I love utilities. Love love FLOVE me some utilities. I have utilities for every single damned thing I ever did and do, and some are already built into Windows. I even have a utility to make whatever latest Windows OS look like XP. Yes, really. You will find that some of these are quite primitive and/or aren’t developed anymore. I. Do. Not. Care. They do what I want and when what I want to do is something I can’t do, I go looking for more utilities. No, I don’t want one program with all the bells and whistles. I want one program that does one task well.
A list (not even close to exhaustive):
- Bulk Rename Utility
- Search My Files
- Drag and Drop File List
- Monkey Merge
- Product Key Finder
- Multi-Timer
- Merger
- Long Path Eraser
- Remove Empty Directories
There are also programs that are either pay-as-you-can, subscription, or that I’ve paid a pretty penny for and that have paid for themselves many times over, mostly related to my work:
- Edit Plus 3
- ABBYY Fine Reader
- PicPick
- Macrium Reflect
- Sigil EPUB editor
- Carbonite backup
- CuteFTP
- EssentialPIM
And lastly there’s Pinterest, where, as I have said before, girls collect pretty pictures and crafts we will never do1 and guys collect prepper ideas and “fuck yeah, ’Murka memes.” It has monetized America’s hoarding proclivities. There is a utility to help organize and back up all that business, but it uses SeaMonkey and SeaMonkey is hot garbage. Everything always comes back to Nikki Sixx.
Scared money never wins.
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1. Pssst. Dirty little secret: Buying, collecting, and reorganizing one’s craft supplies IS the hobby.