Aston2 Panels and Aston2 Menu 1.3.1 released

Nov. 19, 2008 - PRLog -- From the creators of famous Astonshell (http://www.astonshell.com/aston/) and award - winning virtual desktop manager Altdesk (http://www.astonshell.com/altdesk/) comes Aston2 line of products. Aston2 consists of Aston2 Menu feature-rich Windows start menu replacement with the enhanced functionality and Aston2 Panels, state-of-the-art utility which offers unique user experience with plenty of out-of-the-box features. By applying skins you can make your desktop look like an alien spaceship's computer interface, alternative operating system or anything your heart desires in just a split of a second. Aston2 Panels is not just a simple taskbar replacement utility, it offers much more. Aston2 line of the products will be complete with the release of Aston2 Desktop which is under heavy development at this very moment.
Some of the main features of Aston2 are:

* Ease of use. No steep learning curves. Using Aston2 is just easy.

*Widgets support that enhances overall user experience by increasing productivity and adding more style to one’s everyday computing. Widgets can inform you about the weather conditions, display hard disk usage, enable you to perform lightning fast searches of your computer’s contents or the web and many other useful things ;

*Skin support enables easy application of numerous unique skins and themes. State of the art skinning engine enables implementation of yet unseen effects and multimedia support.

*Flexible configuration. Every element of the Panels can be moved, tweaked and customized, thus letting one to create yet more convenient working area. The same concerns Aston2 Menu and Aston2 Desktop as well;

*Animation support in every aspect of Aston2: smooth widgets opening and moving, animated wallpaper, animated icons and other elements of skinned widgets;

*Drag'n'Drop operations support, user friendly interface;

*Unicode support;

*XML standard, used for all the parameters setup;

*Multi-language support;

*Plug-ins support.

*And more...



You can use both, Aston2 Menu and Aston2 Panels separate or combined together for even better experience.

Version 1.3.1 is maintenance release fixing some minor issues from the previous version.

More info
http://www.astonshell.com/a2menu/
http://www.astonshell.com/a2panels/

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