Posts Tagged ‘system optimization’

I Love this utility

One of my favo­rite web­si­tes to look at daily (ok many times a day) is Life Hac­ker.  Today as I was going through some of their archi­ved pos­tings I found this.

A few days ago I tal­ked about a pro­gram called smart ins­ta­ller, but I must say I am over the top impres­sed with life hacker’s ver­sion.  The uti­lity itself is ultra tiny (292k) with an xml file.  The Smart Ins­ta­ller is in excess of 200 megs.  The size dif­fe­rence is due to Smart ins­ta­ller having the ins­ta­llers inc­lu­ded whe­reas life hacker’s ins­ta­ller auto­ma­ti­cally down­loads the latest ver­sion from the net.

Another great fea­ture, to me at least, is that the Life hac­ker Pack has an XML file that you can add or remove appli­ca­tions in.  So if there is an app you like to ins­tall, modify the file in any text edi­tor, get the down­load path, and away you go.  With Smart Ins­ta­ller, you have to hope they add it.

Please don’t get me wrong, Smart ins­ta­ller is very good for a machine that you do not have on the inter­net.  But for size and fle­xi­bi­lity, I will be adding the Life Hac­ker pack to my arse­nal.  You can down­load the pack here. Other users have crea­ted some addi­tio­nal XML files:

PC Res­cue Pack

The PC Res­cue Pack’ll come in real handy in a few weeks at Thanks­gi­ving when Mom and Dad ask you to fix their com­pu­ter. Down­load the Ins­tall­Pad PC Res­cue Pack list, which includes:

• Ad-Aware (mal­ware scan­ner and cleaner)
• CClea­ner (sys­tem optimization)
• Clam­Win (anti-virus)
• Spy­bot Search & Des­troy (spy­ware scan­ner and cleaner)
• Spy­ware Blas­ter (spy­ware prevention)

Media Pack

Oh, you free-loading, Bit­To­rren­ting, DVD-ripping, MP3-sucking, pod­cas­ting, remi­xing, iPod-trading media whiz, you! Down­load the Ins­tall­Pad Media Pack list, which includes:

• Auda­city (sound editor)
• Azu­reus (Bit­To­rrent client)
• Democ­racy (Inter­net TV player)
• iTu­nes (media player)
• Picasa (photo manager)
• Quick­Time (media player)

VLC (media player)

• Do your­self a favor and give it a try