View Desktop Icons in List

Posted on July 9th, 2010, by Meena Bassem Comment on this article

If you have a lot of desktop Icons, maybe you want to view them in a List.

it’s quite simple, just Download Disk Preview

How to use

Simply,just start it to view in list view, start it again to restore the normal view

if you want it to always start in the list view then you can add it to start up

Enjoy :D

Firefox 4 Beta is now available for download

Posted on July 7th, 2010, by Meena Bassem Comment on this article

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FreeFileSync compare and sync folders

Posted on July 5th, 2010, by Meena Bassem 2 Comments

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces.

Key Features

  • Compare files (bytewise or by date) and synchronize them.
  • No limitations: An arbitrary number of files can be synchronized.
  • Unicode support.
  • Network support.
  • Synchronization database for propagation of deleted files and conflict detection
  • Support for multiple folder pairs with distinct configuration
  • Full support for Windows/Linux Symbolic Links and Windows Junction Points.
  • Lean & easily accessible UI: Highly optimized for speed and huge sets of data.
  • Algorithms coded in C++ completely.
  • All progress indicators optimized for maximum performance!
  • Create Batch Jobs for automated synchronization with or without GUI.
    • Focus on usability:

    • Only necessary functionality on UI: no overloaded menus or icon jungle.
    • Select all folders via drag & drop.
    • Last used configuration and screen settings are saved automatically.
    • Maintain and load different configurations by drag & drop, load-button or commandline.
    • Double-click to start external application (e.g. show file in Windows Explorer)
    • Copy & paste all grid data as text
    • Delete superfluous/temporary files directly on main grid.
    • Right-click context menu.
    • Status information and error reporting
    • Sort file-lists by name, size or date.

  • Support for filesizes larger than 4 GB.
  • Option to move files to Recycle Bin instead of deleting/overwriting them.
  • Ignore directories “\RECYCLER” and “\System Volume Information” with default Filter. (Windows only)
  • Localized versions are available for many languages.
  • Delete before copy: Avoid disc space shortages for large sync-jobs.
  • Filter functionality to include/exclude files from synchronization (without requiring a re-compare!).
  • Include/exclude specific files from synchronization temporarily.
  • Create sync jobs via GUI to synchronize automatically (can be scheduled or executed via double-click).
  • Handle daylight saving time changes on FAT/FAT32 volumes correctly.
  • Portable version (.zip) available.
  • Native 64-Bit version.
  • Support for \\?\ path prefix for unrestricted path length. (Windows only)
  • Check for updates from within FreeFileSync automatically.
  • Copy locked files using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service. (Windows only)
  • Create regular backups with macros %time%, %date% within directory names
  • Copy file and folder create/access/mo

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Monitor Folder Changes with watch for folder

Posted on July 3rd, 2010, by Meena Bassem Comment on this article

Watch 4 Folder 2.0 is a simple, small and portable tool to monitor folders and files activities.
You can set a monitoring process with just 4 simple quick steps and then minimize the tool to the system tray.
It can monitor 15 different types of events, execute a program or batch file, or show a popup message in case of an event.
it is possible to write to a text log file and to watch a live log running.

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Dexpot The Utility For Virtual Desktops

Posted on June 30th, 2010, by Meena Bassem Comment on this article

Dexpot 1.5 turns your monitor into up to 20. Dexpot creates additional workspaces you can quickly switch between. Take, for example, Desktop 1 to listen to your favourite music, surf the web on Desktop 2, use Desktop 3 to handle your daily word processing or switch to Desktop 4 for a game of Solitaire.

Different icons, wallpapers, start-ups, and much more can be configured for each desktop.

Users owning netbooks, tablets and UMPC with small screens and low resolutions will benefit from virtual desktops as well.

it’s kinda similar to sysinternals desktops but with much more features

you can take a look at the Home Page

or just download it directly

Microsoft starting major improvements for Windows 8 soon

Posted on June 29th, 2010, by Meena Bassem Comment on this article

Microsoft starting major improvements for Windows 8 soonMicrosoft already entered the planning stages of Windows 8 last year in March when Windows 7 was still in Milestone 1. The Redmond company recently revealed in a job opening post for the Lead Software Development Engineer position that it will soon begin working on major improvements on Windows 8:

For the upcoming version of Windows, new critical features are being worked on including cluster support and support for one way replication. The core engine is also being reworked to provide dramatic performance improvements. We will also soon be starting major improvements for Windows 8 where we will be including innovative features which will revolutionize file access in branch offices

The following innovative features are some of the many features that we could be seeing in Windows 8:

  • Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) service: A multi-master replication engine set up for folder synchronization across multiple servers. This may be something we will be seeing in Windows 8 Server.
  • Major improvements in BranchCache: BranchCache was a new feature developed in Windows 7. Basically when data from an intranet website or file server is accessed, it caches those files locally so the next user can access them more quickly. Major improvements can be expected for BranchCache.

These were some of Microsoft’s comments on the upcoming features:

DFSR is Microsoft’s premier file replication engine and is an integral part of our branch office strategy and File Server role. It can scale to thousands of servers and replicate hundreds of terabytes of data. We have shipped the technology that powers file sharing in Windows Live Messenger, Windows Meeting Spaces (Vista) and Branch Office replication in Windows Server 2008 which has strong customer deployment. DFSR technology saves MS-IT and our customers more than 80% WAN bandwidth by using advanced On-The-Wire differential compression,” the software giant adds in the job posting.

Source Windows8Center

TinEye Reverse Image Search,Upload Images and Search for similar ones

Posted on June 29th, 2010, by Meena Bassem Comment on this article

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. which means that you can upload an image or give its URL and TinEye will search for similar ones

You should give it a try

You can get its Addons for

Enjoy :D

Windows 7 Folder Background Changer

Posted on June 27th, 2010, by Meena Bassem 5 Comments

It looks like the windows club developers have just developed a little nice portable app to change the background image of folders in windows 7

It works on Windows 7 & Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit too

it can also change the font color

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Nitro PDF Reader – Free, Fast, Powerful and Secure

Posted on June 5th, 2010, by Meena Bassem 2 Comments

Nitro PDF Reader is a free tool to create PDF files, comment and review, save PDF forms, extract text and images, type text directly onto the page, and more.
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