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Quickly create canned responses with The Form Letter Machine


Donation Coder's Form Letter Machine is a handy application for anyone who needs to mail out canned responses frequently. Setting up a response is simple, just create a heading and add radio fields and checkboxes. Subgroups can also be created which allows for very complex combinations.

The program features a realtime preview so you can eyeball your form letters instantly. There aren't a lot of configurable options for output (font and linewrap position are pretty much it). That's intentional, of course. Like a lot of the apps on Donation Coder, simplicity is key. FLM is built on the assumption that you're going to copy and paste into your email application or word processor.

It's a free download and runs on 32 and 64-bit Windows systems. If you like it, don't forget to make a donation to the 4th anniversary drive!

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware

Reopen accidentally closed programs with GoneIn60s

GoneIn60sWe can't count the number of times we've accidentally closed a web browser, word processor, or other application without saving our data first. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't have an undo key. But thanks to GoneIn60s, you can add a slowdo button. (Yes, we're going to trademark slowdo, you can't have it).

What GoneIn60s does is delay the shutdown of your applications. When you hit the close button, the application is hidden, but it won't actually close for another 60 seconds. You can adjust that time, but then the name of the program looks all silly.

So say you close your web browser when you had meant to close Outlook. You now have 60 seconds to look for the lightning arrow icon in your taskbar, right-click it, and select your closed browser session. It will pop right back up.

If there are some programs that you'd prefer to shut down immediately, you can create a whitelist of apps to close every time. GoneIn60s is tiny at just 205KB, and it's free to boot.

[via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Shareware, Open Source, Social Software

DonationCoder's Best of the Web 2006

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The folks over at DonationCoder have rounded up their top picks for 2006 in a very extensive list of 9 different categories: software, web sites, essays and debates, flash games, humor, gadgets, DonationCoder roundups, programmer stuff, and entrepreneur writing. There are definitely some good picks in there (DownloadSquad and SlashFood made their best web sites list, woot!), and some quirky ones ("Tonight show phony photo booth"), but for the most part they've done a good job covering 2006 from a geek's perspective. I still stand by my claim that "Invisible Bike" takes the cake for the best photo caption of 2006 though, and I'm glad to see that they agree.

What, fair readers, are some of your memorable web moments of '06?

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware

Procrastination Hack: Instant Boss

Face it, many of us are overloaded. We've got a million things to do, and no time to do them. How do you chip away at that ridiculous to-do list, without getting side-tracked and losing your momentum? 43folders says the answer just might lie in tiny slices of time.

Taking an hour and shattering it into 5 periods of 10 minutes, with 2 minute breaks between, hence "(10+2)*5" (yes, we're math geeks too and we know the "*" is redundant.. but it looks pretty). The idea is to work in small sprints, giving 100% + for short bursts of time and then taking a micro-break. The rigid definition is supposed to whip even the most diligent of procrastinators right into submission. My limited trial of the technique was inconclusive, but its worked wonders for some.

Instant Boss aims to be the clockwatcher for all us procrastinating brainy-types. A simple hack designed around the original 43folders concept counts the work sprints and breaks for you, with a programmable number of repetitions. The timer features a large display, and keeps track of the total number of minutes worked over all your sprints.

[Thanks Mouser!]

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