blackpawn's blog

there are a bunch of great free windows apps that i find myself continually recommending to people so i figure i’ll finally post a collection here in case anyone else hasn’t found them before. feel free to comment if there’s some super useful one i’m missing!

defraggler is a hard disk defragmentation tool.

drop box is great for sharing files between your computers and keeping them in sync. use this referral link to give me free megabytes

evernote is billed as your “external brain” and that’s a wonderful way of describing it. you can toss everything in your account that you want to remember or find again later.

i use freemind as a much better tool for notes and such than notepad or excel. using hotkeys you can manipulate trees of text crazy fast.

keepass lets you store and also generate secure passwords.

progress quest is a great alternative to world of warcraft. it let’s you level up forever with no effort or monthly fee!

pyscripter is currently my favorite editor for python scripts.

truecrypt let’s you easily create virtual hard drives. it’s great for keeping your source code secure or to use as a temp drive to avoid fragmentation.

windirstat is a great visual tool to help you find out what’s eating up all your precious disk space.

hopefully one of these is new and helpful for you