Windows
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.
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What’s your favourite Windows Enhancement?
Fix problems with DTMF dial tones in Skype
Skype Dialpad can be very unreliable
Skype is used regularly by about 20 Million users these days, yet even with all that user base, the implemetation of the DTMF dial tones remains a mystery. Those people that use it regularly for entering pin codes for conference calls, or working your way through the maze of call centre’s “dial zero for this”, “press 1 for that”, will no doubt be more than familar with problems with DTMF dial tones with Skype. At best it’s unreliable, at worst it is extremely annoying.
However, the answer to fixing the problem with DTMF dial tones on Skype is actually the easiest thing in the world to fix. 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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