Shirking Responsibility

Jodie got me one of these and it prompted me to find some new tiny apps for it:

• AdapterWatch - Another nice utility from NirSoft. It shows all sorts of info regarding your network interfaces. Useful for diagnosing problems while on strange systems.
• Autoruns - And another nice utility from Sysinternals. Like other utils that list all of the programs that start automatically when Windows does, but this one lists more stuff than you probably ever knew about. Really very useful.
• DM2 - This came from another product I liked called DialogMate. It’s amazingly useful and adds all sorts of little features to Windows without having to be “installed.” Check out the features overview. It also supports plugins.
• WinDirStat - Open source tool for creating a graphical treemap of your harddrive. Useful for finding what directories might be taking up too much space and so on.
• µTorrent - This is the client that fulfills all my BitTorrent needs. It’s small and powerful and even finds homes for stray puppies. Read this entry in the FAQ to learn how to force it to keep its settings in the app directory instead of the registry.

I really like this drive better than my old one. Not only is it smaller, it also has sharp instruments attached to it. Sharp things always makes stuff better.