FREE Great Programs for Windows 7

Nice simple utility to get the color of the pixel under the mouse:

Pixie / Nattyware

MilesAhead said:

Selector 1.1 is one of my Windows Hotkey Utilities. I've tried it on Windows 7 32 bit build 7077, Vista64 Home Premium SP1 and XP Pro SP2.

Updated to v. 2.9.0.0 Now has ini file option to set Windows7 Transparency background color. Use a 3rd party "pixel get color" utility such as Pixie I posted about earlier, to get the color hex code.

Here's a new screen shot. Notice there's no longer a blotchy area in the Radio Button Group:



Edit: Updated to 3.0.1.0 Biggest change is a Paste Button to write selected or clipboard text to a temp file, then send the file name as param to the selected program. Great for snapping up scripts batch files or program code from web pages.

You can see updated screen shots here:

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html#Selector

I'm surprised to see that Google Chrome isn't on the list.
Google Chrome - Get a fast new browser. For PC, Mac, and Linux

JaidynM said:

I'm surprised to see that Google Chrome isn't on the list.
Google Chrome - Get a fast new browser. For PC, Mac, and Linux

Hmm, I thought I had. It's added now. :)

Brink said:

JaidynM said:

I'm surprised to see that Google Chrome isn't on the list.
Google Chrome - Get a fast new browser. For PC, Mac, and Linux

Hmm, I thought I had. It's added now. :)

Also keep in mind you can get the latest Chromium Win32 snapshot here:

Index of /f/chromium/snapshots/Win

If you use the Win32 Zip file instead of installer it's a lot easier to back off to your old build if you run into a bug. Just make a copy of your Chromium folder from UserId\AppData\Local folder. Otherwise a newer build may have a setting the old one doesn't. If you just copy back your folder with the old chrome.exe it may complain about a version clash.

Surprisingly I've found these builds to be very solid. Usually if there's a bug it's something like losing your favicons for bookmarks or some other minor issue.

Each build folder also has an xml change log. I look in there. If there's a lot of stuff I pick a different build to try.

Pretty Flow

Automate your tasks with PrettyFlow. Define actions which perform different things in PrettyFlow project. Backup your files to zip, update sources, build project, compile help, build setup, copy files, ftp actions and many more. With PrettyFlow server your projects can be triggered by different triggers like when file is changed, when drive is inserted, after some time,...You can also connect to PrettyFlow server with PrettyFlow client or through browser and ASP.NET application.
You can take PrettyFlow projects with you and run them on any machine using PrettyFlow Executor.

Works with XP,Vista and 7.



Download Pretty Flow

For anyone starting 3D modelling this is the tool for you. Google SketchUp. It is easy to use and there are some excellent training videos too.

Sizer
Handy little program for resizing any window to an exact, predefined size.

Sizer

The author mentions it may have issues on Windows 64-bit, however I have been using it to re-size my browser window for a couple of months with no problems at all.

Trillian Instant Messenger
Seems to have improved a bit lately.

Trillian

I use this as family and friends all seem to use different IMs.