My Favourite Techniques

Vista Switcher

• Increase the number of items displayed (this also increases the width of the popup screen).

Drop Box

• Share a file with someone by copying it into My Dropbox\Public, right click and choose "Copy public link"

• Create a symbolic link to your Firefox profile to back this up along with your bookmarks:

    C:\Users\Hamish\My Files\My Dropbox>mklink /D FirefoxProfile C:\Users\Hamish\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3gm7wvjc.default
  

Launchy

• Make Firefox bookmarks available to Launchy by using about:config then setting browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML from false to true. Now tick the Launchy options -> Plugins -> Firefox bookmarks option.
• A bookmarks.html file will be saved into your profile that will be backed up to Drop Box as in the Drop Box section above and these bookmarks will now be available to Launchy.
• Reduce the auto update delay time.
• Use the spotlight wide skin.

Outlook

• http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/solutions-for-slow-gmail-imap-with-microsoft-outlook/1761/