PC Tricks (Blog)

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.. 

*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..

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.

Ever wanted to search for text strings within a bunch of files? For example I would like to find out all the files in my harddisk that contains the word 'google' in their contents (not just the file name) it will be impossible to use the default Windows search.