Cristi Cotovan

I used to install Windows like every two-three months. Hopefully this won’t be the case with Windows7. But when you DO reinstall, the time spent to get all those apps you love back onto the machine gets longer each month.

After having played around with a number of  ‘automatic’ installer/updater programs for multiple apps, the app of the week is… a website: ninite.com — select what apps you want to install (currently from a list of the most popular ones – hopefully they will expand it fast!), and one button away you get a small installer which after you run, installs (quietly) all the selected apps. Neat!

Second on the list of great apps in this category is FileHippo’s automatic updater. This one discovers which apps have had updated versions and redirects you to a page where you can download all of them (manually, I’m afraid).

Now, if only FileHippo teamed with Ninite! Hmm.. it would be a winner combination!

Those with Flickr Pro accounts know very well that the task of constantly trying to figure out which photos you have uploaded or not, to avoid duplicates, is not something they look forward to…

Lifehacker pointed out a very nice Python script to help automate uploading of photos from your computer to Flickr.

Automatically upload a folder’s photos to Flickr – Automation – Lifehacker.

Once you’ve set it up (works on Windows, Mac and probably on Linux as well), it monitors a folder of choice and uploads any new photos directly to your Flickr account. Privacy options can also be customized.