Archive for August, 2008

Launchy is designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.

Version 2.0 has been completely rebuilt using Qt toolkit with a new look, better skinning support, simplified options, and other new features and improvements. Skins, plugins, and configurations for previously version of Launchy may not work with Version 2.0.

Get it here: Launchy

The well liked Thermaltake Toughpower QFan Power Supply Series has released two new high wattage models: 750W and 850W. Both 80Plus compliant, these two new models are specially designed for enthusiasts looking for high wattage satisfactory Power Supply with excellent thermal dissipation, low noise output and concerns on energy saving issues all at the same time.

Toughpower QFan 500W/650W has gained quite a strong reputation on quiet operation since its launch in August 2007; the new 750W/ 850W models are thus further added to the same QFan featured product line to provide more choices for system builders and enthusiasts. The QFan PSU Series was named upon the exclusive patent 14cm silent QFan with unique blade and 360° open frame design featured on the power supplies. The QFan helps well in reducing the overall noise output and accelerating greater internal air flow at the same time. In addition to the QFan feature, the patent five-way air intake design on the housing further enhances the ventilation and thermal dissipation ability of the power supply.

Additionally, for eco-friendly and energy saving conscious users, Toughpower QFan Series is not only 80Plus compliant; these power supplies operates at an energy efficiency rate of up to 85%, delivering full rated power output continuously. The Active Power Factor Correction feature on the other hand maintains high power factor at 0.99 to minimize electrical waste that not only saves energy, but your electricity bills too!

Toughpower QFan 750W/850W will soon be available on the market in late Q3 2008; all packages are designed with cable management systems for air flow concerns. The powerful single +12V rail offers superior performance for your PC systems. Two 6pin and two 8pin PCI-E connectors supports all the latest NVIDIA & ATI graphic cards. The new Thermaltake Toughpower QFan 750/ 850W are now here to power up your system with the best performance and quiet operation!

Website: Thermaltake

Executor is a multipurpose launcher and a more advanced and customizable version of Windows Run. The program originated as I was sick of spending too much time searching for programs through my ever growing windows start-menu, and also I missed a tool that could ease and optimize my daily work flow.

There was of course already programs like this available, but each had it’s annoyance or missing features or too(!) geeky.

Features include: keywords that have properties like shortcuts–for example you can drag and drop a shortcut/file/folder/favorite to add it as a keyword; auto-completion for keywords, file system and history; URL detection; parameter-supported keywords like “google latest executor” or “wiki nirvana”; dynamically added start-menu items, control panel items and other handy items to the drop-down/list; and the ability to add your own paths to scan for user defined file extensions.

Get it here: Executor