Small Helpers

Sooner or later you have to know about file recovery. There are media and text files: documents in Word and Excel, video, music, audio, photos. We keep some copies of files on CD and DVD disks because we read that disks helps to keep data in case of loss of data. Memory cards or flash cards are irreplaceable attributes in our life too. Computer breakages, hard drive failure, damage of a flash card or USB are awful things which sometimes happen in a life of each user of the personal computer. Have you had similar situation in your life? If you have similar situation in your life then you need good advice about file recovery. Loss of data occurs suddenly and it is necessary to operate quickly. We advise free download tool which carries out file recovery. Similar programs always have to be in your PC then you do not waste time for their searches. The given utility does for the following operational systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows seven. This is the best software; you can download it and try in the process of work.

You have bought iPad. Congratulations! Do you want to watch video files on this device? It has appeared that this device plays only own format. It’s a pity! But we know smart solution. Are you ready to learn additional program software? This program software is iPad Video Converter. Have you heard about iPad Video Converter? What do you have to know about video conversion? Video transformation is a process of converting video file from one format in another format. Unfortunately, the certain device for viewing of video files (films or clips) cannot play all video formats. iPad Video Converter can convert all popular videos formats, such as VOB, DivX, XviD, MOV, RM, RMVB, MPEG, WMV, AVI, DVR-MS, MP4, TiVo, and MKV. IPad Video Converter is developed for operational system Windows: Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. You can free download the special software right now.

This is one more useful utility, it is duplicate file finder. Duplicate files do not bring advantage for users of the personal computer or the laptop. On the contrary, double files prevent you in the process of work. Therefore you have a priority to find duplicate files. Deleting duplicates will allow releasing a place on a hard drive for storage of the important information. Having this software, it is possible to find duplicate files without additional efforts and waste of time. Have a look at this duplicate file finder and make smart choice. You have to have the best duplicate file finder at your fingertips.

How often have you tried to delete or rename a file or folder and got “Cannot delete xxx: It is being used by another person or program.” ?

Unlocker is a tool which will help you removing such objects. Very simple but useful tool.  Today it did help me, maybe tomorrow it will come in handy to you.

Visit Unlocker homepage in order to download it.

Also, if Unlocker won’t work in your case, you can find a big list of similar programs on its homepage.

Launchy is the most efficient way to open files, folders, websites, and programs on your computer.  Nobody likes to hunt through the start menu to find an application, just to find that the application is hidden under some obscure folder named after a company you have never heard of!  Instead,

Launchy is a smart sear ch program which tries to guess which program or file you are looking for and will launch it when you hit the enter key.  It is only visible when you hit the alt+space key combination; otherwise it hides in the background.  Once you have used it for a few days, it becomes an indispensable utility for your computer.  And it’s free!

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7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Absolutely free and ready to use for anybody, I use it more that a few years. Also it has handy command line version – I use this feature in my .bat files for automatically archive my source files, I am very lazy to find good backup software:)

The main features of 7-Zip

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  • Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 63 languages

You can find a some bit of information about compression ratio at homepage.

I could not download videos from YouTube before. I view them, and had to run the page once again to watch some interesting video again. Not long ago I found tool that can help me. It is YouTube Downloader from BienneSoft.
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Imagine that you need to find some string in your files. This task can be done by Windows standart search tool. It will show you the list of files, which contain your string. Then you need to view these files to find the string there. Having a list of lines from these files containing the searched string would be more convenient.
PRGrep gives you such opportunity.
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Do you use FireFox? If no, download and try it immediate:) As for me I don’t like it, but there are a lot of people which think that FF is the best browser in whole word.

In both case, if you already use it for safe browsing or only thinking about download FireFox, I suggest you to read Firefox Add-ons: All You Need To Know, just to know more about some useful features.

You can use lots of programs to view graphic files on your computer. Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages. Usualy people compare two-three programs and choose more handy tool among them. If you became accustomed to some tool, it is difficult for you to change it. But I recommend you to change your favourite tool to IrfanView (if it is not already your favourite tool ).
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Today I’ll tell you about one more small and helpful utility. It is File Renamer from Sherrod Computers. With this program you can quickly rename multiple files at the same time. Very often digital images have same names. I use File Renamer to rename duplicated file names from digital camera.
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Roboform is one of programs that help me to save time. It logs into web sites and fills forms instead of me. So I do not need to go manually to a web page, fill in login form, and even hit “submit” button. Roboform does it himself.
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