After I came back frustrated that i can't get my old laptop upgraded to windows 8 to experience it's live tile feature, i stumbled across this little program. to be honest, i felt a little pang of disappointment with its screen preview as I've mistakenly confused it with (cough)RocketDock (cough).
To my surprise, it only weighs no more than 200KB and i said there's no way it could be! Maybe just a theme or what? then I downloaded it and to my amazement, it runs on its own. Played around a little bit though it took me some time before I can get the snappy fading animation and now it was set to run on my 3 corners. I left windows 7 taskbar at the bottom so i can see my tray clock, volume and other important stuff.
Agree with the guy before me, would be more helpful if it can support drag and drop and I can't wait to see that
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Jan 21, 2013 for v1.0.0.2
I just checked this out yesterday, and found it to be a very nice piece of software. Very easy to set up and does the job it says.
The one gripe I have is no drag and drop. If is a little trouble if you want to move a tab from one bar to another. But hopefully the developer will change this in an updated version.
Over all, I am very happy with CoolBarz, I may keep this one!
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Jan 02, 2013 for v1.0.0.2
For one, this is not a fancy shmancy toolbar, it doesn't bounce, glitter, rain, explode or do windows (the kind you have on your home)
What it does do is hide itself very well if you choose, has some basic opacity and fade, along with color options as well as position of the bar, text and position, etc...
It displays tab formats when adding programs, directories or shortcuts to it so when I move my mouse to my right side of the screen, a few tabs pop out with my shortcuts.
Point being, it's more basic but it works flawlessly and integrates great. Again, it's not a flashy memory hog but a great addition to the Windows Desktop environment.
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Aug 29, 2012 for v0.1.6.7