Here is a tool that will definitely help you manage your music and other media files easily. It is called J. River Media Center.

J. River Media Center (formerly Media Jukebox) provides an easy and efficient way to collect, organize, and play music and other media files on your PC. If there ever is an all-in-one player and organizer for digital music, video, and Internet radio, J. River Media Center is it.

With this software, you can copy music to a portable digital audio player or move digital camera photos into the powerful image library. Whatever you want to do, whether it’s to make a CD of music for your car or record your favorite shows and watch them on your TV, J. River Media Center will do it for you easily.

Want to try it? Go to http://www.jrmediacenter.com/

If you have a problem remembering your schedule and you find yourself late for certain meetings and events just because you forgot or you had it written somewhere but couldn’t find it on time, then this application could be of great help. I’m talking about Stickies.

Stickies is a PC utility to cut down on the number of Post-It notes. It stores all information in a single text-based file. They are yellow rectangular windows onto which you can put some text notes. One of the things I love about it is that once Stickies is used to create notes, the notes will stay on screen until you take them away. Just like a real sticky piece of paper.

Latest Changes in the latest version, Stickies 6.0b, includes:

• “Unlock/lock” action available on skins
• Can now snap to other stickies when shift-bulk-moving
• Left-click to place the cursor at a specific location, and then press and click at a different location to select the text in-between
• Setting an alarm into the past removes it
• Single-item right-click menu pops up on snoozing for clarity
• Save As style guesses at a font style and colour now rather than copying the default style font
• Message-ID now written into the headers for SMTP mails
• Bug meaning locked stickies can be change after being unrolled fixed
• Recurring stickies now have the correct create date, not a copy of the original
• “Don’t duplicate” was only intermittantly working depending on on-top status at sleep time
• Pressing alt-enter with the Friends top item selected no longer causes a crash
• Close button mouseover now drawn correctly
• Unrolling a sticky using a skin which doesn’t support rolling would cause it to disappear until Stickies was restarted
• “stickies.exe -” now obeys the default settings for a new sticky
• Creating any new sticky no longer forces on the desktop “set drop shadow” setting

Want to check it out? CLICK HERE

If you are searching for a tool that can help search and recover important documents or totally delete sensitive information, you need to check out Directory Snoop.

Directory Snoop is a forensic search, recovery, and wipe utility for Windows. Just as the name implies this cool tool gives you the ability to snoop through your directory of files with advanced search functions.

With Directory Snoop you can:

• Recover erased files and data from individual clusters
• Display raw directory structures and purge erased file names left behind
• Snoop through files and clusters with advanced search functions
• Wipe sensitive data to prevent recovery

This cluster-level search tool allows Windows users to snoop through their FAT and NTFS formatted disk drives to see what data may be hiding in the cracks. Supported media include local hard drives, floppy disks, Zip disks, MO disks, and flashcard devices.CLICK HERE or Go to http://www.briggsoft.com/dsnoop.htm for more info and trial download.

Need a good universal hotkey manager? Check out slimKEYS!

slimKEYS is a universal hotkey manager that monitors the global hotkeys of your choice; it also informs hotkey handlers when their associated hotkeys are pressed. Each type of hotkey handler (hotkey provider) is a simple managed DLL implementing a few abstract classes.

Here a couple of cool in-built –plug-ins that you will enjoy in the current version of slimKEYS:

• slimSIZE: which you can use to change the current window’s position, size or monitor location to any area of your choice
• slimLAUNCH (with the FileSystem and Passwords extensions): which you use to easily open applications, documents and folders, or find usernames and passwords, by typing a few letters from their name
• slimVOLUME: which is to help you change and display the volume level when you use your keyboard’s volume control, or any other hotkey of your choice
• slimSEARCH: which enables you to quickly search on your favorite search engines, or any custom web sites
• slimGRAB: with which you can capture the image of any screen
• slimPASTE: which enables you to paste text anywhere, making sure to remove any formatting, just as if you had copied plain text

All these features really make slimKEYS a must have, but if you are not sure about it because you are considering how much it will cost you; here is the thing, you determine what you want to pay if you want to pay at all, IT’S A FREEWARE!

So what are you waiting for? Go check it out:

Go to http://www.slimcode.com/slimKEYS/Default.aspx

OR CLICK HERE

This is a useful little freeware program for converting between just about any units of measurement. The user interface is very simple to use and understand. You simply select the types of units of measurement you need to convert between and it instantly converts for you. For example, centimetres to inches or pounds to kilograms. It supports many types of units of conversion, such as speed, weight, temperature, time, volume and much more.

Although there is many such utilities as this online. A stand alone program such as this could be useful for many situations where there’s no internet connection. I can see how it could be of great use to certain tradesmen (architects, builders, etc for example).If you want to get your hands on this, click here and its all yours for free.

XnView is a fast multi-format graphics browser, viewer, and converter. It can read more than 400 file formats, such as gif, bmp, jpeg, png, targa, multipage tiff, camera RAW, jpeg 2000, mpeg, Avi, Quicktime, and many more. EXIF & IPTC metadata is also supported.

The image viewer part of it has an Explorer-like browser that allows quick and simple browsing of directory contents. The program is free for private use and has many features for image viewing, management, and processing. It supports red eye reduction, crops and transforms JPG images losslessly, generates HTML pages and contact sheets, and provides batch conversion and batch renaming. Slide shows with transitions effects, screen capturing, WIA & TWAIN support (scanner & digital cameras), image comparison, file operations, and more can all be done easily. Like the sound of it?

Check out the homepage here!

i.Scribe is a fairly compact email program with an easy to use interface and it has some good features. These include a split view of folders and items, signatures, drag and drop, previewing and more. It doesn’t require an install and can be run from a USB memory stick or even a floppy disk if needed. It allows you to manage email accounts, check your mail periodically, preview mail on the server, colour code your messages, and more.i.Scribe can import existing mail from Outlook Express, Netscape, Outlook and Unix MBOX. Additional features include plug-in support, proxy support, ESMTP authentication, message templates, its own built-in Bayesian spam filter, intergrated contact database and calendar and more.

A very capable little email program with a ton of features, excellent as an alternative to the big guys, or as mobile solution on a USB drive. Check it out.

TuneXP is a freeware system utility designed to speed up your PC and make it run that little bit faster. It downloads and installs fast. Next you should click “help” then ” Documentation”.

This enables you to go through each tweak step by step. I recommend changing the ones that are “recommended for everyone” and leaving the others unless you really know what you’re doing. Defraging boot files is a good idea too, to help your computer start up that little bit faster, the ultra fast booting setting is a good idea too as it rearranges your boot files, also helping for quicker boot-up. you can also disable the built in windows unzipper if you use a third party program for this.
Together these little tweaks and more, all add up to make your system that little bit faster.

‘ve found it does make a noticeable difference with my computer, although i guess it might depend on your individual system. I like the tweaks it offers as i havent found them on any other tweaking programs, which usually seem to have the same ones that dont really do much. Anyway, its free and cant really do any harm.

You can download it here and read more info here.

Need a fast and easy back up program? You need to check out SimplyBackup.

SimplyBackup is a fast and easy backup program for Windows. It provides both manual and automatic data backup. It includes many useful features, such as Zip file compression, native file copying, strong AES-256 encryption, HTML log report, and more.

If there is in one thing you will enjoy about this software, it’s the user interface; it’s so simple and easy to learn that even fresh computer users won’t have a problem with it.

Another cool thing is that SimplyBackup includes backup templates to automatically back up My Documents, Windows desktop, Outlook folders, e-mail messages, address book, Windows system settings, and many more. You don’t have to specify those locations manually anymore.

You will also love the fact SimplyBackup is fast and has little impact on your system. It takes minimum system resources when running on your computer. The installation package is very small.

Don’t you think it’s worth checking out?

For more info and download, CLICK HERE or visit http://www.simplybackup.info/

If you need a program to help you keep an eye on your system especially the things that are not so obvious to the ordinary eye, you might want to check out SensorsView.

SensorsView is a program that monitors temperature of CPU, motherboard, hard disks, voltages, and fan speeds. It informs you about critical values of any parameters of your system (e.g. about overheating the processor or a stop of fans). You will appreciate the fact that SensorsView informs you about it and stores info in the log file.

The latest version, SensorsView Pro 3.1 Build 3061 was released on March 6, a couple of days ago.

In a nut shell it’s cool features include:

• Support almost all monitoring chips and motherboards
• Notification at critical values
• Showing chosen parameter in the tray
• Showing CPU usage
• Showing physical memory usage
• Showing HDD usage
• Showing NIC usage
• Log file for events and warning messages

Etc

Want to check it out? CLICK HERE