2 CommentsWinMerge – file and directory comparison tool
I have been hanging out in Theme Hybrid forums lately (it is research for new theme, not having fun solving obscure code puzzles, honestly! :) One of recent inquiries was how to determine if files were modified and what was changed.
One of those tasks you can’t expect human to do reliably (browsing several hundreds of files and thousand of lines – yeaaaah), but computers are wickedly good at. I wanted to recommend something free, light and convenient (instead of heavier stuff I use generally) and remembered WinMerge.
1 CommentRegFileExport – CLI utility for offline registry access
Windows registry is no marvel but most of the time it works. Until it doesn’t. Being obscure and not human-readable stuff there are very few ways to get information out of registry that belongs to offline (or just dead) Windows installation.
Nirsoft had just released new utility that allows to export data out of offline registry files.
2 CommentsRemove descriptions from Opera bookmarks
I had posted on bookmarks in Opera from bookmark basics to killer bookmark techniques.
One of the aspects I hadn’t covered much is performance. Bookmarks are thoroughly indexed in Opera for awesome incremental search functionality. So large amount of them can cause noticeable performance issues.
One of the ways to shred some seconds of that processing is discarding descriptions.
3 CommentsIs unmaintained software worse?
I often mention that software had not been updated in a long time or development was stopped in downsides section of posts. On other hand plenty of software titles I can wholeheartedly recommend are plain ancient and hadn’t been touched by developer in years.
What’s up with that? Development or lack of one is not always clearly cut plus or minus for the app.
4 CommentsLockHunter – manages locked files, folders and drives
There had been some tension around Unlocker among techies, after few recent versions came with stuff bundled (effectively switching app from being freeware to adware).
I caught few mentions of LockHunter (app to unlock plus delete locked files and more) both in and out of this context and decided to check it out.
No CommentsTabbles – non-standard take on file management
Another one of my long-time email inbox residents, Tabbles is an application that took me few attempts to approach.
File management is a topic widely beaten and I don’t actually know (or really believe in) an app that pulls off something novel in usable way. On other hand there are file management sub-tasks that some apps are better at than others.
Tabbles describes itself as document management and file tagging software.
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