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Eight Regular Expressions Help Beginners With Advanced Search

9:45PM Kevin Purdy | Regular expressions are seriously powerful tools, but most folks without serious IT experience aren’t familiar with them. A helpful blog post details eight useful expressions and how they work. More »

LockHunter Deletes Stubborn Files And Applications

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows: Everyone has run into the problem at some point. You want to move or delete a file and Windows flat out denies you because the file is supposedly in use. Break your file free with LockHunter. More »

Gmail Attachment Size Upped To 25MB

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Apparently the attachment size limit we casually mentioned last week was actually a new upgrade. All Gmail users should see a bump from 20MB to 25MB limits in their accounts, according to the Google Operating System blog. As Alex notes there, Gmail’s convenient-but-crash-prone Flash uploading tool may make it very hard to actually get a 25MB file up and going, so clicking to use the older tool that uploads upon hitting “Send” is probably the way to go for gigundo-sized files.

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 »

Hide Certain File Types From Recent Documents

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Paul writes in with a useful tip: You can use the previously mentioned FileTypesMan utility to hide certain file types from showing up in the Recent Documents folder. More »

Snowbird Is A Snappy Portable File Explorer

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: Snowbird is a tiny, portable file explorer packed with features, and fitting well into a flash drive toolkit. More »

Suction Consolidates Files And Folders Into One

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows: You have a bunch of sub-directories that you’d like to consolidate into one but don’t want to do the mouse work or write a batch script. Suction will help you condense your directories. More »

Hawkscope Gives Access To Hard Drive Contents Via Popup Menu

1:30AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux: Navigating through your hard drive contents can be slow and tedious at times, requiring double-click after double-click as your drill through your filesystem. Hawkscope addresses that by showing the contents of your drive—quickly—via a dynamic popup menu. More »

File2.ws Shares Files With Ease

2:00AM The How-To Geek | File sharing web application File2.ws accepts almost any type of file—and creates a web-friendly page to share with your friends. More »

TaggedFrog Organises Your System’s Files Web 2.0 Style

9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Use the same kind of quick-thinking, fast-organising tags you use to organise your web life with TaggedFrog, a free Windows utility that sorts and finds any file you can throw at it. Windows Vista (and the Windows 7 beta) already have native tagging systems, and OS X has long offered search-able metadata as a simple filing system. Vista’s tagging is limited to certain file types, though, and it’s in need of a central tag station, much like the one TaggedFrog provides. TaggedFrog tags any file you have with any words you want, so you can selectively tag files to separate projects, keep a track of any MP3s with curse words in them, or whatever quick-search needs you have. As you search, a “cloud” view shows the most-accessed, or most-tagged, keywords, and you can narrow your search by file extension for heavily-used tags. There’s a portable, no-install version available at the program page, so even if you only want to try out TaggedFrog for a quick MP3 organisational mission, you’re good to go. TaggedFrog is a free download for Windows systems, requires the .NET 2.0 framework for both the installed and portable versions. TaggedFrog [via FreewareGenius.com] More »