Computers
The most powerful and lightweight screen capture tool.
Whether you’re capturing a whole screen, a small window, or a scrolling document, FastStone Capture is perhaps one of the best and most lightweight screen capture tools we’ve seen.
Backup to unlimited online storage using Mozy
Backing up files is chore only appreciated when you really need it. However, backing up to another USB disk or DVD isn’t 100% reliable. Unless your backup solution is fire safe and hidden from burglars, chances are you still might lose all those family photos and MP3s in the event of a disaster.
Play any media file with VLC Player
VLC media player is probably the best media player for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Boasting nearly 130 million downloads, VLC can play almost any type of format you throw at it including DivX and MKV, and provides fully featured media streaming capabilities.
Fake name and credentials generator
Everyone needs a fake name and credentials at some point, whether protecting your mailbox from spam, or your letter box from junk. If being creative enough is challenge, and you can’t think to make up a name and address on your own, then use Fakenamegenerator.com. More >
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 >
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 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.
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