Activate Flip 3D With Your Mouse in Vista

Over the last few years I’ve had many people ask me if they can somehow activate Flip 3D by moving the mouse to a corner of the screen, and I’ve always told them to use the much more powerful Switcher replacement instead, but that’s about to change.
The solution to this problem comes in the form of a tiny little application called Vista Flip 3D Activator, and it lets you assign a corner of the screen to activate Flip 3D, providing you haven’t disabled Flip 3D like I have.
Using Vista Flip 3D Activator
Installing the application is as simple as downloading and extracting the program file and running through the install wizard. Once you’ve done that, you can then check the corner of the screen that you’d like to use for activating Flip 3D…

You can also assign a mouse button if you want, although you should note that it doesn’t override IntelliMouse settings. Once you’ve activated Flip 3D, you can use your mouse wheel to scroll between the different windows, and then click to activate.
Note: for those of you that might be wondering, you can make Flip 3D stay on the screen without using any software by either clicking the “Window Switcher” icon in the Quick Launch (second to the left), or you can use the keyboard shortcut Win+Ctrl+Tab to make it stay on the screen. When it comes down to it, this utility really only saves clicking on the Quick Launch icon.

I’ve never been a fan of Flip 3D, but it’s a good chance to show off my favorite wallpaper!
  
This utility is extremely lightweight, weighing in around 2mb on my system, and that was when I was toying with it.

If you are a fan of Flip 3D, this is definitely the utility for you.
Download Flip3D Activator from notj.net  |  Softpedia Download Mirror

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Awesome Music Desktop Gadgets for Vista and Windows 7

Are you a music fan who wants an easy way to get the music you love with a simple application on your desktop?  Today we bring you a list of some of the cooler music themed desktop gadgets for Vista and Windows 7.
UnsignedBandWeb.com Radio
Check out new artists and bands emerging on the music scene with the UnsignedBandWeb.com gadget.  It allows you to control playback, volume, and songs.  You can can pick from a wide variety of music genres including Ska, Rock, Rap, and much more.

Download UnsignedBandWeb.com Radio Desktop Gadget
iTunes Accessory Gadget
This cool gadget allows you to control playback of tracks and other settings in iTunes without having to open up the entire iTunes application.

Download iTunes Accessory Gadget
ChroniX MetalRadio
If you’re a fan of heavy metal, one of the coolest online metal stations is ChroniX Radio.  This handy gadget lets you stream and control playback of their three channels–Aggression, Metal, and Grit–where each has a different flavor of hard rock and metal.

Download Chronix MetalRadio Gadget
iClassical Radio Player
For fans of classical music this gadget lets you stream classical music from a variety of online classical stations.  The only controls are stop and play but being able to select from a wide variety of stations on your desktop make this a excellent app for the classical music connoisseur.
 
 
Download the iClassical Radio Player Gadget
Media Player Gadget
This ties into your Windows Media Player library and allows you to easily search it.  It also will display album artwork, track information, and give you visualizations when playing a song.  It is a lot easier to navigate than opening the full WMP application.

Download Media Player Gadget

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Add or Remove Context Menu Items in Windows 7 and Vista

ShellNewHandler is an Open-Source Tool to enable or disable ShellNew entries, aka New File context menu entries from Windows Explorer in Vista and Windows 7. You only need to check or uncheck items to enable a desktop right-click context menu item. No need to install this tiny application. 


When you working on windows context menu is a very important and useful tool. It provides us with many shortcuts enabling to perform our work faster and easier. You can create many new files like jpg, bmp, word or excel directly with a single click serves in saving a lot of time. Sometimes we do not require all the options available in the new option. These extra options can be disabled or removed with ShellNewHandler. 

Using this freeware application ShellNewHandler you can easily add or remove items from the context menu new option. It is extremely simple and easy to use. It consists of one single main window providing item options. These can be checked or unchecked as user requirements. 


Primary designed for Windows Vista. Works  also on Windows 7. Should work on Windows XP too. Simple check the items in ListView to enable  an context menu entry and uncheck to disable it.

NOTE:  The process requires to run the tool with  Administrator privileges on Windows Vista  and Windows 7.

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ShellNewHandler (10.9 KB)

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