Fishbowl

Do you want to access, manage and interact with your Facebook account quickly and directly from your desktop? Fishbowl is a cool Windows Client WPF app that does exactly that by providing a richer and more powerful experience.

Fishbowl allows Facebook users to personalize how they read their newsfeed, update their status, write comments, browse friend photos or upload their own, but with added functionality like dragging and dropping in new photos.

Fishbowl also uses new Windows 7 features like jumplists, taskbar previews and multitouch to experience Facebook in new ways.

FlashCards

Have you ever needed to memorize a number of objects’ names, such as word definitions in a new language, animals' names, people’s names, or tree leaf shape nomenclature?

FlashCards.Show is the application for you, as it takes that concept and makes it easy for you to produce decks of flashcards and also enables you to play three different types of games that make it easy and fun to learn.

Learn and play with your Flashcards.Show. It is so easy and simple that kids can operate this application and enjoy as they learn and memorize, and use the Text-To-Speech to provide feedback.

You can add as many cards as you want with rich media and content, as each card supports text, image, video, sounds clip and even Text-To-Speech.

Images.Show

The Windows XP to Windows 7 (XP2Win7) demo application provides a tour of the unique Windows 7 technical features that enable developers to “light up” their applications on Windows 7. The XP2Win7 demo application features the PhotoView, a WPF application that runs on XP and Windows Vista. But the fun starts when you run the same application on Windows 7, which unlocks new technologies such as Taskbar, the Sensors and Location Platform, and Multitouch, as well as “old” Vista friends such as Application Recovery and Windows Search. This project shows that by exploiting Windows 7 features you can add a great deal of value to your application with relatively little effort and without sacrificing backward compatibility.

UAC – Use the User Account Control to develop applications for standard users, but enable elevation when needed to perform restricted operations.

Aero Glass– Introduced in Windows Vista, we use Aero Glass to provide a stylish user interface for your Windows 7 applications.

Windows 7 Multitouch – Windows 7 offers multitouch support that enables users to interact with the computer through touch.

Tasks.Show

Are you still using yellow sticky notes to remember tasks on your to-do list. Did you ever need an easy, light and quick way to manage your to-do list? Well we got a solution for you. Tasks.Show is a simple light Windows application that let’s you manage your to-do list. Simply create new tasks, assign it to a project and give it a deadline, and you are set.

Use special keywords while typing to place a given tasks in the right older and assign it a deadline. Use Windows Touch to interact with the different tasks and controls in the application to enjoy a full Multitouch support and taskbar integration.

Tasks.Show provides you with a visual representation of how busy you are. With tasks showing on a timeline according to project and size related to estimated amount of work. The time line view at the bottom of the screen also gives you sense of how your to-do list looks over time

Books.Show

Books.Show is a fully functional reader application that includes some of the most exciting English books, for free! When running this application on Windows 7, you will be able to control the application and flip pages using Windows touch. You will also find that the application integrates with the taskbar displaying the latest books and gives you access to a library of books.

Get the best reading experience on a PC by controlling the font size, the spacing between the lines, the color of the page and text on the screen to adjust for variable lighting conditions.

Quick and easy navigation using the detailed table of contents that includes your own bookmarks and text highlights. Super fast page flipping and seamless page navigation using position sliders and a functional keyboard.

Family.Show

For a hobby that revolves around dead people, genealogy is remarkably popular: it's the fastest growing scene in North America. If you are looking for a very easy, touch enabled free genealogy tools, Family.Show is the tool for you.

This is version four of this famous application that also serves as a developers and designers resource.

This Windows 7 optimized version uses Windows 7 Touch, Taskbar and Sensor to enhance the user experience and to enable easy and quick access to content and tasks.