Toolbox Keepers - Part 5
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This is the fifth installment of my Toolbox Keepers series. Only two more to go! This time around I’m going to talk about four very cool utilities. In addition to them being useful, they’re also free!
EverNote
First off is Evernote by EverNote Corporation. This utility, also known as a web clipper, captures whatever you select on the Web and puts it into a file for future reference. It does this by using it’s nifty little plugin for IE and Firefox.
You can add things like portions of Web pages, whole Web pages, addresses, passwords, e-mails and more. You can then make notes to what you’ve collected and categorize them. You don’t even have to clip anything — just create a new note if you’d like.
Another one of its more powerful features is the way you can retrieve information. You can imagine that after a while of collecting information you’ll end up with another bucket of seemingly endless notes and things. Well, EverNote can put everything into one long thread of the information collected, but allows you to click on a time frame of when a clip or note has been made. So even though you may not remember exactly what you’re looking for (even though it does have its own search engine), you can maybe spark a memory by knowing when you added it to your collection.
Picasa
A free photo organizer from Google, Picasa is a very user-friendly tool that helps novice and expert users alike.
It can automatically search for the photos you have currently stored on your computer. And when you hook up your digital camera to your computer, it’s ready and waiting to easily transfer your images to your hard drive. Once it has found the files, it allows you to do many things to them like adding keywords for future searching, and categorizing them into digital albums.
Best of all, it has awesome editing capabilities. And just like Google’s search engine, it also has a “I’m feeling lucky” button to let it quickly and quite pleasingly make corrections to your photo. Don’t like what it did? No problem, just undo and you take over.
I find this tool invaluable when it comes to organizing my photos. Give it a try!
CCleaner
This tool is a system optimization and privacy tool. CCleaner scans for the things on your hard drive that you tell it to look for. Things like unused or temporary files that are eating up your disk space, missing dlls, and removing unused entries in your system’s registry.
You can have it analyze your disk first, and have it tell you how much space it could save you. When I first ran it, it found a whopping 184 MB of wasted space!
A cleaner system is a happier, faster system.
AnyPassword
I posted about this tool a number of months ago. AnyPassword helps you keep track of your usernames and passwords. Using the same old password for all your sites? Well this utility can generate new ones for you. Just tell it how many characters you want, if you want all numbers, all letters, or a little of both.
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Glad to be of help. As an alternative, you might also try Surfulater, which is another web clipper/organizer. It’s not free, but I’ve had good experiences with it, plus product support is top notch.
That Evernote is pretty nifty. It’s just what I was looking for. Thanks!