TriX

TriX is a small software application with ambitious plans on its list. It helps you perform a wide range of system-related tasks for improving your productivity, such as send data via your default email client, perform searches on the Internet via Google, Yahoo! And Bing, and reveal random quotes.

Plus, you can shut down the computer, encrypt text, compress and unzip files, and format text (e.g. uppercase, lowercase), just to name some of the tools that are comprised in the package.

TriX is portable and can be stored on USB flash drives and opened without going through an installation process.

The program can be found in your system tray and allows you to deactivate its features and open up the configuration panel. On the downside, there’s no support for a help manual so you need to deduce the function of each parameter on your own.

The configuration panel looks a bit intimidating at a first glance because TriX has a lot of tools to offer. However, you’ll notice that there isn’t anything complicated about the setup process. You only need to have the necessary time for exploring the multitude of options.

Each utility included in the package can be tweaked by assigning a user-defined shortcut key and enabling or disabling the command.

The tools integrated within TriX are organized with the aid of different categories, such as Export Data, Files, Folders & Links, General, Power Management, Security, Sharing, Sound, Text Manipulations, and Text Transformation.

You are given the freedom to send the selected data via your default email client, export the selected text to MS Excel, Notepad or Word, and print the information or export data to another computer.

What’s more, TriX lets you quickly open files, folders and websites via a predefined hotkey, open files via Notepad, shorten the selected URL, extract all files from ZIP archives or create ZIP items, and view a thumbnail of the selected webpage’s link.

The app is able to show ‘Quote of the day’ on the desktop, count numbers of characters, empty spaces and sentences, display the current date, time and workweek, as well as activate a hibernate or standby session, and log off, reboot or turn off the computer.

Security features help you encrypt/decrypt text, lock the PC and generate passwords, while sharing options can be used for posting content on Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, or other services.

You can mute, raise or lower the volume, calculate mathematical expressions, perform measurement conversions, detect language of the selected text, extract email address, URLs, file path and IP addresses from text, and invert case of the letters from lowercase to uppercase or vice versa.

TriX impresses with its wide range of tools which can be activated with a custom hotkey. You cannot get bored working with this app because there are a lot of utilities to explore.