Imagine this scenario: I wanted to backup your photos folder which is 50GB in size, so I copied the whole folder to my external harddisk. Two months later, due to new photos being added, the folder is now 51GB and I wanted to do a backup again.
What did I normally do? Yes, I copied the whole 51GB folder to my external harddisk, went for a coffee break, come back and delete the old 50GB folder!
Here's another great software companion to assist you in the war against virus/malware. Using real-time behavior monitoring, it detects suspicious activities on the fly, before malicious code installs itself on your PC.
Ever tried to copy a large amount of files to/from your external harddisk, estimated that it will take 2 hours to finish so you left it alone and came back 2 hours later, only to find that the file copying job has stopped by some annoying pop up messages like:
Are you sure you want to move the read only file..
There is already a file with the same name in this location..
Say you wanted to delete some confidential files so that no one is able to recover it, including that computer repair guy that you're going to send your PC over.
*Updated 9 August 2010* with more widely used open-source freeware.
Sometimes you want to burn family videos into DVD so that you can play it on a DVD player. Here's the simplest way to do it :) I used to have nightmares trying to get my videos into DVD..
Trying to search for a file/folder by the name? Want to do it fast and simple?
Here's a tiny little program that searches your files INSTANTLY the moment you're typing, and doesn't lag your computer at all; much better than Windows' built-in file search!
Wanted a simple way to share files between your PC, Mac, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile or Android phone? Dropbox uses cloud computing to store your files in an online folder which is accessible by all of them.
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