Share your favourite techie software/utilities/sites

[woob]

Being employed in the IT industry and also geeking at home, I'm always on the lookout for things to help me perform tasks/jobs faster, easier, and with better results. So, knowing there's others out there who do this as well, I thought I'd create this thread where we can share our favourite software/utilities/sites that we use.

This thread is about all platforms - Post for Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever.

I'll kick it off with Tera Copy
Software vendor: CodeSector
Platform I use it on: Windows.
Features:
- Copy files faster
- Pause and resume file transfer activities
- Error recovery
- Interactive file list
- Shell integration

This utility is easy to use, friendly, and always produces great results. If you're not a fan of command line based copy tools, give it a try.

Looking forward to see what other great stuff people share!

[PsYcNeT]

www.Ninite.com - Invaluable when reformatting. Big time saver.

[Hanni]

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...enigjmpp?hl=en

Chrome Remote Desktop: Just discovered this one and it works quite well, control my home computer from work or my phone.

[Russic]

Hazel (Mac) helps you set actions on files or folders. My uses include:

• Automatically move screenshots to a folder instead of dumping it on my desktop (a mac behaviour I hate)
• Watch a dropbox folder I dump all my work receipts into that automatically sorts it into a tax folder split into months, so when doing my taxes I can look at my whole year sorted by month
• Automatically delete any item in my downloads folder older than 2 months (unless tagged)
• Sync my iCloud Documents folder with a dropbox folder just in case iCloud ever decides to screw me
• Create a folder that only keeps files until midnight every day for those little files you just need for a few minutes and stack up like crazy
• Sync my folder of fonts between 3 computers, so if I'm working on a design project I can hop from desktop, to laptop, to home desktop.

Alfred is another Mac app that is one of the first things loaded on a new computer.

• Launch apps and files by just typing
• Move files around or email them
• Clipboard manager that brings up a list of the last 20 things you copied in a hot key'd list
• Launch workflows both stupid (type movie name and get rotten tomatoes score and official youtube trailer) and useful (enter a calendar event or reminder by just typing a sentence)
• Launch a url with a hotkey
• Merge finder windows into one
• Search gmail that opens a browser window with the term already entered

[The_Penguin]

Sysinternals:
Procmon, Procexp and Autoruns. That and a few brain cells will solve mysterious crashes, and find malware way faster than any scan.

And pstools really helps get things done.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sysinternals