Fences 1.0 released

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The much anticipation version 1.0 of the popular desktop organization app Fences, has been released today. Fences helps you reduce and eliminate the clutter of icons on the desktop by creating "fences" of icons. Users can draw shaded areas on the desktop and apply labels to them, which then become containers for your icons. These containers can contain be organized and customized by adjusting the shape and placing these Fences wherever you like on the desktop.

Getting a completely clean desktop is easy, as a simple double-click will hide all the icons and their Fences on the desktop. Of course, you can exclude specific icons from being hidden just in case you always like to see your recycle bin or other desktop icons.

Fences runs on all of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. On Vista and Win7, both 32bit and 64bit versions are supported.
Since Fences uses nearly no system resources, having the operating system is its only requirement. Installation is through Impulse (IE7 required).

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What is Fences?
Fences™ is a program that helps you organize your desktop and can hide your icons when they're not in use. A "Fence", a term coined by this program, is an icon group on your desktop. Fences is an add-on to your desktop, not a replacement.

Basic Features
Rope off your desktop
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.

See your wallpaper again! Quickly hide & show all your icons with an easy double-click
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.

SmartFences, snapshots, skinning, automatic scaling (for screen size changes), and more
Fences is a great tool to have - and with Fences Pro FeaturePack, it'll be even better.
The Fences FeaturePack is not yet available, but sign up here to be notified when it is.

Download: Fences 1.0 (free)
Link: Fences website
Screenshots: Fences in action - Neowin Review

source: Neowin.net / Stardock.com