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• Desktop Programs •
SwapMouseButtons and Dmouse
For left-handed users, who want to swap the mouse buttons under Windows easily.
SwapMouseButtons allows also to swap the mouse pointer from right to left and you can swap the mouse buttons easyily with CTRL + F12, a custom Hotkey or thru clicking on an icon on your Quick Launch toolbar. It's very useful when lefties sharing a computer with righties!
View some Screenshots to get an impression.
You can download SwapMouseButtons 2.3 right here.
Compatible with Windows 98, NT, ME, 2000 and XP.
The Hompage is no longer available but I will keep SwapMouseButtons on my web page and on my computer. It seems that both tools are identically but you can see the first differences when you view the Screenshots.
Dmouse integrates into the Taskbar and is also easily usable on Touchscreens.
Here are some Screenshots of DMouse.
Download Dmouse 1.0.0 or visit the Hompage.
Dmouse is compatible with Windows 98 - Vista, maybe Windows 7.
A tutorial for left-handed cursors under Windows 7: SevenForums. In general you can copy or unpack all Windows Cursor Themes (*.cur and *.ani) to the folder Cursors which is a subfolder of C:\Windows. That applies also to earlier versions of Windows like 98, Me, 2000, XP and Vista. To select a new theme or switch to another theme, go to Control Panel - Mouse - Pointers.
Find a lot of cursors (for lefties and righties) at FunUtilities.
Create your own cursors with: RealWorld Cursor Editor and Free Icon Editor.
Cursors for Linux Desktops: GNOME, KDE and Xfce. There you'll find also Cursor and Mouse Themes, respectively for lefties (Yellow Dot - Left Handed, crystal xcursors, Faber Cursors and Grounation). You'll find the crystal xcursors also within the Debian repositories and mostly within the repositories of systems which are based on Debian like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Simply start the Synaptic Package Manager, search for crystalcursors, install and select one.
The cursor which (LBluecurve) you can see on the screenshots is originally from Redhat and Fedora, respectively. There are two cursors for lefties and two for righties. Cause it's hard to find a package, I packed all four themes to an archive.
The themes are working really fine under current and older releases of Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint. To install the themes, open your file manager and click on View - Show Hidden Files and navigate to or create the hidden .icons folder, unpack the archive and select the one you like as you can see on the Screenshots above. A version for Windows with a left-handed Cursor integrated is also available.
CursorXP
Are you bored about the default Windows mouse cursor? Get some very well made mouse cursors for free! CursorXP provides colorful and creative alternatives to the default Windows mouse cursor themes. The animated cursors needs a bit more memory and the CPU must work a little stronger. So, be careful if you have an older PC with less memory and a "little" CPU. If you download more themes and the files are displayed as zip files, what is mostly a problem of Windows XP. Rename the extension from .zip to .CurXPTheme then double click the file to install the new theme.
26 languages are integrated, too. Have a look: Screenshot
Get Version 1.31 of CursorXP for Windows 2000 and XP.
The Homepage, the Support Forum and more Themes.
CursorXP (2.27 MB) has been replaced by CursorFX (14,1 MB) which runs on Windows XP, Vista and 7.
JoJoSaver
JoJoSaver is a screensaver, which indicates pictures of the file types JPG, BMP, GIF, png, TIF, WMF, TGA and PCX in a Diashow. These pictures can be in freely selectable listings. The time intervals between the picture changes as well as the kind of the sequence of the pictures (coincidental, according to file names sorts ...) can be stopped. The picture change can be accomplished by a multiplicity of selectable effects. Languages: Dansk, Deutsch, English, Espanol, Francais, Hrvatski, Italiano, Nederlands, Norsk.
For Windows 9x, NT4, ME, 2000, XP and Vista.
Very simply in handling and the effects are genuinly class. The JoJoSaver is much better than other Free and Shareware Screensavers.
Attention: After the installation process each picture change fig. must have been 3-5 times gone through, until the timing parameter for the respective PC was determined.
JoJoSaver Version 2.2.0 without the VB Runtimes.
The VB Runtimes are required for JoJoSaver! Take the Full Setup which includes the Runtimes, if you are not sure.
The JoJoSaver Homepage.
Dexpot
A great tool for people who need more space on their Desktops is Dexpot. You can use up to 20 virtual Desktops at the same time and you can select a own wallpaper for each Desktop. Switch between the Desktops (Desktop Manager) and define your personal combinations of hotkeys. Dexpot runs under Windows 2000 - 7 and 64-bit versions. You need administrative rights during the installation process. The VB Runtimes are included.
Dexpot is free for private, none commercial use only!
Downloads: Dexpot 1.5.5 Build 1302 and the Portable
New in version 1.5: Some bugs from 1.4.2 are fixed, new icons, Windows 7 Wallpaper styles, Live full-screen preview, plug-ins with 3D transition effects and more. A full list of updates and bugfixes is available on the Dexpot Homepage.
Desktop Notes
We love sticking those little yellow notes around our monitors, fridges and everywhere in our offices and at home. Often, our monitors are sticked with so much notes that we can't see the whole desktop. These useful notes are avalaible as little helper applications for computers since a long time but until now only two links were available on my page Useful. Now I introduce some of them here on my desktop related page where is the only right place to do that.
PNotes (Open Source) runs under Windows 98 - 7 and 64-bit, is available within an archiv and therefore usable without installation process and naturally usable on your USB flash drives. PNotes is very customizable!
View some Screenshots to get a first impression.
PNotes 6.5.110 Setup: SourceForge frettts-freeware
PNotes 6.5.110 Portable: SourceForge frettts-freeware
Download the German language file for PNotes directly here!
More than 30 language files: The PNotes Homepage.
Stickies (Freeware) runs under Windows 98 - 7 and is another of this great little programs for placing your sticky notes around the Desktop.
Downloads (Version 7.0b): frettts-freeware Zhorn Software
Download the German language file.
More language files: The Stickies Homepage.
Another free prog for Windows (2000 - 7): Sticky Notes
Two Programs for Linux: Xpad and Tomboy.
Two Firefox Addons:
Tomfox (Linux): Homepage Mozilla-Addons
MyStickies: Homepage Mozilla-Addons
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