

Nokia Music’s wide selection of music and comedy is very impressive. The quality of streaming audio is decent at 192kbps for all tracks. Downloading music is generally fast, although you can suffer delays and pauses in streaming if you download several Mixes at the same time. Music with offensive lyrics are either listed with a clear “Explicit” icon or are completely censored with more broadcast friendly versions. The latter is very surprising for an online streaming service. In most cases all of Nokia’s library is clean and there is no setting to listen to adult versions.

Accessing Nokia’s library requires either a Nokia account or Facebook along with a monthly subscription fee; this is also on top of the normal Microsoft account to run the app. Surprisingly, if you sign up with Facebook Nokia Music will not update your activity or provide any form of social linking. Without a subscription you will be limited to short 30 second clips and cannot download music.

Final word

Even though you need a subscription and cannot access on demand music, the app still provides an amazing selection of music and comedy as well as the ability to download Mixes. The amount of additional data about artists and lyrics helps to connect you to the music. Try out Nokia Music’s free trial to listen to a diverse assortment of music.

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Free WP8 Icons is a pack of over 130 royalty-free icons for Windows Phone 8 systems. Produced to match and exceed the design guidelines for Microsoft Windows systems, this collection of application bar icons includes 48x48 pixels images with a transparent background and an actual drawing located in a central square of 26x26 pixels. All the images are supplied in the PNG format. Design perfect apps for Windows today!

A free package of Metro-style icons for any type of Windows Phone 8 development

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Instagrille runs through the Pokki desktop widgets app, and adds the Instagram logo to the task bar, next to the Windows button. Click the icon and the app pops up. You can view what's popular straight away, and if you sign in with your Instagram account, you can view your own photos and the feed from the users you follow.

Instagrille is attractive, although it would be nice if you could run it without Pokki too, as two icons are unnecessary!

Until Instagram themselves make one, Instagrille is a useful way to check out the photo sharing network without looking at your phone!

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- Never have a cluttered windows desktop again - Organize your desktop and computer apps in minutes - Never search again for your favorite apps, tools, files, music, websites, social media - One click launch for all your apps, files, web links, etc - Have multiple tabs like, desktop icons, favorite apps, control panel, files, music, games, videos, web links, etc - Have custom icons for apps, files and other quick links on ViPad - Copy files, apps and web links effortlessly to ViPad - Arrange your apps anyway you want - Easy navigating - Sliding pages like you have on smart phones and iPad for quick and easy navigation - Clean cool look of your desktop - Add new and cool icon sets

The best and unique thing about ViPad is its ability to use it as a complete desktop replacement. This enables you to see all of your own personalized background on the windows desktop and use ViPad for launching your apps instead. ViPad is also the only utility of it's kind to offer the ability to easily reposition apps and even make new tabs for apps.

Users who are looking for new and innovative ways to launch apps or users who are sick of messy desktops.

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Of course, video and audio chatting are now possible in Facebook thanks to Skype integration and Facebook Video Chat simply offers an alternative way of doing it. It simply adds 4 extra icons to your Facebook chat dialog window - a webcam, a microphone, a games icon and a smiley.

The installation of Facebook Video Chat is a bit suspicious however. It tries to install the Babylon toolbar, make Babylon your default webpage and make Babylon your default search engine. However, even if you deselect the check boxes, it still places a Babylon installer on your desktop although doesn't appear to install any of the components.

When you've finished installation, your browser will open automatically with a message of congratulations telling you to log-into Facebook. If you're using Firefox, Facebook Video Chat also requires installing an add-on which it does automatically although this requires re-starting your browser afterwards.

To start a video chat using Facebook Video Chat, just open a conversation window with a contact and click on the webcam icon. A message will be sent to the recipient asking them to initiate a webchat. Obviously, this requires them to have a webcam installed or a speaker installed if you want to start an audio conversation.

The games icon prompts you to start a number of basic board games when clicked on such as chess, darts or snooker. Finally, the smiley icon simply sends a smiley to the recipient - not exactly sophisticated.

Facebook Video Chat isn't really necessary now that Skype is integrated with Facebook but if you're really having troubles with Facebook's integrated video and audio chat, it may be worth a try.

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5 is a Complete ZIP Utility Package with free tools, modules and add-ons such as Wizards, Search ZIP files tool, desktop tray icon and more. *ZipWorx Explorer v2.

5 graphical user interface is very easy to use and customize and features:- Basic or Advanced Add Files Modes. For novice and advanced users as well- Fast UnZIP (one click) to desktop or local directory- Ability to save ZIP files list in HTML format- True Drag and Drop!

- Automatically Expands Shortcuts to files when adding to ZIP Files - Minimize/restore to desktop tray icon - Newly designed Drag Drop Docking windows, such as the new Hints and Tips window and the new Help window - Easy Fix ZIP files associations in Windows, to better handle ZIP files- Powerful settings that can change the way the program looks, behaves and operates, with features fully documented and explainedThe associated modules and tools, such as ZipWorx Explorer Wizard have also been improved with new features like the ability to Automate any ZIP operation by Monitoring, Recording and Logging the current ZIP/UnZIP operations.

It can also create, update or schedule Windows TASKs using newly added ZipTASK Technology. The Wizard also adds powerful logging information to any ZIP operationMore on ZipWorx Explorer v2.

5 Graphical Interface features: - Intelligent menus hide or sort items based on user's activity - Easily toggle Windows XP Office style user interface The program comes with 7Day free phone support, unlimited email support, free updates and if you qualify, a free CD with Antivirus Software.

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- Only the administrator can change or delete entries. - Security features of nurse notification screen: a - Alert screen appears as a window ;on top; of any other screen displayed b - Nurse cannot alter any data c - Nurse enters her name and password and confirmation of contacting patient d - Nurse cannot cancel the alert.

There is a ;snooze; option to delay any action by 5, 10, or 15 minutes e - A warning is given if the nurse tries to shut down INR Manager on the computer/workstation set to receive notifications f - If INR Manager was shut down for any reason, all outstanding alerts will appear when INR Manager resumes.

Process: 1 - Doctors log onto INR Manager 2 - Select patient and view chronologically current Warfarin dosage and previous INR values/Warfarin dosage 3 - Enter in INR value, Warfarin dosage, next test date and comment (if required) 4 - Send directly to patient by e-mail or to nurses workstation so nurse can notify patient by phone.

Other features: - Reporting - can run reports on patients who are 3 days overdue from having their INR test - Safety - If INR value entered is outside the range 2.

0 - 4. 0 a warning will appear and the doctor must acknowledge awareness of this. - Additional resources for doctors-Guidelines for Anticoagulation using Warfarin accessible from toolbar with one click gives comprehensive advice on what to do if INR too low or too high (Courtesy of Waitemata DHB) - Additional resources for patients-advice sheets can be printed out.

Program details: 1 - INR Manager is installed on the server or on a chosen PC, in a shared folder that all workstations have access to. The program size is only 2.

5Mb. INR Manager runs minimised in the background and only alerts the nurse only on the PC set to display the alerts. The alerts occurs within seconds after a doctor enters a result.

2 - On each workstation, a shortcut icon is installed on the desktop and this points to the program on the server or main PC where INR is installed in a shared folder.

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Available everywhere

Not only does Google Talk support Google accounts, it also supports a variety of other protocols and apps. In other words, you can log in with accounts from Jabber, Pidgin, Miranda, Psiand Trillian.

As well as supporting lots of protocols, Google Talk is also available for lots of devices, so even if you are chatting on your desktop, you'll be able to keep in touch with your friends on Android, iPhone and Blackberry. Even though not explicitly supported, you'll also be able to use Google Talk on Mac and Linux, as long as you use the browser version.

Simple but effective

Google Talk is an attractive app and very easy to use, although its bright, almost childlike appearance is looking a bit old-fashioned these days. There are various themes available from the Settings options, although they have more impact on the window layout and are not strictly "skins". You'll also be able to choose your status, picking from Available, Busy, and Idle, as well as custom messages and the option to show your current music track. Google Talk also notifies you when you receive new emails.

Adding and chatting with contacts with Google Talk couldn't be easier. Double click a name to start a conversation, and a new chat window will appear. If you see a little telephone or video camera icon beside the contact's name, they are also available for phone or video chats, but you'll need the Video and voice plug-in to do this.

Works, but it's neglected

Google Talk has many of the features that you'd expect from an IM client. You can add, block, rename and remove contacts, send smileys, and customize the way you see your friends online. If you look under the more technical settings, you'll also be able modify notifications and connect to the service using a proxy. It's not overrun with options, but most people seem to appreciate the resulting simplicity and light resource use.

Even though Google Talk is the go-to IM app for thousands of people, long term users can't help feeling that Google Talk is pretty low on Google's list of priorities. It works perfectly and is a great app, but that's because it was well made and ahead of its time when it first came out.

Overall

Google Talk hasn't been updated in what seems like years and, with the exception of the VoiP features added in recent times, the program feels a little bit forgotten. This has no impact on usability for Gmail users, but it does feel like Google Talk could do with a little more loving care.

If you're a Google User who wants to IM, you'd be mad to use anything but Google Talk.

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If you've ever needed to access your PC when you´re away from or administer a network from a remote location, you´ll need something like Access Remote PC to do so.

With Access Remote PC, you can control computers in your home network, access your home computer from office or work on your office computer from home or access your office or home computer while traveling. For those that are suffering PC problems, you can invite someone to access your PC to fix it remotely. For a business, it means that head office can access branch office desktops or branches can access the main head office server. At the same time, employees can access email, files, programs and network resources from home or on the road such as sales forces that need to access applications and documents. The program is remarkably simple to use and most importantly, very fast at accessing remote computers.

However, it does require you to install it on both computers that want to access and be accessed. The setup file adds two menu items (Client and Server) to your computer's Start menu and the server will be launched automatically after every computer restart unless you disable it. When running, the server will display its icon in the status area of your taskbar and all you have to do is click on this icon to bring up the main server window.

Whether you are a large organisation needing to link your offices or a maintenance engineer, you´ll find Access Remote PC simplifies remote accessing.

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If you’re one of those people who spends most of their free time tinkering with your mobile phone ringtone or reorganizing your bedroom, then StyleXP could become your new favorite toy.

Style XP works by patching your operating system to accept unassigned styles, scores of which are available for download from the web. Once you've applied a style you can tweak virtually any aspect of the appearance, including the font size, screensaver, colors, menu transparency, or even the boot screen. What’s more, if you're particularly artistically minded you can to create your own elements in a graphics editor and apply them to the skin in Style XP.

Although the developer has made strides towards making the interface as simple as possible, there are so many customization options that it can be a little daunting for new users of Style XP.

There's no doubt that the temptation to make Windows look like OSX or apply a 'Windows Pirate Edition' boot screen is pretty appealing, but pimping your OS in this way does come with a risk. It’s worth bearing in mind that because of the way the Style XP writes files to your system folder you could end up doing damage to your machine, especially if you install a patch or a new service pack.

Having said this, we've experienced no problems yet (touch wood) and also found that Style XP runs pretty smoothly without sucking too much RAM. You can choose to keep Style XP locked in the System Tray, or release it so that it uses no resources, which is a refreshing thing to see from a developer.

With so many themes and customization options available, Style XP is well worth a look if you fancy a change of scenery on your desktop, but keep in mind the risks involved in using a patching program such as this.

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If you’re one of those people who spends most of their free time tinkering with your mobile phone ringtone or reorganizing your bedroom, then StyleXP could become your new favorite toy.

The application promises to expand the customizability of Windows XP and gives you the power to install new themes that break the mould of the existing XP shell.

Once you’ve applied a style you can tweak virtually any aspect of the appearance, including the font size, screensaver, colours, menu transparency, or even the boot screen.

What’s more, if you’re particularly artistically minded you can create your own elements in a graphics editor and apply them to the skin.

It’s worth bearing in mind that because of the way the application writes files to your System Folder you could end up doing damage to your machine, especially if you install a patch or a new service pack.

You can choose to keep Style XP locked in the System Tray, or release it so that it uses no resources, which is a refreshing thing to see from a developer.

With so many themes and customization options available, Style XP is well worth a look if you fancy a change of scenery on your desktop, but keep in mind the risks involved in using a patching program such as this.

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