Tag: PROGRAM-LAUNCHERS

A few weeks back we asked you to name your favorite program launchers. While we're big fans of QuickSilver for OS X and Launchy for Windows, we had a feeling there might be something faster, fuller-featured, or otherwise better out there. And you rose to the challenge, listing a bunch of great alternatives. But now Launchy's upping its game with the release of Launchy 2.0. It's still a lightweight ...

From the Apple Newton to the Palm Pilot to the Windows Mobile PDA, there's been one constant in mobile touch screen devices: the stylus. The Apple iPhone shook all of that up this year with the introduction of a finger-friendly display and application launcher. And it didn't take long for Windows Mobile developers to follow suit and design utilities that make it easier for you to smudge your ...

If you've spent the last week looking up good recipes for leftover turkey, here are a few of the yummy stories you may have missed on Download Squad. Google removes thousands of malware sites Google has removed more than 40,000 sites from its index. This is a good thing, because many of those sites were pretending to offer useful information and instead viciously attacking your computer. Keep in ...

When we first heard about Vista Start Menu, we assumed it was a program that would give Windows XP users a Vista-like start menu. But while Vista Start Menu does have a search box and a Vista-black theme, that's where the similarities end. In fact, Vista Start Menu works on both Windows XP and Vista. So what exactly does this application do? It replaces your Xp or Vista start menu with an easy ...

OS X has its dock, Windows Vista has an enhanced start menu, and Windows XP has, well, a bunch of menus to click through to launch programs. But thanks to independent developers, there are a ton of great program launchers out there that make it easy to bring an OS X-style dock to Windows, or keyboard program launchers to pretty much any operating system. Over the years we've tried out a ton of ...