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A couple of apps

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