Hello Miles,

Just a few words to let you know that our exchanges here led me to completely rethink my Desktop organization and tools.

DonnationCoder allowed me to download at discount price Directory Opus with which I can use Direct Folders and TeraCopy.

I also use XStart, Selector 1.9 and Browser Chooser (if you set it as your "default browser", it manages all the shortcuts of your links and lets you chose with which browser you want to open one of them) as well as ReOpen and FARR. I'm toying with AutoHotKey to make the best possible use of my mouse's buttons and Winlaunch to create some handy shortcuts. I haven't given yet a close look to Launchy which I downloaded too. But I will in the coming days.

For my captures on the web I use both Surfulater, FireShot extension for FireFox and Printee with IE and in order to better synchronize my bookmarks between my browsers I am now testing both Xmarks and Tidy Favorites.

For my RSS Feeds, I use RSSOwl, and PersonalBrain as a general information, documents, emails and links "organizer".

Now you know nearly everything about my nightly entertainments ! :)

When I will have found the right balance with these apps, I'll gladly share with you the result of the changes I made.

« Getting better all the time ! » as the good old Beattles' song use to say ! :)

I downloaded and installed it. Thanks, Miles.


Right after, I stumbled across these two links :

- http://lifehacker.com/5352193/browser-chooser-asks-you-which-browser-to-open-new-links-in

- http://browserchooser.codeplex.com/

An interseting feature in "Browser chosser" is the one that allows it to be defined as a "pseudo" default browser. Each time you click on a link (whatever this link is), on a "favorite", the little wondow with the browsers pops-up allowing you to choose which one you wanna use. So the favorite and link a re no longer related to one browser only; this is quiet "handy".

Yet, it lacks the precision of Selector as long as it does not allow to move to a specific link selected in another browser : it only opens a new browser displaying its own starting page.

So, according to my purpose, I either use Selector or the Browser chooser, now.

What do you think about it ?