Working with multiple monitors and can’t get your windows to line up with the edges of them very well? I use AllSnap to do this for me. It makes the edges of all windows and monitors sticky so as you drag the border of a window to resize it, when you get close to another window or screen edge, it will stick to it, making easy to line things up. This also works very nicely when Window’s default tiling of windows doesn’t leave you with an arrangement you like, just do it yourself and leave a narrow sliver for one window, and make the other take up the whole screen.
Windows won’t allow you to rearrange the buttons on your taskbar. If your dependent on having something in a particular location, probably because you’re running it all the time and it’s always on the left side… until it crashes, then Taskbar Shuffle is for you. It allows you to drag and drop buttons on your task bar to any location. It also lets you drag and drop the icons in your system tray in the same way. Better yet, it can hide it’s own icon from the system tray so it’s not taking up any valuable screen space.
You can encrypt just a few files or your entire hard drive with the open source TruCrypt. In the file mode, TruCrypt works by creating a single file that, when unlocked with your pass phrase, mounts itself as a drive on your system. Anything going into this drive is then automatically encrypted. You can then dismount the drive at any time. You can also use it on a flash drive with their own built in utility so you can keep an encrypted file on the flash drive and open it with any computer. I use this in combination with Portable Firefox on a flash drive that I keep on my work computer. I then use it when I’m traveling and need to visit a secure site, such as my bank or credit card. This keeps all of my passwords, account info and all of that sensitive data encrypted and off of my work computer while still leaving me very safe access to it.
Here’s how the last digit of the final score of all 42 super bowls breaks down. Great for figuring out just how likely you are to win that squares pool at the office. Duplicate scores have been omitted, i.e. 4-2 and 2-4 do not appear on this list since statistically they’re the same thing.
| Final Score |
Percent | Occurances |
| 0-0 | ||
| 0-1 | 2% | 1 |
| 0-2 | 2% | 1 |
| 0-3 | 2% | 1 |
| 0-4 | ||
| 0-5 | 5% | 2 |
| 0-6 | 5% | 2 |
| 0-7 | 7% | 3 |
| 0-8 | ||
| 0-9 | 5% | 2 |
| 1-1 | ||
| 1-2 | ||
| 1-3 | ||
| 1-4 | 5% | 2 |
| 1-5 | 5% | 2 |
| 1-6 | 2% | 1 |
| 1-7 | 2% | 1 |
| 1-8 | 2% | 1 |
| 1-9 | 2% | 1 |
| 2-2 | ||
| 2-3 | ||
| 2-4 | 2% | 1 |
| 2-5 | ||
| 2-6 | ||
| 2-7 | 2% | 1 |
| 2-8 | ||
| 2-9 | 2% | 1 |
| 3-3 | ||
| 3-4 | 5% | 2 |
| 3-5 | ||
| 3-6 | 5% | 2 |
| 3-7 | 2% | 1 |
| 3-8 | ||
| 3-9 | ||
| 4-4 | ||
| 4-5 | ||
| 4-6 | ||
| 4-7 | 12% | 5 |
| 4-8 | ||
| 4-9 | 2% | 1 |
| 5-5 | ||
| 5-6 | ||
| 5-7 | ||
| 5-8 | ||
| 5-9 | ||
| 6-6 | 2% | 1 |
| 6-7 | 2% | 1 |
| 6-8 | 2% | 1 |
| 6-9 | 2% | 1 |
| 7-7 | 5% | 2 |
| 7-8 | ||
| 7-9 | 2% | 1 |
| 8-8 | ||
| 8-9 | 2% | 1 |
| 9-9 |
Don’t you hate it when Windows says it can’t delete a file because it’s in use. This usually happens after an app crashes, but there are some other times I’ve seen it as well. The free utility Unlocker adds an item to your right-click menu to Unlock the file, or a group of files if you have several selected. It’s as simple clicking unlock and then going back and deleting the file.