- Colors and sizes of objects and program window are chosen by user; - A lot of icons for contacts, notes, folders and holidays; - You can create cyclical events; - You can customize the appearance of each contact; - Quick search in contacts and notes; - Sound pop-up reminders about tasks, birthdays, events and appointments; - Sticky notes on the desktop; - Quick access to main program features from the system tray; - Protection from unauthorized access with password; - Export and import contacts, notes, tasks, transfer of data; - iChronos has a portable version that can be used for USB flash drive.

A difference of iChronos organizer from other organizers and planners is a graphical representation of projects, contacts, notes and... even the time. iChronos helps not only to organize information, but also to show it in visual form. It has as ordinary (reminders, calendar, notes) so unordinary features. For example, iChronos has Timeline. Timeline has a much greater capacity than any calendar, because in addition to standard calendar features, it also shows all the events.

iChronos organizer is a bit unusual, but very useful and beautiful. Therefore, it may appeal to anyone. It's worth a try.

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QQ Messenger may not sound familiar, but it's the most popular IM client in China.

When you think about IM clients, the first names that come to your head are Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and the likes. But have you ever heard of QQ Messenger?

With more than one billion registered accounts, QQ Messenger is now more than just a simple IM client: it's a whole social phenomenon that millions of people use on a daily basis, and an essential part of their lives.

The truth is that QQ Messenger is not that different from other IM clients you may have used. There are the typical contacts list – which you can organize by groups - support for voice and video chats, smileys, nudges, ability to send photos and share files (with support for pause/resume!), and other utilities we're used to finding in IM clients. There's one important difference however: in QQ Messenger you hardly find any ads!

Besides the traditional IM tools, QQ Messenger also includes some not-so-common features. You'll be able to capture an area of your screen or record a short video clip on the spot, and share both of them instantly with your contacts. Another area where QQ Messenger stands out is personalization. You can customize almost anything, from choosing a skin for the interface to selecting the font for your messages. The program also includes a wide selection of avatars and personal pictures to choose from, but if you don't like any of them, simply upload one from your hard drive. The only thing that didn't work for us was downloading more themes from the Web.

QQ Messenger is mainly a tool for chat, but it can also be used to help your friends or customers thanks to its integrated Remote assistance tool: a basic remote control app that grants you access to your friend's desktop and enables you to help them with any computer issue.

In general terms, QQ Messenger surprised us for various reasons: first, it features a nicely designed interface with cute buttons and icons, which is hard to find in IM clients; second, it has interesting extra features that make it a complete communication tool; and third, it's amazing how such a popular program with more than a billion users is still known by so few people over here!

On the downside, I have to admit that QQ Messenger was a bit unreliable when trying to add contacts - which, by the way, are identified with numbers, like good old ICQ. Not a very user-friendly method, I'd say. Other than that, QQ Messenger is a great IM cilent that is definitely worth trying out.

QQ Messenger, the most widely used IM client in China, has now an international version that may help it become even more popular!

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In ShixxNOTE, creating a note is a matter of making a double click on the program icon in the system tray. Once created, a note is displayed on your desktop and can be instantly shared over LAN, the Internet or email with all the interested parties. You can share notes with specific recipients or groups of users, save, print, export and import notes, set alarms and expiration dates, save notes to files and fully customize their appearance to match your desktop theme.

It is multithread client/server network tool that lets you display notes on your desktop and send them through your local network (LAN), Internet or via email to others. Easy to use personal info management application and powerful communication tool. It makes writing notes to your self or to your colleagues very easy and instant. The sticky notes appear "stuck" on your desktop, and it is pretty hard to forget something that is written on them. It is configurable and stable.

All computer users which work in a small or middle office. Where they have all computer integrated in a Local Area Network. This user can be working in some dentist office, or can be some student on University.

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I love programs with nice, colorful icons; they make apps easier to locate in the hard drive, they look great on the desktop and – especially for us Softonic editors – they make gorgeous program thumbnails.

If icons are important for you too, you need an app like IcoFX Portable. With it, you have all the tools you need to work with icons at your fingertips. You'll be able to create, extract and edit icons in a breeze, both for Windows and Mac, and with support for transparency. And you get all of this without even having to install the program!

IcoFX Portable can work with icons of any virtually size (from 16x16 to 256x256 or any custom size) and color palette (from 2 colors to 32-bit True Color). Plus it features more than forty filters and special effects to add a personal touch to your icons. Besides icon creation, IcoFX Portable also helps you convert any image into an icon, and create icon libraries.

The interface in IcoFX Portable may be a bit confusing at first, due to the use of multiple windows – the only drawback to this great program. Other than that, IcoFX Portable is an excellent icon editor at an unbeatable price.

With IcoFX Portable you can create, edit, extract and convert icons in many colors and sizes, for multiple operating systems and with support for transparency.

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I love programs with nice, colorful icons; they make apps easier to locate in the hard drive, they look great on the desktop and – especially for us Softonic editors – they make gorgeous program thumbnails.

If icons are important for you too, you need an app like IcoFX. With IcoFX you have all the tools you need to work with icons at your fingertips. You'll be able to create, extract and edit icons in a breeze, both for Windows and Mac, and with support for transparency.

IcoFX can work with icons of any virtually size (from 16x16 to 256x256 or any custom size) and color palette (from 2 colors to 32-bit True Color). Plus it features more than forty filters and special effects to add a personal touch to your icons. Besides icon creation, IcoFX also helps you convert any image into an icon, and create icon libraries.

The interface in IcoFX may be a bit confusing at first, due to the use of multiple windows – the only drawback to this great program. Other than that, IcoFX is an excellent icon editor at an unbeatable price.

With IcoFX you can create, edit, extract and convert icons in many colors and sizes, for multiple operating systems and with support for transparency.

Download IcoFX 2.3 in Softonic

Real Desktop turns your Windows desktop into a three-dimensional environment where all your shortcuts look like small pieces that have been dropped on the floor – and they actually behave like that. You can move them, rotate them, lift them a bit from the floor and mix them all around the desktop surface. The only icon that remains in Real Desktop somewhat apart is the Recycle bin, probably to help you find it faster.

This precisely the main drawback in Real Desktop: finding icons. The 3D effect is really amazing, as well as the icon behavior almost as Lego pieces. But having them scattered all over the places doesn't exactly make your PC easier to use – especially if you're anything like me, who likes to have as few icons as possible, and always perfectly organized.

With Real Desktop you can apply an amazing 3D effect to your Windows desktop, although you'll lose a lot of icon usability on the way.

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Ever get bored with unimaginative icons? Icon Craft can change all that.

Icon Craft is a full-featured icon creation and editing tool. It allows you to design and modify icons and cursors, both animated and static. You can also create icon libraries, download existing icons to modify and even make icons from photos and images.

Icon Craft starts by asking you to choose what task you want to perform. If you choose to create a new icon (rather than modifying an existing one), you’ll be able to select the precise measurements and color depth you need, ranging from 16x16 to 256x256 pixels, and from monochrome to True Color + Alpha (32 bits).

You will then be taken to an editing screen that allows you to control almost every aspect of icon creation. There is an extensive toolbar with drawing and text tools, effects, color options and pre-made shapes, among many other options. The editing window is nice and large for ease of use, and there are hotkeys available for almost every option.

Unfortunately, the Icon Craft trial version allows you to save only seven icons and irritatingly urges you to register at every opportunity.

Icon Craft is a comprehensive and fun tool for creating your own icons; it’s just a pity its trial version limitations are so obvious.

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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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If you like the look of Mac OS X's dock and want some Mac flair on your computer, ObjectDock is the perfect application to give you a little taste of OS X. Many docks and desktop customization software that ship with computers are usually nothing more than shortcut launchers, but ObjectDock is different. It actually serves as a fully functional replacement for your Windows taskbar.

Add as many shortcuts to the dock as you want for easy application launching. There's also several widgets you can add to the dock. The weather widget is particularly useful, with auto-updating weather for your location. If you hover over it, the widget will expand with a beautiful animation to reveal a five day forecast.

In use, ObjectDock is incredibly smooth and stable. There are options to optimize for performance or for memory usage. ObjectDock is a viable replacement for your Windows taskbar as it shows minimized windows and shows you which apps are running. You'll have to fork over for the full version to get features like system tray support and the ever useful "Aero peak" feature introduced with Windows 7, though.

Overall, ObjectDock is a great taskbar replacement that's incredibly stable and useful. Highly recommended.

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Customization has never been in such demand as it is now, and IconCool is another tool for your collection that helps you leave your personal mark on your computer.
The program lets you design your own icons, cursors, animated GIFs, and even change the settings for how icons are displayed on your system.
The good news is that there are loads of useful tools, and you’ll be hard pushed to find a more feature-packed icon creation program anywhere.
The interface is well balanced with tools grouped aptly around the main editing window. The inclusion of a button to export your icon to Photoshop is a welcome addition, while also indicating that the developer has made an effort to cater for all users’ needs.
For creating or editing icons you have the ubiquitous drawing tools, bar an eraser tool, as well as a handy selection of gradient effects that will let you give icons a more modern look and feel.

As you work on your icons, you have a preview in the top right corner of its actual size and you can also hit the test button to see how it looks when placed on the desktop.
If you are working on a new set of cursors, there is a separate test window that lets you adjust the hotspot and check how the cursor interacts with a variety of buttons.
We liked the fact that there is also an option for customizing the Windows icons, which although may not be expected for an icon editor, is intrinsically linked with customizing Window’s icons.

IconCool isn’t without its faults and our biggest annoyance was the selection tool. The only option you have is to use a rectangular marquee, which isn’t very useful if you are working on any irregularly-shaped icon, not to mention the fact that we experienced a strange glitch whereby for small selections the outline would disappear momentarily only to reappear when the mouse was moved again.
The lack of an eraser tool was a slight inconvenience and it might have made sense to have layers, for those occasions when you want to rotate a piece of text without rotating the entire image.

For practically everyone, IconCool will be more than enough to meet their icon design needs, but for those hardcore icon perfectionists, there is seamless integration with Photoshop which will let you get whatever results you want.

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Much like iPadian and other desktop customization applications, XLaunchpad aims to make your PC's desktop more like a Mac interface, giving you the best of both worlds. With XLaunchpad, you get all the benefits of this type of menu system, but extended to any document, file and folder on your computer.

XLaunchpad allows you to add shortcuts and organize by folders. You can adjust the size of your desktop icons, activate them from the system tray or by pressing F12. You can even make XLaunchpad a permanent feature on your desktop so you don't have to activate it every time you want to access your PC programs.

To add new shortcuts to XLaunchpad simply drag and drop the file in question. The shortcut will be created automatically. By default, you will have access to Documents, Network, Recycle Bin and Control Panel folders. You can also organize apps into specific folders.

XLaunchpad gives you instant access to all your shortcuts in Mac OS X's visually appealing Launchpad interface.

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If you're always trying to find ways to make your computer look as new and impressive as possible, Windows 8 Start Panel is a lightweight app that'll get the job done superbly. It goes along with other programs that try to simulate what Windows 8 is expected to look like, such as Windows 8 Theme.

Windows 8 Start Panel looks very much like what the official video of the Windows 8 interface presented.
The app works on Windows XP, Vista and 7 PCs and offers a lot of stand-out features. It introduces tile organization, where everything on the interface is introduced on a colorful, minimalist Start screen. Some of these tiles in Windows 8 Start Panel include Socialite Tile for Facebook, Tweet@rama for Twitter, News Tile, Weather Tile and more.

Windows 8 Start Panel also includes a tile that lets you play music, and other games like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja.

Unfortunately, there's no way to currently change the green background to another color of your preference.

Windows 8 Start Panel is a fun, lightweight way to give your current Start menu a Windows 8 appearance.

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Fans of Greek mythology and action movies are probably waiting for Wrath of the Titans to hit theaters with baited breath. This latest movie based on myth promises to have some exciting scenes.

For those who don't want to wait, there's Wrath Of The Titans HD Wallpaper to tide you over in the meantime. Boasting 2 wallpapers for your desktop background, Wrath Of The Titans HD Wallpaper will give your PC a gritty and exciting ambiance.

Both images are crisp and contain scenes from the upcoming movie. While one image is a fight scene against a titan, the other Wrath Of The Titans HD Wallpaper image is a stylized picture with a few images of various titans such as a chimera and the centaur.

Unfortunately, the backgrounds might look exciting but they're a bit busy as well for people who have a lot of desktop icons to organize. They might just get lost in the various color schemes of both wallpaper sets, as there's not a lot of solid colored space in either one.

Wrath Of The Titans HD Wallpaper offers two intense images from the upcoming Wrath of the Titans movies.

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Fans of the Underworld movie series are already familiar with actress Kate Beckinsale's vampire protagonist from previous movies. Now she returns in Underworld 4: Awakening. For those who want to commemorate the newest Underworld movie, Underworld: Awakening Windows 7 Theme is a good place to start.

Underworld: Awakening Windows 7 Theme comes with four wallpapers for your Windows 7 desktop background that depict Kate Beckinsale in character. The images provide nice details and in all but one instance also have the title of the movie incorporated into them.

Underworld: Awakening Windows 7 Theme is a pretty basic theme, with no additional features like customized desktop icons. Unfortunately a few of the wallpapers might seem a little busy as well if you have a lot of icons you're trying to organize, while others might seem too plain.

Underworld: Awakening Windows 7 Theme is a great way to dress up your desktop background with one of the main characters from the Underworld series.

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If you're looking for a discreet and effective calendar for your desktop then Rainlendar might fit the bill. You can customize Rainlendar with skins and also merge different skins together.
If you rely on Outlook, you'll appreciate the fact that Rainlendar integrates into the calendar so you can transfer appointments.
Approaching events are shown in a separate list on Rainlendar where you can see the week's events in a glance.
You can decide how many days in advance you want to see in the list and different events can be given a different appearance in the list so you can easily spot important events.
The icons in the calendar are also available in the event list and other windows to make it easier to separate the events. You can also create a separate list for your long term tasks which can be arranged several ways so that you can keep it better organized.

Download Rainlendar Pro 2.9 in Softonic

BoostXP has mind-blowing features to separate it from other packages; nice interface and speedy operations makes it a good choice. KEY BENEFITS Style your Windows and work the way you want it to If you want your Windows to look different, here is your chance to beautify Windows and make it appear the way you desire it to.

BoostXP2 is embedded with various utilities to merit your requirements. Put the accumulated clutter away BoostXP2 scans and fixes problems caused by invalid entries, references and links in the Windows registry and clears the garbage collected on your hard drive during normal usage.

Enhance performance and increase the breadth of memory BoostXP2 is the utility for serious Windows tweakers! It lets you to change the Windows registry settings, improve appearance, optimize performance and enhance functionality.

Not only this, it manages the free memory and increases available memory to run Windows programs. Be in active control of programs on your system BoostXP2 is an essential component of your security administration.

It can restrict system user to execute specific application(s) and secures your system by disabling features of operating system or Internet Explorer that are exposed to security threats.

Take control of your system BoostXP2 gives you instant access to hidden Windows XP settings. You can make the Windows taskbar transparent, tweak several types of desktop settings, customize the Start menu, and enable several hidden performance options that are otherwise difficult to find and change.

Rescue centre for smooth system functioning Backup your essential information and assure your operations. BoostXP2 not only takes backup of your complete system but can also restore your system to last known good configuration when required.

It can also bind your system by securing Windows with number of restrictions and policies. Safeguard your system and ensures privacy BoostXP2 lets you to selectively view cookie contents and Internet Explorer cache as a separate file, and delete them.

It clears the Internet Explorer's visited link/URL history and recent document history to ensure privacy. Manage files easily BoostXP2 is a comprehensive utility that fixes and recovers data from a corrupt zip file.

Apart from this, it can split or rejoin a file and can securely delete your files. Subsidiary tasks of use BoostXP2 comes with miscellaneous options like: feature to know where the important system folders are stored on your local disk drive and allows modifying them or you can automatically log into Windows skipping Windows logon screen.

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But it doesn't stop there and gives you an additional value by providing a screen capture mechanism that will allow you to capture entire screens, windows and controls and you will have an option to just place them on the clipboard or save to a.

BMP or. PNG file. There is also a zoom function that will show any part of the screen from 1:1 to 11:1 ratio. Major features include: - Pick up the color value from anywhere on the screen - Sample area to see how the color works with other colors - Zoom any area of the screen up to 11 times the original - Capture any window or control - Save to clipboard,.

bmp files - Instant capture from the taskbar - Very easy to use

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