Windows 7: Hailing from the camp of “software that does exactly what its name implies”, Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-tunes the size, spacing and margins of your Windows 7 Superbar icons.
Workplace distractions are nothing new, but if you can’t seem to find time to do some serious distraction-free work for any significant chunk of time, consider time blocking an appointment with yourself.
Maths professor, programmer and blogger John Cook discusses how work expands to fill the time allowed for it, and why the more trivial something is, the more time we waste discussing it.
Panic is a software company that makes useful tools like my personal favourite, Transmit for the Mac. They’ve also made a beautiful project status display, which keeps their team on top of what they’re working on and keeps everyone motivated.
If you find your productive periods of work ever shrinking because of email, phone and other interruptions, it’s time to adopt a policy of scheduled replies.
Android: Your best thoughts can come to you when you’re nowhere near your workspace. If you’re carrying an Android phone, Thinking Space is an elegant and convenient way to map out where your mind goes on the go.
Mozilla’s home-brewed JavaScript engine for its Firefox browsers, TraceMonkey, has impressed us before, but in the raw benchmark game, it’s starting to fall behind its competitors. To up its game, Firefox’s developers are building a new engine, dubbed JägerMonkey.
Windows 7: If you like visual indicators for things like disk capacity, battery life, memory usage and speaker volume, and you like them prominent and easy to find, SuperbarMonitor puts easy to read indicators right on your Superbar.
