Back in university I was an IT enthusiast. I used to subscribe to download.com and read up on latest softwares and download the trial items to judge their usefulness. I have discovered some fascinating tools thanks to my 'hobby'. Some of the tools that are now 1st things to download for me are:
Firefox - Only time I use IE is to download firefox package.
Mediamonkey - Excellent at organizing my music. I have retagged and renamed 4000+ songs of mine within a month. I can't believe I use to rename and retag each song... i.e. 2x editing...
Audacity - For mixing. Only way I could get my music for my dance easily done without professional help. Ofcourse Bharat Goel was a savior later.
Google - I am a Google generation. Though recently I have not been using it but I regret not getting a good email address with gmail. Otherwise would have done away with Yahoo mail.
Well the list is long but point is these tools are essential for my plugged in life.
Ofcourse the experimentation often led computer to run out of memory or cluttered hard drive resulting in frequent disk fragmentation.
But lately I have been very very lazy and done away with it. Resulting, lagging behind my IT quotient. So I have started to jump start my passion.
ICalendar - that allows me to sync my google calendar with outlook and nokia phone. How cool is that.
Ypop - i used to use it in school to download my yahoo mail in the Outlook. Just started to use it - hopefully I can improve my turnaround time on replying to the emails.
Will keep posting my latest finds here meanwhile. Hopefully I can get out of my laziness and return to my geeky self when it comes to softwares and gadgets.
