Filed under: Audio, Windows, Freeware
Add Windows 7 taskbar features to Foobar 2000
by Lee Mathews Sep 3rd 2009
Those of you running Windows 7 and looking for an alternative player with the same slick taskbar integration Windows Media Player features, Foobar might be just the thing.
Drop in the Windows 7 Shell Integration component, and you'll be able to control playback right from the taskbar via the thumbnail preview. Album artwork is also displayed, as is a progress bar. You can also pin playlists to the Foobar jumplist and access preferences with two-click ease.
One thing I'd like to see added is an area on the jumplist for recent tracks. Maybe we'll see that worked in to a future build.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
