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Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 11:07 PM by noahc
div.code {padding-left: 0.75em; margin: 0px; background: #edefff;} div.code pre {padding-top: 0.75em; padding-bottom: 0.75em;} I’m a big fan of keeping my hands on the keyboard as much as possible and having real quick easy ‘one-touch’ access to my favorite Read More...
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Awesome Screen Image + Video Capture with Jing

Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 9:59 AM by noahc
TechSmith, makers of my (up to now) favorite SnagIt and Camtasia have created the Jing Project , a new screen image & video capture tool.  It is slick, simple, easy, and fun.  I just installed it and am loving it.  Right now it's complete Read More...
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How-To-Geek Blog

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 10:27 AM by noahc
This is one of my favorite new blogs, http://www.howtogeek.com/ .  It rocks with tons of great tips and reviews on cool little tools.  Lowell does a great job reviewing tools, tricks and tips, and his blog is well organized and looks solid. Read More...
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ShellExec (a tiny tool)

Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:23 PM by noahc
Download ShellExec ( source code ) Here's a really simple but surprisingly useful little tool. It performs a shell execution of a command. That's it. Some applications only allow you to specify an executable to run as opposed to a file or URL. This is Read More...
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SnagIt - Top Notch Screen Capturing

Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:28 AM by noahc
In my quest to blog a little review of most of my favorite apps, I come to SnagIt by TechSmith. SnagIt is a fantastic screen capture tool that lets you do two key things very well: Capture Just What You Want Annotate the Capture Capture Just What You Read More...
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Swift To-Do List

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 9:13 AM by noahc
To Do List management on the PC has been a long time struggle for me to find the right app. A few weeks ago I posted what's proven to by my #1 most popular post yet (and it isn't even "technical"), Task Management Software . Well I'm happy to say I think Read More...
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Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 11:25 AM by noahc
The ability to quickly and easily search for work items using a little search box seams to be a popular Team System wishlist feature. Teamprise has a Java Team Explorer client, which they say they make sales because of their search capabilities alone. Read More...
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Folder Size for Windows Explorer

Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 12:23 PM by noahc
Latest Update, WinDirStat (6/18/08) Found a newer and better tool!  WinDirStat is also free and shows a nice graphical chart of the types of files and folders. Update for Windows Vista I've been using Vista now for awhile and the tool below does Read More...
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Cool Developer Downloads

Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:12 AM by noahc
What's better than free bits to make life better? As in life I'm refering to a developer's life in code. I was just digging around and found these golden nugets to share. The last two are non-Microsoft apps I've used for awhile. XML Notepad 2007 A little Read More...
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Master Config Your PC

Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:37 PM by noahc
All of us geeks know ways to tweak our PC in various ways, but there are just so many entry points that I wanted to do a post on them.  The most popular PC settings, designed for the average user, are of course available through the Control Panel Read More...
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Logitech Harmony Remote - The Ultimate Universal Remote

Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:21 AM by noahc
The Logitech Harmony Remote Controls have got to be some of the coolest, best TV/VCR/DVD/Audio/MMPC/X-10/XBox/etc remote control ever. They use a USB connection to the PC for programming, can learn from other remotes, support practically every device Read More...
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Insert Formatted Clipboard plugin for Window Live Writer

Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:07 AM by noahc
Download: Insert Formatted Clipboard for WLW Setup WLW Beta2 Update: WLW Beta2 now support pasting formatted clipboard contents so I was going to pull this tool. But for some reason this tool still produces better results (as far as I can tell). So if Read More...
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SlickRun: Command Your PC

Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 12:37 PM by noahc
Get SlickRun ( download now ) I'm a keyboard guy. Give me shortcuts. Let's see how long I can go w/out touching the mouse. To this end, for years I've wanted an app that would let me type short commands to access files, folders, programs, web pages, write Read More...
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ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:58 AM by noahc
Get a lot of spam? My personal address, noah@coad.net , gets about a 1,000 a week, but I don't see a single one of them. If you don't mind getting spam, this isn't for you. If you find junk mail annoying, and the viruses, identify theft (from phishing Read More...
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Change Screen Resolution with One Keyboard Shortcut

Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:46 PM by noahc
Do you find that you need to frequently change your screen resoltion? I do several times a day and some reasons are when: doing demos, showing my laptop screen to serveral people at once, switching between monitors, recording/capturing the screen, connecting Read More...
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