Posts Tagged explorer

Aug 17 2010

Freeware AutoVer Does Backups And Version Control

Freeware AutoVer Does Backups And Version Control

AutoVer is a simple backup and version control application. If desired backed up files can be saved in versions with time stamps appended to file names for each time they are edited and saved or the user may just schedule full backups and fore go any versioning. When the program launches a new ‘watcher’ should [...]

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Jun 30 2010

KeepNote: Open Source And Cross Platform Notes Organizer

KeepNote: Open Source And Cross Platform Notes Organizer

KeepNote is described by its author simply as KeepNote is a note taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X KeepNote is started by creating a new notebook and then new page(s) within it. Each page can contain text of course, but images can be inserted (Edit—>Insert Image…) as well as screenshots (Edit—>Insert [...]

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Oct 30 2009

DragTargets Makes Moving Files Convenient

DragTargets Makes Moving Files Convenient

DragTargets is a desktop tool that is similar to DropIt featured here on RGdot.com. DragTargets makes the task of moving or copying files more efficient by providing an interface that acts as alternative of opening instances of Windows or alternative Explorers and then navigating to a particular folder. When installed DragTargets presents a small window [...]

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Sep 03 2009

CubicExplorer Is The Simple File Manager

CubicExplorer is described by its author as CubicExplorer is a file manager which is aimed to replace Windows Explorer. It’s goal is to be easy and pleasant to use but still have enough power for more advanced usage. CubicExplorer has an uncluttered interface with a relatively limited amount of features. It manages to give a [...]

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Aug 24 2009

SE-Explorer Is A Sexy File Manager

SE-Explorer Is A Sexy File Manager

The not so clever article title aside SE-Explorer is a relatively new entry into the file manager/Windows Explorer alternative space. As of this date it is at version 0.0.30.600 and is not without its performance issues. The portable version tested on a XP computer is slow to start and the ever illusive zip or archive [...]

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Jun 12 2009

Hawkscope Is A Cross Platform Launcher

Hawkscope Is A Cross Platform Launcher

Hawkscope is described by its author as Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray / menubar icon with dynamic pop-up menu The main feature and usefulness of Hawkscope is that it provides a dynamic menu that pops up anywhere on the desktop by way [...]

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May 09 2009

SpaceSniffer Is An Attractive Disk Report Utility

SpaceSniffer Is An Attractive Disk Report Utility

As a follow up to this post reviewing 6 tools to view and analyze disk usage and this post on TreeSize here is review of SpaceSniffer. It is described by its author as SpaceSniffer is a freeWare (or, better, donationWare) and portable tool application that gives you an idea of how folders and files are [...]

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Apr 07 2009

Locate32 Quicker And Easier Way Of Finding Files

Locate32 Quicker And Easier Way Of Finding Files

Locate32 is described by its author as Locate32 is a file finder which works by indexing all your files on your hard disk drive… When launching and using Locate32 for the first time the user creates a database which indexes all files on any drive. The indexing is relatively quick and can even be over [...]

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Feb 08 2009

Tools To View And Analyze Disk Usage

Tools To View And Analyze Disk Usage

As a followup to my post on TreeSize here are some other downloads I have come across that let the user view or visualize space usage on a disk. For this article I chose to analyze a folder that is approximately 945MB and has 28 subfolders and 170 files. Using a not so new Windows [...]

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Jan 27 2009

TreeSize Drive Report

TreeSize Drive Report

TreeSize is a small executable that lets the user visualize how much space a drive or a folder and its subfolders is taking. Opening the program and opening any directory or folder presents a windows explorer like and expandable list of folders. The results can be viewed in KB, MB, GB, or even mixed units [...]

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