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Wallnote: Notes and to-do lists on your desktop
I'm going to tell you a secret: With Active Desktop, a feature that has been around since Windows 95, you can turn any personalized home page, nay, any IE-compatible web page at all, into your desktop. Okay, it's not really a secret, but is unknown to many and taken for granted by most. Wallnote, however, is a web app that wants to capitalize on that functionality. It's a note-keeping and to-do-tracking app that can be used in any web browser, but is designed to live happily on your desktop. Wallnote doesn't have a lot of fancy features, but it has a nice clean look and gets the job done. It's free to use and there's a no-registration demo plus step-by-step instructions for getting it running on your Active Desktop on the Wallnote web site.[Via Lifehacker]
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Subscribe to commentsChrisJul 26th 2006 4:59PM
If you've installed Internet Explorer 7, forget Active Desktop. Microsoft turned it off.
caribJul 26th 2006 6:02PM
They probably turned it off because it regularly crashed your system!
Corkboard is a desktop application that provides even more functionality, without the frequent crashes.Its asystem hog, though.
http://www.pcdynamics.com/Corkboard/
ScottJul 26th 2006 10:04PM
Sorry, that's simply not true. I use Active Desktop and have IE7 installed. Active Desktop will work with HTML, CSS, and even AJAX -- it's really a shame that people don't take advantage of it because it is a very nice way to customize your desktop.
Do a google search for tsdesk to see some examples of what people are doing with Active Desktop.
Ørjan LangbakkJul 27th 2006 2:22AM
Why would I wanna use something that's using ActiveD? It's been known for its security problems for as long as it has existed, and really - there are so many capable "post-it" equivalents available out there - why would you use something like this?