What are some of everyone’s handy utilities that you can’t live without? Here’s my list: Unison: file synchronizer Startup Cop: msconfig for windows 2000 Webshots: puts a calendar on my desktop CoolMon: shows statistics of CPU, ram on my desktop Drive Image 6: ghosts my hard drive for backups (Drive Image 7 for Windows XP but its much slower) Mp3mover.pl: changes the naming convention of hundreds of my mp3s in one command. Cygwin: Unix commands on Windows Putty: SSH/telnet client And of course: Ad aware, Spybot, Avant web browser, and Regcleaner.
Tinderbox It's hard to describe what it does, but it's cool... Very useful for almost everything I do! [EDIT] And I forgot one, LaunchBar. It is just the most useful tool for launching applications, finding documents, sending e-mails, you name it
I downloaded Firebird the other day, and I was impressed. I'm anxious for the final version of Thunderbird so it can be my main mail client. --Bailey Tinderbox, looks interesting...but i don't have a mac i'll keep it in mind with the windows version is released.
Tinderbox is just excellent! I use it at work, at home, and I'm constantly finding new and better ways to do things. I'd highly recommend trying it when the PC version comes out. And it's native file format is XML, so it plays nicely with other software too. Here's their development team's page, unfortunately there seems to have been some slippage on the Win32 version.
MozillaFirebird is unbelievable. I've got various folders on my "Bookmarks Toolbar" (Email, Sports, Computers, and so on). I routinely use the "Open in tabs" function to open all the pages within the folder. It still has a few quirks (it doesn't like my bank's Web site at all), but I can't see any reason why someone wouldn't prefer Firebird over IE for general use. I've also been playing around with OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org). I still prefer MS Office, but I think OpenOffice is more than enough for most people. I'd recommend it to anyone who can't warm up to the idea of paying for MS Office. OpenOffice will be coming out with version 1.1 before long. By the time they get to version 2.0, Microsoft better watch out. Does anyone know of a decent calendar to replace Outloook?
