Bootloader tweaking utility EasyBCD makes dual booting between Windows, Linux, and even OS X an easy task, and the latest version updates with support for Windows 7 and newer Ubuntu versions with grub2.

Once you’ve installed the application, you can easily edit, rename, reorder, add entries, and customize just about anything in the bootloader sequence for any number of installed operating systems. You can access a set of tools that will let you back up, restore, and repair your bootloader, and even change your boot drive.

The new 2.0 release of the application comes with a slew of changes, the most notable including Windows 7 support, bootable ISO images, and adding bootable USB drives to the bootloader. It’s well worth a look if you’re setting up a dual-boot configuration.

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Can’t decide whether you should commit your spare thumb drive to Windows recovery, Ubuntu, or some other live-booting OS? Run MultiBootISOs on your USB drive, and you won’t have to choose—you’ll just choose between them at start-up.

The folks at PenDriveLinux.com have created a Windows tool for creating what is basically a GRUB multi-OS bootloader on your USB drive, along with a nice long list of systems that work with it. All you have to do is grab an ISO file of the system you’re adding to your drive, then drop the whole ISO file onto the drive (occasionally with special instructions). There’s all the usual Linux cohorts—Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, etc.—but also some great rescue tools and utilities, like the GParted partition disc, Ophcrack password reset, and virus scanners. You could even load a Windows 7 installation DVD onto your thumb drive, if you had the room.

I tried out PenDriveLinux with Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu, and Gparted on one USB drive, and it worked like a charm. If you find trouble booting up, check out the page text for tips on creating a Master Boot Record on your thumb drive, and fixing other problems that can crop up.

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If you’re looking for an easy way to screenshot web pages from within Google Chrome, Awesome Screenshot is a versatile Chrome screenshot tool.

Awesome Screenshot makes it easy to grab both the visible portion and the entire web page with a single click. You can scroll through your capture, crop it, and easily blur portions that contain private data you don’t want to share. You can annotate the image with text, circles, arrows, and lines in varying colors for emphasis and clarity.

Once you’ve captured and annotated your screenshot you can then save the image to your computer or share the image. Your image is uploaded to the Pict image sharing site and quick links are provided for copying the URL, sharing on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz or emailing using GMail, Yahoo! Mail, or Hotmail. Awesome Screenshot is free, requires no registration, and works wherever Chrome does.

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Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labelled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer’s desktop, solving the “constant mess” problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.

Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all that clutter.

In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a patent-pending quick-hide feature. Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they’ll return.

Fences allows you to create shaded areas on your desktop that you can place icons in. You can label them however you wish, and move/resize them anywhere on the desktop. Pre-included layouts help speed the process for new users.

Double click blank space on your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they’ll return. We think this feature is so useful and unique, that we’ve applied for a patent on it. And with the upcoming Fences FeaturePack , included in the community preview, you can even pick icons and individual Fences to exclude.

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If you’re looking for a unique screensaver or want a way to show the people who visit your blog what the weather is like in your part of the world, look no further thanYoWindow, a free Web service that can show you the local weather in full-screen with interactive controls to see what the forecast is like in the coming days or hours.

The service updates constantly as conditions change in real-time. If you really like the service, YoWindow even offers embeddable widgets for your blog or social network so visitors there can see your weather as well.

YoWindow is a fun way to keep an eye on what the weather is like outside your walls. If you’ve ever worked in an office without windows where you haven’t the foggiest idea what the conditions are like until you step outside, you’ll know it can be useful to have a tool that will tell you before you head out for lunch or for home at the end of the day. With YoWindow, you can download a screensaver that will show you in real time what the current time and weather conditions are.

Once you fire up the app or the screensaver is activated, everything from the position of the sun in the sky to the time of sunrise and sunset to the exact weather conditions outside (cloudy, rainy, stormy, etc) are all accurately reflected in the app. The developers state that they’ve gone to lengths to make sure that the position of the sun or moon in the sky and when the sunrise and sunset times are match up with what they are for your location. The landscape over which weather moves even changes depending on the season.

In addition to looking good and being astronomically accurate, YoWindow also gives you accurate weather information from publicly available sources in your area including temperature, wind speed, humidity, and so on. If it’s raining outside, YoWindow will show you rain falling, and if it’s foggy, you’ll see fog across the landscape. You can also surf through locations around the world if you’re curious what conditions in a different city or country look like.

Finally, YoWindow also offers embeddable widgets that allow you to embed your local weather into the sidebar of your blog, your iGoogle start page, or your MySpace or Facebook account. If you use the Facebook app, you’ll also be able to use the widget to see what the weather is like where your friends live, since you’ll be able to pull their locations from their profiles.

YoWindow may be overkill if you just want to know what the weather is like outside, but it’s a fun way to make use of an extra computer or add a touch of personalization to your Web page.