Every once in a while I'll find an article in my RSS feeds for an amazing freeware application that has yet to be added to my site. This is the best free disk defragmentor app for Windows. In a review by TechRadar they gave Auslogics defrag app a 90% efficiency score. This is even more stunning when compared to the ever-popular Defraggler, which only received a 62% score.

As far as file compression goes *.7z is one of the best. This application extends Windows' limited archive capabilities. I primarily use it for extracting archives that I download from the web. All Drupal modules and themes come packaged in a *.tar.gz ("tarball") archive, so I'm unarchiving a lot. The interface is very simple and uncomplicated. Extraction time is minimal, and the installer throws some nice options into the right-click context menu.

I encounter so often a neat color on a website or desktop application and want to grab that color for use in my own graphics and applications.

As a color-deficient individual I find this program to have a peculiar usefulness. When I come across a neat color and want to figure out exactly what color it is (ie. via HTML Hexidecimal or some other like manner) I use this free little application. Just Color Picker will allow you to zero in on a pixel and copy the color code equivalent to your clipboard. It's a very handy little tool.

This program is basically a Mac alternative to the very helpful Windows program: Sequoia View. Both programs are used to display the sizes and types of files on a storage device in a graphical way called "treemaps". Specifically, using the language of Sequoia View, both apps display files and folders using "squarified treemaps". When you're concerned with unnecessary files consuming a lot of your hard disk space, these apps become invaluable to disk cleanup.

Quicksilver is a speedy application launcher for the Mac. Of all the application launchers that I have tried for all platforms quicksilver is by far the absolute best. Speed is everything with an application launcher, and quicksilver earns its title. But quicksilver is not just your ordinary application launcher. It has hundreds of built-in and downloadable plug-ins that allow it to communicate and manipulate many different applications and file-system functions. Need to rename a file?

A few days ago a friend of mine asked me if I had tried out Google's new web browser. I didn't know about the release yet, and asked him to make sure he wasn't mistaken (as I had heard about several hoaxes). Well, he was right! Google released a browser last Sunday called Google Chrome.

Taskbar Shuffle is a neat system utility for Windows that allows you to organize the tasks in the taskbar by clicking and dragging them around. The program is very light-weight. You can choose to have it run at startup and hide in the background (free up some of those icons in the notification area). It has a splashscreen at startup which you can also disable. Another neat feature it includes is the ability to close a window by middle-clicking it (you can do that by clicking on the little scroll wheel on the mouse); this is a feature that is used in many web browsers to close tabs.

Notepad2 is an awesome program for editing text files. There are a lot of free text editors out there dedicated to assisting programmers, but for my basic needs I prefer Notepad2. There are a few important things to note about Notepad2. First it was built in assemblers language, which is a lower level language (very hard to program in) but means that the program is very efficient and fast. The interface is similar to notepad so it is very easy to use. There is a convenient toolbar giving quick access to necessary functions.