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View Folder Sizes In Windows Native File Explorer

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Applications that analyze the disk space usage allow you to identify the programs and folders hogging your hard drive. If you have a big hard drive, you might not care about duplicate files stored in your computer, but if you have limited disk space, storage memory management is of high importance. We have covered a lot of applications that allow you to keep an eye on the memory consumption by different folders. These include OverDisk - an application that provides details about file and folder sizes in a graphical representation - and DiskFerret, a Java-based disk analyzing utility. While these programs are very useful, you are required to launch them manually every time you want to view folder sizes. By default, the Size column in Windows Explorer only lists the size of files present inside a selected folder, and does not display the size of subfolders. Folder Size is an application that provides you with an easy, automated way to view the sizes of folders while using Windows' native file manager. Read More

Design & Apply Custom Folder Icons With Iconmancer For Windows

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Creating custom icons is not a new concept, and you can find a wide-array of icon creating apps for almost every computing platform out there. Though if you’re looking for something built specifically to create folder icons only, Iconmancer might be just what you're looking for. It is a feature-rich app for Windows that enables you to craft your own folder icons from scratch, embedded with images of your choice. It’s more than just an icon composer, actually; it also allows to share your creativity among other Icomancer users by uploading the icons to Icomancer marketplace. In addition, you can download a truckload of icons already uploaded by other users and apply them on the fly. More details after the jump! Read More

Easily Set Any Image As A Folder’s Icon Using Plaster For Mac

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For those who love to customize their Mac, there are a large number of folder icons to replace the default ones. Though they are good for adding a personal touch to your Mac, these custom folders don’t really offer much utility. Plaster is a free Mac app that takes the concept of having custom folder icons and puts it to good use. The app allows you to take any image of your choice and set it as any folder’s icon. The result is a folder that, in addition to being identifiable from its name, can also be identified with the image on it (much like a book’s illustrated cover). Read More

Factura: Organize Files On Mac By Copying/Moving Them To Subfolders

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Of the many things people procrastinate about and like to put off until there’s no choice left but to do it, organizing files is probably somewhere in the top ten. For the most part, files are moved to a folder that isn’t in the way and gives you a hint of what kind of files might be in it. Over time, it is filled with just about every kind of file there is, until you can barely tell what the folder was first created for. If you think finding files in a folder like this is difficult, try organizing that data and you will realize just how big a mess you’ve created. Factura is a free Mac app available in the Mac App Store that helps streamline organizing files. It is slightly redundant, but makes moving/copying files from one location to another and renaming them somewhat easier. The app provides a quick view option as well, so that you don’t have to open them separately in Preview. Read More

Tag Folders: Add Tags & Spotlight Comments To Folders For Better Search [Mac]

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Mac OS X lets you add Spotlight comments to any file or folder you want. These comments help you find files later on; when you type a filename or a search query in Spotlight, the comments are also indexed and displayed with the results, helping you identify files. A much simpler approach to finding files would be to tag them, which, unfortunately, isn’t supported. Tag Folders is a free, open-source Mac app that adds this very feature. The app lets you add tags to all files and folders on your system,  allowing you to create a special folder anywhere on your Mac. All sub-folders subsequently added to this folder are tags, and files added to them are associated with these tags. The tags are searchable in Spotlight in the standard comma- or space-separated formats. Read More

SBUtility: All-in-one Cydia Tweak For Customizing iOS Home Screen, Icons, Folders & Lock Screen

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In the past, we have covered a lot of Cydia tweaks (and apps) that allow users to make a number of cosmetic changes to their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. When it comes to tweaks, most of them focus on altering one or two aspects of iOS at a time. You will be hard-pressed to find a Cydia tweak that can be used for the customization of various iOS aspects, unless you are talking about something like WinterBoard. That’s what makes SBUtility stand out among the rest of the Cydia crowd. This tweak allows its users to change almost everything regarding the looks of their iOS device, all in one place. The tweak offers options to customize app icons, folders, Springboard, dock and lockscreen. We are not talking about one option for each of these categories, either; SBUtility offers detailed customization possibilities for all these areas of iOS. Head past the break to know more about this awesome tweak. Read More

SyncDifferent Lets You Sync Files Between As Many Folders As You Want [Mac]

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Just yesterday, we shared a tip on how to sync a folder between two Macs using a cloud service, Dropbox. The same method is applicable for syncing any number of folders on the same system as well, but if you prefer an app that does this for you, then SyncDifferent is what you need. We’ve covered apps similar to this one before, but most of them were restricted to syncing only two folders. With SyncDifferent, however, you can sync files between as many folders as you want. The app lets you sync data from the source to the destination folder and vice-versa, and similarly, lets you sync any new files that are added to either one of the folders. Read More

MacMerger: Merge Files/ Content Of Any Two Folders Into One [Mac]

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Moving, copying, duplicating and merging folders is something that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Although these are simple, everyday functions that are easily doable, they can have dire consequences if we move a folder some place we might never find it, overwrite a folder, make and delete numerous copies of a folder and end up losing the original. For those of you who have yet to experience any of these mishaps, it’s likely you just don’t have a really important folder; accidents like this happen mostly to important stuff, and not your collection of cloud shapes. MacMerger is a free Mac app that, on one hand, makes it easy to merge two different folders, and on the other, might just result in files being overwritten if not handled properly. In short, this is a powerful app, and with great power, comes great responsibility. Read More

Quick Well Free: Note Taking App Lets You Create Folders [Mac]

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Note taking apps focus mainly on creating stand alone notes. The majority of such apps support text content only, and very few will have any advanced text editing options. Quick Well Free is a free Mac app whose purpose is taking notes at the core, but lets you add images to them. The notes can be stamped with any date and time, and you may even add comments. Notes are grouped into folders, which makes it easier to keep them organized. While the app does not support any advanced text editing options, it does support adding images, and while some might argue the importance of using styled text in notes, it is actually more useful to be able to add images. Read More

Dammit: Speed Dial To Open (Stacks Of) Apps, Files Or Folders On Mac [Paid]

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If you use either Opera or Chrome, you are probably familiar with the speed dial feature that allows you to quickly access your frequently visited sites. As far as browsers are concerned, this is a highly useful feature. Imagine having something similar on your desktop for your frequently-used files, folders and apps. Dammit is a Mac app available for $2.99 in the Mac app store that implements this very idea on you desktop. Mac users might question what the point of such an app is when you have Launchpad for launching your apps, but Dammit, literally, lets you use your number pad to open corresponding files/folders and apps. You can create stacks (groups of shortcuts, nine in each stack) and swipe through them using four finger swipe. The app runs in the background and can quickly be brought to front using custom shortcuts. Read More

Secret Delivery: Protect Files & Folders On Mac With Unique Passwords [Paid]

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Encrypting files and folders on a Mac is possible but it isn’t easy. You will have to create disk images of the items you want to protect, and mount them each time you wish to access the contents. This sounds neither fun nor convenient. Alternative ways to protect files is to use the FileVault utility that will create an encrypted disk on your system where everything, every-little-thing, will be encrypted. A simpler solution with a small price tag is Secret Delivery. It is a Mac app available for $1.99 in the Mac App Store that both encrypts and decrypts files. The app has a simple drag & drop interface and uses AES encryption standard to protect your data. Read More

Turbodo: Create Universal Mac Shortcuts To Open Files & Apps [Paid]

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Keyboard shortcuts are dead useful. The universal application of Command + C, Command + V etc., across different OS, is a proof of just how convenient they are. Turbodo is a Mac app worth $4.99 that takes universal shortcuts to a new level. It allows you to create shortcuts for just about any file, folder and app on your Mac. The app runs unobtrusively in the System Menu Bar, and no matter which app you are working in, or which desktop space you’re on, the app enforces the shortcuts you create. You can open and execute several files and apps from just one shortcut. The app has a drag & drop interface for adding executable items. Read More

Smart Folders For Windows [AddictiveTips Apps]

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Do you want to get iOS and Android folder creation functionality in Windows, where folders can be created using simple drag & drop of one app over another? Although Windows 7 has a ton of highly interactive and user-friendly features, the method of creating a folder remains the same to what we saw back in Windows 98, requiring you to create a separate folder, and then put files into that folder by hand. Today, AddictiveTips brings you Smart Folders to save you not only the time, but also the effort, involved in organizing files into folders. It’s a free application for Windows that lets you create folders via simple drag & drop of file(s) over another. Read More

SyncTwoFolders: Sync Content Between Any Two Folders On Your Mac

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Syncing files and folders between different systems, and across different platforms, is no big deal these days, as there are various services that allow you to sync data through an online server, or apps that let you sync files over WiFi or Ethernet. What is rarely seen is an app that allows you to set up syncing between two folders on the same or different drives. SyncTwoFolders is a Mac app that lets you set up file syncing between any two folders, which may reside in the same drive or on different drives. You can sync folders either by syncing all content, or by selectively choosing what to sync from the source folder. Syncing can be reciprocal (two way), additional (new files are synced), or replacing (all files are replaced with new ones). Read More

DesktopShelves: Add Folders As Floating Shelves On Mac Desktop For Quick Access

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The Dock in Mac is a simple bar at the bottom of your desktop where you can house all your frequently used or favorite apps and folders. It not doubt, makes accessibility easier while at the same time, it provides a quick look at the files within a folder. DesktopShelves is an app for Mac that adds two shelves (in the lite version) to your desktop. Theses shelves list the content of any two folders of your choosing and allow you to view and open all files within those folders. The main purpose of the app is better accessibility since even the Dock can get crowded with apps and minimized windows. The shelves can be moved to rest anywhere on the desktop and appear across all desktops that you’ve added. Read More

How To Share Files Between Windows 7 And Windows 8 In Dual Boot

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When you dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 7, you are likely to end up willing to use many of the files which are located within your Windows 7 user directory (e.g. Administrator account).  Although these files can be accessed manually, doing so is both tiresome and time consuming task. Copying files to the Windows 8 user account can be one way of solving the problem, however that will simply waste a lot of disk space. Moreover, shortcuts from within the Windows 7 user folders can make it confusing to manage both Windows 7 and Windows directories. Read More

LiveSorter Automatically Groups Android Apps By Market Categories

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Whether you’re an avid Android gamer or a typical smartphone user, you’re bound to have multiple apps installed on your device at any given instant. And you’re always craving for more. How good it would be if you could get all your apps automatically organized and placed into folders according to their relevant categories so that you don’t have to face problems locating them on your device? To ease your woes, LiveSorter is here. LiveSorter automatically sorts out your apps and categories them into folders. Read More

Copy Multiple Files To Multiple Directories Simultaneously

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jMultiFilesAndDirsCopy is portable application that helps copy multiple files to multiple directories. It also offers support for overwriting similar files or skipping these files, depending on the settings you choose. An automatic log of all copied files is created, allowing you to view file copying history when you want. Read More

Batch Create Folders In Windows With New Folder Wizard

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If you want to batch create folders in Windows with any numbering, prefix, suffix, etc then it can be quite a pain. New Folder Wizard aims to reduce this pain. It is a free little portable tool for Windows that lets you batch create as many folders as you like, the maximum being 20,000 folders at one time. Read More