Laundry Products Give Away Contest
Happy Monday, We Be Sharin’ readers! With all the talk of going green with my laundry this summer, I thought it was high time for a product give away. Read on to find out how you can enter to win some cool great laundry products (including infrastructure like a portable line and clothes basket) this week! Read more
Kusmi Tea Give Away Contest
Beat the summer sizzle with freshly-flavored iced tea from Kusmi. I’ve personally had the chance to test drive several of the teas in this particular product line before, and can attest that these are some fun teas to try out. Read on to find out how you can enter to win. Read more
Seventh Generation Cleaning Supplies Give Away and a Chance to Win a Green Home Makeover
Would you love to extend Earth month in your home the whole year round? I’m giving away a Seventh Generation cleaning supplies kit this week on our home living and lifestyle blog. Leave a comment to enter the contest, and find out how to enter to win a $5,000 green home makeover from Seventh Generation. Cool, huh? Read more
Treepad Lite – Personal Information Manager
There are more and more reasons to save data digitally with every day that passes. A belt-and-suspenders approach to traditional note-taking is a good idea. A solid option for saving items traditionally relegated to a notebook is Treepad. There is a more sophisticated paid version and there is a free pared down plain-text version called Treepad Lite. While not necessarily the best place to store passwords (no security), it is a great place to store phone numbers, url’s, emails, etc.
Treepad Lite takes no space at all; it can be run from a thumb drive. All versions run on several releases of Windows and on Linux/Wine.
FileZilla – Simple, Secure, Free FTP Protocol
This open source, file transfer protocol (FTP) is my preferred software for this function. It is available in client and server versions, and it is free. It runs on several platforms (including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) and is available in many languages.
One of my favorite things, beyond ease of use, is the Site Manager tool. For those of us who access many servers via FTP, FileZilla allows the saving of domain name/login/password for easy communication to those servers. . . a BIG time saver.
FileZilla displays a folder/file view on both the client and the server, making navigation more intuitive. File transfer is a snap with drag-and-drop. You bloggers out there will love this tool for picking up or dropping off images from the blog host!
Cool Ruler – A handy measuring tool
You’re looking at a web page and see the size of the image on the page is what you want. What is that size? How do you calculate it? Hold a ruler up to the screen? Cut and paste into a graphics tool like IrfanView? Nope. Get yourself a copy of the very handy Cool Ruler.
Cool Ruler stays on top; measures vertically or horizontally; in CM, IN, or PX with an option to customize measurement; and includes a calculator. It takes up virtually no memory or hard drive space, and is a handy tool to have in your digital tool box.
