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sTabLauncher

sTabLauncher
Dock-style program launchers are great if you have 10-15 applications that you use all the time. But if you have dozens of applications that you regularly need to launch, you can quickly fill up a utility like RocketDock with more program icons than you can fit on your desk. sTabLauncher solves this problem by letting you create tabs in your dock. You can populate each Tab with as many icons as you like.

sTabLauncher is highly customizable. You can change the appearance of the whole dock, lock it to the top of your screen or the bottom, or customize individual tabs. Right-clicking on a tab lets you add programs and descriptions. You can even rearrange tabs by dragging and dropping them.

sTabLauncher also happens to be free and doesn't eat up much RAM.

[via CyberNet]

What's your favorite program launcher? Ask DLS

launchers
OS X has its dock, Windows Vista has an enhanced start menu, and Windows XP has, well, a bunch of menus to click through to launch programs. But thanks to independent developers, there are a ton of great program launchers out there that make it easy to bring an OS X-style dock to Windows, or keyboard program launchers to pretty much any operating system.

Over the years we've tried out a ton of program launchers, but we're not sure we've settled on a favorite. The sidebar launchers for Vista and Yahoo! Widget Engine are kind of nice. RocketDock is amazing if you have a handful or applications you use all the time. And keyboard launcher Launchy is all kinds of awesome, if you can remember the name of the program your looking for.

But we haven't yet found one launcher to rule them all. So we turn to you, our loyal Download Squad readers. What's your favorite application launcher, and why? Oh yeah, and don't forget to let us know what operating systems it works with. While Launchy and RocketDock are both Windows-only, we don't want to leave out applications like Google Desktop that are cross-platform.

UberIcon - Works great with RocketDock

UberIconA couple days ago Ryan brought us RocketDock, the best Apple dock emulator I've seen so far. While using it, I noticed that it has a setting in the options that allows you to turn on "UberIcon" support. At first I was confused, as I wasn't sure if that was just a mode in RocketDock, but since it didn't appear to do anything, I went looking on Punk Software's site. And lo and behold, I found that UberIcon is its own standalone utility.

UberIcon immediately won me over due to its complete simplicity - all it does is to zoom an icon quickly and smoothly when you double click it from your desktop or anywhere within Windows Explorer. It might not sound like much, but it definitely adds a bit of spice to an otherwise fairly two-dimensional XP desktop. And of course as soon as I had UberIcon installed, RocketDock respected the setting and started to zoom icons when I launched them in the same way they do on my desktop. Sweet!

RocketDock-a Mac Dock clone for Windows

RocketDock
RocketDock by Punk Software is a great Mac OS X dock clone for Windows. It is bouncy when you mouseover, allows you to drag and drop new shortcuts to the bar, and lets you customize all the settings, including the icon height, opacity, and even edge offset. I really like this clone, because it ships with many skins to further integrate your computing experience. It offers a myriad of options which makes it fairly versatile.
Small footprint
Besides being nifty, usable and having a small memory footprint, RocketDock is apparently also is a big hit with wired three-year-olds. Mine just asked to "do the rocket things", meaning he wanted to run the mouse over RocketBar and watch the icons jump up and down. Talk about a selling point.

More screenshots after the jump...

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