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The Smart Productivity blog has a tutorial on how to enhance the send-to menu in Windows. They show an easy way of adding any program you want to the menu by just creating a short-cut to the program in the SendTo folder in Windows.
I’ve always found the send-to menu to be rather useless, but with [...]

Tusanga’s Mate is a powerful online symbolic calculator. The interface is simple: Mainly just a text box where you can enter an expression to calculate. But once you dive into it, the power becomes apparent. Sure, it is no match for Maple, Mathematica, or MATLAB, but it is amazingly powerful — and it is available [...]

I found a story on CyberNet News about an add-on for Firefox that really got my attention. The add-on is Ubiquity, and it gives you an instant command line interface to the web. I have earlier shared my love for command lines so I was very excited about Ubiquity. After installing it, I was not [...]

EASEUS Disk Copy 2.0 is a freeware program for cloning a hard disk. It makes a sector-by-sector copy of your hard disk ensuring the copy is 100% identical to the original. It is useful for upgrading your hard disk to a new larger drive.
Disk Copy 2.0 comes as a zipped ISO disk image. Burn the [...]

Lifehacker has a story about Executor. It is a full-featured application launcher for Windows. And it is freeware.
Read more about Executor at Lifehacker. They have some nice screen shots and descriptions of what Executor can do for you. It looks like Executor is able to give the other application launchers a run for the money.
While [...]

I spend a lot of time on a Linux / Unix command line. Often I need to do a quick calculation. I don’t want to hunt around for a fancy calculator program. I want something that works right from the command line.
The bc program is a command line calculator for Linux / Unix. It is [...]

If you have ever tried to upgrade your computer’s memory, you know how many different types of memory chips there are and how difficult it can be to find the right one. The company Crucial can help you out. On their website they have the Crucial System Scanner tool which will automatically detect your computer [...]

I often take notes. Sometimes I take notes on paper, but that is mostly in meetings or when I am not at a computer. I find that pen and paper works great for jotting down a few action items during a meeting or for a few things I need to remember. But when I am [...]

My fingers hurt from pressing those mouse buttons over and over again — but only when I use Windows on my PC. I noticed that when I use a Linux or a Unix computer, I press the mouse buttons much less. The reason? I have configured my Linux / Unix work environment to automatically bring [...]

For a long time I have been looking at using online storage to backup my data. My main concerns were the reliability of the company providing the storage, and the privacy of the data. Enter Jungle Disk. It is a small company with the right philosophy: Encrypt the data locally using state-of-the-art encryption techniques, and [...]