I pride myself on my laziness… By laziness I don’t mean the typical definition; I mean my hatred for repetitive tasks. In many circumstances I will actually write my own code to eliminate the nonsense, automate the trivial, etc. A long time ago I was a user of another company’s solution for auto-complete...

There are several windows explorer replacements out there… ranging wildly in price. I’m attempting to be a 64bit snob and use as many true 64bit apps as possible. AB Commander , as with most of the replacement it checks all of the boxes: Side by side view. Enhanced file and folder tasks. Additional operations...

There are few programs that I don’t go without but one of them is jpsoftware ’s Take Command . It corrects just about every complaint I have with the built in CMD program in Windows. The most useful feature is that it allows me to have multiple “command prompt type” tabs… one with their own Take Command...

One of the things that I find myself doing on a regular basis is checking the same sites over and over again. There are several reasons for this, the most common is that it is a software company and when they release a new build of their software… I want to know right away. The other big benefit is when...

I’ve been out of the mix lately with an avalanche of health issues… the latest of which is a pinched sciatic nerve. Never the less I will be putting up some reviews of some of the coolest applications, tools, and visual studio add-ins and here is a partial list of what is to come: UpatePatrol Altova...

I’ve been looking for a solution for a long time to be able to watch DirecTV when I'm not at home. I’ve tried many things and all with different pros and cons. Having just discovered a free way to host a small little web server from home and still be able to change the channel and stream to any internet...

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a tool junky. That being said I've decided that I'm going to try to list the new or updated tools that I use often. The first tool is freeware, which is my favorite price, and is called QTTabBar and it adds useful tabs and other options to the explorer shell. Please...

This gem of a utility from Nagarsoft is one of the few tools out there that can be used by any type of worker... I'm coder and we have several command line driven scripts for automation and build and Direct Access has been nothing short of wonderful. At its surface it is similar to other macro -ish programs...

I am a tool junky. I use tools, like shell extensions in Windows and addins in Visual Studio so extensively that I depend on them as much as I depend on Windows itself. It's been a long time now since I adopted the multiple monitor as a minimum requirement and as a result need a utility that makes the...