Did you ever just want to test a quick piece of code? Prove an idea? Or even just wanted to see the name of a property to answer an email/forum/support request? Here are a couple of free tools which can make it very easy and convenient.

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Today's Easy Things is a new personal bookmarking service called Instapaper. There really is not much to the service, but it has become a very important tool for me.

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The other day I noticed something missing from my new MacBook Pro. There is no built in SD card reader. This is something that was included out of the box on my last two Dells and I has become part of my normal photo workflow.

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Blogging Bits has a nice list of "15+ Alternatives to Your Boring Blog Editor".

I do not think they are listed according to rank, but number two in his list is by far my personal favorite, Windows Live Writer.

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I always go back and forth on wether using something like TinyUrl is worth the effort. For a vast majority of people, a short url is doesn't matter as long as they can click on it. However, as I spend more using a mobile device with a small screen screen, I am starting to see more benefit in shortening the url because it takes up less space.

However, there is one major drawback to TinyUrl, you really have no idea where you will end up after you click the link. In addition, browsing the web is getting better on mobile devices, but it is still much more of a challenge (speed, usability, and time) Enter, DecentURL.

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Today's "easy things" is a killer little utility called RunFast.

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I am going to try to make "easy things" a recurring theme here.

Today's "easy thing", is Unleash It.

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Here is another one of those great "easy things" I love so much.

I am a huge fan of all things TechSmith, their tools just rock. I have been using their latest tool Jing for a couple of months now, primarily as a quick and easy to share videos of new functionality or to gather feedback on Graffiti.

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I love easy things. Senduit does one thing; it enables you to create a private link to download a file. You control how long the link/file exists.

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