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FireFox - hxxp://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ | One of the best and most secure browsing solutions out there atm.

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A Better Web Experience
Firefox 1.5 has an intuitive interface and blocks viruses, spyware, and popup ads. It delivers Web pages faster than ever. And it’s easy to install and import your favorites. Packed with useful features like tabbed browsing, Live Bookmarks, and an integrated Search bar, Firefox will change the way you experience the Web, for the better.

Faster Browsing
Enjoy quick page loading as you navigate back and forward in a browsing session. Improvements to the engine that powers Firefox deliver more accurate display of complex Web sites, support for new Web standards, and better overall performance.

Automatic Updates
The new Software Update feature makes it easy to get the latest security and feature updates to Firefox. Firefox automatically downloads these small updates in the background and prompts you when they are ready to be installed.

Tabbed Browsing
Use tabbed browsing to open multiple Web pages in a single browser window, and quickly flip back and forth. Drag and drop open tabs to keep related pages together.

Improved Pop-up Blocking
Firefox’s built-in pop-up blocker has been enhanced to block more unwanted pop-up and pop-under ads.

Integrated Search
Tap into the power of the Web’s most popular search engines with the built-in Search bar, and easily add new engines.

Stronger Security
Firefox keeps you more secure when you’re browsing the Web, closing the door on spyware, worms, and viruses. The Firefox community of developers and security experts works around the clock to monitor security issues and release updates to better protect you.

Clear Private Data
Protect your privacy with the new Clear Private Data tool. With a single click, you can delete all personal data, including browsing history, cookies, Web form entries and passwords.

Live Bookmarks
Stay up to date with your favorite Web sites and blogs. Use Live Bookmarks that update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.

Accessibility
Firefox 1.5 delivers easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox is the first browser to support DHTML accessibility, which, when enabled by Web authors, allows rich Web applications to be read aloud. Users may navigate with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, reducing the tabbing required to navigate documents such as spreadsheets. Firefox 1.5 (Windows version) is also the first browser to meet US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.

Customize Firefox
Select new button controls for your toolbars, install extensions to add new features, or change the look of your browser with themes - the way Firefox looks and works is under your control.

Next Generation Web Support
Innovative new Web applications and services deliver a richer Web experience. Support for open Web standards in Firefox ensures you can get the most out of this emerging class of Web-based tools.


Pro's: Quick and responsive, resource friendly, always being updated and stablized.
Con's: ALOT of new exploits out for firefox at the moment, honestly imo id stick with IE over firefox for the next 6 months to year until alot of the current holes are patched.

NetCaptor - hxxp://www.netcaptor.com | THE BEST browser based off IE I have came across. More options than anything out and is GREAT for business, especially if you are a webmaster that deals with multiple sites at a time. One of the best features is its "captor" feature which allows you to save groups of open sites and relaunch them any time. Perfect if you have multiple same sites you deal with every single day.

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Reject Annoying Popups
Hate popups ads? NetCaptor blocks unrequested popups!

Clean Up After Yourself
NetCaptor's secure clean up feature obliterates your cache, history, cookies, AutoComplete and other private data by overwriting it 1 to 35 times before deletion.

Block Ads
NetCaptor blocks band-width sucking ads, web bugs, and other stuff you don't want to see.

Save Time
Open sites on separate tabs for lightening fast simultaneous downloads. Control media loading for extra speed.

Navigate Faster
QuickSearch and Alias features make navigation and searching as easy as a keypress.

Control Your Privacy
NetCaptor makes it easy to control 1st and 3rd-party cookies and P3P privacy policies.


Pro's: TONS of handy features and great for business atmospheres
Con's: Can suck up alot of memory at times and tends to get slow if you leave it open for days at a time. Its best to recycle the resources every day, close the browser when youre not around and using it.

Managing RDP connections:

MuRD - hxxp://murd.tandksoftware.com/ | Great tabbed application to make use of multiple remote desktop connections. Manage all your mailing servers with ease now! Control your entire network from one window now!

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MuRD is only new and we're still working on our site. If you have an problems, suggestions or inquiries then please don't hesitate to email us.

MuRD requires that Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection software is installed on your computer. The ActiveX control (mstscax.dll) that comes with it also needs to registered on your computer, this may not be done by default. If you download MuRD and try to open a connection and nothing happens then please refer to the FAQ section for information on how to get it working.

MuRD (Multiple Remote Desktops) is a Tab based manager for Remote Desktop connections. It incorporates an Explorer style interface and embedded, tabbed remote desktop connections for use with Microsoft Remote Desktop enabled hosts like Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional (and MCE) and Windows 2000 Terminal Services.

Download your 30 day trial of MuRD Now!

Tabbed Remote Desktop Connections

MuRD host's Microsoft's Remote Desktop ActiveX Control, so your experience inside the connection is the same as that of Microsoft's Remote Desktop (or the Remote Desktops MMC Snap-in), but it exposes some extra features provided by the control that are not exposed by the standard Remote Desktop Application (eg Screen Resolution can be any size, "SmartSize" scaling of the remote desktop if it is run at a resolution higher than the size of the MuRD window).


Pro's: Really easy to operate and so far ive not seen much decrease in performance. Option to save groups of servers making it easier to remember machines if you have 20+ boxes
Con's: Cant maximize the connection to the full screen (so far from using havent seen the ability)

Managing ANY windows:

WinTabber - hxxp://www.wintabber.com/ | Awesome application to tab any group of open applications you want to group together. Comes in handy for putty sessions especially.

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Do you get frustrated trying to find the right window on your desktop, or with alt-tab but they all look the same?
WinTabber may be the answer ....

WinTabber can add tabs to many windows. A tabbed browser ,tabbed putty , tabbed terminal or tabbed shell, tabbed anything. Multi tab your windows in seconds. A terminal or shell with tabs work faster and efficiently! Having multiple windows as tabs will give a better overview of your windows than before. Also having multiple ssh sessions by the click of a tab works faster and efficiently.


Pro's: Perfect for tabbing applications where there are no tabbed solutions or altenatives out for.
Con's: Could be a bit more resource friendly

Managing File Folders:

ExplorerXP - hxxp://www.explorerxp.com | Great tabbed application that replaces the standard Windows Explorer. Perfect alternative.

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Drag & Drop with Explorer, the tab bar and special folders on the main toolbar.


Multy rename tool - allows to rename multiple files in one step.


Displays folder size information and the real size of compressed files & folders.


Folder Size Cache - greatly improves the speed of the folder size calculations between sessions.


Merge / Split Tools.


Advanced copy/move.


Unicode support.


USB devices support.


Clean - recursively removes files that match given list of extentions or wildcards.


Groups - A group is a collection of folders, which users are able to access quickly or drag & drop files to them.


Configurable keyboard shortcuts.



Pro's: Manage tons of folders from the same window. Great if you have tons of files your constantly moving around.
Con's: Slower than traditional Windows Explorer and laggy at times, some of the handy key combos that work on Windows Explorer wont work with ExplorerXP.
 


Multiple Desktops:

Microsoft Power Toys Virtual Desktop Manager - hxxp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx | Great plug-in for windows that allows you to make use of multiple virtual desktop enviroments.

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Virtual Desktop Manager
Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.


Pro's: Works decent for something being made by "microsoft"
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Raelly easy to manage and switch between desktops.
Con's: Sometimes you can lose your desktop background setting when switching between desktops to fast.

Chat Clients:

Trillian - hxxp://www.trillian.cc | This is by far one of the best multiple chat service clients on the market with TONS of handy tools and plugins available for it. Supports multiple services with more to come. I could not live without trillian and its tabbed container feature.

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Trillian™ is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings.

Without stealing your home page and with no other included software, pop-ups, or spyware, Trillian provides unique functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client, docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications.


Pro's: Its tabbed container feature I say is the best feature out of all. Allows you to manage tons of msg windows with ease. If you deal with a bunch of clients or customers daily youll understand why this feature is extremely useful.
Con's: Seems to chew resources a lot (especially if you use too many plugins), log files get munged and screwed up sometimes and doesnt seem to like staying up more than a few weeks without being restarted.

Opening Files and Folders:

Active Tray - hxxp://www.activetray.com | Great application for quickly opening files and folders via cascading menus

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Active Tray enables quick navigation through your files, folders, and programs, and allows you to add many significant timesavers to your system tray. It is much more than just a tray launcher and hotkey manager; a variety of the program's great features, combined with a friendly interface, make Active Tray an invaluable assistant for your everyday work.



Add any elements to your Windows system tray: programs, documents, folders, internet links, special actions, and more.
Create an unlimited number of tray icons and organize your Active Tray items into cascading menus.
Access everything you want with one mouse click or one key press (by specifying and using global hotkeys).
An ability to run several programs, documents, and any other elements with one click.
Drag-and-drop support to simplify the inclusion of programs, documents, and any other elements to your Active Tray configuration.
Security option for the locking of settings by using a password.
Friendly, easy-to-use, and multilingual user interface.


Pro's: Quickly manage files in groups without needing to open up explorer, browse to directory, find file then open
Con's: none that I can find
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Manage Multiple TXT Files:

EditPad Pro - hxxp://www.editpadpro.com/ | manage multiple txt files all in one editor. Save groups of text files for easy managing and access.

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EditPad Pro is a powerful and versatile text editor or word processor. Designed to make text editing as convenient as possible, using EditPad Pro to edit text files will save you a lot of time and frustration.

Learn how you will benefit from using EditPad Pro:

What makes EditPad Pro such a great text editor
Edit every kind of text file
Fully adjustable to your own preferences and habits
Suited for everybody, not just for programmers


Pro's: The ability to group multiple text files is very handy. Has TONS of advanced features which also set it apart from its competitors.
Con's: Isnt very resource friendly and I tend to find myself needing to reload it more than often.

Manage Multiple Text + Files:

Win Organizer - hxxp://www.tgslabs.com/en/winorganizer/ | AWESOME application allowing you to make use of organizing your business notes and data.

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WinOrganizer is a full-scale personal information manager (PIM) that helps you organize and plan your business and personal life. It's a planner, notepad and address book combined in one powerful application.

The computer version of the organizer comprises all features of its paper prototype in a more comfortable way, which makes working with it quicker and easier. Its user-friendly interface combines all your notes, bookmarks, holidays, reminders, appointments, task lists, contacts, and passwords into a coherent tree outline form that can be customized as required. The data can be protected by password to limit the access to your personal information. Now you won't miss a single holiday or your friend's birthday; you will be able to track everyday tasks and, what's more, the program will notify you of the upcoming events and tasks.

In addition, like in a usual organizer, Notes powered by MS Word-like rich-text tools perfectly suit for keeping various information such as notes, recipes, famous quotations, tables, pictures, Web-links, and even entire pages from the Internet.

The program is equipped with flexible sorting and filtering options, HTML-printing, automatic phone dialing, as well as integration with the installed e-mail client and Web browser. All traditional holidays are included in the program, plus you can add your own vital dates. For your convenience, we made it possible to launch the program minimized to system tray (right by the Windows system clock) and integrated with Chameleon Clock by Softshape Development.


Pro's: Eliminate using tons of txt files, keep all your data stored together and secure. attach files and more to the text, create detailed business notes, store all your important contacts and more.. all with one easy to use application.
Con's: Gets to be hard to remember where youve placed some things after a while lol

Password Management:

My Password Manager - hxxp://www.mypasswordmanager.com/ | Great app for managing and storing all your passwords to frequently used sites and more

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As a PC user, you will understand the need to keep track of numerous passwords and names, especially if you are also an Internet user. One solution is to write them down or store them on your PC but this is risky. Anyone can read your lists and gain access to your valuable data or even worse, your bank account details. My Password Manager is a password storage program that will relieve you of the password management chore while offering you complete security and peace of mind. Your precious information is stored as encrypted data that only you can access.


Here are some examples of the sort of information that My Password Manager can manage and protect:

Logins and passwords for websites.

Access codes to e-mail accounts.

Cellular phone PIN codes.

Access codes to computer accounts.

Passwords for programs (For example ICQ and Outlook).

Passwords for files (For example Excel and Word files).

Credit card numbers.

Passwords for ISPs.

And much more.


Pro's: Good clean interface to store data in. Easy to tweak to fit your needs making it useful for much more than just password storage. Keep info secure too.
Con's: Encryption could be a bit stronger imo


Hopefully these apps will help some of you improve your business some. They sure help me a hell of a lot. Couldnt function without some of them.
 
Alone and Broke. LOL far from it.

Id bet ill see you at ASE.. Takers?


I thought id post that to help others Organize there pc.. Now i didnt spend time writing it as i got it from somewhere else.. But i bet you the most organized person makes the most money.. bet?
 
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