If you are a Windows XP user but really like the visual glass effects of Windows Vista, then Border Skin is for you. Border Skin is a new free program that skins the windows borders by skins composed of png images with the support of 2 famous windows vista & 7 effects ( Blur and reflection ) Nothing much to really add here. When you run Border Skin, there is...

One of the eye candy functions that Mac OS offers is a feature called Expose. Wikipedia describes this feature like so: Exposé allows a user to quickly locate an open window, or to hide all windows and show the desktop without the need to click through many windows to find a specific target. It is very similar to the tab view function offered by browsers where...

A very easy way to add some ‘pizazz’ to your Windows installation is to install a dock application to launch your programs and documents. I have written about one previously, but another to turn your attention to is the open source Circle Dock. Circle Dock offers everything you would expect from a dock application in that you can add as many programs...

A really nice feature which is standard with Windows Vista is the task bar preview. That is when you hover your mouse over an item in the task bar, you get a small thumbnail of what the application currently looks like without having to restore it. If you would like to add this functionality to Windows XP, check out Visual Task Tips. This free program simply...

Yesterday Rich posted an article on how nVidia users can make their taskbar transparent. Well, if you are not an nVidia user and want to apply this effect, give a look at the appropriately named program: Transparent Taskbar. As you would expect, the program description is pretty simple: Transparent TaskBar is a free tool that lets you to easily adjust the...

One piece of eye-candy Mac’s OS offers is the program launch bar which animates mouse over events and displays a preview of minimized windows. If this is something you would like to add to your Windows machine, then look no further than RocketDock. RocketDock basically takes the exact functionality of the Mac program launch bar and adds it to Windows. You...