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 Hmmm… It does happen. You suddenly realize that you only have a few gigs left and your computer is slowing down to a grinding halt or you can't install that 8Gb game you just bought or…well, you get the point. WinDirStat is an ingenious little application that allows you to choose the drives you want to know how much space on each you're using and see it in a drill-down list mode – but even better, see it graphically. When you start WinDirStat it gives you an option of what drives you would like to scan, including removable media – even CD or DVD drives. Although it does take a while to scan your drives (and this is completely based on the size of the drive you're scanning), it's so worth the wait. The result is an all in one view of your files with a tree list at the top and a graphical view of your files on the bottom of the screen. Check out these screenshots (taken with MWSnap and resized with IrfanView in a few short moments)…
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 There are a good number of to-do-lists available as free downloads available on the internet, but they are typically simple and shallow, more like text editors than functional task managers. I have yet to see anything that comes close to Abstract Spoon's ToDoList. It's really quite impressive. Although targeted at programmers (a super power app for that), it will work beautifully for any comprehensive project you need to tackle.
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 Enter Audacity. An extremely functional and easy to use audio recorder, editor, and converter. It's efficient enough to work on your laptop and powerful enough on your desktop to allow you to do a large number of tasks that expensive commercial software touts. It's free, open source, cross platform, and simply does it's job well. Audacity boasts a large numbers of effects that are useful and fun to play with, but where it really shines is in it's ability to quickly record a track, stop it, and move on to another. Then you can mute, solo, cut and paste, trim, and modify the audio tracks your create just as you would in any multi-track mixer application. Tracks are easy to export, convert, or delete. It's quick, it's functional, it's fun, and it's free!
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 There's something to be said about some of the current password storing features that have now become common in web browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and others. And although they do the job pretty well they're not very portable, and the security is fairly low. Keepass is a free application that allows you to store any passwords you have in one place for any website or application securely, and is easily portable to mobile devices and USB devices as well. You can store URL's, your username and password, and any applicable notes in each record and then autotype your information into forms by placing your cursor at the username prompt in any app or website.
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 There are so many bloated image viewers out there and it seems that 80% of the people I see who add them to their machines use about 2% of the features on them. Picasa is nice but it's typically overkill. Windows own picture viewer is large, slow, and doesn't offer any real on-the-fly file manipulation. Then there's the endless slew of applications that come with equipment such as Kodak's EasyShare and the like. And most of these applications install services or tray items that just sit there and suck up memory whether you're using them or not. Irfanview offers a different experience than these excessive applications…
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This HTML editor has gone through several incarnations but through each has been a proven contender to many commercial WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editors. Once known as Kompozer, Trellian Webpage not only provides web pages that look the way you create them, but also allows you to use Adobe Photoshop plugins which is a nice feature.
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 This is a great alternative to Techsmith's Snaggit that retails at $49. It does essentially the same thing and costs nothing. It's an older program but when it's already great how new does it have to be? I've been using it for years for every screenshot application I need. It does a great job, allows you to save your screenshots in multiple formats, and allows you to manually assign hot keys. You can set a fixed area, window or menu, snap your entire desktop, or drag a rectangle over what you want to capture and it provides a pixel based zoom that stays out of your way as you do.
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 It's becoming more and more important to be able to work while on the go. For some of it's just downright crucial. But I believe it's almost as important to play while you're mobile as well, and now we're able to accomplish things that were only a short while ago impossible. Do you have a blog on Wordpress? Do you have a Blackberry? Well if so there's great news, because Wordpress has done a bangup job of developing an easy to use, comprehensive blogging tool for Wordpress.
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 It’s almost Christmas, and if there’s one thing I really, really want … it’s more time. I have so many wonderful little tips and tricks, have spent countless hours using and testing incredible software products and innovations, and I want to share what I’ve learned and what is an immense passion for me. And so I am starting this site fresh, with a (somewhat flexible) plan and time schedule as my time will allow me to invest in it.
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