So, time to bring up a couple of apps I came across with a while ago and after testing, I can really recommend too.
We’ll start with basic usage that could be useful for everyone:

Password Safe [direct download]

This is an extremely handy tool if you have plenty of logins and passwords to various sites and services. Like myself, I’ve currently over 70 logins and passwords to maintain from library card to forum and website logins. So there’s a lot to remember and I can’t use the same password or login with each one of them so using this I can easily store the logins and passwords. And if you’ve problems coming up with a hard-to-guess password, use the built-in password generator and you’re safe.
The program install on your computer, is light-weight and hardly noticeable. And when you need something, you open the program and it opens instantly. Now this could be a security risk, but the passwords are actually saved behind a password as well. So here you need a password that will get you there. I have a simple and easy to remember one as I’ve the passwords on my USB-stick and I use them from it. So it’s pretty safe to say that no one can get them :)

Pros:
+ simple
+ extremely light
+ safe

Cons:
- adding the first logins and passes

MediaMonkey [download page]

Well I got my iPod Shuffle like 3 years ago and I love it. It’s light, it’s simple and it plays music + it has space for so much music that it’d take a whole day to listen through. But with iPod’s comes a huge problem, iTunes. These two are connected since Apple uses its own software to import music to your player and iTunes is known to be really heavy to use and it takes shitloads of time to move the songs to player and to synchronize it.
So I started thinking that there has to be a better way and as it turns out, there is. MediaMonkey is a nice and versatile tool for all your music needs and especially I love it for the iPod support. You might have to turn on the data use on from iTunes in order to use it properly, but once it’s ok, you just open MediaMonkey and move the songs. Takes about 2-5 seconds to move one song and the program itself is really light.

Pros:
+ light
+ no more iTunes
+ versatile

Cons:
- might be a bit hard to use for beginners at first

Just thought of sharing a few nice songs I like to listen. Calm R&B/pop from various artists. Surely you’ve heard at least a couple of them randomly on the radio or whenever :)

Oh and these are Spotify links so make sure you got it :)

Chris Brown feat. Keri Hilson – Superhuman
Ne-Yo – Mad
Ne-Yo – Part of the List
Usher – His Mistakes
Usher – What’s a Man to Do
Brian McFadden – Be True to Your Woman

Could have added a few more from these artists, but I better not give all away :)

I don’t know about you guys, but I use Spotify and I’m simply annoyed by the fact that there are no hotkeys for the program to for example changing songs, pausing a song and such. You always have to change to the program itself and press the damn button when you want the next song. So I had a look around and found a solution which I think many of you will find useful.

Toastify is a simple tool that will stay in your system tray and it even starts with Windows detecting whether Spotify is running or not and if it isn’t, it asks if you would like to start it :)

A few adjustments need to be made, at least in my case, for it to function the way I like it, but here we go:

1. Download Toastify from here (it’s a download page, just select the installed option or ZIP, whichever you prefer).
2. Install or extract it to a location of your preference.
3. That’s it! If you want to make the modifications, continue.

To disable the toast popping from system tray whenever a song changes and to change the hotkeys, here are the additional advices:
4. The location you installed/extracted Toastify to, has a file called Toastify.xml. Open it in a text editor.

Here you have the basic functions for hotkeys and some additional stuff like changing the toast colours etc. I’m just going to disable the toasts and change the keys a bit to my liking:

<DisableToast>false</DisableToast>
this should be changed to true in order to disable toasts

Here’s the basic code for one hotkey:
<Hotkey>
<Ctrl>true</Ctrl>
<Alt>true</Alt>
<Shift>false</Shift>
<Key>Up</Key>
<Action>PlayPause</Action>
</Hotkey>

Ctrl tag is turned on with the true value, to disable ctlr with the hotkey, just change it to false. So it would be <Ctrl>false</ctrl>.
The same thing goes for Alt and Shift keys. One of these should be activated.
Key tag is basically the key you want to associate the hotkey with.
Action is basically the action it does – play, pause, next track, previous track etc. No need to touch this.

I’m used to changing songs with pressing Ctrl+Alt+Home. So I will change the Key tag to Home.

So it would be:

<Hotkey>
<Ctrl>true</Ctrl>
<Alt>true</Alt>
<Shift>false</Shift>
<Key>Home</Key>
<Action>PlayPause</Action>
</Hotkey>
This can be done to all hotkeys. Just go through the code. It’s pretty simple.

There we go. Ask if any problems :)

Well I must admit that I’m not much of a cook really with my allergies and all, but here’s a recipe that I like a lot.

You need:
- 350g of honey marinated chicken (doesn’t have to be honey marinated of course)
- ~125g of rice
- 2 eggs (optional)
- cheese (the kind you put on a pizza)
- sliced pineapple
- potato salad

How to:
1. Make the rice.
2. Fry the chicken.
3. Throw in pan some egg(s), cheese and pineapples.
4. Mix it with the rice.
5. Get a plate, put some on and eat it with the potato salad.

It’s really yummy. Usually when I make this, I get 3 nice little portions of which one I eat for dinner, 2 I put in the fridge, of one I eat in the morning before work and one I eat at work for lunch. Plenty of protein and it’s delicious :)

We all know Wikipedia, Google and other sources for information. Those can be useful when you’re doing a study about statistics or whatever. But this is a new one that was just released a couple of days ago.br /br /Wolframalpha is a tool combining statistics and all different kinds of general information. For example comparing how long men live in Finland compared to Sweden or just simply doing math work. Check out the intro they have over at their website:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html