Free Software
In the Free Software Department today, I've found a couple of goodies:
LockNote by Steganos. It's just a simple little text editor, a bit like Notepad or Wordpad. The difference is that when you finish and close your document, it's automatically encrypted and password-protected. When you want to open it again, double-click the file and enter your password and you've got access. A great way to safely store passwords, etc.
IOweYou. This is an online expense tracker with a difference -- it's for small groups. Ideal for roommates, carpoolers, etc. You set up the expenses that you share, who pays for what, etc. and it automatically keeps track of who owes who (whom?).
TimeTracker. Another online app. This one tracks how much time you spend doing things. You create an 'event' (like writing a blog entry), start the timer when you start the task, stop the timer when you finish, and it will create a little report for the event. I'm using it to keep track of the time I spend blogging and reading 'Get Paid' emails.
BookBurro. This one's a Firefox extension that pops up a small panel whenever it thinks the webpage you're viewing is related to a book (seems a bit hit-and-miss, but if nothing else it works OK when you're looking at a page at Amazon, B&N, or one of the other online bookstores). Click on the panel and it fetches prices for that book from a number of different online bookstores (Amazon, Alibris, Books-a-Million and more). Works really well as a price-comparison tool, and I highly recommend it to all Firefox users.
Ted. I haven't tried this one yet but I will download it today and try it out soon. Ted finds .torrent files for your favourite TV shows and automatically downloads them. If you don't know what .torrent file is, read the BitTorrent article at Wikipedia. I download a fair few TV .torrents, either because the shows aren't available here in Australia or in some cases we're a season or more behind. It's also useful when you miss an episode and you want to catch up.
HassleMe. This one's a simple service. It sends you reminder emails. You go to the website, tell it to remind you roughly every 3 days to do your laundry. Tell it where to send the emails (type in more than one email address and it selects one at random -- a cool way to split up tasks!) and it'll email you a reminder.
I found all these thanks to LifeHacker.
LockNote by Steganos. It's just a simple little text editor, a bit like Notepad or Wordpad. The difference is that when you finish and close your document, it's automatically encrypted and password-protected. When you want to open it again, double-click the file and enter your password and you've got access. A great way to safely store passwords, etc.
IOweYou. This is an online expense tracker with a difference -- it's for small groups. Ideal for roommates, carpoolers, etc. You set up the expenses that you share, who pays for what, etc. and it automatically keeps track of who owes who (whom?).
TimeTracker. Another online app. This one tracks how much time you spend doing things. You create an 'event' (like writing a blog entry), start the timer when you start the task, stop the timer when you finish, and it will create a little report for the event. I'm using it to keep track of the time I spend blogging and reading 'Get Paid' emails.
BookBurro. This one's a Firefox extension that pops up a small panel whenever it thinks the webpage you're viewing is related to a book (seems a bit hit-and-miss, but if nothing else it works OK when you're looking at a page at Amazon, B&N, or one of the other online bookstores). Click on the panel and it fetches prices for that book from a number of different online bookstores (Amazon, Alibris, Books-a-Million and more). Works really well as a price-comparison tool, and I highly recommend it to all Firefox users.
Ted. I haven't tried this one yet but I will download it today and try it out soon. Ted finds .torrent files for your favourite TV shows and automatically downloads them. If you don't know what .torrent file is, read the BitTorrent article at Wikipedia. I download a fair few TV .torrents, either because the shows aren't available here in Australia or in some cases we're a season or more behind. It's also useful when you miss an episode and you want to catch up.
HassleMe. This one's a simple service. It sends you reminder emails. You go to the website, tell it to remind you roughly every 3 days to do your laundry. Tell it where to send the emails (type in more than one email address and it selects one at random -- a cool way to split up tasks!) and it'll email you a reminder.
I found all these thanks to LifeHacker.
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