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Split, Join And Encrypt Files With Khayalan File Splitter and Joiner

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Khayalan File Splitter and Joiner (KFSJ), as the name suggests, is an application for splitting and joining files. Other than providing file splitting and joining features, it comes with additional options that are not found in conventional applications of its kind, e.g., it  enables comparing two different files by their checksum or size. KFSJ can assist and facilitate file separation, merging, checksum calculation and comparison.  It also provides a number of encryption types to encrypt files that are to split, including Blowfish, Twofish, Des, Ice, etc. Read More

InScribe Brings Swype-Like Keyboard To Windows Tablets

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Advancement in technology has led various inventions to emerge from nowhere. One such example is touchscreen phones and an umpteen number of apps available for them (yeah, I'm referring to iOS and Android) . One of the most exhilarating app on Android is Swype Keyboard. When Swype Keyboard came out, it took the Android world by storm. It is an innovation in keyboard technology that allows you to type on your phone’s virtual keyboard without lifting up your finger off the screen for tapping. Just move your finger across the keyboard, from one letter to the next, and the final word will automatically appear on the screen. Even though the developers have remained shy to talk about the techniques used at its back-end, it surely have contributed towards collective jaw-drops. Now with InScribe, Windows users can also enjoy the fluid typing experience that the Swype concept brings, swiping their fingers or mouse across an on-screen keyboard. Even though the application is basically meant for touch screen Windows devices, it can also be used with a mouse. It has different keyboard layouts available to choose from, such as the standard QWERTY, NumberPad only, Email etc. Visual options allow you to change transparency of keyboard, enable highlighting vowels, auto-space on lifting finger, etc. Read more about InScribe after the break. Read More

Sync Files Between Amazon S3 & Local Drive With Amazon S3 FileSync

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Amazon S3 FileSync is an open source application that synchronize files to and from your Amazon S3 account, as well as, between two local folders. This application aims to make two way synchronization between local and Amazon S3 folders easy by preventing you from following tedious backup methods like burning data to optical discs or saving them to external drives. The application is portable , and can be taken anywhere to sync data instantly with your Amazon S3 account without having to set up and configure the account settings. Read More

Movie Explorer: Download Information On Your Movies From IMDb

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If you're a film freak, then IMDB (Internet Movie Database) needs no introduction. IMDb is one of the most famous online databases that people use to look for information regarding movies, games, celebrities and T.V Shows. The popular web service is not acquired by the E-tail giant Amazon. After this much critical acclaim, IMDb is now available even on Android and iOS devices, and considered to be one of the most used applications. Instead of having to visit IMDb every time you want to get info on movies in your collection, you can try Movie Explorer out. It's a portable application that lists down all the movies and T.V serials in your collection, and shows information including Release title, Year of release, Plot, Summary, Cast & Crew etc., from IMDb.  What makes it unique from other movie cataloging applications is that it automatically scans your movie collection folders, picks up all the available movies and T.V series, and shows the movie poster, Plot, IMDb rating and other important information related to the movie. To get extra information on the movie, you can change the primary movie info source from IMDb to MovieMeter, as well. Let's find out after the break, how it works. Read More

Monitor & Export Registry Changes Made By A Process Using RegFromApp

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Windows Registry is an operating system database that stores the configuration settings in Windows. It contains settings for operating system components, as well as information about hardware. In fact, every application you install on your PC, gets registered in the registry. Just like you'd keep a written record of your finances on a physical register, Windows registry works pretty much the same. Sometimes, you need check certain changes they may have been made to the registry, such as an infected file or a malfunctioning file.  RegFromApp is a portable application for Windows that may help you in this very task. Developed by NirSoft, the application monitors the changes made to registry by any selected application. Should you unaware of NirSoft, the company originated from its original developer Nir Sofer, an active Windows developer.  RegFromApp allows you to create a standard RegEdit registration file that includes all the changes made by the chosen application. The changes are saved in a standard Window Registry File (REG), that can be used to import/export the changes to another system. Read past the jump for more details and screenshots. Read More

Send/Receive Large Files With Group & Speed Management Using Share

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File sharing has become pleasantly easy within the past few years, especially as we now have extremely fast internet connections. Various web services and desktop clients let you share your images, videos, documents and other files, with one another, within a few clicks. One such example is P2P (Peer-to-peer) clients, which connect people through internet via server and client relation. Sometime ago, we covered zeZebra, an application with eye candy interface that let you transfer large files in a very simple way. The only downside of zeZebra is that when you send a file to someone, it prompts the recipient to download and install the application before the file transfer can begin. Some folks simply don't like to go through any additional tasks. However, a new P2P file sharing application from the developers of BitTorrent, Share, takes care of this problem. It is a portable application that lets you send unlimited files, images and videos to your friends. The data is sent over a private and secure connection without any size limits, and the downloads are super-fast. It allows you to send data to individuals or multiple users at a time using Email IDs. Share also lets you create and manage separate groups of recipients, if you have to constantly share data with some particular people. Read on to find out more about Share after the break! Read More

inCrypto Lets You Generate Hash Values And Encode & Encrypt Text

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Encrypting a file allows you to send it over the internet safely without worrying about its contents being read, or used by someone who is not intended to read them. for instance, a file that you upload on the internet might get hacked by someone with malicious intentions. If  the file contains sensitive information, that can create a lot of trouble for you. Hashing a file, on the other hand, can be used to make sure that the file you downloaded is exactly the one that was uploaded by the author and not a file modified by a hacker. Developers often post the hash value along with the uploaded file, so that anyone downloading it can be sure that it is the same file that was originally uploaded by the author. Previously, we have covered a lot of tools, such as SFV Ninja, a portable hash value generator, that can be used to generate and compare hash values of files in order to verify their integrity. We have also covered some text encryption tools, like scrambled-egg, an open source application that allows encrypting plain text messages and files using custom encryption algorithms. Combining the features of both these applications, today we have a new tool for you called inCrypto. It is a multipurpose portable tool that lets you perform, both encryption and encoding, from a unified interface. The application supports Base64 and AES text encoding and encryption methods, while MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 FIle Hash values can be used to generate hash values of files. Read on to find out more about inCrypto. Read More

ScreenParts Lets You Take Screenshot Of Any Screen Region & Copies It To Clipboard

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ScreenParts is a portable screenshot taking application that captures and saves screenshots to the Windows clipboard, after which they can be pasted to another application such as MS Word, MS Paint, an email compose window, etc.  Alternatively,  you can select a directory to save the screenshot in a number of formats, including PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, WMF, EMF and EXIF. Unlike other screen capture tools, ScreenParts provides an overlaying layer that can be extended and placed on parts of the desktop that you wish to capture. The range of different formats that ScreenParts provides to save screenshots is more than what conventional and famous screen capture tools like Greenshot and Shotty have to offer. Read More

FolderUsage Lets You View & Manage Folder Size Using Filters

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You will find a lot of tools, such as Folder Size, TDP x-Ray Lite and OverDisk, to check the size of folders and distribution of disk space to view and manage hard disk contents. All of them displayed size and contents of each folder in beautiful and easy-to-understand pie charts, and allowed you to export chart images. FolderUsage is a portable application to view the size and contents of folders according to Name, Size, Number of Files and Number of Folders. It allows you to view the file and folder size in Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes. The application automatically highlights the folders without any file or folder in them, allowing you to easily delete empty folders. You can set filters to view files and folders of a particular category, such as Only Files Created Before, Only Files Accessed Before, Only Files Larger Than, etc. Read More

Manage Redundant And Recurring Email & Forum Replies With Copy Pasta

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Internet forums are a great way to hold conversations or discuss an issue you’re facing in order to get help from others with, or related to, the same type of problem, other people are facing. For me, Forums are awesome in many ways. You can ask and share anything you want, while remaining in anonymity. Forums like XDA and 4chan have a huge number of active members, allowing the community to help each other out in times of need. Everyone who is active on any forum knows that generally people don’t search the forums before asking a question, and this results in the same question being asked hundreds of times. This can create quite an annoyance, which leads to even some new and genuine questions, being left unanswered. This also creates problems for administrators and forum moderators to deal with such spams. If you're facing such nuisance, you can give Copy Pasta a try. It is an open source application that lets you manage your replies in forums to redundant questions, thus saving great deal of time. This can also be useful if you have to reply to emails using the same set of answers over and over. Check out how it works after the break. Read More

Nexus Image Is A Better Alternative To Native Windows Photo Viewer

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One of the frequently used Windows utilities are the image viewers. When its come to image viewers, applications with minimalistic designs and sleek UI have always adored me, as they provide a clutter free environment to gaze through my favorite photos. Windows default image viewer though perfectly does the job, its not as robust or great looking, as various third-party applications are. When I came across Nexus Image, it seemed as if my wish was instantly granted. It is an image viewer for Windows that can be used as a replacement for the default Windows Photo Viewer, anytime. In addition, it is portable application that also facilitates you to use it on the go. The easy-to-use, beautiful GUI, enables you to view your favorite images with lucid experience. The application supports multiple languages and almost every option that an image viewer application should have, such as Zoom In/Out image, Rotate Image Left/Right, Desktop Dim level etc. The tool is also accessible through pre-defined hot keys, making it even more appealing to the end user. What's more, it also lets you view the EXIF data of image files, and allows you to add custom captions to images. Read on to find out more about Nexus Image. Read More

Smart PC Locker Pro: Shutdown PC After Set Number Of Invalid Login Attempts & More

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Screen locks come in handy in various situations, for example, when you are working on some important files containing sensitive information, and have to leave your PC for some reason, for instance, making coffee or answering a phone call. This is even considered a mandatory task at some financial organizations, such as banks, where confidential information can be easily compromised by unauthorized personnel. Thankfully, Windows lets you lock your PC during such instances. What you can do is use the default Windows Logoff function that locks your computer screen and lets you activate it only when you enter the password. However that doesn’t let you do anything else, for let's say, set a different wallpaper or shutdown the computer, in case someone is repeatedly entering the wrong password. To ease the job, you can take try Smart PC Locker Pro. Developed by NoVirusThanks, this nifty little portable application is designed to let you manually lock your system simply via a hotkey. In addition, it can automatically lock your system, shutdown the PC after a specified number of wrong password attempts, use a custom wallpaper, lock your computer's CD-ROM drives and disable task manager while computer is locked. More details on Smart PC locker Pro up ahead. Read More

NexusFile: Dual-Pane File Manager With FTP & Archive Extraction Support

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While roaming around on the internet, we stumbled upon a very useful file manager, and since we know how much you appreciate good freeware, we thought it was a must to share with our addicted readers. NexusFile is a file manager that can be easily used as the default Windows Explorer alternative because of its massive scope of functionality. The application features dual pane view, multiple tabs, supports FTP , has Shortcut key support, Folder Tree view, a built-in Advanced Rename feature, can extract archives (ZIP, RAR, ARJ, ACE, ALZ, 7Z etc) without external applications, allows you to set Favorite and Quick Access Folders, change Skins, and is portable! Read on to find out more about Nexus File. Read More

Instant File Searcher Professional: Advanced Search Tool For Windows

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The Windows default search utility provides quick access to files and folders across the system. Despite being a very handy utility, many users consider Windows Search to be too slow in providing results, and sometimes items can fail to appear in search results due to non-indexing. Furthermore, it can be quite hard to locate items using custom parameters in Windows Search. For this reason, some users opt for alternative search utilities that provide quicker search results, such as Quick Search. Instant File Searcher Professional is a portable search tool, which acts as a more advanced alternative to Windows Search. Details past the break. Read More

Ethervane Echo Automatically Sorts Your Clipboard Entries Into Tabs

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Previously, we have covered a lot of clipboard managers, such as ClipX, Ace Clipboard and Free Clipboard Manager, all with their unique functionalities like managing clipboard entries through hotkeys and saving clipboard items & screenshots. Ethervane Echo is a portable clipboard manager that keeps track of your clipboard history without interfering with the default Windows clipboard. Unlike other clipboard managers, it automatically sorts the clipboard entries into different tabs, such as Default, Sticky, Used, Last hour, URLs etc., allowing you to quickly access the required clipboard entries. It allows you to select and mark the important clipboard entries as Sticky, edit entries both inside the manager and in an external text editor, and search for a particular entry using the built-in search function. Read More

Fotowall Is Easy-To-Use Application For Creating Photo Collages

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Collage is a technique used in art that involves creating an image by using a number of other images, or forms. A collage is not only confined to creating an image using other images; you can use newspaper cuttings, images, text, photographs, parts of other artwork, and basically anything you can find to create a collage. For instance, if you have a collection of, say, a thousand images, using a collage making application, you can align them in any form offered by the application in order to create a beautiful looking collage out of them. Previously, we have covered some very powerful collage making applications like CollageIt, Shape Collage and Cas, that let you create a collage of all specified images in different shapes and sizes. Fotowall is an open source collage making tool that lets you make collage arrangements with your pictures, add text, add images directly from internet, adjust stacking, and apply looks and different types of effects to the image both individually and to the whole collage. It allows you to rotate and resize images, as well as apply presets for CD Covers, DVD Covers, Apply Decorations, Set Titles, Add Background and apply Random placement of images in the collage. Read More

Scan Suspicious Files With 31 Different Virus Scanners Using X-Ray

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Sometimes, even an anti-virus application cannot detect malware, as the virus definition files for a new threat may not have become available. In such a case, one can use web services like VirusTotal to scan for suspicious files. X-Ray is a portable application that allows scanning suspicious files using 31 different anti-virus scanners. The scanners used for checking specified files include Avast, AVG, Avira, Bitdefender, ClamAV, Comodo, Symantec, etc. Using this application you can either send the file to VirusTotal or to individual anti-virus scanners (e.g. AVG). The virus scan result can be acquired via email by each anti-virus service providers. This delivers exclusive anti-virus results from reliable sources, which enables better analysis of the scanned file. Read More

5F5ize: Analyze The File Size Of Special System Folders In Windows

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When analyzing low disk space issues, one can often overlook unwanted files in system directories. This is because many system default folders are ignored by most users to avoid facing system issues. Even system cleaners also ignore many junk files within system directories (e.g., program file directories left by uninstalled applications), to avoid destabilizing installed applications and the system on the whole. Low disk space in the primary partition can end up causing an number of system issues, including making the system inaccessible (using a normal login session). 5F5ize is a portable application that scans and displays the size of selected system folders. This makes it possible to single out and analyze the size of Windows default folders, in order to identify heavy directories, e.g., start menu, programs, startup, app data, print hood and other system folders. Read More

rsrdp: Establish Multiple Remote Desktop Connections In Same Window

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rsrdp is a portable remote desktop connection management application, which enables establishing multiple remote desktop connections by switching between them within the same application (window). You can create and connect between pre-defined hosts, and provides options to extend or contract the interface for making it easy to view remote desktop windows. What makes rsrdp different from the default Windows Remote Desktop is, that it provides a unified interface for all remote connections, with the utility to connect and disconnect all pre-defined hosts simultaneously. Read More

Add Notes & Reminders To Application Windows With Stick A Note

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Sometimes, random thoughts cross our mind during the most absurd moments. For instance, while working on a project, you will suddenly remember that you had to make a phone call. Note-taking applications like Sticker (a portable and light-weight application for taking notes on desktop) and Stickies (a clone of Mac's popular tool for note taking) allow you place sticky notes anywhere on your desktop, but what if for some reason you cannot afford to minimize the application? Stick A Note is portable application that enables you to stick notes to windows of active applications using hot keys. You can add relevant information particular to each application, such as project completion time, outline of an article you are writing, an important email address, etc. The application allows you to add the sticky notes in four different colors, and change the hot key to enable the sticky note. Read More