Comments (0) Take a look at this Lifehacker post – I haven’t really got anything else to add. I use virtually every single one of these programmes and it is the best collection of free software that I have seen. Highly recommended !
One app that I have been using recently and has since turned into being one of those ‘really-can’t-do-without’ apps is Magic Formation. Draw a little circle with your mouse and up pops a circle of icons that can be configured to be whatever favourite applications, websites, documents, etc that you want.
Very simple, but very useful.
One of the most annoying things with iTunes is that it doesn’t automatically add tracks unless you happen to have downloaded them from the iTunes store (funny that !). If you download them from anywhere else, you have to manually add them into iTunes.
No longer ! Install iWatchSyncer and this little app will watch a designated folder for new tracks and whenever it identifies one, it will add it into your iTunes automatically.
Should be default functionality in iTunes, but isn’t. iWatchSyncer is a free download, so go get it !
If you want to read one of the best articles that I have ever read around all of those little pieces of software that you tend to build up over the years that make all the difference to your life on a computer, you must read this article. It is one of those articles that you should have bookmarked and refer back to it when you buy a new computer – full (and I mean FULL) of great tips – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !
Seriously, I cannot recommend this enough !
OK, so the nerd in me is surfacing again. I am one of those sad people that gets really annoyed if my taskbar icons (those icons representing open programs that you click on to switch to that program) are in a strange order because that is how you happened to open them up. You would think that Microsoft would give you a way to rearrange these, but they don’t ! Step up Taskbar Shuffle – this little app does nothing more than allow you to drag and drop your icons around your takbar – invaluable to someone like me ! Incidentally, for those wanting this at work, you can point the install to any directory (personal network drive, temp directory, wherever) and it doesn’t need to install any system files.
OK, I know that this is rather geeky, but I think this is quite cool. Here is a video of someone (who incidentally looks a little like an Open University lecturer, but he is from MIT, so I suppose that’s why) demonstrating a new way of sketching. He draws on a whiteboard and hits a ‘run’ button and the drawing comes to life. It is only using some very basic concepts, but I would be interested to see this develop. Take a look – unleash the geek inside you !
If you’ve ever thought of yourself as a budding abstract artist, now is the time to step up and show everyone what you are made of. Here’s a site that allows you to splodge and spatter away with just your mouse and create that priceless work of art. Who knows – you may just be able to make that million after all !
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