Comments on: Essential Netbook Utilities for Mini-Notebooks

By: adam

adam — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:45:35 +0000

I just found one of the most useful tools for a netbook. All of those windows and dialogue boxes that are just too big to fit the screen? Can’t see the bottom of your browser options?

http://code.google.com/p/altdrag/

AltDrag is a program that lets you move any window simply by holding ‘Alt’ and dragging anywhere inside the window. This means that you can move the window up, access the parts of that window that were hidden below the screen before, and then move it back down again. Extremely useful!

By: vm-01

vm-01 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:06:37 +0000

I’ve heard good things about “Enso” for all the quicksilver fans. But I haven’t tried it.

“Mojopac” was interesting but I stopped using it in favor of some of a sync system using the apps you guys mention regularly like google docs and “glide os”.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:10:21 +0000

I’m not a netbook owner yet, but I have a better alternative to Adobe Reader. I used Foxit Reader for years, but I got tired of the cheesy look and feel. Plus it would never hold my place in an ebook. Now I use PDF-XChange Viewer, free tool from Tracker Software. It can be converted into an editor with their add-on. Check it out!

I have a lot of PDF music scores and play-along files. I wonder how well netbooks work with music players and slowdown software e.g. Transcribe! Protools? Anybody know?

By: palle04

palle04 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:17:18 +0000

Launchy and Cooliris!

By: cr0ft

cr0ft — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:45:02 +0000

I’ll just risk sounding like a broken record and mention Opera as the browser of choice. The version 10 alpha release is even faster, it does the Acid browsing test right and nobody does small-screen rendering better than Opera.

By: Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:42:59 +0000

Freeware Note Book Hardware Control adds detailed battery status, CPU % in Taskbar along with CPU temps, all with low resources pull.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:51:19 +0000

wileyj — I do the same, but I use the free/open source tool PDFCreator (from sourceforge)

By: Kip

Kip — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:47:10 +0000

“Utilities” I frequently use include:
Autoruns and Process Explorer from Sysinternals
Ccleaner
Recuva
Revo Uninstaller
SIW
PDF Xchange Viewer
Glary Utilities
CPU-Z
HWMonitor
JKDefrag GUI
System Explorer

All free and portable.

By: wileyj

wileyj — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:33:12 +0000

On my laptop and on my netbook, I also use NovaPDF. (www.novapdf.com); not free but it is an excellent print engine. Every time I order online, i print a PDF of the final screen as a receipt and save it to a folder on my desktop. Then if opens with Foxit Reader.
It is my default printer.
It is a good addition to the list.
Wiley
NW Harris County, TX