I thought I had started a list of links and software I like, but I can’t find it, so I will put it here.

Links

WordPress theme selector: http://wordpress.org/themes/tag-filter/

PHPBB style selector: https://www.phpbb.com/styles/demo/3.0/?from=submenu

Free Software

One of my favorites is a software program called PDF Redirect, which lets you print out PDFs from any application.  It installs as a printer, and when you print to it, you get a PDF.  For free!

Atomic Clock Sync (set PC clock to time server): http://download.cnet.com/Atomic-Clock-Sync/3000-18512_4-14844.html

Speedfan (CPU voltage and temperature monitoring utility): http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Putty (SSH and telnet client): http://www.putty.org/ and WinSCP (SFTP and FTP client for Windows).

Firefox extensions and add-ons: FireFTP, FireSSH (caution: doesn’t work well with emacs), Download Helper,  SQLite Manager, Google/Yandex search link fix.

RealVNC (remote access client): http://www.realvnc.com/

VLC Media Player (player for video and audio files): http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html and FFDshow codec pack: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/

To resize, crop, rotate, adjust image files: Faststone Photo Resizer (http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm)

For disk partitioning and data recovery, Mini Tool Partition Wizard (http://partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html) and Ubuntu Rescue Remix (http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/).

Music Tools

For ripping audio CDs to a lossless flac library, I recommend Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) and the scripting front end AutoFLAC (http://www.legroom.net/software/autoflac).  Once set up correctly to work together, you can go through a stack of CDs in a hurry.

Check your audio CDs for authenticity and discover which ones were created from MP3 files with True Audio’s Tau Analyzer.

For music file tag management for many file types, MP3Tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) is indispensible.  I only rename my music files manually, but if you want to automate it, MP3 Tag&Rename is also useful.

For music file format conversions: Trader’s Little Helper (http://tlh.easytree.org/) is awesome.

I purchased AlbumPlayer (http://albumplayer.com/) jukebox software to play and manage my music library.  After trying out every program I can find, this is the best thing there is, and the support and license terms are excellent.  I’ve used this program almost every day for more than 5 years and it’s one of the best programs I’ve ever found.  It supports every audio and video format I tried, after installing BassAAC and BassALAC (http://www.un4seen.com/) (see also: AP forum topic).

Other computer resources

After dealing with an unbootable Windows 7 drive (a line of garbage displayed on the screen and then not booting), I discovered a Microsoft utility “bootrec“.
Executed “bootrec /fixmbr” and “bootrec /fixboot” from the command prompt, and this fixed the problem.  Startup Recovery did not detect any errors.

It’s about time.  This is progress: the right to choose your own end-of-life decisions without the doctor who helps you going to prison for no reason.

Could this be the beginning of a global trend of the resurgence of personal responsibility?  One can only hope.

http://news.yahoo.com/deaf-twins-going-blind-euthanized-165500992–abc-news-topstories.html

The personal accounts of indescribable suffering that are described in some of the comments should be enough to support this.

Withholding painkillers to avoid liability for a death of someone who is in a terminal situation is unconscionable.

Happy Birthday to Lisa from Killola whose lyrics were the inspiration for the name of my blog 🙂

DOS from here with regedit:

use method #5 from http://www.petri.co.il/add_command_prompt_here_shortcut_to_windows_explorer.htm

Didn’t get in to the banished words list, so here’s another nomination.

Word to banish:

“us to get pregnant”

Reason:

Oh, if it were only possible for couples who were wishing for “us to get pregnant” to both get pregnant.