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I’ve been using Winamp for about 3 years now. And it has been always my favorite among the other media player. Since then, I always set up my Winamp to “minimized to tray” just to not get in the way in the old windows taskbar. Now came Windows 7 with its new and improved Windows Taskbar. I found its convenience and decided to take advantage of its features. But found out that Winamp doesn’t act as it supposed to be when pinned in the taskbar. So here comes Win7Shell to the rescue, found this plugin on the net while searching for an answer!

So what is Win7Shell? It’s a simple plugin for Winamp, that integrates with the new Windows taskbar of Windows 7. I’d say a must have plugin for Winamp. That is, if your in Windows 7.

Features

• Shows playback status and progress in the icon background of the taskbar icon.
• Uses taskbar icon to display a “VU meter”.
• Shows playback status using icon overlays on the taskbar icon.
• Customizes the aero peek thumbnail with:
  • Winamp logo
  • Album art
  • Customized information about the current media playing
  • Custom image file
  • Progress bar, showing playback progress
• Adds customizable player control buttons on the aero peek thumbnail.
• Adds ‘Recent’, ‘Frequent’ and ‘Tasks’ categories to the jump list.
• Winamp is now easier to find in 3DFlip.

It’s free and great plugin for Winamp users out there.

Download: Win7Shell [Win7Shell Google Code]

Last week, Charlotte told me that she has a copy of a 64bit Windows 7 so I asked her to bring it in my place just in case.

I never really wanted to install new flavor of Windows but since I have already the copy of the OS and I’ve been thinking of reformatting my system, so I think I give it a try. I installed a 64bit Windows 7 and dropped Windows XP on my machine. It’s been a week now and so far everything is running smoothly, no hardware problems and all is well and stable. I think my system is ready for production.

I admit it, I’m started to liking this Windows 7, not for its aesthetically satisfying look but for its productivity boost that given me to my day to day work. All is well, jumping from window to another and finding files.

By default, Windows 7 takes over your boot-up process and wants to be your only OS, and Linux treats Windows like a weekend hobby you keep in a shed somewhere on your hard drive.

[Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in Perfect Harmony] – Kevin of lifehacker.com

Yeah, True. The only problem now in my machine is on how to restore my boot loader to boot my installed Ubuntu 9.10. And this is the problem since Ubuntu 9.10 uses Grub 2 by default. It’s new for me and I haven’t read the Grub 2 documentations yet. I tried restoring the boot loader by legacy method but it’s different (oTL). Anyways, the only solution now is to learn. Hooray~!