software utility recommendations

Available instantly with keyboard combination.

An easy "one-two-three" capturing ( a window area, or freestyle drawing of the captured area) and copy-to-clipboard or instant file-save as an image file.

Very flexibile and useful macro key-entry utility.

I can't count how many times that, while submitting my various websites to search engines, or filling out discussion forum profiles, that I've been able to just type a quick abbreviation to quickly enter in a long URL or a long email.

Instead of "hey-this-is-an-obnoxiously-longemail@gmail.com".. just use your own abbrev:  xhey (or whatever you want)

Photo Resize Magic - Resize a bunch of images at once.

It's Batch-city! Take care of an entire directory-full of image-resizing at a single click! Just found this freebie. ( And to think I was about to start tackling the Python Scripting API to Paint Shop Pro to accomplish the same thing )