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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Launchy

Hello friends..today we will see about a open-source windows (yes, windows!) application, "Launchy".

Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

I use Launchy very much.. be it opening word, excel or opening my favorite folders etc. I would just add the path to launchy directories and bingo! No need to scroll through length submenus or traverse through the folders in windows exlporer. Isn't it nice!

You can download the application from here.

Some screenshots:

Launchy opening a .doc file using the Gantchy Blue Skin

Launchy opening an .mp3 using the Default skin

Launchy opening Mozilla Firefox using the Black Glass skin

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Easeus To-do Backup 1.0

Hello friends.. sometime back I wrote a blog about taking backup using Norton Ghost (DOS version). Though it has been a choice of many for several years (including mine), there are plenty of GUI based free backup tools available. Today I read an article about one such tool "Easeus To-do Backup 1.0".

Go ahead and give it a try. It's free.

The interface is clean and very intuitive, making it easy for anyone to use. Here are some of the good features of Todo Backup:

    * Backup system data, partition, or entire disk to an image and restore it quickly.
    * Clone a disk (copy all data from one disk to another)
    * Mount and browse backup images files as virtual drives
    * Check image files to make sure they are not corrupted
    * Copy using either file-by-file or sector-by-sector copying
    * Ability to backup the data straight to CD or DVD thereby saving time
    * Excellent help file with lots of information and explanations
    * Ability to compress and password protect image files
    * Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file formats
    * Supports IDE, SCSI, USB, SATA, and Firewire hard drive interfaces

Download location: http://www.todo-backup.com/download/ (35MB)

Some screenshots:

Main Window