Save Time With These Pieces of Software
by Josh Martin
Our work lives seem to keep speeding up. Fortunately so do the tools that can help us work more efficiently. Here are five great pieces of software that will help keep you organized as well as automate and speed up the pace of the things you do every day on your PC and on the web. Best of all, three of them are free.
The most important time-saver is a well-organized schedule that is simple to maintain and integrate with the other software you use on a daily basis. Google Calendar makes it easy to add events by hand, but you can also add them with just a click from many web sites as well as from gmail emails. Google calendar is searchable and let's you set reminders on your PC or have them sent to your phone. You set your own privacy level and decide how much of your calendar you want to share with others. Google Calendar is free.
RoboTask allows you to automate desktop tasks. It can run software according to a specified schedule, as well as schedule and run backups, downloads and uploads. It can trigger tasks that are dependent on the success or failure of other tasks. It can also automatically create letters and email files. It can even shut down your PC after certain tasks have finished. RoboTask costs $99.95, but you can try it before you buy with a free 30 day trial.
One time-saving tool that is often overlooked by businesses is voice recognition software. Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking is useful not only for dictation, but for data input and editing as well. You can also use it to answer emails and surf the web using voice commands. Dragon Naturally Speaking comes with a headset, and it works with a Bluetooth microphone or any other quality microphone. If you don't have a Bluetooth microphone, there is an optional hand-held device you can use when you are away from your computer. Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard costs $99.99.
Download Accelerator Plus does just what its name says. It makes downloads up to twice as fast by downloading files in smaller pieces and by searching for the fastest mirrors, sometimes downloading from more than one at a time. It allows you to preview media files while downloading them. The slower your connection, the more dramatic the speedup will be. Download Accelerator Plus works with most browsers, and it's free.
Do you have a website? Link checkers help you to verify that all the links on your website are working, but some of them produce cumbersome reports that are not easy or quick to read. LinkChecker for Firefox is a tool that lets you see the state of your links with just a glance. It provides color-coded link checking that shows you quickly which links are broken or forbidden and which are OK. It gets full marks for ease of use. It only checks links that have standard HTTP headers. But you can't beat the price: it's free.
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