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FreeFileSync – spiffy sync app
Samer had covered FreeFileSync at Freeware Genius and his review was practically glowing. I hadn’t touched my setup with SyncExp in a long time so was little bored with it. So, FreeFileSync – portable, open source (and glowing) tool to sync files...
Planning ultimate online collaboration setup
I absolutely love the challenge of matching tricky tasks with awesome software. However there is a whole new level of complexity when solution includes catering it to other people. Who might not share my views on usability, features and might be as l...
Snowbird – stupidly simple and fast file manager
Every time we with Martin turn gHacks comments into semi-private (what are two millions or so monthly visitors) chat I remember something I had picked up from there and probably should blog about at last. This time it is Snowbird – fast alternative...
FTPpie – analyze space storage usage on FTP
There are plenty of excellent tools (like SpaceSniffer) that can slice and dice usage of precious hard drive space. Unfortunately they fail with FTP servers where space might be even more precious but harder to account for. FTPpie is simple utility t...
Q-Dir – Windows Explorer on steroids
I always have mixed feelings about Explorer – Windows native file manager. For all interface decisions, standard experience and many years of development it is still unfitting for anything but basic tasks. There are numerous apps that try to improv...
Three kinds of software I totally don’t get
Variety of computing tasks, multiplied by time gives myriad of software kinds. Some stick around to get adopted, some vanish. Some completely make me think “what the hell this is needed for?” File copy utilities There are quite a few established...
Easily find duplicate image files with VisiPics
Anyone who had tried to cleanup folder with few thousand images knows how disgustingly complex it is (those who had not can make a guess). Most of utilities for duplicates search rely on file sizes and binary matches. Doesn’t work for images wh...
SpaceSniffer – new take on treemap finding space hogs
Apps that creates treemap presentation of how files consume hard drive space are nothing new. I had covered WinDirStat that came to be one of the more popular and functional freeware tools. It was all quiet until SpaceSniffer took niche by storm, app...
How to schedule file move or delete on reboot
I had posted how to view pending file operations with WhyReboot and this time it is how to schedule some. Sysinternals has simple command line utility called MoveFile that does just that. What it does MoveFile is single function command line utility...
Two sites (and one app) to figure out file extensions
I had previously covered TrID, using which is one of the very few ways to figure out what is inside file without extension. However if extension is known then it is much easier to figure out what to do with file. There are plenty of ways to do that. ...
eMule – remnant of old school ed2k file sharing
It is all about torrent in recent years however file sharing bloomed long before it and some methods are still alive and kicking. eMule had started as alternative client for edonkey2000 (ed2k) file-sharing network and had easily survived everything o...
Add RSS support to HTTP File Server (HFS)
I had previously covered HFS which is excellent software for setting up HTTP file-sharing server. Unfortunately it does not natively provide RSS feeds that would be perfect for notifications about new files available for download. After some poking a...
Revisiting Dropbox and extra space for new users
I was poking Dropbox now and then since beta, but lately my usage really went up. So after months of use it is time to revisit, share my experience and offer new users some free extra space. What it does Dropbox is online service that uses client s...
TrueCrypt helps you hide files and pretend you didn’t
Skribit widget clearing: “ClipNabber is online download service” just did a post on ClipNabber when this came; “A free iPod Video Converter” sorry, I hadn’t ever owned an iPod. Please refer to IpodMe video converter highly recommended by S...
Determine file activity of an app with ProcessActivityView
I am quite fond of troubleshooting tools and usually have a lot of opportunities to use those. ProcessActivityView is sister utility to OpenedFilesView and unlike latter (or overpowered Process Monitor) is made to trace file activity of single proces...
Defragment locked system files with PageDefrag
I have covered JkDefrag which is excellent application for defragmentation. There is however one limitation enforced by Windows itself – defragmentation applications have no access to files locked by system such as registry and swap file. PageDefra...
AcmeFiles.com – emerging (probably) software portal
Few days ago I got email from Sezgin Morgul, webmaster of Acme Files, asking for a review. I don’t receive many of these (hint) and liked that email stressed request for objective review including both upsides and downsides. What it offers Acme Fi...
Look up all files in use with OpenedFilesView
For most computing tasks there is complex software, simple software and plenty in between. Trick is finding precise balance between what needs to be done and tool to use. I’ve covered some advanced tools like Process Explorer and Process Monitor bu...
7-Zip – archiving the open source way
I remember hearing about 7-Zip years ago and thinking “So what?”. It ended up being pretty big so-what in a software world. Historically there was always a lot of archive formats but very few of those that were actually used for simply packing bu...
SendTo file’s name with path to clipboard with AutoIt
Karl of AskTheAdmin had recently answered question about how to copy file’s path to clipboard in Vista . Windows XP doesn’t have such function natively and post had some 3rd party software suggestions in the comments. It reminded me how easy it i...
Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server Lite
I had previously covered HTTP File Server as excellent solution to share files. However, being based on HTTP protocol that was developed for web-pages transfer, it only serves files without good upload or remote file management support. Quick ‘n Ea...
WhyReboot shows pending file operations
Windows has mechanism that allows applications to create pending file operations. Such operations (moving or deleting file for example) are postponed and executed next time computer is rebooted . This is mostly used when files are locked and can’t ...
