Archives for the 'Desktop Software' Category
Why you should start using databases now! [Hack Your Day]
I’ve been promoting database usage for a while now, so let me add another post on top of the pile. I believe a database or your work (or personal) life is the most productive thing you could do which also helps you organize yourself and it may even increase your immediate productivity.
I’ve been writing posts [...]
Paste frequent text with short cuts in Notepad++ [Hack Your Day]
I’ve been ranting on and on about how I love Notepad++, and recently I’ve started looking ore and more at, let me share a cool feature I found which lets you create keyboard shortcuts for pasting anything really. This helps my productivity to no end, especially when writing html or css code.
I use comments a [...]
Automated desktop cleanup [Hack Your Day]
I found a cool tool browsing Lifehacker today, called Desktop Teleporter. You will find it quite useful for cleaning up your desktop, which it is capable of doing on its own. Simply specify some criteria, and your files will automatically be moved to different folders based on this.
This is useful if you download a lot [...]
Top 5 Adobe Air productivity apps [Hack Your Day]
Adobe Air has quickly become a favorite of mine, and has quite some hype surrounding it, and for a good reason. Possibly for the first time in internet history it brings together the internet and the desktop in a usable, easy, productive and very stylish way. There have been, and are, other projects on the [...]
Use OS-X style stacks in Windows [Hack Your Day]
I have been doing the blog for so long I couldn’t remember If I’ve ever done a post on RocketDock. I had a feeling that I didn’t, but I haven’t even mentioned it, oh the horror of it all! If you haven’t heard of it, RocketDock puts a little Mac-like dock on your Windows desktop [...]
Improve productivity by moving your taskbar [Hack Your Day]
Martin from gHacks usually writes great technical posts, but it seems he’s not bad at productivity at all. He wrote a post explaining why he keeps his Windows taskbar on the right side of the screen.
“Moving the taskbar to the side makes it possible to display additional windows before the Windows grouping feature kicks in”
Sure [...]
Create desktop internet applications with Prism [Hack Your Day]
A great new tool Mozilla is working on is called Prism, and it gives you the ability to create an application for your desktop out of any web service. Great examples are Gmail, Google Docs, Remember the Milk, but you can do it for any web page really.
Essentially it is a sort of browser that [...]
Batch resize images with Squash [Hack Your Day]
While Photoshop can take care of any batch action needs you may have, few people know about these features and using a separate tool just for this purpose may prove to be easier and more productive.
I read about Squash a few days ago on gHacks and I very much like both the interface and [...]
Lego Digital Designer [Hack Your Day]
You’d be surprised at how a software essentially geared toward a game can give you a lot in productivity. Lego Digital Designer is also unique because it is fun, it can be considered a game, while it can also be an important tool for Lego fans, designers and artists.
A quick download of the application will [...]
Folder navigation productivity [Hack Your Day]
I always liked Windows explorer and although I acknowledge its shortcomings, I never really grew accustomed to replacements like WinCommander or Xyplorer. An application I just found while reading Lifehacker enhances explorer with one of the best features yet, the ability to jump from folder to folder really quickly.
Direct Folders gives you the ability to [...]