Productivity Tools for Windows

If you are working in IT or some job related with computers (today most of them is) you spent lots of time with your computer. This is my toolbox for a better computing experience in my daily routine.

Executing applications,
Who wants to spend 3 clicks to execute an application from programs menu or fill up the desktop with lots of application shortcuts? Just type it and go...

There a few applications around doing this like Slickrun, and Find & Run Robot. My personal choice is Colibri. Colibri doesn't have so much cool features but it looks cool and doing the job.

• Colibri
  Just type your application and it'll fire it up.

Planning stuff,
Outlook to-do list is just sucks so we need a better one.

• Todolist from AbstractSpoon
  Just great small and portable to do list tool

If you want to access your to-do list from everywhere just give it a try to ta-da list, online to do list system.

Store your passwords,
Sorry but I can't remember 90 passwords! Believe me it's more secure than keep writing them down.

• KeePass
  Don't remember your passwords only remember one of them (yeah in fact more than one in real world - login password etc.). KeePass is a "secure password storage" for your passwords.

Store your content,
You read lots of new article, news and other stuff everyday and then when you need them you can't find any.

• Furl
  Furl can store any webpage to your Furl account. So you can search, organize or read them later event if the page is down or not available any more. It's also working for password protected pages (you should be careful about sensitive information just like any other online service).

Find your files fast,
There are lots of desktop search tools around but I don't want to kill my computer perfomance. Who needs to index all files, just index file names and folders with properties.

• Locate32
  Inspired from the original locate tool from linux. Just update your database and search from simple yet effective GUI.

 I just can’t live without these tools (except to-do list)