Create Your Own Tiles On Start Screen To Launch Programs

The new Start screen in Windows 8 also known as Metro Style Start Screen lets you pin folders, webpages, programs and drives as tiles but it doesn’t allow you create your own custom tile to launch programs or files. 

OblyTile is a wonderful utility which let one to share not only pin custom images as tiles to the Start screen but also lets you assign programs to those tiles so you can launch your favorite file or program just tapping or clicking the tile.

OblyTile is totally free tool to use. With the help of OblyTile one can easily create tiles for any program or a file with a few mouse clicks. Another cool thing about the program is that you can select your favorite image as the tile background.

Creating a new Start screen tile with OblyTile is extremely easy. Download this portable the program (doesn’t require installation), enter a name for your new tile, enter the program file path or browse to the file that you want to associate with the tile, select a large (120 x 120) and small image (30 x 30) and finally click Create Tile button. Current OblyTile supports only square tile.

Overall, OblyTile is the only program available for Windows 8 to create Start screen tiles for programs. It’s a must have a program especially for those who love and know how to use the new Start screen.

OblyTile works great on both x86 and x64 versions of Windows 8. Please note that you may see “Windows SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk” message while launching the program. Simply ignore the message, click More info and then click Run anyway button to launch the program.

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Disk Falcon: Disk Scanner & Analyzer Windows 8 app

Microsoft Windows 8 has been released with so many new features like : Hybrid Boot, Metro User Interface are the main highlights. One feature of this operating system is Windows Store App which let you download and have on your Windows 8 computer. Disk Falcon is a Windows 8 app and developed by a Game Studio. Now can you imagine what would happen if a game studio develops an app using its game engine? You have futuristic looks, great real-time animation and sci-fi inspired vocal responses to your actions, all built into the app.

Once you have installed this tool, click on the start screen tile to open it. To begin the scan process, you have to click on Scan Location to select a drive or folder you want to analyze. Once the scan is completed, the results are displayed in the form of a Pie chart. The scan results can be broken down by individual files, file types, or ages.

Double-click on any segment to see deeper about that folder. Right-click on any folder and you will be able to see the break-down right to the last file.

You can also opt to display the results as a Bar chart or Types chart. On the right side of this application, you will see the folders and its components displayed. Toward the bottom of the pane, you will see the drives being displayed.

One cool feature is that the app lets you delete unneeded files right from within the app itself. Unneeded files or folders can be dragged and dropped on to the special bin button to be queued up for deletion later.

To download this soft go to the link which is provided at the end of the article. The tool works on Windows 8 x86, x64, ARM.

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Image Scanner for Windows 8, Windows 7

Scanning an image from a Scanner can be really useful especially when you are equipped with Windows 8, Windows 7, XP or Windows Vista, the software utility Image Resizer / Scanner can be a really handy utility to do the scanning. In order to scan an image all you need to do is launch the software and click on the scan button. Irrespective of the scanning hardware you have got connected to your computer, the software presented here can be used to quickly scan, store and save the scanned images to jpg, bmp, png or even gif file formats.

Image Scanner does not only scan your documents but it can convert into different image format like : JPG, Gif, PNG etc in different desired Width. Download the Image Resizer Software from the link which is given at the end of the article, install it on your Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP. After the installation just launch the programme and in case you do have the appropriate Scanner Drivers installed, all you need to do to start the image scanning is click on the Scan Now button and then follow prompts. Depending on the Scanner, you will get the appropriate graphical user interface to continue the scanning. In case you would like to select one of the available scanners, click on the Select Image Source button and select the appropriate Scanner, Webcam, etc. Yes, it works with Webcam also. This might work with a Digital Camera however, the software has not been tested yet with a Digital Camera.The Image Scanning software has been tested on Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista, Windows XP and works well with both 32 and 64 bit versions.

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Set Custom Image As Taskbar Background In Windows 8

Windows 8 has been launched with so many great features. But still some users want to customize it with his own. We have already covered about so many tools which can customise the default Windows 8 with your own. Today, i am covering about how to Set Custom Image As Taskbar Background In Windows 8. Yes its is possible through a small tool. You can easily set a custom picture as taskbar background in Windows 7 and Windows 8 with help of this tool. This great tool name is 'Taskbar Color Effects'.

While Microsoft has removed the Aero glass from window borders, the Windows 8 taskbar is still transparent. One who wants to set a custom picture and view the same without any problem can use this tool for free. Earlier Taskbar Color Effects was developed for Windows 7 but it works on Windows 8 as well.

Step by step set custom picture as taskbar background in Windows 8:

• Download Taskbar Color Effects from the download link which is provided at the end of the article, extract the zip file to onto the desktop and you will get a folder named Taskbar Color Effects.
• Open up the folder, right-click on Taskbar Color Effects executable, click Run as administrator. Click Yes if UAC prompt.
• You should now see Taskbar Color Effects icon in the taskbar system tray. Double-click on the icon to open settings dialog where you can set a different color for taskbar and change many other settings. Please note that some features except set custom image as taskbar background may not work properly in Windows 8.
• Select image placement as center(recommended) if you want to place the image at the center of the taskbar or chose stretch to stretch the image, or tile to see multiple tiles of your image across the taskbar.
• Click Custom Image BG to browse to the image file that you wish to set as taskbar background. Finally click open button and then click Save button to apply the image and you have done now.

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True Launch Bar for windows 8

Windows users who have bored using old look of start menu, taskbar for those True Launch Bar is a great tool. True Launch Bar can make your day go easier as it can solve many other problems related to quick access to your PC content.

It’s the same Windows desktop you know and love. But with True Launch Bar, your workspace becomes more convenient and fun to use. Create a custom menu on the taskbar to list similar apps. Drag and drop necessary shortcuts there. Select menu icons to find applications quickly. If icons are not enough, True Launch Bar can show tooltips for you to find what you are looking for almost on autopilot. With separators and submenus, you can group items by topic and create any kind of a custom menu you want. It lets you specify hot keys for menus and shortcuts to open them with a touch of a button. 

Features of True Launch Bar : 

• Compatibility with standard Quick Launch (unique) 
• Grouping links into popup menus 
• Full support of Windows XP Visual Styles 
• Window 7 compatible 
• The Aero Glass Effects for Windows Vista/7 
• Virtual Folders (unique) 
• Separators 
• Improved separators (unique) 
• Recently accessed button 
• Thumbnails View (unique) 
• Drag & Drop 
• Hot keys 
• Run your shortcuts without click (unique) 
• Skins 
• Fast toolbar switching (unique) 
• Related Links (unique) 
• Protection (unique) 
• Plugins (unique) 
• Support Windows XP-style icons (unique) 
• Auto-sensing toolbar (unique) 
• Overlay Images on menu (unique) 
• Multi-column layout (unique) 
• Hot keys manager 
• Backup/Restore toolbar 
• Easy installing of skins 
• Improved tips (unique) 
• Support PNG images as icon 
• Using 3 state PNG image as button (unique) 
• Redistributing toolbars 
• Context menu templates 
• Integration with StartKiller (unique) 
• Changing default command 
• Customizing buttons and menu items 
• Improved Custom Colors 
• Tear Off Menu

It is not a freeware, it is shareware and comes for 30 days trial. Hence, users who want to have a look, can do.

Download:True Launch Bar 6.0 for windows 8