use an online todo list

Using an online todo list is quite practical if you don't like keeping this kind of stuff old fashioned way. If you are a gmail fan like me, I'm sure you'll find "tasks" service of gmail useful. Tasks in gmail is a nice todo list where you can assign due dates to items and where you can keep multiple todo lists. I recommend it to anyone who emails reminders to himself. You can find its link in the left side of the main gmail page just below the "Contacts" link.

old versions of applications

Didn't you sometimes feel the need to use an older version of an application instead of the current version? If your answer is yes, then a time-consuming adventure lies before you. Or you can check two websites I'll recommend. OldVersion.com and OldApps.com are there to help you in your quest for older versions of popular applications.

resizing pictures in batch

You got photos of last night and you want to submit to facebook or send them to your friends. But there's a little problem: the pictures are too big for uploading. You can resize them so they'll take less space and then it'll be less painful to post it somewhere or to send it to some friend of yours. But there's another problem. Will you resize the pictures one by one? What if there are more than a dozen?

Fotosizer is a batch image resizer that will solve your problems. You can choose the new size (while maintaining the aspect ratio if you want) and the output file format (jpg, bmp, gif, tiff, png). Plus fotosizer is a freeware. I highly recommend it.

ready to kill some processes/applications in linux?

In Linux -as in all modern Operating Systems-, applications become unresponsive and you may want to kill the process pertaining to them. To do this, open the terminal and write this:

killall applicationName

If that does not work try

killall -9 applicationName

If you don't have an idea about the application name, you can take look at the current processes by writing

ps

then to kill the processes you want

kill processID

If that does not work then try

kill -9 processID

Another possibility is to use xkill (for applications with gui). The window of the application waiting to be killed should be visible. Then, open Terminal and type

 xkill 

and later choose the window of the application to be killed.