archiving

Deskcretary Cleans Up Your Windows Desktop

2:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: System utility Deskcretary cleans up your desktop folder with scheduled or manual scans, archiving and compressing files into a separate folder automatically. More »

Make The Palm Pre Archive Instead Of Delete Gmail Messages

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | As with the iPhone, the just-released Palm Pre can sync up with a Gmail account, but doesn’t offer a native Archive button. With a familiar settings work-around, your Pre can start thinking like a real Gmail client. More »

Virtual Volumes View Indexes Backup CDs and DVDs

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Having an automated, secure, off-site backup solution is a great idea, but for many folks, burning their data and system files to CD and DVD is just more manageable. Free indexing app Virtual Volumes View (VVV) helps you keep track of exactly which file is located on which of those numbered DVDs. Once you’ve let VVV take a look at each of your discs, it can show you them in a physical view (each disc and its contents), a virtual view (one giant file system), or let you simply search through files, including MP3 metadata, to find that certain folder or file you need to restore. The app helps you make sense of large folders you have to break up into multiple discs, and is smart enough to properly index a newly-burned, updated disc it already is tracking. Virtual Volumes View is a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems; Linux users, hit the Linux.com link if you need help installing. Virtual Volumes View [via Linux.com] More »

PeaZip Compresses and Extracts File Archives

8:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Linux: Open-source file archive manager PeaZip creates and extracts files from a number of the most popular archiving formats, including ZIP, RAR, 7Z, and more. Our nod for file archive managers normally goes to 7-Zip, but with an attractive, user-friendly interface, customizable right-click options, and a standalone portable version you can add to your thumb drive, PeaZip has a charm worth checking out. PeaZip is free, Windows and Linux only. PeaZip [SourceForge via CyberNet] More »

Merlin Mann on Why You Should Delete Dead Mail

12:05AM Kevin Purdy | Productivity writer and Inbox Zero advocate Merlin Mann shares some of his recent updates to his talk about email-wrangling, including a bit of advanced common sense about why stashing away your emails isn’t productive. Acting on them, and then killing ‘em off, Mann says, is where you want to be: The idea here is that you probably don’t have a place in your home or office where you store the shells from every peanut you ever ate. If you did, you’d definitely want to organise them by the year in which you ate them, perhaps keeping separate jars per-month or per-location where you ate the nut. You know. For posterity. More »