Tools

I was reading a great post on LifeHacker about TrueCryprt, a free, open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux. The software, which creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real hard disk, sounds pretty awesome on its own. However, a commenter,…

Not a fan of using the taskbar? Skip it with an application called miniMIZE, you can minimize windows to thumbnails that stick to your desktop instead. miniMIZE, a clone of a discontinued app called MINt, has a lot of features, making it a more flexible choice than similar programs, like…

OK, I'm not a huge fan of the goofy name, but this website/newsletter has a lot of cool stuff that makes it worth checking it. Photojojo is primarily a newsletter (and they house their newsletter archives on their website) where you can find tutorials, do-it-yourself projects, camera/camera…

SEAMonster, a personal project of Mike Swanson's, has nothing to do with the cool SeaDragon technology, despite the similar name. Instead, SEAMonster is an app that lets you perform seam carving on your photos. What is seam carving? It's a photo-resizing algorithim developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel…

 I still remember the excitement when the first Cakewalk Sequencer for Windows came out.  It was the first time that people without Amigas (but with cash or amigos) could do real professional-quality sequencing. Cakewalk has grown far beyond their roots in sequencing, and is dominant…

The Snipping Tool has got to be one of the most indispensible additions to Windows, and yet many people aren’t even aware of its existence. Sitting quietly in the Accessories folder, you’d hardly know it has become one of the most prized tools in this blogger’s kit. There are only sparse options for…