Comments on: Essential Netbook Utilities for Mini-Notebooks

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