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My most indispensable utility

Since Neville Hobson wrote about Total Commander, calling it his most indispensable PC application, I’ve been thinking about mine. It’s a very simple little application that doesn’t do a lot, but what it does it does extremely well. It’s called Starter from a shareware company called Codestuff. It makes management of the applications that run at startup a breeze. Most important, though, is its “terminate” function. Windows users know how frustrating it is when an application freezes. You can click CTL-ALT-DEL all day long, but the app won’t budge. Open Starter, go to the tab for currently running applications, highlight the one causing the problem and click the terminate button. Instant closing. Best of all, Starter is free.

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09/11/07 | 6 Comments | My most indispensable utility

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  • 1.Shel,

    I have an app that will ease your pain. All the cool kids are using it. You can get it here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/

    ;-)

    Giovanni Gallucci | September 2007 | Dallas, Texas

  • 2.Giovanni, I should have expected the Mac faithful to jump on this. I used a Mac for over a year. I was THRILLED to go back to Windows. You want crashes? Use a Mac. The spinning beach ball of death drove me nuts.

    Shel Holtz | September 2007 | Concord, CA

  • 3.Shel,

    You take that back!

    :-(

    Giovanni Gallucci | September 2007 | big D

  • 4.Take what back? That I don't like Macs? I WAS delighted to get rid of my Mac! I DO love Windows! The spinning beach ball of death DID drive me nuts! Nothing to take back!

    Shel Holtz | September 2007 | Concord, CA

  • 5.OK...I'm gonna come clean. I use a Mac for my day-to-day, but I'm a Microsoft .net developer. Seriously, I am an "appropriate OS for the job" faithful. So long as it does what you want it to do and it is a good experience, that's all that matters.

    -giovanni

    Giovanni Gallucci | September 2007 | Dallas, Texas

  • 6.I'll buy that, Giovanni. My daughter LOVES the Mac I gave her. To each his own, and may we all learn to live in peace. ;-)

    Shel Holtz | September 2007

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