Archive for the 'Utilities' Category

Q-Dir Portable 4.37

Q-Dir is an extremely easy to use and small application designed for a better management of your files and folders. Fast and easy access, with an amazing Quadro-View technique. Here are some key features of “Q-Dir Portable”: · Favorites: Quick access to most often used folders · Drag and Drop: Move files by dragging in […]

Q-Dir 4.37

Q-Dir makes your files and folder easy to manage. Fast and easy access, with an amazing Quadruped-View technique. Q-Dir does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from the desktop. Rename Q-Dir_Installer.exe to Q-Dir.exe and GO. Here are some key features of “Q-Dir”: · Favorites: Quick access to most often used folders. […]

Cat Karat Packet Builder 1.51

Cat Karat Packet Builder is a handy, easy to use IP4, IP6, IP4 / IP6 tunnels, TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP, ARP, VLAN (Q in Q), MPLS, Spanning tree BPDU and LLDP packet generation tool that allows to build custom packets for firewall or target testing and has integrated scripting ability for automated testing . This […]

STermPro 1.1.7

STermPro is a powerful application designed to help you monitor and control your serial ports with protocols. Here are some key features of “STermPro”: · Control serial device with parameters, not bytes. · Check device output as parameters of protocol, not just a sequence of bytes. · Send and receive with many serial ports simultaneously. […]

FBackup 4.4.218

The FBackup application was designed to be a backup application for both personal and commercial use. It protects your important data by backing it up automatically to any USB/Firewire device, local or network location. Here are some key features of “FBackup”: *Automatic backups: *Backup with standard zip compression: *Exact copies of files: *Run actions before/after […]

Tweet Links from Anywhere!

25-08-2010-11-44-42.pngLast week Twitter announced a small but handy development - the arrival of a drag-on Twitter bookmarklet. Bunches of sites have a Share on Twitter option, but for those that weren’t down with the 140-character revolution, you’d have to take the link, shorten it with a 3rd-party service and then craft it into a minute yet fully-functional tweet. No longer! Go here, grab the bookmarklet, drag it up to your bookmarks toolbar and tweet anything from anywhere. And while you’re over at Twitter, log in and follow us!

Renamer: A Seriously Powerful Batch Renamer

I’m going to come clean on this one - to this day, I’ve never been faced with a situation where I needed to rename a bunch of files. Judging by the number of file renamers that are downloaded from Softonic every day, though, I seem to be in the minority.

ReNamer is a batch renamer that’s been around for a while. Just because it’s getting on a bit certainly doesn’t mean it’s past it, though. This little application is small, but very, very powerful. If you have a serious renaming task on your hands, I’d recommend you take a look - what differentiates this app from its competitors is the variety of renaming rules you can choose - there’s 13 pre-configured and the option to add your own. Want to change a capitalized file name into lowercase? No problem. Transliterate Russian file names into English? Sure thing. Rename music using meta tags? Okeydokey! ReNamer has it under control.

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Admittedly, if you are looking for a simple renaming app, there are better programs out there. Batch File Rename Utility is flexible, but more limited in its options, which keeps things simple. Ken Rename, meanwhile, balances options and ease of use nicely. If you’re not afraid of the awesome power of ReNamer, however, download it now. It will change your life.Well, maybe that’s pushing it, but I promise it’ll do wonders for your files!

Translate 58 languages on your desktop

easy-translator.pngGoogle Translate is a seriously useful tool but it can be annoying having to open a new tab every time you want to translate something. Easy Translator is a convenient desktop client that translates 58 languages and seems to be based on the Google Translate engine although the developers are a little more vague than that claiming that “Easy Translator employs the power of Internet machine language translation engines”.

Easy Translator is easy to use. Simply paste the text that you want to translate, select the languages you want to translate to and from, hit Translate and you’re done. There aren’t many other features apart from standard copy, paste and cut tools but there’s a print feature to print translations.

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In test translations, Easy Translator produced the same results as Google Translate. What I really like about this tool is that when you copy the translation and paste it in somewhere else, it doesn’t include the original text attached to it, unlike Google Translate.

I suspect that for most languages, Easy Translate uses Google Translate as its main engine. However, it’s impossible to verify the accuracy of each translation. It’s not clear if there’s a text limit either although there doesn’t seem to be one. However, the more text you paste, the longer it takes Easy Translator to process it. Note that, unlike Google Translate, there’s also no auto-detect language feature for text that’s pasted in.

Undo Send in Gmail for up to 30 Seconds!

We’ve all been there. You hit send, and promptly think “doh”! Whether it’s because you’ve called your boss an jackass, or you’ve forgotten to add some essential information, a short grace period on recently sent emails would be fantastic.

Many of you will already know that this feature has been available for a while in Google Labs. What’s newsworthy now is that it that you can configure Undo Send to give you 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds to cancel the send. Just 5 seconds to reconsider a hastily-sent email? If you were that quick, you probably wouldn’t have sent it in the first place!

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VLC media player nLite Addon 1.1.3

If you want to reduce the time needed for installing your OS you can use nLite addons to create your own bootable image of Windows. Addons are third-party applications developed by other producers than the nLite developers, designed to be included in nLite as addons. They are specially customized so that they can be added […]