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DeskAngel is a tool running on Microsoft Windows Operating System. It is very small, portable and totally free. Most of the features can be done just by clicking your mouse.

It contains following features:

• System Features:
  
  • Lock windows. System provided a hotkey win+l.
  • Turn off monitor. Default hotkey is win+o.
  • Hibernate windows. Default hotkey is win+h.
  • Simulate win Key. F6 works like win key.
• Windows Enhancement Features:
  
  • Directly scroll the document under the cursor, whenever it was active or not, while rotating the wheel of the mouse.
  • Auto scroll the document the under cursor, by pressing wheel button of the mouse and rotating one step.
  • Toggle topmost status of a window by right clicking on its title bar.
  • Roll up a window by double clicking on its title bar.
  • Toggle move mode by right clicking the bottom border of a window.
  • Close a window by pressing right alt then double clicking on title bar of it.
  • Maximize/Restore a window by middle button clicking in it.
• Visual Effect Features:
  
  • Edge snap is like 'Aero snap' of 'windows 7', which snaps a window to the edges of screen.
  • Adjust transparent rate of a window by pressing 'left ctrl+alt' and rotating mouse wheel on it.
  • Show icon only on taskbar.
  • Change cursor style while moving window.
  • Hide cursor while typing in non-microsoft applications.
  • Move position of buttons in taskbar for Windows Vista.
• Misc Features:
  
  • Screen clipping is a screenshot tool by pressing left button and moving to draw a rectangle on the screen.
  • Translate left button pressing+right button clicking to 'alt+right button click'.
  • Auto close a specified window.
  • Auto connect and login to the remote PCs in LAN with the specified user name and password.
  • Disaplay informations of a window by right clicking on it.
  • Disable ime for specified windows.
  • Convert file path in clipboard to pasted-able object, and vice versa.

Voice Finger is a software tool that enables you to control your mouse and keyboard just using your voice, in the fastest possible way.

Instead of using the Windows default speech recognition way of clicking at a point on the screen, which requires a lot of sucessive commands, Voice Finger uses a 44 x 44 grid to click anywhere on the screen, most of the time with just one command. With Voice Finger, you do not need to use sucessive voice commands to click at the right spot, you can click any spot on the screen often with a single command.

In the Keyboard Mode, you use short commands to type and navigate the cursor. Just to take a couple of examples, instead of the Windows default voice command "Press A", in Voice Finger you just say "A", and instead of saying "Press down thirty times", in Voice Finger commands are like "Down thirty". With short and direct commands anywhere, the user does more work and avoid tiredness.

Text Ticker, a “scrolling banner” or “marquee”, scrolls the contents of a plain text file at the top or bottom of a monitor, or floating anywhere. The text appears in a so-called “appbar” which is similar to the Windows Taskbar and can be dragged to any position on the desktop. All settings (font, color, text file, etc.) are saved between sessions.

Any plain text file can be dropped on the ticker and the program will begin to scroll that file's contents. (Actually, any file at all can be used, but only plain text files are readable by humans!) A file can also be browsed for and loaded by selecting Load File on the menu. Text Ticker can also be started with a specific file by dropping the file on the Text Ticker application icon, or by setting up shortcuts with the filename as the only command line parameter. It also can be changed in the Options window.

Left-clicking the tray icon alternately shows and hides the ticker. Double-clicking the ticker pauses the scrolling.

Multiple tickers can be run, each with its own file, speed, colors, etc. Each one acts independently. When you later start Text Ticker, the first one's settings will be used; if you start a second one, the second one's settings will be used, etc.

The popup menu is available by right-clicking either the ticker or the tray icon. When the ticker is hidden, only the tray icon gives access to the program. In this case, the menu only offers Restore, Help, About, and Exit. Select Options to open the Options window.

Text Ticker uses very little system resources and takes up little screen space, making it ideal for reminding yourself of encouraging words, help with memorization, watching a log file or any other text file that changes periodically.

Options window:

Main tab:

• Font can use any font installed on your system, including any size and color available. Note that some combinations may not work well. Some italic fonts do not scroll smoothly. In vertical mode, larger fonts, especially in certain color combinations, may flicker. This depends on machine speed and video card.
• Font Color gives you more precise control of the font color.
• Bar Color selects the main, or background, color of the ticker.
• Scroll the text horizontally or vertically one line at a time.
• Use a frame. The floating bar can only be sized when the frame is visible.
• Stay on top of other windows.
• Don't move icons and windows to accommodate the ticker.
• Display (or not) an icon in the Windows System Tray (next to the clock). If the tray icon is disabled, it will still show up if the ticker is hidden.
• Completely hide the ticker instead of minimize.

• Use a file from the internet.
• Type the URL of the web file (or copy and paste from a web browser).
• Use a local file. This can be any file Windows can access directly (local drives, mapped drives, network shares, etc.).
• The current local file is displayed in the box. You can type or paste in this box.
• Click Local File to browse for a file.

• Scroll the whole file or just the first or last part. Showing the first (or last) several lines makes a good log watcher.
• Number of lines to show.
• Comment character. Lines starting with this character will be ignored.

• The automatic hide and show functions are useful when Auto Reload is used.
• Hide/minimize the ticker if a nonexistent file is attempted to be loaded.
• Hide/minimize the ticker if the file loaded is empty.
• Hide/minimize the ticker after so many seconds.
• Auto Reload will check to see if the file has a new timestamp, and if so, reload it.
• If the ticker is hidden/minimized, show it when the file content changes.
• If the ticker is minimized (not hidden) on a screen edge, show it when the mouse moves to that edge.
• Continue scrolling so many seconds after pausing.