Friday, February 05, 2010

Krento 1.2 released

Krento v.1.2 released and available for download. Krento is a simple, good looking 3D application launcher for Windows.

Application launchers can speed up your computer experience, but they aren't always pleasant to look at. Krento is not only easy to configure, but it adds some serious 3D eye candy to your desktop, with little impact on resources.

Krento runs in the background from the system tray, and can be launched by either right-clicking the icon, clicking your mouse's scroll wheel, hitting Windows + C, or double-clicking a toggled "pulsar"—basically a small, semi-transparent animated icon—in the corner of your screen. To launch a program, just click on its box (or "stone", as Krento calls it). Or, if you don't want to move from the keyboard, you can also hit ctrl + the function key that corresponds to the program. In the above-pictured case, for example, Ctrl + F5 for the Command Prompt.

To add programs to the launcher, just drag and drop them onto a stone. You can even create multiple "circles" for different categories of programs, so you're not just limited to 12. Krento is also skinnable (it comes with a bunch of its own skins, but is also compatible with RocketDock skins), and takes up very little RAM and CPU, which is always nice—especially for something that looks this good.

In this release improved the keyboard support and updated application rings management.

Every ring has now a short name, description and icon. Using simple configuration dialog you can modify the properties of the ring.

Download Krento from the official Krento website: http://users.telenet.be/serhiy.perevoznyk/krento.html

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Krento 1.1.288.2 released

A long awaited update of Krento with possibility to configure stones is released.

New features:

  • Assign custom image to the stone
  • Modify stone description
  • Add optional command line parameters to the stone application
  • Add command line argument that will be used during the stone execution.
More information about the argument.
You can add to the stone target URL the special symbol sequence ##
For example: http://www.google.com/search/hl=en&q=##
and provide an argument prompt text.

When you execute the stone the following dialog will appear on the screen:
You can enter the keyword and press OK button. The web browser will be launched and pointed to Google with search results for your keyword.

In this way you can create the search stones for YouTube, Twitter and other social sites and search engines

 P.S. Do not forget to tweet or share this news with others.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Krento on Best Freeware site

Antivirus - Best Freeware Download
Krento has been reviewed by Best Freeware Download and got 5 stars award

Best Freeware Download

Krento Stones management video

Krento on Flickr

I added some screenshots  of Krento to Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47069565@N06/sets/72157623182116367/ and have a plan to add some more screenshots to this set later. To be continued...

Krento 1.1.184.24

Krento 1.1.184.29 is available for download.

As always you can download the latest version of Krento from my SkyDrive or from the official Krento website
 In this release was fixed the problem with usage of mouse action buttons (2 additional buttons on 5 button mouse) and improved the quality of the icons when running on Windows Vista or Windows 7. For some types of stones the icons were replaced with standard Windows icons.

I also added new settings to make Krento configuration more flexible:

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Krento 1.1.156.26 release

New release of Krento is available for download:
As was suggested by Mike Lee I assign now a unique version number to every release. These numbers will help those of us who are following your development of Krento, and making suggestions or bug reports, to accurately identify what version we are using. All editions are synchronized.

  • Updated and extended options dialog. More settings, more flexible mouse activation with help of key modifiers
  • Fixed problem with assigning the new skin and storing skin name between the sessions 
  • Possible to assign custom icons for the stones. Just drag and drop image file (jpg, png, gif, tif, ico or bmp) to the stone for changing default stone icon to the new one
  • Added ability to show/hide tray icon

Friday, January 15, 2010

Krento regular update (settings dialog and more)

I made a new release of Krento
http://cid-b4508367face85d1.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/krento.1.1.x32.setup.zip

In this release the configuration dialog was added



Now is possible to define:
  • Keyboard hot keys to activate applications ring
  • Mouse key to activate applications ring
  • Ring location when it's activated
  • Start Krento automatically when Windows starts
Other new features:
  • Associate .circle files with Krento. By double click on .circle file new application ring will be loaded. You can also create the ring shortcuts on your desktop for quick rings reloading
  • Application ring files .circle is can be dragged and dropped on one of the Krento stones. Now stone can load other application circle
  • Krento settings are stored when user is logging of or shutdown PC automatically
  • Every applications ring remembers the stones location and restore it every time while loading
  • When Krento starts, it loads the last opened ring, not just a default one.
  • The .circle file name can be specified as  a command line parameter
  • New command line parameter /ns for disabling splash screen during startup
If you want more features than use UserVoice site for making new feature requests: http://eidnative.uservoice.com/pages/37468-krento-feature-request 

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Krento security report

Krento received 100% CLEAN award on DownloadRoute.com
You may check security reports on this URL: http://www.downloadroute.com/Krento-Serhiy-Perevoznyk/antivirus_report.html

Certificate for Krento - Works with Vista‏

Works with Vista

"We are glad to let you know that your software "Krento" have received a "Works with Vista" certificate. You must know, no more than 20% of all software titles from our site will receive this award."

Best Regards,
  Free Vista Files Team.
  FreeVistaFiles.com 

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Echte winter in België