PhraseExpress is an amazing little free program that you can download for your Windows machine. It will save you so many keystrokes that you will probably be left wondering how you survived without it! It essentially lets you customize a list of phrases that are available to choose from.
As many of you know by now I use Google Bookmarks to manage all of my favorite sites. I used to use the Firefox extension called Google Bookmarks Button until I happen to stumble upon GMarks. Unlike the button, GMarks is an extension that will show all of your bookmarks in your sidebar along with a nice search box that will filter your results as you type.
I have been using the GreatNews RSS Reader for exactly two months and it has been pretty good. I wasn't looking to switch to a new feed reader until I stumbled upon the cleverly named Feedreader. It looked so clean and simple that I felt like I had to give it a try...and of course it is free!
Windows has a built-in process explorer that isn't exactly targeted for power users. It only shows you the basic information that you need and nothing else. If you are want to know more about what's going on in your computer then you should download the free Process Explorer by Sysinternals.
Virtual desktops seem to be a must for any operating system because they allow you to reduce the clutter that you see on the screen. I have never even seen a distribution of Linux that doesn't come with virtual desktops built-in.
One of the biggest things that I hate when reinstalling Windows is hunting down all of my drivers. I eventually got clever enough where I downloaded all of the drivers I needed and put them on a CD. Then each time I needed them they were always easy to find. Well, it looks like I was taking a completely wrong approach.
Do you have a hard time finding a media player that has all of the codecs that you need? GOM Player will solve those problems and many more. It can support formats like AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF, and the list keeps going!
A few days ago when I wrote up an article on WinRoll "Nate The Great" commented with a few programs that he really likes. One of those programs was Launchy and I thought I'd give it a shot since it sounded useful.
One of the coolest, and probably unknown, features in Google Talk is the ability to click on the title bar of a chat window and to have it collapse. It doesn't exactly minimize the window but makes it smaller so that you reclaim your desktop space but you can also easily re-open the chat.
It is probably as hard for you to get up in the morning as it is for me. I used to set an alarm on my television and I would place the remote right next to the TV so that I had to get up in order to turn the alarm off. That did a great job of getting me up...until I got a new TV and it didn't have that feature.
