Ari’s Blog

Using Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDFs is painful. It is slow and a huge system drain. It also is constantly trying to update a newer and slower version. Foxit Reader is a free alternative for PDF viewing on Windows.

Foxit Reader

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Ever need to compare the contents of 2 files? You could use WinDiff. But WinMerge is a far better option.

WinMerge

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This is a cool site I read about on Lifehacker called YourFonts. YourFonts is a free website that helps you create your own font.

sample personal font

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I hate copying files on a Windows system. The system will start coping a file and if I want to copy another file while the first one is going it does so in parallel slowing down the whole process. If a copy process encounters an error  – forget it. The whole copy process dies and you have lost the queue and have no idea where you were up to. SuperCopier 2 fixes these issues in a small easy to use utility.

supercopier

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Do you use PuTTY? Ever wish Putty had tabs? Ever wish putty could remember the user name and password for a connection? Enter PuTTY Connection Manager.

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