My personal reaction to being verbally abused (once the fire of impassioned youth passed) has been to first take a step back. You need to know two things before responding, what in particular has made them upset and what in general has made them react this way.

I think that the definition for "Download Manager" that I use and the definition of "Download Manager" that the author uses are two very different beasts.

Here is my top 10 list for ways to recession proof your career:

I've had great luck with Bulk Rename Utility using exif date/time (as well as date/time stamps on files) for file rename. Simply set it to Extract exif data (under options menu) first. Then in area 8 (Auto Date) select if you want the date information as a prefix or suffix and set the Type dropdown list to Taken (as…

Here's my addendums, all free and Windows unless otherwise noted:

Give up caffeine to keep your mind from wandering? It's probably a reasonable approach for most but for anyone with ADD it's almost certainly going to have the opposite affect. As counterintuitive as it might seem we take stimulants to slow our thinking down and improve concentration. So we get prescribed…

How is Safari at rendering pages accurately now? I recall some problems previously with complex pages (e.g., AJAX) not displaying correctly.

Scanning your credit cards and storing them on portable media or emailing them are about the most dangerous things I could think to do with financial data. If your computer (where the information is stored) is compromised you must cancel your credit cards. If your email, your recipients email or any intermediary…

Update Checker is really nice. It's a little heavy as an application but it has a wonderful interface. I'll probably run it and AppGet concurrently for a while to see which gives me the best results for time invested.

Yes, congratulations to Dustin. Commenting is good, but offering useful comments is gooder. :-)

AppSnap is a great application and good at what it does, but it's only one of several of similar ilk. Two additional applications would be Update Checker from Filehippo.com and AppGet from PRAtech. While I like AppSnap I LOVE AppGet. They have different levels of functionality:

It bears mentioning that to get to where the first step of this HowTo begins users have to go to their Google Calendar Settings Page, Calendar tab, then click on their name at the top of that tab's area. On the page that appears you need to click on the HTML button in the Private Address area and then you will be at…

@EracMan: What? I've been doing it wrong all this time?!

I'm an avid fan of pricegrabber.com. I've used this service in all it's incarnations over the years and it's always been the most reliable place for finding items and also finding the best prices on those items. It's latest interface is particularly nice for drilling down through categories of items to select…

Normalize File Names - I like files to look and format a certain way. Makes searching for them easier and locating them visually easier. A long time ago I would change filenames one by one or use a GUI renamer, repeating the same changes over and over. But then I found the most excellent command line utility gren. …

I write the email. I put everything into it. And I depend on my writing style. See, I write iteratively. I write out my complete thought. Reread the thought and add what I think is needed for fill it out. Then I reread it ensure my thoughts and words form a contiguous stream and flow logically. Then I try to…

Getting motivated is too hard. I skip attempting to become motivated by getting up in the morning and launching myself into exercising. After that you let momentum carry you through the morning until you fall into the gravity well of something interesting. Let the interesting things draw you to them as you orbit one…

@xnendron: Or better yet:

I'll second (or third) the GnuWin32 recommendation. I'll even second (or third) the PowerShell recommendation, though it may be a bit overkill for someone looking to add a new tool to the CMD shell.

I've had good luck with DCSoft's GoalTime. It's not quite the same as this in that it doesn't manage break time but it has multiple countdown clocks. I've used it for so long it's a bit of second nature for me to countdown on tasks.