I love free software (legally free). Here is a great utility that defragments your hard drive at blazing speeds and for free. I love it.
The software is Auslogics Disk Defrag and it works in Vista. Get it at http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/

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Here is a great utility for visualizing your hard drive to find what’s taking up all the space - WinDirStat and you can get it from http://windirstat.info/
I have tested it in Vista and it works very well and is extremely fast and did I mention that it is FREE…
It displays folder sizes, file sizes and [...]

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I just got my first mac ever. It’s a mac mini which I bought refurbished from Apple’s outlet store and paid $550 for it. I will be blogging about my experiences as I play with it. It’s hard to believe I am using mac, because I am a .net developer and a [...]

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I start reading the Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity book and doing some research online about GTD. I love the concept which is really common sense (at least to me) and in one way or another I have been doing that all along. Anyhow, I needed to implement GTD using [...]

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You can setup a wakeup call using Skype in Vista (and XP too)…

Start Task Scheduler

Click on “Create Basic Task” on the right hand side

Go through the wizard

Setup a name e.g. Wakeup for Bootcamp

Setup the frequency e.g. Weekly

Select schedule e.g. 6 AM, Monday through Friday

Select “Start a program”

Type “c:\Program Files\skype\phone\skype.exe” in the program/script textbox

Type “/callto:0017039891092″ in [...]

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