Organize Taskbar Icons by Grouping Pinned Applications on Windows 7

Pinning Application icons to Windows 7 taskbar is a cool thing as it allows fast access to most used Programs. Bins is a program to group Pinned items on Windows 7 taskbar. Simply, Merge multiple icons into one and create a group.

I am big fan of Fences which lets you organize Desktop icons in better manner and Bins comes from the same creator. As you can see in the screenshot, you can arrange similar type of application icons into one group. For example: Microsoft Office applications i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be grouped into one.

Bins can show upto four icons into one group. You can accumulate more than four icons into one but number of icons displayed will be four. The settings offered by the program, accessible under the settings icon located in the system tray, allowing you to enable or disable various additional features related to Peek and other extra items.

To Create a group, Drag an icon over other. To remove an item from Group, drag back those icons to taskbar. After installation, it will ask you for system restart but you can restart just Explorer process to start Bins.

In my case, 4 icons didn’t show up may be because of small height of taskbar and Third Party Theme.

Although, The program is in private beta and requires invitation to download but who likes to wait? I share the direct link to download from my dropbox.

Visit Official Bins site 

Banshee 2.0 Media Player support for Amazon MP3 and available for Windows

Banshee, default media player of Ubuntu was made available for windows recently is now in it’s version 2. Banshee 2.0 brings support for Amazon MP3 which lets you buy Music within application from online store.

Another innovation is a feature called “Play After”, which allows us to create a temporary playlist to add a track after Curremt artist or album.

The interface has been updated and is simplified with the main functions more accessible and the rest available on menus that have tried to keep it simple. And they have built new extensions, as is the case of Ubuntu and SoundMenu One Music Store.

The version released today includes support for Windows and in the case of Mac OS X is expected to arrive soon.

Download Banshee 2.0 

YouTube goes LIVE | Not Just Recorded Videos, Watch Live Streaming now

If you are searching for old videos or events, YouTube is the place to look at. With the rising popularity of YouTube (read dominance), the people at YouTube have decided to take it to the next level. Now, YouTube will allow selected partners to stream live video (sporting events, concerts, interviews and the like).

You can check out these live streaming videos at YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/live/. YouTube Live has just been rolled out today. In true YouTube fashion, they are also allowing you to subscribe to the live streaming channels. So the day is not far away when you might catch a live cricket match on YouTube itself !

Source : The Official YouTube blog 

All in one Disk Management Software with Advanced Features : DiskBoss

For performing different Folder and File management operations, we use separate applications. DiskBoss is really an awesome application for windows file and disk management. Thanks to this gem, you can perform search, classification, removing duplicates, and cleaning of files.

The main interface of application highlights all features on top bar which includes- Search, Sync, Clean up, Duplicates and Classify. You also have the ability to create scripts, or perform advanced commands that enable you to perform automated actions in one click.

Among these features, Classify is an interesting feature which shows classification of files on Disk. You know how many files such as video, audio, programs or documents you have stored in your PC.

Another nice feature is Organize which lets you initiate command to mass files and folders like create a command to copy / delete / move / compress (and more) all files of a certain size / extension.

Commands: From this window you can use and manage a set of predetermined commands about the features most requested by users so that they can start quickly with a click.

Download DiskBoss 

Get Windows 8 alike User Picture Tile in Windows 7 Taskbar

With each and every release of latest versions of windows usability has become lot easier. There are many added shortcuts or redesigned interfaces that allows users to perform tasks quickly.

Upcoming Windows 8 provides many new features like one click reset. One of these is the presence of User Picture Tile in the taskbar notification  area. If you are using Windows 7 then it is possible to test this feature with Taskbar User Tile.

Taskbar UserTile is a portable freeware for windows 7. It is easy to use and requires no additional settings. Just download the file and extract it on your local drive.

To use the application just click on the executable file. The user picture tile automatically appears in the notification area beside windows time. Now the question might be, how is this thing useful? Well, with this feature you can directly access User Account and Control Panel. In windows 7 this has to be done from the start menu.

Apart from accessing these locations you can also switch user, log off and lock your computer. It is a useful feature and helps to access these important locations and actions directly with a single click. Taskbar UserTile is still under development, so you may experience some bugs while using it.

Watch IPL 4 Live Streaming Online on Indiatimes

Recently concluded World Cup was exceptional for Indian Cricket Team. The team achieved the glory of lifting the World Cup after 28 long years.  Now, another big cricketing event awaits us. Yes, it’s the 4^th version of IPL, which will get started from 8^th April 2011 and will conclude on 28^th May 2011, featuring 74 matches.

The fourth edition of IPL will certainly be more entertaining than the previous versions.  It will be interesting to see how the various members of Indian team plays against each other after the kind of unity shown by them in World Cup. Moreover, the addition of two new teams Pune Warriors andKochi Tuskers Kerala and the IPL Auction brought about a change in composition of most of the teams, which again makes the contest more exciting.

The first match of the DLF IPL4 T20 will be held on 8^th April 2011 at 8PM in Chennai after a grand opening ceremony which will take place on the same day at 3:30 PM. The match will be played between IPL 3 Winner Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders.

Watch Online IPL 4 2011 Live on Internet

In case, you are not in front of the television sets, you can watch the matches online including the opening ceremony on Indiatimes- http://ipl.indiatimes.com/.

For more details regarding the IPL 4 schedule, visit here.  If you are looking to watch the match live, then you can book tickets by visiting here. 

Analyze Multiple Graphics Cards Installed on your System

Earlier we covered GPU-Z, a freeware application that can analyze graphics card’s specification in Windows. If you are not happy with one tool at your hand, GPU Shark is also a good option to give a try.

GPU Shark is a portable graphics card analysis tool for windows. It is easy to use, has simple but powerful interface that accommodates all information at a single place. It can be used by both beginners and advanced users.

GPU Shark provides two modes to view information. With one you can view only the present state of your graphics card. Information include present state of graphics card’s performance with respect of GPU, memory, shader clock frequencies and temperature.

The advanced view or detailed view can be brought from the view option. It includes measures for all level of performances.

GPU Shark does not provide much information on graphics card architecture as provided in GPU-Z. But it is a simple tool to keep performance check on all graphics cards on your system. It can analyze inactive card’s too apart from the one that is currently being used.