The Manicou Report

I deeply apologise for the late appearance of the Tech Tuesday feature. And yes I am aware it’s no longer Thursday, but I began this on Thursday and well, I’m making up the rules as I go.

Taskbar Shuffle Screenshot

The first tip today is a programme called Taskbar Shuffle. This programme is pretty much what it says it is. Have you ever wanted the items on your taskbar to be arranged in a different order? Well I have, and I guess I wasn’t the only one since someone decided work on fixing that.

Taskbar Shuffle, once installed, allows the user to change the order of any items on the taskbar to his or her liking. With the ease of drag and drop you can change your taskbar itimes to any order you desire. You can get Taskbar Shuffle here.

My next piece if freeware is actually an extension for Mozilla Firefox. This one, FoxyTunes, allows the user to operate a host of different media players right from the status bar.

With FoxyTunes you don’t need to keep switching from your browser to your media player in order to raise or lower the volume, skip, search or even view song and album information. It expands to display all the controls and it can easily collapse into a single button when you need some status bar space.

There’s also a FoxyTunes mini that can be placed on top of all your windows (say the Word document you’re working on) in case you don’t want to have to switch back to your browser.

FoxyTunes works with Windows Media Player, Winamp, iTunes and many other media players. Controls are very easy and it even includes a sleep timer and an alarm clock. You can configure it to your liking and even learn the keyboard shortcuts. Definitely one of the best Firefox extensions out there.

You can install FoxyTunes from here.

You can also download Mozilla from my link on my sidebar to the right.