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Re-discover desktop search with the intuitive Exalead Desktop Free Edition
Desktop search has a bad reputation of being a resource hog whilst not providing the results to make the overhead worthwhile. One of the best and most efficient Desktop Search engines around at the moment is the Exalead Desktop search.
LogMeIn Express is the easiest way to share screens
This has to be one of the easiest ways of sharing your screen for remote access over the Internet. Similar products require quite sizeable installations, or result in a very slow user experience. All you have to do here is download a very small application on the host (the screen you want to share) which is just 900K, and then give the session code to the person you need to share with. All they have to do is point their browser at the same URL, and enter the same session code without having to download anything at all. More >
The Best Free Online Collaboration Suite
With more and more people working remotely, online collaboration is an essential tool for any self-respecting home-worker. With a fully featured collaboration and screen sharing application (white boarding), even the most distanced workers can be just as productive as if they were in the same room. And as more and more work is off-shored or near-shored, efficient collaboration can make the difference between project delivery or project doom. More >
Liberkey – Get 281 free applications for everything
This really is the only set of tools you need to install on any freshly built PC. And if you’re looking for suite of applications that does it all, this could be the one. I’ve been a massive fan of Liberkey for the last couple of years and have it installed on all my PCs. It’s pretty much the swiss-army-knife and collection of all the best free applications. More >
Supercharge your recently used documents list with ActualDoc
There are lots of issues with the standard “Recently Used” documents in Windows. To begin with it only stores the last 15 documents, and it doesn’t store all document types. For busy people spending most of their life opening and closing documents, even with the most organised folder structure, it can become impossible to find that document you’ve only just been working on. At times, looking for a lost document, feels worse than losing your house keys. More >
The Best Free Windows Enhancements
You can waste hours if not days looking for cool enhancements to your Windows desktop. So I can’t recommend highly enough this web page which lists the “top 43” windows enhancements. Many of them are so useful you have to question why Microsoft never included them directly in Windows. Take the fantastic TeraCopy program for example. This amazing piece of software dramatically speeds up copying large files both locally and across the LAN. Surely this should be the way Windows works out of the box? Another favourite windows enhancement is the “Send to Toys” which gives the standard, but little used “Send To” functionality a new lease of live. Have a look at this site and you can’t help be impressed with the level of free windows enhancements available today.
Visit Freeware Genius to download the free apps.
What’s your favourite Windows Enhancement?
The Best To-Do list app
One of the best To-Do Lists apps I’ve used over recent times has to be MyLife Organised. I always keep coming back to it for it ease of use and all round great functionality.
MLO allows you to fully structure your To-Do List into projects, and dependent tasks, plus allows you to assign contexts – these may be people who are actioned to perform the task or recording where the task needs to be done (@home, @office, @pub).
MLO already allows you to sync up with PocketPC, and the authors are hinting at Blackberry support this January or February 2010.
If that wasn’t enough it’s also a fantastic tool for outlining documents and presentation – a real lifesaver!
Out of the box it doesn’t completely follow the GTD method, but that’s no bad thing in my opinion – I’ve always struggled with the workflow-oriented processing of GTD – its just too much of an overhead.
Be a Powerpoint Genius
We’ve found this great web site for help with power point design if you’re short on creativity and design, or just want an idea of how to create a new layout. It’s basically the results of a troll through the internet collecting all the PPT files posted up there, but they’ve been cleverly indexed and categorised. So, no more excused for badly thought out powerpoints.
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