iTunes Alternative

CopyTrans Manager is a free alternative to organizing media on an iPod or iPhone.

CopyTrans Manager Website

Add music to iPod, videos & more

• Add music, podcasts, audio books, videos, films and TV-shows to iPod or iPhone
• Drag & Drop songs directly from any folder to your iPod, iTouch and iPhone
• Add tracks from any PC to iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone

Organize iPhone or iPod and manage playlists

• Create iPod Touch playlists or edit existing ones
• Drag & Drop iPhone songs directly into iPhone playlists
• Import all album artwork automatically to your iPod or iPhone
• Edit track information (artist, album, ratings, genre, etc.)
• Search iPhone tracks by album, artist or anyway you want
• Synchronize iPod instantly or manually

Standalone, light and fast

• No installation required
• Takes only 3MB of hard drive space
• Loads in less than a second

Play iPod tracks directly on any PC

• Listen to your iPod Touch music, audio books, podcasts
• Keep your iTunes alternative on your iPod
• Use your iPhone manager on every PC without installation

Remove iPod tracks & playlists

• Remove tracks from your iPod playlists
• Remove iPod Touch playlists
• Delete iPhone tracks definitively

Windows 7 Snipping Tool

Windows 7: A Beginning

I will be blogging about different features and aspects of Windows 7 often in the near future,  but today I am going to start by examining a relatively obscure and useful built-in tool called "Snipping".

The Snipping tool can be found can be found in the Start menu under “Accessories”,

or by clicking the start button and typing Snipping.

This tool allows one to drag the cursor around an area of screen that one would want to capture. Much more effective than print screen -> paint -> crop -> paste.

Free Software of the Week

WinDirStat (Windows Directory Statistics)

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows.

This utility will allow you to see a visual representation of how your storage device's space is allocated.  This is great for finding large files that are nested away, or forgotten about.  Another handy feature allows you to manipulate the files directly from WinDirStat;  you can delete,  open containing folder, etc.