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FARR - Launch Your Apps and Find Your Files Quickly
I had been using launchy as my preferred program launcher for quite some time, until I found FARR... There are plenty of options and functionality offered by FARR to satisfy all. If you are a diligent tweaker, you have loads of options to play with and customize according to your taste. If you are an average user, use the default options and you are good to go. The large plugin list and an involved community provide the icing on the FARR Cake!

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Varun Kashyap at makeuseof.com

We occasionally write articles on the site:

When Do Users Donate (2006)
An in-depth early article discussing the first year of DonationCoder, and reviewing our use of micro-donations; we were one of the first sites to try it and one of the few remaining sites employing such a model.
DonationCoder Infrastructure Remodel (2018)
An article discussing some major changes to our website and server infrastructure in 2018 (and the years leading up to it). Goes into the content management systems we chose and server hosting choices, etc.