Windows 7: If you like visual indicators for things like disk capacity, battery life, memory usage, and speaker volume, and you like them prominent and easy to find, SuperbarMonitor puts easy to read indicators right on your Superbar. You can download the superbar meters from the developer’s website.

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Disk Space Fan is a freeware and it is a nice disk space analysis tool for Windows. It helps you to free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. It displays disk space usage with a nice chart. You can navigate the folders easily with the chart. It is also intergrated with Windows Explorer to open, delete and browse files or folders. More

JDContextMenu is a free extension for Windows Explorer. This program will enable a more efficient handling of the Explorer and thus saves them time. It combines a variety of different extensions.

FlickrShop is the Adobe Photoshop plug-in for uploading photos to the Flickr photo sharing website directly from Photoshop.

FlickrShop for Mac

Imagine. You need to find the file with that unmerged effects among the heap of 2 mb files which were called hastily ‘Untitled1.psd, ‘Untitled2.psd’, ‘Untitled2_a.psd’. And now you have to open every single file, wait for it to load, scroll through it, and then find the effects you was looking for. Sounds familiar?

ComparePSD compares two Adobe Photoshop PSD files for you and highlights the differences. Layer by layer. Effect by effect. Simple. And did we mention that ComparePSD is absolutely free?

Key features:

• ComparePSD compares PSD files layer-by-layer
• ComparePSD handles layers styles (effects), styles attributes and layers visibility flags
• ComparePSD provides a scaled view of the files that helps you to find differences easier
• ComparePSD allows you to select the files in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on them

ComparePSD is a free download, Windows only (although they are working on a Mac version as well). ComparePSD

Circle Dock 1.0

This is amazing. James Paterson creates a drawing using Rhonda, a 3D tool designed by Amit Pitaru.

Adobe® Configurator is a utility application that helps create custom panels for Adobe Photoshop® CS4. Configurator makes it easy to drag and drop tools, menu items, scripts, actions, and other objects into a panel design, then export the results for use inside Photoshop. These panels leverage the support for Adobe Flash built into Photoshop, making it possible to drag and drop audio, video, images, and even other SWF files into a panel design. Link

The new version of Google SketchUp was released Monday morning. The dynamic components feature, explained in this video, is really cool.

This was one of digitalnuts challenges last week. I thought it would try my new CS4 out.

Smudging is when you take the smudge tool in Photoshop and brush the image creating a brushstroke effect. In Photoshop CS4 you can now rotate the canvas. This ability to rotate the canvas lets you stroke the image from any angle. If you liked the sketch this is a great feature. If you smudge our draw, CS4 for you.