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- AppDock II - NeXT style application launcher, from MW Software.
www.mw-software.com/software/appdock/appdock.html
- AppsSetup - The Apps Configure Plugin for RISC OS Select.
www.neptune.demon.nl/riscos/apps.html
- Blinds - With this, you can make up to 32 individually tailered blinds-like windows which open and shut at the click of a mouse.
www.cybervillage.co.uk/acorn/qs/blinds.stm
- BoardMenu - Utility which creates a normal RISC OS menu of all the objects (in alphabetical order) stuck to the pinboard.
homepage.eurobell.co.uk/katech/cherisha/products/board.html
- ButtonBar - Add button bars to any program which uses keyboard shortcuts.
for.mat.bham.ac.uk/llewelld/bbar.htm
- DeskLock - Designed to protect unauthorised access to applications and directories on a computer in a multi-user environment.
www.isvproducts.co.uk/dlock.htm
- Director - General purpose desktop tool. It allows you to customise your desktop by creating any number of menus of useful commands and icons to attach the menus to.
director.sourceforge.net
- EasiFiler - Designed to make launching and using applications much easier.
homepage.eircom.net/~lrtc/computers/software/easifiler/index.html
- ExtraBar - A new tool bar for the desktop.
www.zamang.co.uk/riscos/extrabar/index.htm
- Freeze - Machine state snapper. It can save the state of the machine and restore it back at any time, not just at power on. This reduces any reboot to less than 5 seconds.
freeze.riscos.org.uk
- HighWay - For application launching, desktop customisation and multi-pinboard loading and saving.
www.bapfish.freeuk.com/acorn/hway.html
- JTUtils - Enhanced Director configuration tool.
www.parsed-out.demon.co.uk/compstuf/jtutils/index.html
- KeyFix - Provides locks for the shift keys and a mouse emulator.
www.netlink.co.uk/users/pilling/soft.html
- Macros - Attaches * commands, or ARM code, to arbitrary key presses.
www.plasma.demon.co.uk/macros/index.html
- Menu - Sophisticated application launcher program.
www.lecomp.demon.co.uk/progdesc/menu.html
- MenuScroll, DropBox and ToggleBar - MenuScroll allows one to set a scrollbar position with a menuclick in the well. DropBox provides an area to save files when no filer window is available. Togglebar is a utility that simply toggles the icon bar to the front or back of the window stack whenever the mouse is moved to the bottom edge of the screen.
bits.bris.ac.uk/francis/dloads.html#togglebar
- MiniDisc - Desktop management software that will even tidy your icon bar.
minidisc.iconbar.com
- NeXTBar - A desktop application launcher, in the NeXT style.
www.vigay.com/cgi-bin/search?a=nextbar
- RAMDisc+ - A sophisticated management utility for your RAM disc.
homepage.eurobell.co.uk/katech/cherisha/products/ramdi.html
- Recall - This application stores "re-launching" details of each application on your computer.
homepage.eurobell.co.uk/katech/cherisha/products/recal.html
- Shortcut and FileInfo utilities - Freeware downloads written and used by staff at PC Ink.
www.pc-ink.com/riscos
- ShortCuts - Keyboard shortcuts utility from R-Comp.
www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk/r-comp/utils/shorts.htm
- Shutdown - a handy utility by Thomas Baldwin.
www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~tom/Software/shutdown.html
- Spell - Desktop spelling checker with a word completion mode for slow typists. [By David Pilling]
www.netlink.co.uk/users/pilling/spell.html
- Switch - This is a program that lists all open windows and allows the user to switch between them.
www.starfighter.acornarcade.com/mysite/utilities.htm#switch
- Temp Directory - A program that places an icon on the Icon bar to which you can drag and drop files in order to save them to disc quickly.
www.cybervillage.co.uk/acorn/qs/tempdir.stm
- Twitcher - Application which slightly modifies the way the RISC OS desktop works and in particular the way that the task manager works.
www.zamang.co.uk/riscos/misc/twitcher.htm
- TwoMice - Use two mouse pointers at once: one controlled by the keyboard, the other by the mouse.
www.mat.bham.ac.uk/llewelld/dnload.htm#2mice
- VFSetup - RISC OS 4 plugin which allows setting of features for the ViewFinder graphics card.
www.jeffray.co.uk/vfsetup.html
- WritableUtils - A module which provides key remapping and a global clipboard interface to writable icons.
www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~rav21/writable
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