File Tools
YouSendIt is the No.1 digital delivery company serving business and individuals on the Web today. This innovative service enables users to send, receive and track files, on-demand. YouSendIt provides a trusted, convenient and smart solution for transferring large files over the Internet, replacing the need for FTP transfers, overnight couriers and unreliable email attachments. When it has to be there now- just YouSendIt! Up to 100MB is free
Want to share files >1MB? Don't use email, it just clogs the recipicants email! Using this service, you can share large files (up to 100MB) and it is very easy to use.
Works from within FireFox .
You can specify who has access to files, and send messages to those people to alert them when files are ready. It's the easiest way to share files of any kind with anyone.
Customize and print professional looking labels, cards, dividers and more in minutes! Includes step-by-step project wizard, built-in photo editing, mail merge, text curving and more.
Cobian Backup is a small and simple utility to backup files and directories from some place in your computer to another place in the same computer or to a shared drive in another machine. You can set the program to automatically make a backup within regular intervals of time, for example daily, weekly etc. PKzip compressions can be run under NT/2000/XP.
This program is to be used to totally wipe out a hard drive. Most often used when you are giving a hard drive away and need to make sure nothing is left on the drive. You start by making a floppy or CD as instructed and then boot the computer using the floppy or CD. See “Darik’s Boot and Nuke FAQ.htm” in the Darik for instructions. **The drive is totally wiped, so be sure you want to do this.**
Eraser allows you to completely remove selected sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
This free utility lets you view PDF files, and edit any of the text they contain.
Are you tired of Adobe Reader hogging almost 23MB of your disk space, always phoning home for updates, and not providing such swift performance? Make the switch to Foxit Reader, a willowy, 2MB download that's fast, free, and more versatile than Adobe's bloatware. For instance, with Foxit you can annotate a PDF with text or graphics, and save the PDF forms you fill out.
The Adobe Reader is only advailable from the internet. Connect to the internet to download. Plan on a long download if you are on dial-up!
PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.
Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
FileInfo.net contains a searchable database of thousands of file extensions with detailed information about the associated file types. Each entry contains information about the file format, a description of the file, and the program or programs that can open the file.
Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows, and we were also able to recover photos from a Flash card that had been formatted. Upon start, you can scan for all files that may be recovered and also limit the results by entering a search term or extension. In addition, it also provides the option to wipe the found files beyond simple recovery. The program is small and standalone, it does not require installation and can also run from a Floppy disk. Restoration works with FAT and NTFS as well as digital cameras cards.
~ http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Restoration/restoration.html
Nab screenshots with this small, simple--and free--screen capture program. It's true: If you take a picture, it will last longer. With EasyCapture, you can take a screenshot in a variety of sizes and formats. This free program's tabbed interface adds a few nice extra features, too. Taking screenshots with EasyCapture is simple. You click the button or select the menu item for the area type (full screen, region, window, etc.) you want to capture, move the cursor to select the area, and click. Thanks to a tabbed interface, you can take several screenshots in short order and deal with each at your leisure. The small selection of graphics tools lets you perform simple tasks such as adjusting brightness and contrast; converting to grayscale; flipping or rotating the image; and adding text and simple included graphics such as lines, arrows, and word balloons. You can save your work as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, and TIFF files.
CROA is a handy utility that will clear the read-only bit of all subfolders and files in a specific folder. This is extremely useful after copying the contents of a CD to your hard drive.
Got an intrusive Windows message that tells you that you cannot delete a given folder becasue it's being used by another person or program? Simple use this program and unlock the file/folder.
This lightweight, full-featured word processor is compatible with Microsoft Word documents and also runs on Linux and Macs. There are plugins, fonts, and dictionaries on the AbiWord site.
Open Office includes a word processor, spreadsheet, and allows you to open presentations created in Microsoft PowerPoint. It's compatible with .doc and .xls documents.
Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
With Zip Genius, you can quickly and easily compress and decompress files, folders. You can also compress entire folder trees to save storage space and reduce e-mail-transmission time.
When you want to send a file as an attachment using email, zip the file before sending. This should avoid the problem of security programs not allowing the files to be downloaded. This is especially true of executables and worksheet files. It is also a good idea for most files since it will make them smaller and easier to download.
If all you want to do is unzip a file, here is a quick download that allows you to extract multiple archive files at once. Just select the folder that contains the files, and click a button. The program can extract the archives either to a folder with the same name, incrementing folder names, a specified folder or the current folder. UnzipThemAll supports ZIp, RAR and ACE formats.
~ http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/UnzipThemAll/unzipall.html