A few weeks ago i told you about this program here.

So, in short, Visual Task Tips adds thumbnail preview to the windows in the taskbar, just like Windows Vista does. The only difference is that this program doesn’t support live previews, at least not yet.

Visual Task Tips 3.4 latest changes:

• Text tooltips placement errors fixed
• No more hungs on “busy” applications
• Problem with tasks located outside of primary monitor bounds fixed
• Minor drawing performance optimizations
• Updates check removed from the program, RSS news added on the website

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Driver Sweeper has a new version and a new website. Previously, it was developed and released by Guru 3D. I don’t know what happened betweem them, but the latest version now shows Published by Guru3D.com in the title bar.

The new author, Phyxion, changed the whole interface for the better, because now it is easier to view the logs and overall i like its simplistic look instead of the huge icons in earlier versions.

I use it everytime i want to install new drivers from Realtek, Nvidia, ATI or Creative. This way i narrow the chances of having issues with new drivers because of leftover files from previous versions.

All you have to do is reboot your computer after uninstalling drivers. Then, run Driver Sweeper and select which drivers you want to clean up and reboot again. Now you can install new versions of the drivers.

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Most applications today insert entries in the context menu of file and folders, making it display a little slow (specially on windows XP) and making useless entries sometimes.

What is really bad, is that many of them don’t provide options to enable or disable those entries.

Fast Explorer makes configuring your context menus really easy. It displays a huge list of entries organized by file types. When you select a file type, the program displays its actual entries in the right side of the window so you can uncheck the ones you don’t want to appear when you right-click on this kind of files.

This way, you can get rid of entries you don’t need and make your context menu display faster and make it smaller by displaying only the entries you want or need.

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Here is another version of this handy website screenshot program.

WebShot 1.61 latest changes:

• Fixed http authenticate not working on certain sites
• Fixed tab control not updating options when pressing start
• Fixed compatability with Windows 2000 server
• Fixed some php com get functions not returning values
• Fixed gui button repainting bug

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Outlook on the Desktop is an application that takes your Microsoft Outlook calendar information and displays it on you desktop, along with all the events and tasks so you can see them all at any time.

The calendar is shown with transparency in the center of the screen and you can insert task and appointments without opening Outlook, which is great.

You configure it to show the inbox, calendar, tasks, among other components.

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After waiting for a couple of months, this is the final release of KeePass Password Safe, a great application for managing and storing all of your passwords.

The password database database is encrypted and no one but you can see it. You can organize your accounts in categories, asign them icons and more.

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Auslogics System Information 1.1.12.218 was released today.

In their website there are no release notes, so i don’t know what the changes are.

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Today Mozilla released the final version of Firefox 3.0.

I was trying to get access to their ftp’s but all of them were full of users downloading it. It was until some minutes ago that i noticed they changed their site to reflect their new release. They changed graphics and other stuff on the homepage.

Now, everyone can access the download links and also read all about the new features, which too many to talk about them here.

The most promising features are what they call the Awesome Bar and the memory management and performance issues that were present since 1.x versions.

Update: PortableApps.com has already released the portable version of Firefox 3.0. Get it here.

Important: Before you upgrade to this new version, make sure you know all the extensions you use because you will need to install them later. It could be helpful to write them down if you have too many.

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