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Find it faster with Search Everything

asoldier — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:11:02 +0000

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Using Windows Search can be tiresome, takes much longer than it should, and tends to bog down resources. Well kiss Windows Search goodbye, and say hello to Everything… quite literally.

If it’s on your computer, connected to your computer, and in some cases, near your computer, Search Everything will… search…. everything…yeah that’s about it.

No seriously…

When you type, your results appear automatically. It could be a folder, a file, on an external drive, a thumb drive, local, hidden, doesn’t matter. Everything will find it, index it, and the next time you search for something it’ll find it even faster.

Oh, and did I mention it’s free?

Download Everything

Everything Homepage

Supercharge your productivity with Launchy

asoldier — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:45:20 +0000

Everyone goes through it. Can’t find that program and it’s not on the Start menu; you’ve scoured the program folders, and you’ve even run a windows search for it. You know the name of it, but you just can’t seem to locate the darned thing. Did I overlook it? Did I uninstall it and forget? Launchy helps by finding all of your programs and shortcuts, and giving you real-time results as you type.

There are some interesting plugins for Launchy, as well as a wide selection of skins thanks to DeviantArt and similar communities. Launchy will also launch websites simply by typing the URL. No need to find your browser’s shortcut, and wait for it to load.

The best part? Launchy is freeware.

Download Launchy

Launchy Homepage

The Ultimate To Do List

asoldier — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:54:17 +0000

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There’s a growing need for organization in our complicated lives. Without it, we waste time, lose productivity, and become unhappy soon thereafter. In order to combat the chaos we need friends, skills, knowledge, and power tools to help us cope, and take advantage of the mess. One tool that lets us do this is RememberTheMilk.com. ?

One of the awesome things about RTM (RememberTheMilk) is that it’s not just a bare bones to do list. It’s lets you know when you have appointments coming up via email or a plethora of other services… you can sync it between your phone, home computer, and of-course the web, and you can integrate most facets of your life without expending much more than a few minutes a day. And did I mention, it’s completely FREE?

Say you want to add a new task…

That’s simple enough right? Well there’s a lot more you can do. You can make tasks repeat, send emails, connect to links, and tons more. I haven’t even started on the 3rd party services available.

Supercharge Remember the Milk task manager with browser plugins (pheedcontent.com)
A Bit Better RTM Enhances Remember The Milk for Google Chrome [Downloads] (lifehacker.com)

Don’t forget that you can enhance RememberTheMilk with Google Gears, which means you can run it offline, even as a Chrome desktop app, and ultra-fast to boot!

If you find something better, let us know. I mean for this price (free)…

What’s new? Krento.

asoldier — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:34:09 +0000

So everyone is oh-so-familiar with the Mac’s beautiful icon dock featured here. Unfortunately Windows never came with anything as remotely fascinating. There is the Quick Launch bar which serves its purpose with astounding limitations. Matter of fact, more limitations are imposed on Vista and Windows 7′s version than XP’s icon toolbars. You could slap a toolbar on top, either side, or the bottom on top of the task bar, or within it. Now, you’re limited to the Quick Launch bar, and all of it’s limited glory.

Stardock came up with Object Dock quite some time ago and ever since we’ve been striving to find a freeware alternative. No one wants to pay that ridiculous amount for a simple drag and drop dock. So, here’s an alternative. (One of many to come).

Krento

Krento offers a clean GUI based off of Rocket Dock skins and opens up some possibilities for a GTD mindset. It’s easily skinned, and customized. Krento sits peacefully on your desktop, or hides silently in the background until summoned either via a system tray icon, or the confounding Pulsar widget (the red-eyed eyeball object). When it comes to adding your shortcuts to Krento, dragging and dropping gets it done.

Visit Krento

Desktop Calendar ++ (Rainlendar)

asoldier — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:46:11 +0000

The theme behind BIXIT is to help you with a Better Internet eXperience… and in order to provide that, you’ll need a little help in some of the other departments not directly related to the internet. I’m not saying you’re ignorant or un-leet. I am saying that there’s always room for improvement… especially when you’re talking about me. So here’s a little improvement I made recently.

I’ve been looking for a decent desktop calendar/to-do list that doesn’t require some massive application to load, or insane amount of resource usage. I found Rainlendar.

[screenshots by softpedia.com]

Rainlendar has a massive following, so there are many features and methods for using it that people can easily overlook. The free version allows you to use the todo list, calendar, download and create your own skins etc. If you go pro, you can sync it to your Google Calendar etc.

Favorite Skins:

Of course there are many more to choose from just by visiting Customize.org but I like these pretty well.

Rainlendar has a nearly insignificant footprint, and has virtually no processor usage when sitting still. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

[Rainlendar homepage]

Postbox – New way to work with mail

An1ken — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:54:21 +0000

I have been using Mozilla Thunderbird for about 3 years now and I can say I have never seen a more organized client than Postbox. Recently being pointed out to me by a friend the application has grasped my attention in every way possible. From organizing email and Importing to managing Rss Feeds, it is truly a wonderful mail application.

I do recommend you make the switch from Thunderbird to Postbox if you haven’t already done so. You will not lose any information or addresses due to the wonderful import system from Postbox, it imports all your emails, accounts, addresses, drafts and all the rest.

QUOTED FROM POSTBOX – “Postbox works behind the scenes to catalog everything in your email. We mean everything: every bit of text, every contact, address and link. Every picture, document and attachment. It’s all in the catalog and it’s all searchable..”

Just click the Images tab to see a thumbnail gallery of every picture from every message, or the Attachments tab to browse through documents, files and more. And since Postbox does all of its cataloging on your own computer, the privacy and confidentiality of your email information is preserved

Thanks for reading the short little article about Postbox hope it makes life easier for you as well

Jacques