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Easily add any folder or program to the ‘send to’ menu with SendToSendTo
One of the most potentially useful yet frequently neglected function in Windows is the ‘Send to’ menu. If you don’t use it much, consider this: you could have shortcuts to frequently used folders there that you can use to quickly move files off your desktop and into the appropriate place. Or you could place shortcuts [...]
FileQuery: right click in Windows to search the internet for any filename, movie or music file info, and unknown file types
This program will let you right click any file to quickly search for it in Google or other search engines or services. It can be particularly useful in situations such as looking up information on movie or music files (e.g. cover artwork or reviews), or for looking for unknown file types. FileQuery will differentiate between [...]
VBoxLaunch: pin your Virtualbox virtual machines to the Windows 7 start menu
This is a free program that will appeal to those who frequently use Virtualbox to run and manage multiple virtual machines. Simply, VBoxLaunch will let you pin your individual virtual machines to the Windows 7 start menu. See the attached screenshot to see what I mean. Ok, I know it’s geeky to the max, but [...]
Locate IP addresses on a Google map with IP Locator
IP addresses. Everyone on the internet has them, and everyone leaves them behind, whether its someone leaving a comment on a blog like this one, or someone leaving a few dozen SPAM comments, etc. If you have someone’s IP address and would like to find out where it originates, Locate IP is a small, free [...]
Intercept changes to your startup folder with StartupEye
Tired of programs adding themselves to your Windows startup, or making changes to your system’s registry? Then check out StartupEye, a program that lives in the background and alerts you whenever other programs try to add (or remove) entries to the startup folder and/or registry, and optionally upload and scan these programs using VirusTotal. StartupEye [...]
CNet adds crapware-installing “wrapper” for downloads from download.com
I recently downloaded some installers from download.com, only to find to my surprise that they have adopted a “web-installer” style “download manager” that offers to install random crapware before downloading the actual installer, such as the Bing or Babylon toolbars. This sort of thing is not atypical, of course; we’re all quite accustomed to authors [...]
Create audiobooks with chapter marks in M4B format with ‘Chapter and Verse’
Do you listen to audiobooks on iTunes, iPhone or iPad? If so, check to see whether your audiobooks are in m4b format, and whether each audiobook is contained within a single file or spanned across multiple audio files. The reason for this is that an audiobook in a single M4B file can provide you with [...]
