How to Transform Your Windows Desktop with an Amazing Windows Phone 7-Style HUD (Windows) Windows desktop customization tool Omnimo takes the look and feel of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 user interface and brings it to any Windows desktop in an attractive and functional form that's fresh, useful, and full of eye candy.
Glint Monitors Hundreds of System Resources (Windows) If you're a fan of system monitoring applications but you're constantly underwhelmed by how little they actually monitor-just memory and CPU usage? Pitiful!-then you'll want to take a look at Glint, a more-is-better system monitor.
Scrybe Adds Multi-Finger Scrolling and App Launching Gestures to Touchpads (Windows) We recently detailed two ways of getting Mac-like multi-finger scrolling on a Windows laptop, involving little open-source apps and hacked drivers. Touchpad giant Synaptics actually offers its own app, Scrybe, that provides multi-finger scrolling, along with gesture-style application launching.
MapQuest 4 Mobile Brings Free Turn-by-Turn, Voice-Guided GPS to iPhone (iPhone) If you're an iPhone user who's jealous of Android's awesome free, turn-by-turn, voice-guided Google Maps Navigation GPS app, here's some good news: MapQuest just released its own free voice navigation app for the iPhone.
Middleman Syncs Virtually Any Device with iTunes on a Mac (Mac) With platforms like Google Android becoming more popular, lots of Mac owners have opted for non-Apple mobile devices, leaving them without a good way to sync their music. Middleman is a free app that syncs any USB mass-storage with iTunes.
WinPenPack Gathers Hundreds of Portable Apps in One Package (Windows) If you're interested in packing your flash drive with portable apps but you're dragging your feet getting around to downloading them all, winPenPack fits over a hundred applications into a single portable package.
Subsonic Streams Your Desktop Music to iPhones and Android (Windows/Mac/Linux [and iPhone/Android]) Want access to your complete digital music stash while you're out and about with your smartphone? Subsonic is one way to get it. The desktop streaming server has dedicated iPhone and Android apps for making the phone-to-home connection.
Cubed Is a Much Better Music App for Android (Android) The Music app that comes pre-loaded on Android phones can be described, generously, as functional. Cubed, a music player with better looks, great features, and automatic album art grabbing, is what you should consider using instead.
New Tab to Tasks Puts Your Google Tasks in Front of You (Chrome) Having a task list is great, but if you never see the list it doesn't do you a lot of good. New Tab to Tasks takes your Google Task list and puts it right in front of you.
