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Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 [32/64bit] (1 DVD)

Price: Rp. 7 500

Microsoft Mathematics 4.0, adalah salah satu software buatan Microsoft yang berlisensi freeware. Microsoft Mathematics dapat digunakan untuk melakukan perhitungan matematika seperti Trigonometri, Integral, Turunan, Limit Fungsi, Eksponen, Logaritma, Matriks dan masih banyak lagi.

Microsoft Mathematics dilengkapi dengan kalkulator grafik fitur lengkap dengan kemampuan seperti halnya kalkulator genggam. Juga alat matematika tambahan yang dapat membantu Anda dalam mengevaluasi segitiga, mengkonversi dari satu unit sistem ke unit sistem lain serta memecahkan sistem persamaan.

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Microsoft Mathematics dirancang untuk dapat membantu siswa/mahasiswa dalam memecahkan persamaan langkah demi langkah, sambil mendapatkan pemahaman dasar dalam pra-aljabar, trigonometri, aljabar, fisika, kimia dan kalkulus.

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Sistem Requirements :

Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1. ( free download : Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP 1 - offline installer )
Computer processor 500 MHz Pentium processor or equivalent (minimum); 1 GHz Pentium processor or equivalent (recommended)
Memory 256 MB of RAM (minimum); 512 MB or more (recommended)
Display resolution 800 x 600, 256 colors (minimum); 1024 x 768, 32-bit (recommended)
Video Video card with 64 MB of video RAM
Disk space 65 MB available disk space

Microsoft Mathematics, tersedia dalam beberapa versi bahasa, yaitu : Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, dan Turkish.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

NERO 11 Platinum HD (1 DVD)

Price: Rp.15 000

FEATURES :

Kwik

Kwik is the media player on nero 11. With Kwik you can watch movies, listen to music and view pictures, some more info about kwik can be found here. Now let’s take a brief look at the Kwik media player.

This is the first page of Kwik media, where you can create a photo calendar, import files to library and burn discs. So we simply click on Skip and we can now go ahead to the main program.

The main window is simple and you can access your media and create playlists or slide shows. You can burn or share your media on My Nero, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook. You also can have access to the nero market that will enhance your experience with nero 11.

Here is a quick view of the Market.

Backitup

Nero Backitup continues to be a very easy way of backing up your data. A more detailed view can be found here.

The main screen of nero 11 BackItUp. The first thing that we notice is Nero LIVEBackup, you won’t have to worry about your backups, all you have to do is select the destination drive, the drive that you want to backup, and finally set how often you want the files to be backed up, the default value is 2 hours but you can change this. A very useful feature. There are also ways to manually backup drives/partitions and files/folders. You can also Restore your backups.

Nero Burning Rom

Nero Burning Rom hasn’t changed, and that’s a good thing. Everything that we got used to is still there, with some improvements.

As we can see not much has changed in appearance. The DiscSpan function that was introduced in nero 10 is there, and there is also one new button.

It’s the nero Media Browser. When you click on it a new windows appears and you can choose what files you want to add to your compilation.

This is what you will see when you will click on the nero Media Browser.

Nero Recode & Video

Nero recode is another program in this suite that has been heavily updated. Now you have many more options to choose, you can convert DVDs and HD material to another format. There are also some more options to convert files to enable them to be played on an iPad, ipod, iPhone, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP or you can manually create new profiles and save them. Nero Recode is able to take full advantage of all CPU cores and also all the latest acceleration that modern graphic cards can provide, such as NVIDIA CUDA, AMD App Accelerator and Intel Quick-Sync-Video.

Here is what see on the first screen of nero Recode. Three main options are Drag-and-drop, Recode discs and Convert media files. Now let’s take a look at the settings.

The Video Settings have almost everything that you need for your everyday use, and also you can save the changes that you made in a new profile.

Nero Video

Nero Video will allow you to make a DVD or a Blu-Ray disc look more professional with menus and effects. You can also capture, manageand author your own videos. Again you can take full advantage of NVIDIA CUDA, AMD App Accelerator and Intel Quick-Sync-Video.

The welcome screen gives you the option of choosing what you want to do.

Clicking on ‘Make Movie or Slide Show’ will ask you to set the video format, resolution and audio. After that you click OK and you will be in the main window of the program.

This is express editing mode, and an easy way for users that simply want to add some effects to their movies. There is also an Advanced editing option that will allow you to have more control over your videos.

Here’s what the advanced editing screen looks like. For more info on nero Video you can click here.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Design Premium (1 DVD)

Price: Rp.15 000

Product Features

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream for print, web, interactive, and mobile publishing. New Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro plus Adobe Fireworks CS3 software complete your essential toolkit for creative production across print, web, and mobile media. Rapidly prototype websites in Fireworks and then export them to Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software, or export Fireworks (PNG) files to Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software for editing while preserving vectors, bitmaps, animations, and multistate. Make your PDF documents come alive with embedded FLV, and generate dynamic PDF portfolios using templates based on Flash technology. Design Premium provides just what you need in a unified, intuitive environment.

From exploring design concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the tightly integrated tools in Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real--in print, on the web, and on mobile devices.

Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design

Design Professionals
Express your ideas virtually anywhere, from paper to pixels, using intuitive tools that help you stay true to your creative intent. Using Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software, you can publish across media more easily than ever. With native support for Adobe Flash technologies in new Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro software, you can seamlessly embed video and applications created with Flash in PDF documents for a rich viewing experience. The special introduction of Adobe Fireworks CS3 software to Design Premium enables you to rapidly prototype websites to jump-start your web projects and more easily express your ideas online. Along with essential creative tools for image editing, illustration, and web and mobile design, Creative Suite 3 Design Premium provides visual asset management, mobile content previewing, and more. With Design Premium, not only can you create beautiful, engaging content, but you can also be fully equipped for new business opportunities and more efficient ways of working that can give you a competitive edge.

Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing

Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation

Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout

Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design

Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development

Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF in Acrobat 8 Pro.

Fireworks CS3 for web prototyping and designing

Print Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software provides enhancements to industry-standard tools for print design and production. New Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro software includes enhanced pre-flight with deeper file testing and tracking of pre-flight history in the PDF file. Colour conversion is more reliable with improved black handling. Previews now include a new object inspector and automatic, intelligent overprint preview. Plus, the special introduction of Adobe Fireworks CS3 software enables you to rapidly prototype websites to jump-start your web projects and help diversify your service business--all using tools that are intuitive, easy to master, and well integrated with your other favourite design and production tools. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium gives you the most trusted tools for the job in a unified environment so you can realize smooth production processes, maintain quality, and save time and money as you see your projects emerge in print and onscreen.
IT Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software enables creative teams to explore and publish ideas more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Built on industry standards to enable long-term compatibility, Design Premium can be deployed across networks, is extensible and scriptable, and can be tailored to meet a variety of specialized design and publishing needs. It combines full versions of Adobe's essential design tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, and Dreamweaver CS3--with new Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro software and, as a special introduction, Adobe Fireworks CS3 software. Design Premium also includes Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Version Cue CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3, and more. Offering a single installer and serial number for easy installation, and backed by the quality and reliability Adobe is known for, Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium meets your critical IT needs as well as the creative needs of your design teams.

Edition comparison: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software delivers a complete, unified design environment for print, web, and mobile publishing by combining full versions of Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and new Acrobat 8 Pro software, plus a special offer of Adobe Fireworks CS3 software. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard software combines InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and new Acrobat 8 Pro software for design and print production. Both editions feature Adobe Bridge CS3 for visual asset management, Adobe Version Cue CS3 for workgroup file management, and Adobe Device Central CS3 for mobile content previewing.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium

The latest versions of essential creative tools
Experience the ultimate creative toolset with Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout, Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing, Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation, Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design, and Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development. Now includes new Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for Adobe PDF workflows, plus a special offer of Adobe Fireworks CS3 for rapid website prototyping.
Unparalleled integration
Use native files any way you need to, moving smoothly between tools. Open native Photoshop files in Illustrator and native Illustrator files in Photoshop. Import Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into InDesign layout or Flash projects while preserving layers, effects, and more, or copy and paste Photoshop files into Dreamweaver pages. Open and edit Adobe PDF files in Illustrator and Photoshop, and place them in InDesign layouts.
Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3
Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using InDesign CS3, which offers powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing.
Industry-leading image editing and illustration
Experience unrivalled image editing and compositing, and even perform advanced image analysis, using Photoshop CS3 Extended. Create inspired vector graphics with Illustrator CS3, where you can now interactively explore, apply, and control colour. And work seamlessly between the two components with native file format support.

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

Coordinate with team members using Adobe Version Cue

Host real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect

Fluid web workflows
Become more proficient at web and interactive design. Mock up designs quickly in Fireworks CS3 or leverage assets from Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash. Move your designs smoothly into Dreamweaver CS3, where you can get a quick start with CSS layouts and easily develop and deploy engaging web experiences. You can also ramp up quickly in Flash, which now features a more familiar Adobe-standard interface, an object-oriented drawing mode, and a Pen tool that works like the one in Illustrator.
Stronger designer-developer workflows
Enrich web and interactive projects by designing with your favourite creative tools and then moving those files easily into a developer environment. Save significant production time by importing native Photoshop and Illustrator files, with layers and effects preserved, into Flash projects and then animating them. Prototype website designs rapidly and intuitively in Fireworks and then export them to Dreamweaver for further development. Or use the new CSS layouts in Dreamweaver to jump-start standards-based web pages and dynamic user interfaces using the Spry framework for Ajax. With Design Premium, design and development work hand in hand.
Reliable print production and innovative communication with Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro
Experience improved PDF print workflow with deeper pre-flight testing and tracking, better black handling, and intelligent previews. You can now embed content created in Adobe Flash including video and widgets. Assemble layouts, graphics, video, audio, and other files into dynamic PDF portfolios; then add richly interactive front ends using customizable Flash templates, and incorporate branding elements, control the presentation order, and add content descriptions. Adobe PDF is simply more versatile than ever.
Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3
Easily organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; playback of files created with Flash; and non-destructive batch editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files.
Integrated support for mobile design
Produce compelling mobile graphics in Illustrator and Photoshop Extended, add interactivity in Flash, and code pages for mobile display in Dreamweaver. At every step of the way, you can preview and test your designs using mobile device profiles in Adobe Device Central CS3.
Rapid prototypes of web designs with Adobe Fireworks CS3
Use the flexibility of Fireworks CS3 for prototype web projects and quickly editing vector artwork and bitmap images. Pull from a common library of prebuilt assets, and take advantage of timesaving integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash. Create mock-ups rapidly in Fireworks, and then move your designs directly into Dreamweaver CS3 for easy development and deployment.

What's New in Acrobat 8 Pro

Creation & Collaboration

PDF Portfolios and native support for Flash transform communications
Summarize and share a wide range of documents, images and videos in a cohesive manner using PDF Portfolios, which are easy to customize with your brand. Embed video, audio, and applications created with Adobe Flash into PDF files with smooth playback.
Works with Acrobat.com hosted services (beta)
Collaborate and co-navigate document views in real-time from anywhere
Improved forms authoring and workflow
Easily create forms and distribute, collect, and analyze form data without IT involvement
2 to 3 times faster to launch

Unparalleled PDF-Based Print Production

Quality and leadership in Adobe PDF workflows
Full support for PDF/A, PDF/X (including PDF/X-4p and PDF/X-5), and PDF/E in both Acrobat 8 Pro & Adobe Reader 8
Support for end-to-end native PDF workflows from creation to output: for example, integrates with new Adobe PDF Print Engine 2.0

Highlights of Acrobat 8 Pro:

Enhanced preflight and automatic correction features
Accurate RGB & CMYK to K conversion, plus spot colour remapping with built-in Pantone libraries
Intelligent Overprint Preview in Acrobat 8 Pro and Adobe Reader 8
New Object Inspector for reviewing metadata on any selected object
Robust compare to easily identify differences in text, images, line weights and more between documents

Creative Suite 3 Design Premium now with Fireworks CS3

Accelerate web design and development with Adobe Fireworks CS3 software, the ideal tool for rapidly prototyping websites.
Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to:

Edit both vector and bitmap images
A common library of prebuilt assets
Timesaving integration with Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, and Flash CS3 software
Mock up designs quickly in Fireworks, or leverage other assets from Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash. Then move directly into Dreamweaver CS3 for easy development and deployment.

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Price: Rp.15 000

CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra v11 — is the ultimate universal media player that extends your viewing experience beyond just movies. Play Blu-ray discs, DVDs, video files, music, and now you can even view photos, all from one universal player. Connect your digital devices and PC with new apps for your iPhone, iPad and Android devices that let you control PowerDVD 11 remotely. Stream content from your smart device, DLNA server or cloud to your PC and let TrueTheater technology upgrade your digital media experience.

New Features:
— Playback recorded 3D TV (ISDB-T Standard) NEW
— 3D Photo support (MPO/JPS) NEW
— Instant Seek for DVD movies NEW
— Photo viewing (JPG/BMP/TIFF/RAW/PNG) NEW
— TrueTheater 3D for photos NEW
— TrueTheater 3D on photos from Facebook/ Flickr NEW
— TrueTheater Enhancement of videos streaming from smart devices/DLNA servers/YouTube NEW
— PowerDVD Remote app (iPhone/Android) NEW
— Streaming video**/photo from app NEW
— Touch pad gesture control from app NEW
— Download video/photo from app NEW
— YouTube video playback NEW
— Facebook, Flickr playback & download NEW
— Add comments to Facebook/Flickr photos NEW
— Upload 3D video to YouTube NEW
— Stream content with DTCP-IP protection NEW

Play Any Media – movies, videos, photos & music
— Ultimate Blu-ray player and Blu-ray 3D movie experience with support for CPU/GPU hardware acceleration for superb playback quality.
— Ultra-fast Instant Seek to search for the movie scene you want to watch on your DVDs.
— Vast Video format support lets you play almost every video file, including MKV (H.264), FLV (H.264), WTV, 3GP and 3G2 files.
— Play Photos in Slideshows. You can enjoy photos stored on your PC, smart device or DLNA server, or from Facebook and Flickr.
— Best Music Player that organizes and plays your music collection from your Windows 7 music library.

Upgrade Your Media Experience with TrueTheater:
— Enhance Quality of ALL Your Media. Whether it’s a video on your PC, from your network devices or from Youtube, PowerDVD 11 upscales to HD–like quality for ultimate enjoyment.
— Play 2D content in 3D. Apply Truetheater 3D to your DVDs, videos and photos. Relive your content with realism and depth.
— Perfect home videos. Stabilize shaky videos, remove noise and enhance brightness and details, PowerDVD 11 makes your videos look great.

Enjoy PowerDVD with Your Smart Devices:
— New smart device app, PowerDVD Remote*, offers even more ways for you to enjoy your digital entertainment.
— Turn smart devices to Remote Control for your PowerDVD 11 Blu-ray player, DVD movies, videos, music and photos with a tap of your finger.
— Play Media from Devices to PowerDVD. With PowerDVD Remote you can easily watch and save all of your media from phone to PC wirelessly through the home network.
— Support for Apple & Android Devices. Supports the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, along with Android-based phones and tablets.

Your Social Media Hub – for Youtube, Facebook and Flickr:
— Watch videos from Youtube – Easily access your videos, favorites, subscribers and movie trailers on YouTube. Upload your videos directly from PowerDVD.
— Access photos from Facebook and Flickr – View your own photos or friends' photos in animated slideshows. Comment on photos and download to your desktop.
— Get movie info from MoovieLive – Access information of the movie you are watching, rate and review movies and collect your favorites.

PowerDVD To-Go - enjoy your Media wherever you go:
— Companion software MediaEspresso lets you convert and transfer your media from PCs to portables.
— Smart Detect & Direct Sync. MediaEspresso automatically selects the right format for your smart phones, game consoles and other media players.
— Ultra Fast Media Conversion. Support for leading CPU/GPU hardware acceleration means transferring hours of videos can be done in much less time.

Enjoy Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, Videos, Photos and Music, too :
— PowerDVD 11 is much more than just a movie player – it’s the perfect universal media player for all your entertainment needs. Play any movie, video or music file or view photos stored locally, online or on other devices all from within the one powerful application.

Brilliant Blu-ray & DVD Movies
— PowerDVD 11 delivers the smoothest movie playback with its optimization for leading CPU/GPU technologies including 2nd generation Intel Core processors, AMD and NVIDIA. Leveraging the full power of your graphics hardware results in superb playback quality and reduced loading on your PC’s own system resources.
— Also featuring new Instant Seek for fast search of movie scenes you want to watch on a DVD disc.

The Next Dimension in Blu-ray: Blu-ray 3D:
— Blu-ray 3D is now a reality. With vivid dimensions in picture depth and crystal-clear images that leap out of your screen, you will be fully immersed in the movies. Try out the hi-def 3D experience in your own home with PowerDVD11.
— And PowerDVD 11 Cinema Mode now also features an entirely 3D user interface for your 3D titles so that you can immerse yourself in the 3D experience from start to finish!

Enjoy HD Audio* for Your HD Movies
— Match your visual experience with the best audio available. Experience crisp audio with lossless pass-through for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. Support for HDMI 1.4 allows simultaneous transfer of multi-channel high-definition audio using one hassle-free cable.

Vast Video Playback Support
— PowerDVD 11 is the ultimate player for the viewing of HD video on your PC. Whether you're playing back AVCHD format home videos captured on your camcorder, or MKV & FLV files you've downloaded online, PowerDVD lets you play it back flawlessly.

View Photos in Animated Slideshows
— PowerDVD 11’s new photo feature is so much more than just a viewer. Not only can you view photos stored on your PC, smart device or DLNA server, you can also check out images from Facebook and Flickr – all in the one convenient place.
— And if you’re a fan of animated photo slideshows, PowerDVD 11 will put both 2D and 3D productions together for you at the click of a button.

Enjoy Favorite Music Playlists
— With support for Windows 7 music library, PowerDVD 11 can sort your favorite music by title, album, artist, genre, length or size. Enjoy your favorite music tracks with easy-to-make playlists and if you enjoy a background soundtrack to your photo browsing,simply select whatever music you’re in the mood for then navigate to the “Photos” tab and browse through your images with an audio accompaniment.

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Windows 7 Ultimate 32 and 64-bit

Price: Rp.15 000

For the Windows faithful, it’s been a tough eight years. With the launch of Windows XP in 2001, we thought we were poised on a brink of a new world of NT-based goodness—but two years and uncountable exploits later, the future of Windows was grim. Facing a never-ending torrent of new ‘sploits, worms, and trojans, Microsoft fired back with the single greatest operating system update of all time—Service Pack 2. In the single fell swoop of SP2, Windows XP went from Swiss cheese to secure, and once again we were poised to enter the promised land with… (wait for it)… Vista.

Of course, we all know how Vista turned out. Haunted by poor performance in everything from games to disk access to networking, Vista is widely considered to be Microsoft’s biggest failure. Nonetheless, Vista laid the groundwork for a host of new technologies, all absolutely vital to pushing Windows into the 21st century. Vista’s new, modern driver architecture was designed to move core functionality from the kernel (where any instability can bring down the whole system) to user space—an absolutely necessary development. Likewise, Vista’s proper enforcement of permissions for both users and applications enhanced security, even though UAC remains very annoying. And once vendors fixed their driver flaws and Microsoft squashed some underlying bugs, Vista morphed into an entirely workable operating system, even if we still wouldn’t describe it as “good.”

So, as 2009 draws to a close, we find ourselves testing another new Microsoft OS: Windows 7. Building on the now-mature technologies introduced with Vista, but with a renewed focus on performance and ease-of-use, Windows 7 seems poised to succeed where Vista couldn’t. We’ve finally received a final build of Win7, and have run it through the wringer in both the Lab and in the real-world. Here’s what we found.

New Features

While support for new hardware and improved security are perfectly valid reasons to upgrade your OS, the sexiest benefits of an operating system upgrade are all the new features. Indeed, from a completely revamped user interface to brand-new features designed to make organizing and sharing your files easier, Windows 7 delivers much more than some new wallpaper and a different color Taskbar. (Though there are lots of new wallpapers.)

User Interface Enhancements

The most obvious changes from previous versions of Windows to Windows 7 can be found in a redesigned user interface. Sure, much of the interface remains the same, but Microsoft has completely overhauled key elements, starting with the Taskbar.

The New Taskbar

After 14 years of nothing more than cosmetic changes, Microsoft’s redesign of the Taskbar combines the pure window organizing power of the classic Taskbar with the application-launching, multi-purpose convenience of Mac OS X’s Dock. In addition to showing the applications that you currently have open, the new Windows 7 Taskbar also hosts shortcuts to your most commonly used applications. Click a shortcut when the app is running, and it brings the most recently used window to the foreground. Click the same shortcut when the app is closed, and it will launch the app.

But that’s not all. Drag a file onto a shortcut in the Taskbar, and Windows will open the file using that app. Hover your mouse over a running application’s icon, and it expands to show live thumbnail previews of all of that app’s windows, floating just above the Taskbar. Mouse over a thumbnail, and Windows will bring that particular window to the foreground. You can even close individual windows from the thumbnail previews.

For anyone who regularly finds himself with more than 10 windows open, the new Taskbar is a dream come true.

Jump Lists

Another core enhancement to the OS comes in the form of Jump Lists. In short, Jump Lists put frequently used files in a convenient menu that’s a simple click away from the shortcut icon on the Taskbar or on the Start Menu. Apps that support Jump Lists will display the list when you right click on the shortcut, or when you left-click and drag the mouse up away from the Taskbar. Additionally, some apps will automatically populate their Jump List with files you recently opened.

New Shortcuts

Along with the redesigned UI elements comes a whole new world of user-interface shortcuts. There are really too many to get into here, but the best of the new shortcuts allow you to maximize a window by dragging it to the top of the screen, minimize it by dragging it to the bottom, maximize to half your screen by dragging it to either edge, or (our favorite) minimizing all other windows by shaking the one you want to focus on. Furthermore, enhancements to alt+tab let you immediately find lost windows, and you can use the Windows key and numbers 1 through 0 to launch the first ten shortcuts on your Taskbar. And when those apps are already open, you can cycle through multiple windows by pressing the app’s keyboard shortcut again.

Explorer Enhancements

Windows Explorer also receives some much-needed love. The changes since Vista are relatively minor, but they serve to make the left-column of Explorer the quickest way to navigate to any folder on your hard drive, network, or even in the cloud. Furthermore, you can arrange the different categories in any way you want, quickly add special folders to the Favorites section, and even hide sections you don’t use.

The other main place to access the file browser is the shortcut bar on the right column of the Start Menu. In Windows 7, there are more folders that you can choose to display there, including Downloads and Recorded TV. However, you still can’t place any folder you choose in one of those precious slots.

We Hope You Like the Ribbon

The controversial Ribbon, which replaced traditional menus and shortcut bars in Office 2007, is prominently featured in Windows 7. In the applets that ship with the OS, you’ll see the Ribbon featured prominently.