Utilities

SecondBar Puts a Menu Bar on All Your Mac's Monitors [Downloads]

Mac only: Multiple monitors do great things for your desktop space, but your menu bar sticks to one screen. If you're looking for more menu access, free utility SecondBar puts one at the top of each monitor.

AutoPatcher Keeps Windows 7 Systems Up to Date [Updates]

Windows: AutoPatcher, the small but powerful utility that makes it easy to install Windows updates while offline, and on multiple systems, has added support for Windows 7, giving users more control over when and how they update their systems.

TradingSim Lets You Dabble with Day Trading Risk-Free [Money]

Most people will tell you that day trading is a money risk that's not really worth the effort. If it's a risk you're considering, take a look at TradingSim first, a flash-based site that simulates day trading without the money risk.

Disk Space Fan Analyzes Hard Drive Space with a Dash of Eye Candy [Downloads]

Windows only: Free utility Disk Space Fan analyzes your hard drive usage to help you determine what's taking up space on your hard drive, representing it all with fancy visualization eye candy.

Disable Your Touchpad When You're Typing with AutoHotkey [Annoyances]

Windows: Back in November we highlighted TouchFreeze, a small utility designed to prevent you from accidentally moving your mouse cursor and messing up text that you're typing while you're typing. Reader bobbo33 made an improved version with a clever AutoHotkey script.

Profile Relocator Moves Windows Profiles to a New Location [Downloads]

Windows: If you want to store your Windows profiles independent from your system drive and standard Windows directories to protect against loss and corruption, Profile Relocator makes short work of moving your profiles directory.

Gloobus Provides Snappy, Sleek File Previews in Linux [Downloads]

Linux: Sometimes you just need to see what's inside a file without actually opening the application meant to handle it. Gloobus, a sleek, dark file previewer based on the Mac Quicklook tool, wants to make file previews elegant and convenient.

ConvertCenter Turns Pretty Much Any Measurement into Any Other Measurement [Conversions]

For simple, on-the-fly kitchen conversions, type something like "4 tablespoons into ounces" into Google, Bing, or most any search engine. For weird units and precise measures, consider ConvertCenter, a dedicated webapp with a fairly easy URL to remember.

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