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IMO the built in Windows copy functionality pretty much sucks, for a bunch of reasons that I don’t have time to list here. I have tried a number of different replacements over the years but the one that I recommend is FastCopy.
Check out the Storage Vmotion GUI VI Client plug-in here.
I often have the need to traceroute between locations. I am not only interested in the hops but the latency and packet loss between each hop. Most Linux users are familiar with MTR (Matt’s traceroute) well i found a version for my laptop called WinMTR. WinMTR allows you to visually view routes, latency and packet loss a definate mush have tool.
I am an avid Google Docs user but I always wanted a way to create a desktop shortcut to Google Docs and have the application feel like a desktop app as opposed to a web application (BTW - I have tries Google Gears and I found it to be buggy). I stumbled across a Firefox add-on called Prism. Prism provides the ability to take any web page or application and give it the look and feel of a desktop application. Check it out, I think you will like it.
I like to multitask and I would often find an application (e.g. - Outlook) consuming 100% of my dual-core notebook, so like many I would open the Windows task manager and set my CPU affinity for the process that liked to hog both of my CPUs or just deal with it until my system became responsive. This is a pain because it always seemed that Outlook would do this when starting and I am not sure why my Email client needs 100% of 2 CPUs. Enter Get and Set CPU Affinity a cool little application that lets you persitently set CPU affinity. Give it a try.
I commute to New York City on a daily basis and work in a highly collaborative environment. There are times myself and my coworkers would like to work from home but we still need to collaborate. About 6 months ago I discovered an application called ooVoo, the great thing about ooVoo was it let up to 6 people video conference and you could even add voice lines to the conference. ooVoo’s quality was really good and best of all it was free. About 2 months ago ooVoo became a paid service so the search for a replacement began. I tested a number of difference applications, there is no shortage of good one-on-one video conference products, like Gizmo, Skype, Ekiga and all the major IM clients (AOL, Yahoo, etc…) to name a few. The list of quality free multiuser video conference systems is not as vast. I tested a number of different applications including mebeam, PalBee, TokBox (all flash based) and others and without a doubt TokBox has the highest quality service for pure video conferencing. I also really like PalBee, and I will explain why in another post.
The recent release the TokBox Adobe Air applications allows me to free this flash based video conferncing system from my browser which is very nice.
I use kSar to analyze SAR (System Activity Reporter) data all the time, it dramatically simplifies the time it takes to aggregate and visualize performance data for Linux and UNIX based hosts.