Most Used Links
- Work email
- gmail
- evernote
- DropBox
- St Silas Website – St Silas Email Lists
- DeepRiver website - ChristianVisualist blog
- GFT
- Cineworld
- Ticket and Gigs gig guide for Scotland
- Versiontracker – find an application
- Online Bible – Bible Gateway
- WaveSecure – phone security 44 + six digit
- Church AV – Great Big Resources
- Say No to 0870 – to find local equivalent phone numbers
- get a human.com – to navigate phone menu systems
- TwitterFeed – Send Google Buzz to twitter and facebook
Useful application web sites
- http://www.tasklist.org/ – look-up what process windows is running
- http://tinyurl.com – a useful site when pasting long URLs to emails, etc.
- http://tinychat.com - quick and easy disposable chat session
- http://www.pdftoword.com/ – converst pdf documents to word
- http://youconvertit.com/ – convert documents, audio, images and video between formats (there is a size limit though)
- http://showmewhatswrong.com/ – get someone to record a screen capture of their problem so you can help them (or just laugh at them)
- http://www.versiontracker.com – find any software you want
- http://portableapps.com/ – applications to fit onto a memory stick
- http://www.flashdemo.net/ – FlashPoint software to convert ppt to flash
- http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php – To embed video on a web page
- http://www.kongregate.com - online gaming to waste time on
Large File transfer sites:
- I’ve stopped using these since I got a dropbox account read more here
- http://www.yousendit.com - can send upto 1Gb files if your email can’t
- http://depositfiles.com/en/ – this one is upto 2Gb
- http://www.sendspace.com – another large file transfer solution
Software: the rest of this page contains list of useful applications (web sites that ‘do something’, windows or mac applications) that people often ask advice on.
Windows Software
Essential
- Avast Anti Virus software “vast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use.” [download]
- Spybot - a freeware anti spyware and adware detection and protection app [download]
- FreeZip2000 - free zip and unzip app [download]
- Foxit PDF Reader – Fast PDF Reader [download]
Useful
- Audacity - Audio editing MP3 recorder (also need LAME MP3 encoder)
- Switch Sound file conversion software
- CutePDF Writer - a free pdf writer (need to download and install this converter as well) [download]
- Screen Grab Pro free simple screen grab utility. [download]
- RNAMEIT (can’t find a developer site) a bulk file renamer, ideal for digital photos [download]
- TinySpell a background resident spell checker I’m trying out [download]
- Look In My PC – System Info report generator
Mac Software
- Bluephone Elite – bluetooth SMS phone management software $20 [download]
- CyberDuck – FTP software [download]
- GIMP – open source image editing if you can’t afford Photoshop [download]
- Audacity - Audio editing MP3 recorder (also need LAME MP3 encoder)
- Switch – Sound file conversion software
- Clean App – uninstall app for mac
- Synergy – shortcut control for iTunes
- Monolingual - removes unwanted language resources from OS X (freed up 1.7Gb leaving me with only English UK/US) [downlaod]
- Perian – Quicktime codex – need to review this but looks good!
- Snapz Pro X – for grabbing streamed video or for quick (rough) format conversion – records anything on your screen as a QT movie [download]
- Whatsize – shareware tool to easily show what files and folders are eating up all the HDD capacity.
- Anamorphicizer – fixes FCP 16:9 mov files to play 16:9 in QT and iDVD (without this they are squished to 4:3)
Software suggested but which I’ve not had the chance to try yet…
VisualHub – Universial video convertor for Mac
Toshiba Tecra R10-112
