As a business owner or manager, you are concerned not only about your own efficiency but that of your staff. If employees are whiling away time on personal surfing, chats, or emails instead of working, you are incurring cost (for the employee) without making any forward progress toward company goals. This drains your margin.

Spector Pro from SpectorSoft provides the monitoring software you need to easily reduce this problem.

Sometimes the surfing problem is reduced when employees simply become aware that monitoring is in place. I’m not suggesting that every employee on the internet is wasting time… only that company principals deserve to know who abuses the privilege. This comprehensive software is a bargain and gives you the tools you need.

Do you get tired of weaving through multiple levels of menus to find a program you’re looking for? Do you hate cluttering up your desktop with dozens of icons? Do you long for the good old command-line days? Ok, maybe that last one was a stretch, but if you think it’s much faster to type a few characters than to traverse menus in order to launch an application, you’ll enjoy this little gem.

Launchy is a program that sits quietly (and invisibly) in the background, waiting for you to press ALT + spacebar to activate it. When you do, a very simple interface pops up offering you a line to type on:

Typing a few characters brings up matching options instantly such as the application shown here. I only had to type “fi” to see Firefox displayed here:

Launchy is similar to another great find-n-launch utility: QuickSilver for the Mac.

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