Ari’s Blog

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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I keep my icons a certain way on my desktop and it pisses me off  annoys me when an application decides that it needs to re-order them. I found a neat small piece of software that fixes this – Icon Restore.

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I was on my way to work on the van and a friend of mine was sitting near me reading the manual for PaintShop which he had just purchased because photoshop was too expensive. I had asked him if he had used GimpShop? He said he had used gimp and found it hard to use as all the features were hard to get at. He was not used to the menus/toolbars . I suggested he try GimpShop which is gimp but with a PhotoShop look and feel.

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7-Zip is a free and open source alternative to WinZip and WinRar. It integrates in to the windows shell and can open almost any format you can throw at it!

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HexTool is a neat utility for converting Hex and decimal numbers. It also has a binary display. It is much easier than opening calc and going back and forth between Decimal and Hex views.

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Have a disk on key? Have a computer that you can’t install an application on? Want to take applications with you? Portable applications may be the answer for you!

The people at http://portableapps.com have taken some essential utilities and made them portable. This means you can run them from a removable device (Like a disk on key) or on a system where you do not have permissions to run an installation.

There is also a cool portable launcher that can organize and launch you portable applications from one neat place. It is bundled in the Portable Apps Suite which gives all the tools most people would typically need in one place.

There are also portable versions of Firefox, Putty, and many more applications and utilities.

You ever just want to work?- No pop-ups – no fonts to choose – No Clippy- Just you and you thoughts and the text. Enter Dark Room. Dark Room is a text editor that just allows you to focus on writing. There are no distractions. No extraneous bells and whistles. No Menus.

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