Software Suggestions

Now this program has been around agile, but it surely worth mentioning.  GIMP is a raster based graphics program which is very feature packed and easy to learn and use.  Whether tweaking photos, designing web page images, icon design, or just for messing around...it rocks!  This is a must have and beats many graphics programs.

GIMP site

Now that Blogs and Social Networking sites are so common place quick and efficient photo editing and uploading is necessary.  This utility lets you do minor photo tweaks, such as crop, rotate, desaturate, rename, and/or remove the images and then you can either save the finished results or upload them from there to your repository of choice.  If you do this kind of a thing often, this is a GREAT tool.

SnapEase (Cockos) site

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This is a very simple, but incredibly useful program.  It is designed to do one very helpful thing...keep two drives in sync, basically backup a drive.  It's very easy and is quick.

PathSync (Cockos) site

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Now if you're using Windows 7 you may find the new Aero Snap very handy, but imagine it was more powerful.  Introducing WinSplit Revolution...a utility that allows the use of drag and go or simple key commands (my favorite) to position windows quickly in a bunch of helpful places.  Now you can position 4 windows in their own space quickly.  This is a must.  This program can also run portably to allow you to always have it with you on your flash drive.  It works on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 (x86...
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Still using Microsoft Office for Word, Excel, etc.?  Well, there's a better way than shelling out $150 or more for each upgrade.  Open Office, which is made by Sun Systems, allows opening and saving of ALL MS Office formats, + they also use more universal formats like ODF (which may someday be the new standard).  This suite has a lot to offer and it also does more.  One thing I love is it's ability to export PDFs, try that MS.

Open Office.org site

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Are you still using Win Zip to compress/zip files?  And if you are, you're probably like many people using the evaluation, which means NAG screen of annoyance.  Well, you can buy Win Zip, or you can download 7-Zip.  7-Zip allows compression and decompression in 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR and unpacking.only in ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.  This is the last compression utility you'll ever need again.  Oh, and it is very efficie...
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CutePDF Writer is one very hand application, and it works much different than any other application too.  It does what it says- Writes PDFs, but instead of taking a file already created and exported it to PDF it prints the file to PDF.  CutePDF even shows up with your typical Ink Jet and Laser printers.  You say print and it lets you choose the name and location.  It's that easy, oh and it's FREE!

CutePDF site

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Revo Uninstaller is one great application.  Now some of you may be thinking, "Why would I need this, all programs have uninstallers and if they don't Windows has it's Add/Remove feature..."  While that is true, both ANY program's and Windows' Add/Remove app are not ideal.  Here's why, when you uninstall a program MOST programs leave their 'program files' folder and sometimes some stuff in it + application data is left on your PC (if you ever decide to reinstall the app) + Registry info ...
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