You probably using post-it notes attached to your monitor or desk to make reminders or short notes. If your post-it notes seem very disorganized and messed up your desk, maybe it’s time for you to use a virtual one.

PNotes is a small and light-weight sticky virtual notes program for Windows. It is skinnable and very flexible. Each individual notes can have their own settings, reminders, skins, fonts, colors, etc.. Some features of PNotes:

I was looking for a simple download manager that will let me to easily queue the download from multiple file hosting site such as Hotfile and Rapidshare. I found JDownloader, a one-click-host download manager written in Java. Unfortunately I don’t really like it especially the part where it uses too much of my precious CPU cycles and memory. As I was looking for the alternative, I stumbled upon MDownloader and it come with ‘Don't click - queue it’ tagline. Well.. another .NET application and the chance of it to use a lot of CPU and memory is high but I decided to give it a try.

Surprisingly, I found that MDownloader is quite good. The first version that I use was MDownloader 0.9. The interface is very simple and despite the moderate memory usage, MDownloader is quite tame when it came to CPU usage. You won’t notice MDownloader is running in the background.

To use MDownloader, copy the links that you want MDownloader to download, and hit ‘Quick Paste’ (1). It will take some time before the downloads popped up in MDownloader. Just as simple as that and MDownloader will automatically download from all the links. MDownloader has built in captchas recognition but sometimes the OCR (optical character recognition) engine fails to recognize the captchas and you need to manually enter them. If you are queuing a lot of files, make sure you check MDownloader every hour or two, or you ended stuck at the captchas without downloading anything!

Have you been wondering how to choose the web browser that you want to use to open links? Normally, you can open links from non-web browser application using your system’s default web browser, and Windows only let you set 1 default web browser. Browser Chooser is a program that allows you to choose what web browser to open a link that you’ve clicked. However, Browser Chooser can only be lunched if the links that you’ve clicked are not from a web browser.

Browser Chooser will present you with the list of web browsers installed on your system when you click a link from a non-web browser program such as Yahoo Messenger or mIRC. It also works when you are opening a web page shortcut that was created by software installers on your start menu. Browser Chooser is able to detect 6 web browsers installed on your system; Firefox, Flock, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, if they are installed in their default directories.

After you’ve installed Browser Chooser, you must first set Browser Chooser as the ‘default’ web browser. Click the small ‘Options’ (1) button and go to ‘Miscellaneous’ tab. Then click ‘Activate Browser Chooser (Make default browser)’ (2). You can also enable the ‘Show URL’ (3) option to make Browser Chooser display the URL that you tried to open. In the Options dialog, you can choose what web browser that will be displayed by Browser Chooser. Browser Chooser can display up to 5 web browser.

If you are looking for a powerful Task Manager alternative/replacement, or simply a tool to manage the processes and services that running on your system, then Process Hacker might be the right system utility application for you. I’ve been using Process Hacker since version 1.3.x, so far Process Hacker is indeed an ultimate task manager and I can see the developers have put great efforts to improve and make Process Hacker a powerful system tool.

Process Hacker functionality and interface quite similar to Process Explorer’s. However, Process Hacker offers you 2 additional functionalities that Process Explorer don’t have; the ability to manage services and network connections information.

On ‘Processes’ tab, you can do the basic Task Manager actions such as terminating process, changing process priority, etc.. You can also easily search the process file name on Google, upload a process file to VirusTotal, and if you know what you’re doing, Process Hacker offers you advanced features such as terminating process using different methods, inject DLL into a process, inspect process threads, protect a process, write directly to process memory and many more. The processes are highlighted according Own, System, Service, Debugged, Elevated, Job, .NET, POSIX, Packed/Dangerous, Suspended Threads, GUI Threads, Relocated DLLs, Protected Handles and Inherit Handles.

Visitors statistic is a crucial information for webmasters. I’m sure almost all webmaster know about Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free service by Google that provides you with detailed statistics about visitors of a website. Google Analytics is being used widely by webmasters and it is one of the most popular visitor tracking service. If you somehow don’t like to use Google Analytics and you are looking for its alternative, you can use Piwik.

What is Piwik? Piwik is a web analytics software written in PHP. If you have your own web space and your server has a minimum PHP 5.1.3 and MySQL 4.1, you can install and use Piwik. Piwik can provides you with a detailed real time reports about your website visitors. Piwik is written by the developers of phpMyVisites after the last stable release of phpMyVisites 2.3. Some features of Piwik according to the developers:

1. Piwik’s features are based on plugins so you can easily add new features or remove the ones that you don’t need. You can build your own plugins too.
2. The statistics data is owned by you because Piwik is installed on your server. The data can be accessed using Piwik’s open APIs.
3. The interface of Piwik is fully customizable.

For those who love to download videos from YouTube, xVideoServiceThief (or xVST) is a handy software to help you to easily steal, I mean download your favourite videos. xVideoServiceThief is simple, easy to use and just works. xVideoServiceThief has lots of features and it is not like any other YouTube downloader.

Other than YouTube, xVideoServiceThief also supports downloading from a lot of other video websites (currently 73 as this post is written) such as Bebo, Blip, CollegeHumor, Dailymotion, Google Video, LiveLeak, Metacafe, Video MySpace and many more, in fact, er.. well.. some adult websites too.

xVideoServiceThief can covert downloaded videos instantly after being downloaded to popular format such as 3GP, AVI, MP4, MPG, WMV and MP3. This will save you the time to convert the videos that you've downloaded without the need to launch any external application.

xVideoServiceThief also provides you with a video search ability.

The most secured way to protect your login informations on various websites is by using different and secure passwords for different accounts. A secure password usually consists of combination of random letters, numbers, symbols, difficult to be guessed, complex, and lengthy password. So, you use a password generator to generate passwords for your logins, and your password for website-a.com is 'OtDaSOe9P2', and website-b.net is 'rRYp9UyRcxK8'. Obviously, we are not a computer to remember such passwords, unless you got an eidetic memory. If you are looking for password manager, KeePass can securely help you to store and manage your passwords.

KeePass (KeePass Password Safe) is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager. One of the best thing about KeePass is it is portable, so you can bring your password anyware securely in your USB stick. In this post, I will review the latest KeePass Professional Edition 2.07 beta.

Have you ever wonder why your hard disk space is being used up, and you are looking for a software to analyze what files are taking up your hard disk space. Try WinDirStat. WinDirStat is a free and open source tool that allows you to view disk usage statistics and analyze your hard drive space usage. WinDirStat is also small, it only take less than 800kb of space after it is installed on your system.

WinDirStat will visualize the files on your hard drive using colorful blocks. Each file is presented as a block. Blocks for larger files will be bigger than smaller files, so you can easily check what files are taking up your hard disk space. The files blocks are arranged according to the directories and subdirectories where they are stored. WinDirStat will also show you what types of files that occupy the most part of your hard disk space. Each file types are represented with a same color. When you select a directory or file in WinDirStat, the block that represent the directory or file will automatically highlighted for easy visual reference.

Quick tip. Ever wonder how to save a website/webpage to a PDF file? You might have several reasons to save a web page to PDF, for example, you need to print the page, but you don't have access to a printer on that moment, so by saving the web page to a PDF file, you can print it later, or you just simply want to save the useful article so you can read it afterward. One of the simplest method to save a webpage to PDF is by using a PDF virtual printer.

There are lots of application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format. For this purpose, I highly recommend you to use PDFCreator. PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. PDFCreator allows you to create PDF documents from any program that is able to print, including web browsers. PDFCreator is free and open source.

1. First, you need to download and install PDFCreator. You can install PDFCreator using its default options.

2. After you've installed PDFCreator, you need to run PDFCreator application first (Go to Start Menu > All Programs > PDFCreator > PDFCreator).

3. Open the webpage that you want to save to PDF in your favourite web browser. On you web browser, click File > Print. Choose 'PDFCreator' (1) as the printer to print.

4. A dialog from PDFCreator will appeared. Click 'Save' (2) to save the web page to PDF. Choose the location where you want to store the PDF file.