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Appetizer

This an application launcher for removable drives (although it can also be used as a normal application). Rather than organizing the apps as a list like the Windows Start menu, they are organized in a tool bar a bit similar to the Mac OSX dock bar.

15 Reviews

Downloads: 71 This Week

Last Update: 2013-04-26
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Thunderbird-Tray

Thunderbird-Tray is a system tray launcher tool for Mozilla Thunderbird, the popular e-mail client. You can use TB-Tray to hide Thunderbird to the tray while you don't need it. When you click the tray icon, TB-Tray will restore Thunderbird.

2 Reviews

Downloads: 5 This Week

Last Update: 2013-04-17
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M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II

QMC2 is a Qt based multi-platform GUI front end for MAME NOTE: A new version is hosted and developed at https://github.com/qmc2/qmc2-mame-fe

Downloads: 8 This Week

Last Update: 2021-10-15
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ShortCutter

A small launcher with a fast interface. It is designed to stay on the system tray until it is activated by a configurable HotKey. When activated the main window pops up and you simply move the mouse to one of the 8 directions to open the shortcut.

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 2013-05-21
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