Too good to forget!
If you regularly store or archive files to an online service like Dropbox as part of your day to day activities, then you’ll know that it’s not the most elegant system in the world. You need to either keep the service running permanently on your computer, or go through all that tedious login stuff.
Last week I explained How I double my PC productivity with only 65MB of free software, so this week I’ll continue sharing some more productivity tips using browser extensions. I normally use Firefox and Chrome for 95% of my work. The rest of 5% is split between Opera and Internet Explorer.
![How I Double My Browser Productivity With Just 13 Free Browser Extensions [Freeware]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/howidoubledmybrowserproductivitywithjust13freeextensions.jpg)
Well there were two choices. Either Yahoo! had to ditch/sell Flickr, or the company needed to drastically remodel the ageing service to keep up with the times. Thankfully for those of us who are fans, the site has not been sold but instead has received a gorgeous update and more.
Recent research suggests that all this artificial light from our gadgets like tablets and smartphones could be disrupting our sleep patterns. Apparently the problem is that the light from these screens, especially when absorbed later in the evening or at night, can really upset our circadian rhythms and reduce our levels of melatonin.
![Twilight helps you sleep better by adjusting your melatonin levels [Freeware]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/twighlight.jpg)
It’s hard to remain a ‘concerned’ citizen nowadays because you can never tell whether a product you’re buying comes from a company whose ethics are questionable or worse. There are so many different degrees of ownership in the major corporates, that it’s almost impossible to trace who owns what when it comes to consumer products on the shelves.
![Buycott – finally there’s a guilt free way to shop [Freeware]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/buycott3.jpg)
If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’ll love Quintet. This free multiplayer space game lets you and your buddies take control of a starship and boldly go where no other web browser has ever gone before.
![Quintet – boldly fly your starship through the galaxy with your friends [Freeware]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/quintet3.jpg)
Victorinox, the Swiss Army Knife creators, have come up with an ultra cool smartphone app which takes the concept of multi-use tools and adapts it firmly for the digital 21st century.
![Victorinox Festival Ready – everything you need to survive a festival on your phone [Freeware]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/festivalready1.jpg)
There’s no question that the web is becoming more and more of a visual medium every day. Where once we had feature articles we now have Pinterest, where there were paragraphs now there’s Twitter.
Like many readers of the Red Ferret, I spend much of my working day in front of a computer, and like others I have an inbox flooded with emails arriving every minute, in addition to client and business partner phone calls…and in between all of this I need to get work done. There are a number of good task management and work organization systems out-there (David Allen’s GTD, 43Folder’s Inbox Zero, etc …) but they all need to be supported…
![How to Double Your PC Productivity With Just 65 MB of Free Software [Freeware]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/65-mb-of-freeware-that-hugely-improved-my-productivity.jpg)
Have you ever looked at a photo you took and wished that you could remove something in the background that was annoying or unnecessary? Until now the only way to do this was either to fire up a high quality image editor like Photoshop, or send the image off to a processing service like the most excellent Tucia.com.
We’re all for strong security, so don’t take this as a complaint, but why does it have to be so hard to retrieve wireless networking passwords on Windows? Surely there should be an easier way to locate and store these important bits of information?
![SterJo Wireless Passwords – retrieve lost WiFi passwords at a stroke [Freeware]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/sterjowirelesspasswords.jpg)
Oh Google Maps what would we do without you? With your quirky little cars and their cameras, and your willingness to travel to the furthest ends of this small planet of ours to map out our nations.
There are boring ways to lock your computer against unauthorized access, and then there are interesting ways. We don’t know about you, but we’d much rather use a good looking method than rely on a stuffy password to do the trick.
![Picword – instantly lock your computer with a picture [Freeware]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/picword.jpg)
Chances are if you’re a busy person you may not have the time or the inclination to spend shopping around for clothes. Men in particular seem to dislike the process of hunting around in stores, maybe because we have smaller brains?
If there’s one thing guaranteed to scare most school children to their core, it’s the thought of doing another math test. All that trigonometry, algebra, equations and other implements of torture, and just one small brain to deal with it.
![EmailTray - cool free email program controls those message overload blues [Freeware]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/emailtray7.jpg "emailtray7.jpg")
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