Chaos Wallpaper is a free RSS/Atom news aggregator and desktop wallpaper shuffler, that is capable of displaying RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0, and Atom 0.x feeds along with your favourite wallpapers right on the Windows desktop.

Chaos Wallpaper does not require installation, simply copy it to the hard drive to run. All options are available from the program icon when runnning in the taskbar. The RSS/Atom feeds to be displayed and the display area of the feeds is fully customizable using CSS, you can also change the images you want to be rotated and the time period to change the wallpaper and the RSS/Atom feed.

- To download the free Chaos Wallpaper application…

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Do you want to make personalized ringtones from your favorite songs for free, without the need to perform any hard to do AUDIO editing? Coolringer intelligently figures out the best part of your favorite song and makes a personalized ringtone for you in just a few seconds.

Using a special algorithm Coolringer actively listens and finds the musical highlight of any song and then cut outs your ringtone snippet, and it does that pretty well having in mind that it is completely automated. So, all you have to do is upload in your favorite song, and out pops your personalized ringtone to use or share with friends!

The best part is that with Coolringer you can even make a ringtone for you mobile phone or even for Skype by just right clicking on MP3 file and choosing to make a ringtone out of it.

- To download the free Coolringer application…

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Visual Task Tips is a free lightweight shell enhancement utility that provides thumbnail preview image for each task that is currently running in the Windows Taskbar (just as you??™ve probably seen in the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista). Why not install this useful application while waiting for the upcoming Vista operating system, that is supposed to be officially released somewhere in 2007…

By using Visual Task Tips you can quickly find the needed application window, especially if you are constantly working with lots of applications running all at once and your Taskbar is always overcrowded.

- To download and try the Visual Task Tips ver. 2.1 …

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Launchy is the most efficient way to open files, folders, and programs on your computer. Nobody likes to hunt through the start menu to find an application, just to find that the application is hidden under some obscure folder named after a company you have never heard of! Instead, Launchy is a smart search program which tries to guess which program or file you are looking for and will launch it when you hit the enter key. It is only visible when you hit the ALT + SPACE key combination; otherwise it hides in the background. Once you have used it for a few days, it becomes an indispensable utility for your computer. And it’s free!

How to use Launchy
Launchy installs itself into your Startup folder (it??™s buried in your start menu) and will automatically run every time you log into your computer. Yet, where is it? Launchy hides in the background until you need it. To bring it to the foreground type ALT … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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Miranda IM is a smaller, faster and easier free instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Supplemented by hundreds of plugins and other content, Miranda IM is very flexible and provides many avenues for customisation.

With the 0.5 release, Miranda IM introduces Unicode support, to further improve integration into multi-language systems. Available now are 2 separate download options. The Unicode version is available for Windows NT, 2000, and XP users and a non-Unicode version is available for Windows 9x and ME users. Another new feature of this release is the introduction of AIM Oscar. This provides users with the ability to transfer files and receive away messages that previous versions did not support. This release also increases the support for avatars among many of the protocols along with plenty of bug fixes and new features.

- Download Miranda IM 0.5 here…

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