Soluto: Solve Your Computer’s Irritating Habits with Anti-Frustration Software
On the plane to a speaking gig the other day, I discovered a blurb about Soluto, a clever little program that harnesses the collective geekdom of the PC world to help you solve your computer problems.
Download the application, and it monitors your computer hiccups, hangups, crashes and glitches. It links your data with data from other users to see their irritations as well as the things they do to fix them. Then it can help you apply their solutions to your problems.
All for free. Way cool.
Soluto – Anti-Frustration Software.
PDFescape: The PDF editor I’ve been dreaming of!
Oh, I’m thrilled! I just found a PDF tool that allows you to add text, notes, form fields and more to existing PDFs. I’m often frustrated when my clients send me PDFs to edit because I have to do screenshots with Jing page by page. Don’t get me wrong — I adore Jing, but the process takes forever.
But PDFescape lets you upload a PDF and add all the notes you need without having to have Adobe Acrobat, which costs hundreds of dollars.
This find is definitely my favorite of 2010.
Dropbox: Store, Share and Sync Your Files
It’s about time I profile Dropbox, a great little tool my readers have mentioned several times, and it came up again when I was presenting “Free and Low-Cost Tech Tools Your Organization Can’t Live Without” at the Fancy Food Show this week.
Dropbox allows you to synchronize your files among your computers and also stores them online for access anywhere. This is a fantastic application for those of us who travel and don’t want to deal with throwing files on thumb drives. Its storage capacity matches Mozy.com for backups and its feature set is on par with Live Mesh.
You receive two gigs of storage with the free version, and 50 is only $9.99 a month.
