Software of the Day: Spiffy, 7CMenuEditor, Xiph Directshow Filters

Today I’ve picked   Spiffy, 7CMenuEditor, Xiph Directshow Filters to share with my readersas that you can make most out of the three software as the three are elegantly handy and fruitful.  Through Spiffy you can check Gmail/Google Apps inboxes and get regular notifications on Windows XP or newer. However 7CMenuEditor is responsible to add programs to the Windows 7 desktop context menu. While Xiph Directshow Filters Smartly get support for open source formats like FLAC in Windows Media Player and more. Let’s have a closer look to them.

Spiffy

Remember Gmail Notifier Plus? It’s a small program which lets you know when you get new emails. But it has some dark sides like it only works on Windows 7, and the notifications are little pop-up previews in the taskbar rather than larger, more useful previews.

This software is free from those problems, as it is fully compatible with any of the Windows version since XP, and has an exceedingly customizable notification alert. As once when you set up your account you can instantly start receiving notifications for new emails, but keep yourself warned, though, that by default Spiffy gives you notifications for any email that’s marked as new. If you want only emails since the last notification, you can enable that in settings.

Software Details:

Price: Free!

Version discovered: v0.5.11

Supported OS: Windows XP/Vista/7

Download size: 295KB

VirusTotal malware scan results: 1/43

Portable version available? Yes

Spiffy homepage

7CMenuEditor

There are some of the features known for the Windows desktop like the ability to add custom programs and websites to the right-click menu. However, using these features has traditionally meant using either Regedit or a custom registry file. No longer, however! 7CMenuEditor lets you add programs and sites to the menu with no difficulty.

Moreover you can set any custom browser you want with any icon, and can have it appear at the top of the menu, the middle, or at the bottom below Personalize.

Though it’s a seriously simple program, 7CMenuEditor can help you a great deal if you like to have your programs readily accessible from the desktop but don’t want to have to clean it often.

Keep in notice that you will need something like 7-Zip to extract 7C. You will need to run 7C as administrator or will otherwise receive a cryptic error message.

Software Details:

Price: Free!

Version discovered: v4.5

Supported OS: Windows XP/Vista/7

Download size: 1.3MB

VirusTotal malware scan results: 0/43

Portable version available? Yes

7CMenuEditor homepage

Xiph Directshow Filters

If you are a much open source lover then you would definitely annoyed with Windows’ lack of support for pretty much any free codec. While there is a thing t which Windows does support that I 3^rd party codecs. I, myself enjoy both using Windows Media Player and having a lossless media collection, so this is actually a bit deal for me.But, it’s Xiph to the rescue: their codec pack allows WMP (and any media program using Microsoft’s codec APIs) access to various open formats.

As once you have installed the Directshow Filters codec pack you’ll instantly have access to all the various open source codecs like, Ogg Vorbis,Theora, Speex, FLAC, and WebM. This basically means any format under the sun, including the excellent lossless compressed FLAC codec

Software Details:

Price: Free!

Version discovered: v0.85.17777

Supported OS: Windows 32/64-bit

Download size: 2.6MB

VirusTotal malware scan results: 0/43

Portable version available? No

Xiph Directshow Filters homepage