Docky ‘Shortcut Bar’ now Stands Alone
Docky an AWN look-alike hits the road all alone. Formerly integrated with GNOME Do, Docky is now an independent application that has maintained many of its goodies like the in-built plug-ins and hopes to bring in more. This application is still at an early alpha level but it’s worth a try as its even […]
Appetizer: The Open Source Application Launcher for Windows
Appetizer is a free open source application launcher for Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
Appetizer is highly customizable – it is skin-able, resizeable, with vertically and horizontally display, it supports plugins and keyboard shortcuts – – you can assign a hotkey to hide and show the launcher, for example.
Appetizer can be installed or […]
Cairo-Dock 2.0 – A Unique Style
Cairo-Dock is a highly configurable Mac OS X type of dock, with multiple themes, a smooth and glossy graphical effect; from 3d icons to plane view passing thru 3D view and more.
A Quick look at Prism 1.0 Beta Standalone
What can Prism 1.0 do for you, Ubuntu user?
Using Twitter as an example – Twitter already has many desktop clients like Twitux, Twidge – a command-line Twitter client; Now add Prism to that long list.
Mozilla Labs Launches Prism 1.0 beta With New WebSite
Mozilla Lab has released the beta of Prism 1.0 . Prism, popularly known as the Web Application Launcher is an open source, cross-platform, stripped down browser that lets users pull-out web applications out of their browser and run them directly from their desktop.
Prism 1.0 beta, that comes with exciting new features, is a […]
SimDock: An Easy to Use Gnome Dock and Launcher
Whilst Avant Window Navigator counts on it cutting-edge and complex looks, SimDock counts on its simplicity; to-use and to-customize. Written in c++ and wxWidgets, SimDock is just the dock/launcher a simple Gnome desktop needs – no Compiz nor 3D accelerator needed to get it fully functional.
Launchy – The application launcher for Linux and Windows
For Windows/Linux: If you’re a huge Windows/Linux app-user or tester, you certainly know what it takes every time to get to a desired application through the Windows Start Menu(Application Menu in Ubuntu) or via the many desktop icons. Launchy is designed to help you.
Transform Web apps into Desktop apps with the Prism extension for Firefox
Mozilla has released an updated version of prism, the stripped down web launcher. Prism is practically a naked version of Firefox, with no plugins, themes; nothing. With Prism you can launch web applications like Picassa, Facebook or Twitter and websites independently –- just like any desktop application.
Whats new; Even though the installation of […]
Getting Awn dock on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
Avant Window Navigator (Awn) makes up a custom launcher that looks and acts like Mac OS X Dock.
It can be customized to soothe your taste – docking new applications can be done with a simple drag and drop; on Gutsy Gibbon it is enough to drag icons from /usr/share/applications unto the dock.
To Install on […]