I'm a simple person

If you have looked at the sidebar, you might have noticed that there are links to some handy programs there (though I haven't checked those links for quite a long time now...who knows whether they're still working? :P In any case you can still search for them using the names)

There was Memokeys, that allows you to set keyboard shortcuts to type stuff that you need often, for example when filling in online forms, like your name, e-mail address, home address, etc. I used to use it quite often, but not any more. (especially now that browsers can remember what you entered for these fields)

Then there is Ant Renamer, which I am using up to now. It allows you to rename lots of files at once, by adding or replacing strings, enumerating the files, etc etc... I use it a lot for my photos, so that I don't have to rename them one by one (nor enumerate them manually) And at one time I used it to rename my music files...some of which were named "song title first", and others "artist first". (Now they are all "artist first" :P )

Then there is Photo Resize Magic! I used this to resize my photos before uploading them to my blog (or else the upload would take way too long!). Before I had this, I had to resize photos manually with Paint, which made me reluctant to post too many photos. I think it was after using this that my travel posts really started getting more detailed.

But there's a hitch...for some reason I started having problems uploading photos to Blogger. This only happened with photos that I had resized using Photo Resize Magic. (those that I had resized using Paint worked fine) But I couldn't use Paint for dozens of photos...so I looked around for another option.

A friend recommended IrfanView, which is what I am using currently. It is a much more sophisticated program; besides resizing photos, it can also rename files, and goodness knows what else. I only use it for one thing, that is, resizing photos. Even though it can rename files, I'm still sticking to Ant Renamer for that.

You see, somehow I prefer my tools to be simple...you open it and it does exactly what you want. IrfanView dabbles in too many things, it has way too many options, and what I've done so far is to basically ignore everything that I don't think I need. I feel that I might be missing out on something, and that one day I might go, "It can do that?!" But...I'm still keeping things simple until I need to do something complicated.

But if someone has some tips (simple ones, mind you :P ) for me, I'm listening!