Productivity - Miscellaneous (31)

ControlMyMonitor allows you view and modify the settings of your monitor (also known as 'VCP Features'), like brightness, contrast, sharpness, red/green/blue color balance and more. It can export all settings of your monitor into a configuration file and then later load the same configuration back into your monitor.

Requires hardware that supports DDC/CI. Note that some laptops monitors will not function while attached external monitors will.

ColorConsole is an enhanced console with changeable font, style and color. Features include sizable window, multi-tabs, copy/paste/cut function, a fast folder switch, and export to RTF and HTML.

QuickTextPaste is a very customizable tool to insert (paste) pre-defined text in any applications via keyboard shortcut. It can also run commands and programs via keyboard shortcuts to save time and avoid errors.

Scribus is a desktop-publishing tool similar to Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher. It supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Includes support for a wide variety of file types via import filters, rendering of markup languages and XML file format. Other features include PDF Import, EPS import/export, Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew. Scribus is cross-platform and open source.

Scribus Portable is PortableApps.com version of the program. Alternatively, X-Scribus is also available.

Win2K user: Version 1.3 series option (unsupported): Portable Scribus - (choose English or multilingual, extract to any folder of your choice and Launch PortableScribus.exe)

SmartSystemMenu enables a variety of functionality to all windows on your machine. When you click the top-left corner of any window, you'll see available visual effects such as resizing, transparency, alignment (such as moving to the lower-right corner). Window movement functions include as sending to tray, staying on top, and the ability to drag the window without using the top bar ("drag-by-mouse").

The program also supports system functions such as window information, saving a screenshot, copy text to clipboard, and process priority. An available launcher menu can be customized, and SmartSystemMenu can be disabled for individual programs.

Textify lets users copy text from such normally static dialog boxes, system messages, program tabs and more. Ideal for quickly taking down diagnostic/error messages in system testing, the program lets you grab part or all of the needed text. It also can launch web services such as Google Translate or external programs.

The program also grabs the "alt" text and URL of web images.

Pulover's Macro Creator is an automation tool and script generator that provides users with a variety of functions, as well as a built-in activity recorder. You can not only add keystrokes and mouse actions to your scripts, but also manage windows, controls, files, strings, search images/pixels and even create if/else statements to control the flow of your macros. The program helps both with simple, repetitive tasks as well as complex automation efforts.
Tutorial videos are available.

Developed using AutoHotkey.

Caffeine prevents an automatic screensaver or going into standby/sleep/hibernate, useful for presentations or playing video. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your PC thinks you're still working at the keyboard. Double-clicking the program icon "empties" the coffee pot and temporarily disables the program, while doing this a second time re-enables it.

Other command-line arguments for more functions are present on the web site.

CCTime is a utility to help track how much time you spend on different tasks during your work day. Tracking time is tedious, so focus lies on simplicity and automation. CCTime stays out of your way while still being readily accessible, so you can focus on actual work. CC is short for Click Click, because two clicks is all it takes to register time on a task!

CCTime sits in your system tray and automatically hides when not in use. You can see how much time you've spent in total each day, and how much of that time has not yet been assigned to tasks. For each week you can get a report, summarizing your work that week.

CC Time is free, open source software. Source code is available at GitHub.

Keypirinha is a fast and flexible keyboard-based launcher that supports themes, searching, keyword assignment, launch arguments, drag and drop, history, plugins, and more.

SysExporter allows you to grab data from most static windows that appear on your computer. This is useful for getting error data, instructions and more from system messages that you would ordinarily have to type out or screen capture. This versatile tool can grab standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, labels and Web Browser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system.

The program can export its data to a text, HTML or XML file.

On-screen Ruler is a semi-transparent on-screen ruler to help you lay out GUIs and Web pages or measure anything on your screen. It supports units in centimeters, inches or pixels. In addition to using the mouse, you can keyboard shortcuts to move the ruler around the screen.

Hourglass is easy-to-use, customizable, and feature-rich countdown timer. It offers smart input, supports pause and resume and can run multiple timers simultaneously. All used timers are saved automatically for easy re-use. The interface includes optional timer title, themes (with the ability to create your own), colour customization.

You can minimize to tray and control from the tray, have the window stay-on-top, go full screen, pop-up, close or shutdown computer when expired, add sound notifications, keep computer awake, loop timer, loop sound, open saved timers on startup and more.

sChecklist is a simple checklist app. Just rows of text entries and a checkbox for each.

TimeZonesView displays all world time zones. For every time zone, the following information is displayed: name, description, current date/time in this time zone and date/time that daylight saving time begins and ends.

AltDrag is a lightweight program for moving and resizing windows. Simply hold down the Alt key and then click and drag any window near the sides of your screen to see available resize options. Besides just moving windows, you can resize, maximize and close them too.

See the website About page for usage tips.

Supports 64-bit systems.

Mouse Recorder Premium is an automation program for repetitive tasks. The program functions like a "macro," or tool that records mouse movements, clicks, keyboard input and then plays back the actions infinitely at customizable speed.

The program also includes an editor component to modify, change, or update recordings. You can modify or add text entry, window selection, mouse movement, keystrokes, and more.

NOTE: Program discontinued, linking to user-contributed mirror.

Office Image Extraction Wizard allows you to easily extract images from many productivity programs and ebook formats, saving them as normal picture files on your hard drive. Images are extracted in their original format without additional processing or re-compression.

Supports MS Office, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Apple iWorks, Flash, ePub, CHM and more.

Functional in 64-bit.

Waste Not helps you to keep track of what's in the fridge and their expiration dates.

Text 2 Folders creates folders based on list written in a text file. This contrasts the normal method for creating multiple folders, which is clicking "New Folder" repeatedly and then renaming the individual folders. Just create text document in Windows Notepad or other text program and save it, then run the program to generate folders. Separate folder names by putting them on a separate lines in the text file. For example a text file with the following text:

Clikka Mouse Free allows physically disabled people to control the functions of the mouse. This can be done both in Windows and in any other program which requires the use of a mouse device: left or right click, double click, scrolling, etc.

Underline is a simple and intuitive Reading Bar/Line Reader/Highlighter.

Languages: French and Italian

Note: Website is in Italian (translation available).

7plus adds a variety of features to Explorer including default window handling and many small tweaks for ease-of-use. Includes a copy-and-paste method for both text and images as their own file on the desktop, a de-clutter "slide" feature to push Windows out of view, navigate to your favorite folders with numpad keys, keep windows always on top, etc. Additionally, the program allows you to quickly upload files via FTP from explorer with a single hotkey.

System Silencer can control a list of options when the computer becomes idle after a certain period. For example it can be set to mute the soundcard or turn the monitor off.

Expired Cookies Cleaner removes Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) expired cookie files, speeds up your PC, and frees some disk space. The program is especially effective on on FAT and FAT32-formatted systems.

A command-line interface also available.

DialogMove moves small dialog windows to the cursor position. This saves time and annoyance resolving frequent small window prompts. It supports multi-monitor setups, and is very customizable with the ability to ignore windows based on user defined settings.

Written in AutoHotkey.

Open++ is a context-menu shell extension that allows you to quickly open selected files or folders with customizable commands.

Note: Main site offline -- linking to archive.org.

TriX is a hotkey-based productivity tool that does many simple tasks with key combinations including text formatting (upper case, lower case, sentence case…), web search (Google, Bing, YouTube, etc.), data exporting (Notepad, MS-Word, MS-Excel…), data extraction (emails, links…), and more.

Note: Website offline - linking to archive.org.

SnapTimer is a simple countdown timer. Alarm options include message box, balloon in tray, audio file (20+ loop-friendly wav files included) or running a separate program. Font size and color are customizable.

Functional on 64-bit systems.

1D Stock Cutter (1DSC) is the length cutting optimizer - fast, powerful, compact and easy to use software tool to optimize cutting to length of any linear (one-dimensional) material: profiles, bars, extrusions, pipes, tubes, channels, angles, rods, lineal wood boards, beams, lumber, and so on. The freeware version has limits on the number of pieces and stock types.

- customizable optimization goal
- customizable cutting/technology settings
- support for stock material inventory
- support for part order/reference lists
- automatic update of the inventory lists
- data import and export in many formats
- Metric and Imperial length/size units