I just discovered the best thing since the invention of sliced bread (at least when it comes to Windows 7). Remember how much I complained about the missing "classic" start menu and the new Windows Explorer that got rather worse than better? Well, not anymore, because someone created "Classic Shell", a project that finally brings back all the features that worked fine in XP, but were removed by Microsoft in order to annoy their customers. Read more about all the greate features here: http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

Some pics:



The good old fold-out start menu is back, taking up less space, and much faster navigation to programs that you don't use very often.



A much improved UI for Windows Explorer, which brings back the dotted lines of the folder tree on the left, a status bar that actually tells you the size of the files which you have selected and a small icon bar with buttons that were missing in Win7's Explorer, such as "One folder up" and copy & paste icons.

heh... now is the turn of Bill... follow at the big nerd in  http://twitter.com/billgates
  ... and talking about nerds ... follow me in THErealGUSTAVO (http://twitter.com/THErealGUSTAVO)
and talking about bad taste themes, and if you are a novice in the use of the new ribbon of ms office 2007, 2010, or talking with sincerity the new gui of this suite is a bit stranger to your eyes, the guys if officelabs of ms have a small game to learn to use ms office... in special if you have a account in facebook...

http://www.officelabs.com/ribbonhero  

of course the memory is so fragile and the internet too, in special with special places... this is a good alternative to save a complete copy of a web-site in your computer...

http://www.httrack.com/   is a freeware tool under gpl licence, and my tool to made backup of my fav places...  

sometimes the sketcher need draw a idea quickly, (the moment of inspiration is really short) of course big tools like photoshop, Procreate Painter, etc are very slow by his big characteristics, the solution are always the small programs, this is is one of my favs by the high performance and low weight, SmoothDraw...  the GUI is really simple perfect to hyper quick scribbles 

http://www.smoothdraw.com/product/index.htm   

news since the creators of OpenCanvas.... sadly the support to english products of Portalgraphics  finish soon, and now we need check the japanese web-site ... in the last year the company presents SketchBox  as a alternative to the japanese sketchers and artists... let me share the link to the trial version...

http://www.portalgraphics.net/sb/

if your skills with the japanese are bad this is the quick link to download the trial version  http://www.portalgraphics.net/download/dl_log.php?dl=79361834568d4b83c3f75e6de3ba5ec8

really does not exist big features versus other programs like Paint Tool Sai or Open Canvas... but the secret of Sketchbox is the simply and functional Interface and this is useful


bye bye and enjoy  (and sorry by my bad english)