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Halftone Search for Google Desktop
$0 - TrieTech

Google Desktop is a free tool available for download from the Google web site. This powerful instrument is intended as a cross-platform solution that allows you to make searches on your local PC the same way as you search the WEB with Google. But what is good in general cannot be absolutely perfect for every particular case. Halftone Search from Trietech is a free Google Desktop add-on that offers some advanced Google Desktop functionality to MS Windows users.

Google Desktop uses an HTML interface. It's fine for the net, but on your local desktop you would certainly prefer an application that uses native Windows controls. Halftone Search solves this problem by offering you an alternative Google Toolbar UI. With the Halftone Search, you can highlight search terms in the results, customize fonts, etc. The program can extract compressed files on-the-fly and show their contents. It also provides several ways to make searches. You can choose from a pop-up menu in your Windows tray, a form or a dockable toolbar in the main program window.

In addition to the interface enhancements, Halftone Search also extends the Google Desktop search engine itself. As you may know, Google Desktop uses "drivers" to collect searchable data from your local files.
"Drivers" are plugins that allow it to understand specific file formats.
Halftone Search installs drivers for compressed file archives (rar, zip, arj, tar, gz, bz2, etc.), chm files, MS Help v.2 files (just imagine a searchable index of all the help files on your disks), plain-text files with unicode support, web archives (mht) plus all the drivers you may have installed by MSN Desktop Search. With Halftone Search you can also manage all the installed drivers.

With all of the above in mind, we are quickly driven to the conclusion that Halftone Search is a must-have add-on for every Google Desktop user
with a Windows powered PC.

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IconChanger
$19.95 - Shell Labs

Does your desktop look plain and boring? Get Icon Changer! Icon Changer is a software application that makes changing icons fun and easy. It's a hassle-free way to personalize your desktop without having to open up any computer manuals. Simply click the icon you want to change, point at the one you like and that's all. Change icons to make navigation easier, to group similar applications together, or merely to customize and spice up your desktop.

But it's not all for fun and games. Have you ever worked with Word or Excel files? Then you know that all the documents created with these (and other) applications "inherit" the icon from the program from which they were created. But what if you have some Word documents for a school project, some for business and some for legal correspondence?
Would it not be great to label all of these files differently, so you know what each document is for, instead of trying to guess from the name or folder location, or worse yet, reading it. This same method can be used to distinguish folders.

Where are you going to get all these icons from? Don't worry! Icon Changer automatically scans for all icons available on your hard-drive and extracts them even from executables and DLL files. Cursor and bitmap files are supported as well. You'll be surprised by how many amazingly cool icons you already have on your computer hard-drive and didn't even know about.

The program can be activated in a variety of ways, including via contextual menu. The interface of this application is Explorer-like, making it easy to navigate and use. Other advantages of Icon Changer include file type filtering options, recursive directory search, easy access to favorite icons, and automatic resolution adaptation.

Best of all, Icon Changer is free to try. Get your copy now!

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Elefun Screen-Mate :: Elefunia-Butterfly
$0 - EleFun Multimedia

The EleFun Multimedia Company has released the first screen-mate Elefunia. Elefunia is a butterfly which sits at your task bar. This is a marvelous and very interactive butterfly. Just point a cursor at the butterfly and it will fly up and then slowly go down. You can change butterfly's colouring and set up random colouring at each start of Elefunia. This amazing butterfly looks like real. You can work on your computer, receive mail or type in text editor - butterfly will always stay in sight. It will rest in the right lower corner of your monitor and slowly move its wings. It won't disturb you. Install Elefunia and this butterfly will live in your computer and bring you joy every day. :: Screen-mates is a perspective trend of the EleFun Multimedia?s activity, which was recently opened. What are screen-mates? These are absolutely new products which cannot be compared with animated desktop wallpapers and animated screensavers. Screen-mates are aimed for entertainment. Entertainment just at your desktop. Each screen-mate is to the maximum interactive object. It can be animal, insect or some other object. For example, butterfly «EleFunia», or a ?Christmas Tree?. Animated personage appears at the user?s desktop at each start of a screen-mate. It is always on top of opened windows and is ready to bring joy to its user. Screen-mate running at your desktop won?t bother you at work. It requires minimum of computer resources. Each screen-mate has varied choice of settings. Every user will be able to set up screen-mate in such a way that playing or watching it will bring pleasure and delight. Running one or several screen-mates at the moment you will create a new world at your desktop. World of Electronic Fun.

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Elefun Screen-Mate :: Christmas-Fir!
$0 - EleFun Multimedia

The EleFun Multimedia Company congratulates you with Christmas! As a gift to its users our company has released a new Screen-mate ?Christmas Fir?. The same way as you bring a fir-tree to your home and decorate it, you can download ?Christmas Fir?, install it on your computer and decorate it! You can put ?Christmas Fir? in any corner of the screen of your monitor and decorate it choosing one of four sets of decoration. You can also switch snow falling over your tree, holiday fireworks and put gift boxes under the tree. You can decorate ?Christmas Fir? with a garland. Using the settings of ?Christmas Fir? you can make so that congratulation with Christmas will be lighted in the garland. This is a unique ?Christmas Fir? with the help of which you can send congratulations to your friends and relatives and offer them to install this ?Christmas Fir? on their computers! ::: Screen-mates is a perspective trend of the EleFun Multimedia?s activity, which was recently opened. What are screen-mates? These are absolutely new products which cannot be compared with animated desktop wallpapers and animated screensavers. Screen-mates are aimed for entertainment. Entertainment just at your desktop. Each screen-mate is to the maximum interactive object. It can be animal, insect or some other object. For example, butterfly «EleFunia», or a ?Christmas Tree?. Animated personage appears at the user?s desktop at each start of a screen-mate. It is always on top of opened windows and is ready to bring joy to its user. Screen-mate running at your desktop won?t bother you at work. It requires minimum of computer resources. Each screen-mate has varied choice of settings. Every user will be able to set up screen-mate in such a way that playing or watching it will bring pleasure and delight. Running one or several screen-mates at the moment you will create a new world at your desktop. World of Electronic Fun.

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Crawler Fun Ball
$0 - CRAWLER, LLC

Play with Fun Ball on your desktop for FREE and access your toolbar menu with a right-click on the ball. Toss it all around, it bounces right back. Don?t ever get bored again!

You can use also a free customizable Crawler Toolbar that has games, ecards, fun ball, download manager, WSG, and more! Enjoy screensavers like 3D aqua marine, 3D aqua tropical, 3D fire, 3D earth, and 2D slideshow. Enliven your browser with colorful IE browser skins, choose from over 2,000. Replace your plain cursor with an animated cursor from our huge gallery! Beautify your desktop with incredible wallpapers from our huge gallery covering popular subjects for everyone. Customize buttons to access frequently used programs, like Word, Excel, or Crawler features, like popup blocker, skins and games.

Crawler Toolbar Search scores at the top of the class for most relevant search results. Select one search engine, such as Yahoo, MSN or Ask Jeeves, or choose metasearch and get the combined results from all available search engines.

Rich with advanced plugins like MP3 player, you will enjoy Internet radio and at the same time make recordings of your favorite songs and radio shows. Display RSS and ATOM feeds directly in Internet Explorer or icon tray from favorite news sources such as CNN or NPR.

Access your Crawler email account fast and efficiently with email plugin. Get 1-click webmail access, monitor multiple accounts, get notified and preview incoming emails. Compose new messages thru shortcut, upload attachments with simple right-click.

Web Security Guard protects your computer from unauthorized tampering by notifying you of Internet Explorer security setting changes caused by viruses and other malicious software. Crawler popup blocker helps to stop intrusive popup windows while allowing popups from sites you choose.

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Saint Patricks Day Desktop Wallpapers
$0 - ESTsoft Corp.

St. Patrick's Day is time to decorate your PC with pots of gold and rainbows, leprechauns and magic toadstools, shamrocks and shillelaghs, and green beer too. And you can put a little bit of Eire on your desktop with the ALTools St. Patrick's Day Desktop Wallpapers.

This year our ALTools Egghead Leprechaun friend takes you on a private tour of some special places and his most prized posessions. Starting with his pot of gold, he meanders through his fairy ring of magic toadstools and finally winds up his tour with his greatest treasure...

The first St. Patrick's Day desktop wallpaper features and ALTools Leprechaun guarding his pot of gold and green beer with his mighty shillelagh. If you catch him, you might just get his pot of gold, but we wouldn't advise touching his beverage...

The second St. Patrick's day desktop wallpaper shows our leprechaun friend atop a magic toadstool in the fairy ring he's planted. Toadstools may be fine food for fairy-folk, but we don't advise eating them for big people.

The last St. Patrick's Day desktop wallpaper has our wee-folk friend amidst a green beer forest! Huge magical glasses of eternally full green beer surround our leprechaun friend as his greatest treasure. And with the conclusion of our magical tour, our wee-folk friend has just one thing to say, "Tabhair póg dom, is Éireannach mé!"

But he'll only show you these special places for St. Patrick's Day though, so make sure to download him today.

These fun desktops will keep you in the holiday spirit with 3 brightly colored high-quality desktop wallpapers. Multiple resolutions for each wallpaper ensure they fit any monitor perfectly, all the way up to 30" Cinema Displays at 2560x1600!

The ALTools St. Patrick's Day desktop wallpapers are brought to you by ESTsoft, the same people who brought you ALZip, ALShow, ALSong, ALSee, ALFTP, and ALPass.

Oh yeah... And one last thing...

Éireann go Brách!

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