Personal computing discussed
Usacomp2k3 wrote:I can't believe no one has said this yet, but Treesize is definitely a must-have app.
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
Klyith wrote:That's pretty cool. But about 5 years ago, I had a little app that would do the same thing and make a pie chart to show you graphically where your space was. Way cool, and it was freeware... but I can't remember what it was called.
Smooth Beaver wrote:try µtorrent. It's better.
Klyith wrote:Smooth Beaver wrote:try µtorrent. It's better.
Azereus has a lot of plugins for extended functionality. There are cool things like automatic loading from RSS and stuff like that. But I prefer utorrent as well. It's great if you are manually controlling torrents anyways. That and bitcomet are all C++, so they don't use python scripts that require more cpu load.
Azereus : Java, slowest, most features
bittorrent (original), G3 torrent, YABC : Python, medium
utorrent, bitcomet : C++, fastest
Flying Fox wrote:crazybus wrote:Is Picasa's photo editing capabilities be good enough compared to Paint.NET? Just thinking about which one I should be installing on my next reinstall.
crazybus wrote:Here's another couple programs I've found quite useful:
TaskswitchXP
an alt-tab replacement for Windows XP offering window previews.
Launchy
an indexed keystroke launcher that has pretty much made the start menu unnecessary for me.
A_Pickle wrote:Oooh, shiny! Grabbing these. Anyone else that wants or thinks they might in the future want an expose clone for windows, you should dl it now. You never know if apple will do a look and feel cease & desist, like they did to y'z dock.Expose knock-offs
crazybus wrote:If you like the idea of launchy, you can also try Colibri or SlickRun. Colibri is faster than launchy but not as versatile (pretty much only start menu, whereas launchy can index other places). SlickRun is by far the most powerful (user macros, wildcard stuff, etc) but it's not pretty and hard to configure. I tried all of them, and settled on launchy myself.Launchy