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Freewares I am using on my computer to increase my productivity:
1) Yzdock
2) Dexpot
3) Trillian
4) Hawkeye ShellInit

Yzdock is the Mac Dock clone you see at the bottom of my screen. Instead of navigating through the super cluttered start menu, or having to minimize all windows to access my desktop to launch the programs I want, I just have to click on the dock any time. The Yzdock is always present at the bottom of my screen. When you maximize any window however, it will overlap the yzdock sitting at the bottom of the screen. An easy way to fix this is to use Hawkeye Shellinit, and through a script that I write, it will automatically move up the screen area available to programs whenever I start my computer. That is to say, the screen area at the bottom of my screen is reserved for yzdock only, and even when I maximize a window, it won’t overlap with yzdock, leaving yzdock in plain view all the time.

Dexpot is really cool. It is a virtual desktop manager. While virtual desktop managers are nothing new, Dexpot is one of the best I have used. With it,I configured it to send all instances of firefox to desktop one, and all instances of Trillian (a multi protocol chat client) to desktop 2. Whenever I run notepad it will be partially transparent. Holding holding ctrl and left click on the title bar of any windows will make it partially transparent, while holding ctrl and left clicking will make any windows opaque again. Holding ctrl and middle clicking on the title bar will make that windows always on top of other windows. All these are highly configurable by a set of rules you can define.

And the best part? I configured it to switch to desktop 2 if I hold down ctrl and move the mouse to the extreme right of the screen when I am in desktop 1, and so on. Very fast switch of virtual desktops. Damn cool. Pressing the windows button and “A”, I have this:

Click on any of the desktops, and it will zoom out and fill your screen.

The reason why I use Trillian instead of Msn Live Messenger is because it is a pathetic resource hog. It takes up lots of RAM, and hence I am unable to run more programs at the same time. Trillian uses less than 1/4 of the memory taken by MSN Live Messenger. I can now run more programs concurrently.

Geek’s Desktop are unlike normal computer user’s desktop. They know exactly how they want to use their computer.

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