ShareX [https://getsharex.com/] is the best free and open source tool that lets you take screenshots, annotate those images, and then upload to a variety of locations. If there's something you want to do with a screenshot, ShareX is the best tool. The most common way I…
Windows 8 and 10 removed information about your laptop's battery from the task bar. BatteryBar Pro [http://batterybarpro.com/] fills that gap. It provides you valuable information on the status of your battery when you are draining or charging. Over time, BatteryBar Pro determines how long it takes…
When you get a new computer or are forced to reinstall windows, getting common programs back on your computer can be a pain in the butt. You spend a lot of time looking for the download button, and then clicking through all of the installs for each of the 40…
Do you find yourself distracted by non-work related websites at the office? RescueTime [https://www.rescuetime.com/] is a great tool that illuminates where you spend your time when you're using your computer. It integrates in Windows or Mac and also uses browser plugins to log which websites…
AutoHotKey [http://www.autohotkey.com/] is one of those tools that you'll use and then in a year you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. At heart, AutoHotKey is a scripting language that let's you automate tasks, assign keyboard shortcuts, and launch…
Sunrise Calendar [https://calendar.sunrise.am/] is the best calendar tool you'll use on your desktop and mobile phone. It works with all of the major calendars out there: Google Calendar, iCloud, Exchange, Outlook.com, and Office 365. It also integrates with everything else you use: * Facebook * TripIt…
[https://buffer.com] The Tool I'm finishing this blog post up at about 6am. Once I finish, I might not want to immediately share it on Twitter because most people aren't on twitter yet. Buffer makes it easy to queue up items to share on social…
[https://tinypng.com/] The Tool If you work with images for the web, it can be a challenge to reduce file size. Each time we reduce file size, we reduce our bandwidth and our sites load faster. TinyPNG [https://tinypng.com/] was created for this purpose. It works with both…
This is a guest post from Judge Maygarden [https://twitter.com/JudgeMaygarden]: > I've tried diving in to test-driven development (TDD) a few times over the years. For some reason, it's never really stuck with me. So, I went looking for literature critical of TDD. This…
Using actual files is not an ideal solution for unit testing. You should have some sort of interface that duplicates what's in a file. Unfortunately, the current solution I'm working on doesn't have an interface (yet!). I thought about storing the files in the…