Productivity Tool - PowerPro

The PowerPro software provides the user with a launch bar that is both compact and powerful. It also includes a menu and tray icon functionality. The program integrates three functionalities. It can run commands such as tool bars, tray icons, scheduler, menus, timer, mouse and hot keys. The PowerPro software can also be used by the user to close, maximize, minimize, position, roll-up to caption and tray minimize other program's windows. The program also provides utility functions. It can send keystrokes to programs, provide virtual desktops, run commands when Windows first opens, serve as a clipboard extender, can shutdown, enable keyboard macros, show all folder files in a menu, enable sounds, wallpaper and screensaver activation as well as randomization.

In practical scenarios, software professionals can use this to :

·         Add List of putties to connect to various servers and get rid of typing username password each time.
Command is as follows:
putty.exe -ssh <UserName>@<ServerIP> -pw <Password>
·         Create shortcuts to various software.
·         Create shortcuts to documentation page(so no need to open browser and then search for bookmark if done).

You can more explore about this software using following link:

·         Home Page: http://powerpro.webeddie.com/index.html
·         Feature & Configuration Demo: http://powerpro.webeddie.com/tour/index.htm

So after exploring this, you can save time and concentrate on other work :)

Cheers!!!

Keynote NF : Handy and productive tool to manage notes.

I would like to let you know about a good lightweight tool : Keynote NF

As we use notepad to save various important notes or mark some to-dos.

Due to this desktop gets messy and its trouble to find things which we have written for our simplicity :)

Using keynote one can save the important notes or any under process notes in single file.

It is having various features, I have found few of it while its usage:

• Simple to use and Lightweight – When not in use keeps running in background.
• Freeware – No licenses.
• Supports Rich Text and various feature like MS Word.
• Alarm / Reminders.
• Tree based to arrangements of notes and multiple tabs.
• Good search capabilities.
• No need to install – Unzip and start using it.

You can explore it more and I am sure you may find it handy as compared to using notepad.

Here are details about Keynote NF:

http://code.google.com/p/keynote-nf/

Keynote NF Downloads (No need to install – Unzip and Use it):

Release_1.7.8.1 (true version).rar – Size 1.76 MB

Cheers!

Use Productivity Tool : StrokeIt !!!

While working on various windows tired of minimizing, opening, doing various operations.
Now time to move on to StrokeIt - Mouse Gestures for Windows. : http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

Want to download StrokeIt, use the following link:
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/downloads.shtml

It is also FUN to use this tool using your mouse :)

To get more information about how to use and other details, check out following link:
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Getting_started

Which Firefox Plug-ins are useful for developers to increase productivity?

While working with Web-Applications we need to test a lot of stuff in the browser.
As world wide most of browsers are used, I find the Mozilla firefox one of the coolest browser to use.
It is more helpful in testing your web applications, as you can install add-ons & plug ins to this browser.

I would like mentions some of the add-ons/Plug-ins for this browser which are useful for increasing your productivity & to do smart work... :)

Information of the plug ins/ add-ons have taken from their websites only, as whose product can explain well ;)

FireShot
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages.
Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.
It's possible to choose whether entire web page or only visible part of this page should be captured.
Screenshots can be uploaded to server, saved to disk (PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP), copied to clipboard, e-mailed and sent to external editor for further processing.

FireBug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page

Speed up your web pages with YSlow
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
YSlow gives you:
* Performance report card
* HTTP/HTML summary
* List of components in the page
* Tools including JSLint

Server Spy
Server Spy is a small Firefox extension that displays the brand of web servers (e.g. Apache, IIS, etc.) in the right-hand side of the browser window's status bar. When a tab is selected, Server Spy shows the name of the server that has served up the corresponding page.

LiveHttpHeaders
The goal of this project is to adds information about the HTTP headers in two ways:
* First by adding a 'Headers' tab in 'View Page Info' of a web page.
* Second by adding a tool in the 'Tools->Web Development' menu to be able to display http headers in real time (while pages are being downloaded from the Internet.
* Third by letting you edit request headers and replay an URL (beta). Look for the Replay button in the live window!

This project may be of some help for the following:
* Help debugging web application.
* See which kind of web server the remote site is using.
* See the cookies sent by remote site.

Fast Dial
Fast Dial replaces "about:blank" page with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites. Click on an empty cell, assign a site URL, click OK - a thumbnail will be generated for a site. You can also add sites opened in browser or existing bookmarks by right-clicking them and choosing "Add to Fast Dial" from context menu.
By checking "Group" checkbox in thumbnail properties you can create groups of nested thumbnails.

FireShot
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates and edits screenshots of web pages.

Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations.
Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.

Screenshots can be saved to disk (PNG, JPEG, BMP), copied to clipboard, e-mailed and sent to external editor for further processing.

iMacros
iMacros lets you record and replay repetitious work. iMacros programmatically interacts with any and all websites. It fills out forms and automates the download and upload of text, images, files and web pages. iMacros includes support for PDF handling, taking screenshots, simulating different user agents and connecting to proxy servers. It is the only web automation software that works with every website.

What iMacros can do?
(1) Web Automation / Web Scripting
(2) Data Extraction/Web Scraping/Web Mining/Enterprise Data Mash-Ups
(3) Web Testing
(4) Form Filler on Steroids and Password Manager
(5) iMacros as Software component

Session Manager
Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows.
Building upon SessionStore, this extension allows you to save the current state of Firefox (history, text data, cookies) and return to that state at any later moment. Besides the manually saved states, Session Manager automatically stores the current state in case of a crash.

Web Developer
Web Developer screenshot The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

DownThemAll
DownThemAll (or just dTa) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser.
DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400%, it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time and, last but not least, it's fully integrated into your favorite browser!

Hyperwords
With Hyperwords all the text on the web becomes richly interactive: Select any word on any page and choose a command.
It's free! For more information, please have a look at the user guide or have a look at the demo. Read the reviews on Mozilla if you like.