Need free gear for your machine? Lifehacker has just released their 2007 list of best apps.
I was pleased to see Paint.net, by far my favorite freeware application. Paint.net is free image and photo editing software for Windows. Built on .Net platform, it has a great UI and a number of awesome features not too far off what you see in Photoshop.
Are you like me and never know what day it is? Does the fact that a week is seven weeks long get lost on you? If you need a helpful pocket calendar that doesn’t have a power switch then you should download the 2008 Thumb calendar.
Last year I downloaded the calendar, printed it out and taped it inside the front cover of my notebook so I wouldn’t have to fumble through my handheld to find a date. Arranged quarterly, the design is nifty and a neat take on a calendar UI. The designer, Adam Sporka, also has some cool takes on subway maps.
If you need something a little larger than a business card, you can download David Seah’s Compact Calendar.
The Compact Calendar follows the “Candy Bar Theory” of calendar design where the whole year is displayed as a continuous stream of dates, which supposedly improves your ability to visualize a time period (as opposed to seeing time ranges in chunky month intervals).
The compact calendar can be downloaded as a PDF or as an MS Excel file that can be used for customizing project plans. Neat tool.