Rick's Daily Tips

Greenshot – My favorite screenshot utility

Posted on August 12, 2018

Most Windows users know that pressing the Print Screen key will create an exact image of everything on the current screen and place it on the Windows clipboard, thereby creating a “screenshot” image.

I’ve tried several third-part screenshot utilities over the years, but my favorite by far is a nifty little free program called Greenshot. In fact, I think it’s the best thing since that $50 bill that I found laying on the riverbank back when I was a kid!

There are so many things to love about Greenshot, but there are two in particular that make it extremely useful: [Read more…]

Review: Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive

Posted on August 10, 2018

Are you frustrated by the lack of storage space on the typical external USB hard drive? Do you long for an external drive that’s super-fast, yet plugs into a standard USB 3.0 port?

Well look no further, because Seagate has both bases well-covered with their new Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive. (#ad)

Most consumer-grade USB hard drives currently max out at around 2TB, but this Seagate Backup Plus doubles that to a massive 4TB.

Of course to take full advantage of all that storage space, the drive needs to transfer data at the fastest speeds possible – and this awesome drive is lightning fast! [Read more…]

Quickly and easily rename multiple files in batches with Rename Master

Posted on August 8, 2018

If you love taking lots of photos at special events such as birthday parties, weddings and such, you know how time-consuming renaming all of those image files can be.

Digital cameras typically name the photos they take sequentially, and that can be a hassle when it comes time to organize the image files.

For example, a simple task like renaming dozens of photos with sequential names like 170-3827.jpg, 170-3828.jpg and 170-3829.jpg to more descriptive names like toms52nd-bday-3827.jpg and toms52nd-bday-3828.jpg can take forever! [Read more…]