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Have Your PC Auto Copy Files Between Multiple Folders On A Schedule

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Windows 8 includes various new features that weren’t available in previous iterations of the OS. One of those features is a revamped file copy and move window that not only tells you about the file transfer speed in real-time, but also lets you pause and resume the operation any time you want. However, many third-party apps still go beyond this, offering additional features like boosting speed, or allowing you to copy/move files from a single source directory to multiple destinations simultaneously. SceduledCopy is an interesting file copying utility that allows you to set time schedules for multiple file copy operations in one go. Being a portable app, it also eliminates the need for any installation and lets you use it anywhere from your USB thumb drive. Read More

[Giveaway] DragonDrop Makes Drag & Drop Easier By Providing A Temporary Holder For Copying Files [Mac]

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If you’ve used a Windows PC, you know there is no such thing as Desktop Spaces like there are in Mac, and, without question, they are an excellent feature to have. While they make it extremely easy to manage windows and group your work by the apps you have opened, it can sometimes be inconvenient when you have to move an item from one desktop space to another. DragonDrop is a Mac app, worth $4.99 in the Mac App Store, that acts as a ‘holder’ for any file, folder or text you want to copy and paste from one location or space to another. The app works entirely in the Menu Bar and captures anything you drop onto it, leaving you free to use your mouse for clicking, selecting and dragging other things around. Read More

Copy A Text File’s Content To Clipboard From Its Right-Click Context Menu

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If you have to copy the contents of a large number of text files, opening each file separately, selecting the required text, and then copying it to the new file adds up to quite a lot of steps for something that is very simple in nature. We have covered quite a few Windows shell extensions that allow you to perform time consuming tasks in a quick and simple way. There are thousands of tools and extensions available on the internet that allow you to simplify complex and time taking functions. Today, we have another right-click context menu extension called Copy Text Contents, which lets you copy the contents of text files to clipboard from right-click menu without having to open the file. The application can prove to be useful in situations where you need to quickly copy the contents of multiple text files to a single document. Not only does it support copying plain text from a selected file, but also text with encoding. Read past the jump for further details. Read More

Copy Path to Clipboard: Access File/Folder Path Copy Functions From Right-Click Menu

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You may already know that Windows does not show you the complete path of a folder or file, and if you need the complete path, you need to click the Windows Explorer address bar or open folder/file properties to copy the complete path. Wouldn't it be better if you could copy the complete path of folder and file from right-click context menu? Copy Path to Clipboard provides you with just that. It is an application for Windows that allows you to not only copy the Full Path and the Filename, but also Relative Path, URL Path, Parent Folder Path and the UNC Path of selected files and folders, all from the Windows right-click context menu. Additionally, it lets you copy the path of multiple files and folders at a time to Windows clipboard, so that you paste folders/files names along with their source paths in any text editor. More on Copy Path to Clipboard after the break. Read More

Create, Access, Delete & Mount Shadow Copies On Any Windows Version With Z-VSSCopy

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For those who are unfamiliar with the terms Shadow Copy or VSS (Volume Snapshot Service), it is a technology included in Microsoft Windows. What it does is it automatically creates backups of your data, with an option to lets you do so manually. Both Windows Vista and Windows 7 can create copies of your files and folders, which allows you to retrieve the previous versions in case they are accidentally deleted, modified or manipulated in one way or the other. In computers running Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems, this service is active by default. Microsoft has only included the privilege of accessing shadow copies in Windows Ultimate, Business and Enterprise edition, leaving other editions of the OS to dust. Back in January, I reviewed an application for Windows called Shadow Explorer. It is a tool that allows Windows Home version users to access shadow copies according to time filters, and provides a unified interface to explore and export them. Today, I have a similar application for users of Windows 7 editions who need a third party solution. The application is as called Z-VSSCopy and allows you to perform even simpler administration of shadow copies. Read More

[Giveaway] CopyLess For Mac: Manage & View Clipboard Content By App

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Clipboard managers aren’t hard to find, and they are extremely useful since they let you get a whole lot more out of your default clipboard. Most clipboard managers focus on text snippets and there are few that will allow you to copy images and more. CopyLess is a Mac app worth $4.99 in the Mac App Store that extends your clipboard up to 100 items, lets you copy items in just about every format supported by Mac OS X and filters your snippets by the app they were copied from. Additionally, the app lets you favorite snippets that can be pasted using a custom shortcut, paste the last ten snippets via keyboard shortcut and wipe any text clean of its formatting before pasting it. Read More

XtraFinder Adds Several Useful File & Folder Options To Mac Finder

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If you’ve transitioned to Mac from a Windows PC, you will probably have figured out that Finder is to Mac what Windows Explorer is to Windows. You will also find that there are some options from the right-click context menu of a file that were there on your Windows PC, but are missing in Finder. Even if you’re a long time Mac user, some commands like moving or copying a file, finding the file path, viewing hidden items etc, are some actions that you could do with having in the right-click context menu. XtraFinder is a free Mac app that adds these and other features to both the Finder menu and a file’s right-click context menu. In summary, the app will automatically arrange folders at the top, arrange items by name when in icon view, Collapse all, Show hidden items, refresh, copy file path, create a new file, copy or move a file to another destination, refresh, select multiple files, view contents of a folder as sub-menu and launch an app as root. Read More

ClickBoard: Create Notes & Export To Google Docs [Chrome]

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ClickBoard, a Chrome extension, is a one-click web clipper that lets you copy selected text, page title, URL, image links etc, to the clipboard and save them as notes in a compact pop-up for later use. These notes can then also be exported to Google Docs with only a click or two. With it, you can create, manage and organize notes with a simple interface that allows you to add tabs, so that your notes never get mixed up with other ones. ClickBoard automatically saves selected text along with the URL and date. Moreover, you can sync and export notes to Google Docs in various formats, such as Spreadsheet, Plain text and HTML. The extension also gives you the ability to star and choose specific folders when exporting notes to Google Docs. ClickBoard offers users with two themes and layouts, where you can view notes in a compact version or an expanded one, depending upon your preference.  Furthermore, you may search and print notes directly from the pop-up. Read More

PopClip: Search Web, Open Links, Correct Spelling & Work With Text [Mac]

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Looking for a tool that can help you easily work with text in all applications? What you might need is an universal text assistant that can perform numerous text-related operations without having to use exhaustive hotkey combinations. PopClip is small, menu bar application that comes with a variety of text-related options to help you compose emails, change file/folder names, type text, open mail links, search the web etc. The application has been developed to prevent you from doing lengthy text-related tasks, such as copying and pasting text from one app to another, searching the web, opening file and email links, and correcting spelling mistakes. It provides a small, on-screen menu with text to perform all the related operations with a click. For instance, if you want to compose an email, just select the email address, and click the @ button to open default email client for composing mail. Read past the break for more. Read More

ClipX: Clipboard Manager That Saves Up T0 500 Clips In A Session [Mac]

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We’ve covered many clipboard managers recently, and they all have a single purpose; to extend the functionality of the default clipboard. ClipX is a Mac app that is somewhat similar, in that it is like a safety net for anything you copy to your clipboard. The app sits unobtrusively in the System Menu Bar and records any and all text that you copy to your Mac’s clipboard. You can copy and paste the text normally, and in the event you need to reuse a previously copied snippet, you can visit the app and browse for it. The app saves up to 500 clips in the order they were copied in. Read More

Clipboard Magic: Remove Duplicates & Paste Text Items In Series via Hotkey

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Clipboard Managers certainly come handy in situations where one has to copy text from different sources and paste the copied text snippets into required applications. There are diverse range of clipboard archivers available out there, which let users perform clipboard-specific operations along with creating a stack of copied items, but If you’re planning to copy text or code structures from various sources and paste them in a series, Clipboard Magic is worth a try. It’s a lightweight, clipboard manager and archiving utility for Windows that lets you organize copied plain text items under a single window, allowing you to use them via a series of hotkey combinations. Read More

Shadow Explorer: Access And Export Windows Shadow Copies According To Time

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Shadow Copy (Volume Snapshot Service) is a technology included in Microsoft Windows that allows users to take manual or automatic backup copies of data. This was first included in Microsoft Windows XP and updated in Windows Vista to make better use of the Shadow Copy service. From time to time, Windows Vista and Windows 7 create copies of your file and store them, enabling you to retrieve previous version of the files and folders in case they are accidently deleted or modified by you or someone else. This service is turned on by default in every system running the Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems. However, Microsoft only grants access to Windows Ultimate, Business and Enterprise edition users. Shadow Explorer is a tool that allows Windows Home version users to access the shadow copies, and provides a unified interface to explore and export all shadow copies viewable according to time filters. The application lets you retrieve older versions of saved files and folders by letting you browse through the saved data according to date and time. Read More

SmartCopyTool: Copy, Move & Delete Files By Name & File Type Filters

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Copying files from one location to another can be a tedious task if you have huge folder structures containing a lot different formats of files. If the files are scattered over multiple folders, you have to manually locate the required files and copy them from each folder to the new location one by one. It can be both time consuming and confusing, since you might forget which folders you have already skimmed through. SmartCopyTool is an open source application for Windows that allows you to copy files from a source location to a target location by specifying name and format filters. More on SmartCopyTool after the break. Read More

aiFILE Lets You Set Schedules For Regularly Moving & Copying Files

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Mostly, we do not take out time to organize their downloaded files, and the main Downloads folder becomes cluttered with a lot of different types of files. We keep thinking about sorting the setup files, images, songs and documents into their respective folders but never get the time to do so. As a result, whenever yo want to locate a previously downloaded file, you have to go through heaps and heaps of files of different types.  If you manage your download files and put them in separate folders as soon as they are downloaded, you will not have that much trouble to find the required files. aiFILE is a organization application for Windows that allows you to easily move and copy files to different locations. The application allows you to set schedules for transferring or copying files from one folder to another on a regular basis. It can be extremely useful if you receive multiple files from different sources at regular intervals. You can just set schedules to automatically organize them in folders for easy access and identification. aiFILE lets you create multiple schedules, and specify different source and destination folders for different tasks. More on aiFILE after the break. Read More

TextBom: Record Text Snippets To Your Clipboard For Later Use [Mac]

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Clipboards are a small, yet frequently used, feature, and it is hard to imagine computers, or even cellphones, without them. While the simple copy/paste functions are enough for most people, many would prefer to make more use of the clipboard, and pasting the most recently copied text just won't work in such a case. It is here that Clipboard managers come in. TextBom is a clipboard manager for Mac, similar to Clipboard History and rePasta. It allows you to copy as many text snippets as you want for pasting later, but differs from the other two in that it allows you to easily start and stop recording to the clipboard, and change the order of the snippets. Read More

rePasta Is Free Clipboard Manager For Mac Supporting Multiple Snippets

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It’s hard to imagine using any kind of computer without a clipboard. Whether it’s links, email addresses, excerpts from an article, or just you copying something for your Facebook status (we’ve all been there), the clipboard is as important as the very keyboard you use to type. While clipboards are handy, the limitation of being able to paste only the most recently copied text is somewhat of a damper. rePasta is a Mac app that allows you to copy multiple text snippets to a clipboard. The text is copied to the app when you select and hit Command + C, or select Copy from the context menu. You can see all copied text in the app window, and clicking any snippet selects it for pasting. Read More

GoGet: Manage Scattered Data By Copying Format-Specific Files

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As time goes by, our photos, songs, movies, documents and other data gets cluttered up, and scattered in our computer. Resultantly, it often happens that when we are looking for a particular file, we can't find it, because we don’t know its exact location. You can use the search function to look for your files, but that requires you to have the files properly named and tagged. If the files are stored with random names, the only way for you to find them is by knowing their exact location. Well, now you don’t need to remember where each file is placed in your computer because of a very helpful tool called GoGet. It is an application for Windows that lets you manage the content in your hard disk by allowing you to copy specific type of files from a folder, containing files of multiple formats, to another location of your choice. It does not report where the files are placed; it just copies them to a user-specified location. Learn more about GoGet after the break. Read More

Path Copy Copy: Copy File And Folder Locations In Various Formats

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Path Copy Copy is a Windows Explorer shell extension that adds file and folder path copying options in the right-click context menu, to help users easily copy the various path formats. The copied path can then be pasted to a document, email compose window etc. Path Copy Copy provides the option to not just copy the file or folder path of the selected item, but also for the parent directory, internet path, UNIX and Cygwin paths. Details after the break. Read More

Record Clipboard Text To A List With Clipboard Text Recorder

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Windows native clipboard holds a single text snippet at a time, which means should you need to copy multiple text snippets here and there, you'd need to recopy each line every time you want to use it. For general use, a single clipboard item does the job, but if your work requires a lot of copy pasting, then you're probably left in the dust. Luckily however, there are a number of third-party software solutions that suffice the job, via keeping multiple text snippets into their integrated database. As clipboard managers are in vast number, only a few one actually stand out by providing some sort of unique functionality. One such that we found is Clipboard Text Recorder, which is both light-weight and user-friendly. It is a clipboard manager that automatically records the text you copy, so that you can easily paste saved text snippets in required workspace. It may come handy in situations where you are reading an article and feel like saving some excerpts. Normally, you will have to open a notepad (or any other similar application) alongside the article, and paste each part one by one, but Clipboard Text Recorder lets you record all the parts in one go, and then, when you’re finished with the article, paste them in required application. Read More

Bram Is Yet Another Tool For Batch Renaming And Copying Your Files

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Digital camera’s usually name images in their own format, e.g., DSC0023. Usually, when copying these images to PC, we have to rename the images manually. What if you could copy as well as batch rename the files using one application? Well, now you can. Bram is a batch rename and copying application that can perform both these tasks at once. You can change the naming scheme, numbering of files, date format and the functions to perform. It allows you to preview the changes and undo the actions if you don’t like the final product. Read More