At first, the app displayed this terribly ugly thing at the bottom of the screen with terrible gifs for icons. So I came across this dock I hadn’t tried before today (probably because it was so expensive, $25), and thought what the hell. I’ve always wanted to have a proper dock in win7, but unfortunately the ones I came across (objectdock Plus, rk launcher, Rocket Dock) all either didn’t have all the features I wanted or implemented them badly… I kinda wish Steam would just buy them or do what they’re doing. I’m somewhat tempted to look into this Evolve thing after seeing them at GDC (some sort of game hub/nexus package supporting Twitch streaming, vocom, matchmaking, etc). Oh, Ninite can be a handy thing if you use any of the software they support. Alas, I want to try one of the FLOSS media managers instead of another thing with a proprietary license, so I’m looking into Clementine, unless people have other suggestions. I’m currently using foobar2000 (with foo_podcatcher and foo_audioscrobbler) as my media player, and MusicBee caught my eye. Exact Audio Copy - CD ripper I use FLAC, though I’m buying few discs anymore namebench - DNS benchmarker, some Googler’s 20% project Stellarium - 3D sky/star map (not a utility per se, but super-neato) Denis Kozlov’s “Renamer” - does what it says, groks regex VirtualBox - virtualization for tinkerers If one’s save-worthy files are large one can simply pay for more storage on the aforementioned services (I use Google Drive, myself) or there are paid services which generally have more features, e.g. text and images) one can use NAS or an external hard/thumb drive in conjunction with a free cloud storage utility like Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Dropbox, etc. If one’s important files are relatively small (e.g.
There’s a crapton of imagine software out there (rei mentioned Macrium Reflect Free) but I just use Win 7/8’s built-in utilities.Ī related note is backup the oft-mentioned “3-2-1” principle is decent: keep 3 backups of your important files, 2 of them local (on different media and/or devices) and 1 virtual and/or offsite. Once things have inevitably crufted up (or worse) one can straightforwardly snap back to the clean image. Probably the best “utility” advice for any computer user is to image/clone one’s drive/partition immediately after a fresh OS install (including in the image only one’s most-used core programs).
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