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Folder Menu Is A Powerful Folder Switching Tool
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Tiny, portable utility Folder Menu adds quick access to your favourite applications and folders through a popup navigation menu—and it even works in those irritating File Open dialogs. More »
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Auto-Delete Keeps Your Folders Clean
1:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: If you’re prone to leaving files to linger in your designated download folder and never quite getting around to deleting them, Auto-Delete should be your organisation buddy. After selecting a folder to be monitored you are offered a handful of options: age of files to be deleted, inclusion of subfolders, and whether or not the files will be directly deleted or moved to the recycle bin. If you’re in the market for a more versatile file janitor that can handle more than one folder, check out Belvedere for Windows and Hazel for Mac OS X. Auto-Delete is freeware, Windows only. Auto-Delete [via Download Squad] More »
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Manage Files On Any Machine With MuCommander
8:24AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’re not a fan of your system’s tools for managing files on your computer, check out MuCommander. The free, open source download will run on nearly any operating system, including Windows, Mac OS X and your favourite flavor of Linux, and in 21 different languages. Drag and drop between two panes visually, or hack away in the command shell. It also supports most network file transfer protocols, such as FTP, and will even let you browse the contents of archives like ZIP and disk images like ISO without having to uncompress or mount them, respectively. Pictured is an image file viewed directly from an SFTP server — handy! MuCommander is a free download for all platforms. MuCommander [via Download Squad] More »
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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 »
Name Mangler Bulk Renames Files
7:05AM Gina Trapani | Mac OS X only: Rename large groups of files—like that batch of photos fresh off your camera’s memory card—using simple or complex rules with Name Mangler. Simple options include numbering files sequentially, adding a prefix or suffix, or changing case. In advanced mode, you can script any number of those actions and save them. Name Mangler also produces reusable droplets you can add to Finder; then, whenever you want to batch rename a set of files, simply drag them onto the droplet without even starting up the application. Name Mangler is a free download, donations requested, for Macs running Leopard only. Name Mangler [Many Tricks via Cybernet News] More »
WildRename Does the Grunt Work of File Name Fixing
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Rename large sets of files without batch scripting or endless clicking with WildRename, a free Windows utility. If you’ve been putting off organising and renaming a vast collection of MP3s, pictures, or videos, you can stop procrastinating, as WildRename makes it easy to strip characters off the end of files, add or remove dashes, spaces, and other naming quirks, and correct capitalisation universally. That’s actually just the feature set for beginners—if you’re into regular expressions and advanced rule sets, so is WildRename. Thankfully, you can mess around with simulation modes to see how accurate your results would be if you really pulled the trigger. For avid downloaders and those inheriting folders full of disorganised files, WildRename is a must. WildRename is a free download for Windows systems only. WildRename More »
Get Full File Access to Windows Mobile Devices with Mocha FTP Server
12:59AM Kevin Purdy | Windows Mobile/Pocket PC only: Get access to all of your Windows Mobile or Pocket PC device’s files with Mocha FTP Server, a (newly) free utility. Simply load and run the software on your mobile device, point a browser or FTP client on a networked computer to the address it provides, and you can do what you want with pictures, music, and other files. You can get pretty fancy if you want, setting up multiple users with different rights, time-outs, and more. Mocha FTP Server is a free download for Windows Mobile and Pocket PC devices; once you hit the registration screen, enter “freeware” for a licence name and “111425″ for a code. Mocha FTP Server [via Download Squad] More »
Power Up Windows Explorer with DMEXBar
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows XP/2000 only: We’ve advocated the value of non-native file browsers like Xplorer2 and FreeCommander, but not everybody wants to switch out the native Windows file browser they’ve come to know so well. Enter DMEXBar, a free plug-in app that add custom power-browsing options to Windows Explorer. Run the installer and you get to choose whether you want to enable dual-pane browsing (with folder synchronization), adding “favorites” and other shortcut buttons to the taskbar, opening command prompts from any directory, or many, many more options. I noticed a little bit of slowdown when opening directories off the desktop in XP, but plug-ins worked without a hitch during a quick test. DMEXBar is a free download for Windows 2000/XP only. DMEXBar [via FreewareGenius.com] More »
Access Linux Files from Windows with Linux Reader
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Dual-booters have long been able to get at their Windows-formatted files, but Windows certainly doesn’t make it easy to go the other way ’round. Enter Linux Reader, a free Windows application that emulates the look and feel of the Windows XP Explorer and allows read-only access to ext2 and ext3-formatted drives, the most common formats for Linux installations. Linux Reader can also search through Linux images and mount images for browsing, and runs as a stand-alone application—for a driver-based reading tool, check out Ext2 Installable File System. Linux Reader is a free download for Windows 98 and later. Linux Reader [Disk Internals via Tombuntu] More »
