SSuite Office - Backup Master: A Simple Portable Backup Software for Windows

Computers made our life simpler and better by storing, processing and computing things in a faster pace. We store, process loads of valuable data everyday for various needs. But the digital life is so uncertain. You can loose everything withing a few seconds. Be it a hacker attack or a computer hardware crash - your data consisting of years of work and sweat family memories are so fragile... Therefore its always a useful idea to make copies or backups. This may require you to buy more hard disk or online drive space but you will never have to regret for that.

Copying files and folder from one location to another location is the basic way to create copies or backups, but its always useful and time-saving to make that job automatic. Backup softwares are coded for this purpose. With these you can update your backup once you made changes in the source location. Most of the time the options in Backup softwares are way too lengthy which common users tend to avoid. SSuite Office - Backup Master is  a lifesaver software that makes the task of automating backup jobs easier and faster. The software is portable and offers easy options to create uncompressed backups from any number of folders and files to an external hard disk or to another PC in your network.

AB-Tools Free Image Printer: Print to Image, PDF, HTML, MFT, RTF, XLS and XLSX

For different purpose we use different file types and we often feel the need of software that interconverts among file types. An exciting way to file type conversion is virtual printing. With this nice feature any printable file can be converted to virtual printers output. Virtual printing softwares are common for printing to PDF but it is equally useful to extend that feature to other formats. AB-Tools Free Image Printer has taken this concept and has the ability to print to to Image, PDF, HTML, MFT, RTF, XLS and XLSX file types. It supports BMP, EMF, WMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG & TIFF image formats. The software is free to use and is multilingual.

Paragon NTFS & HFS+ for Android Removes Interoperability Barriers between Android and Mac OS / Windows PCs

Incompatibility issues always are troublesome when you work in multiple platforms. Now-a-days, both Windows and Mac are widely used and as such interoperability barriers between Android and Mac OS / Windows PCs are getting strengthened. Very often a Windows user fails to record a program received by an Android-based media center to his USB stick (using NTFS) and a MacOS user copies a new movie onto an HFS+ formatted portable HDD but fails to play that on a Android-based media player. Both of these happens due to the lack of built in drivers for NTFS and HFS+ in Android based Smartphones. Paragon software has recently released a new application called Paragon NTFS & HFS+ for Android, that installs a driver on Android and is currently the only solution available on the market that mounts NTFS/HFS+ formatted USB drives or SD cards automatically! According to the developer 

You can get full and unlimited access to the most widespread file systems in the World on your Smartphone! Easily copy, transfer and modify data on NTFS volumes alongside with HFS+ ones. Forget about incompatibility issues between your mobile handheld and its big brothers - PC and Mac. Attach to your device any flash drives, hard disk divers and other media with NTFS and HFS file systems and work with them as if there have simple FAT32 one.

System mechanic 11 Standard Brings Full Power to your PC: Review & Giveaway

Few days ago, I wrote about System Mechanic 11 Free Version. Actually, I was offered to wrote about the paid version some time ago and since the software does have many features, I had split that to two reviews by first writing about the free version. As mentioned there the powerful Free version still lacks a number of useful features that the full standard version have. All those features make System Mechanic a suite that one can hardly complain about.

Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder finds Near Duplicate Pictures

Often I got wallpaper collection from my friends where a number of pictures are in common and obviously its very tedious to find out duplicate pictures in a collection of large number of pictures. Nevertheless, there are software that can find out duplicates based on their filename, hashes etc. But what about near duplicate images? Almost all duplicate file search software fails to pick near duplicate images. Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder is a life saver under such circumstances. It can easily find out nearly-duplicates in a collection of images. Also It shows side-by-side previews to let you decide about the near-duplicates. It also assigns a similarity percentage among the near-duplicates. It can of course find exact duplicates.

Undelete360 can Recover deleted Files and Shred Files & Free space: A Review

Normal delete function in Windows can only delete files metadata but keeps all the information, with which entire file can be recovered by file recovery software. Undelete360 is a Free software that can help you with recovering accidentally deleted files and also assist you to delete your sensitive files with precision to make it unrecoverable with any file recovery software.

Fix Corrupt Files with File Repair

Have you ever encountered with errors called file is not in a recognizable format, or, unable to read file, or, file cannot be accessed, or, application cannot open the type of file represented by filename, or, out of memory errors, or, low system resources errors? If yes, then be informed that your file has been corrupted and some data has become unreadable. Under such circumstances you need a software like File Repair which will scan the corrupted file, read through the damaged bytes and will extract maximum possible data from it to a new usable file.

Kryptelite Encrypts Sensitive Files & Folders with ZIP and BZIP2 Data Compression & Shreds Original

Protecting sensitive data by encrypting it and then shredding the original is a must need set of job every professional needs to do. I have wrote about a few software that can do those jobs separately but only few are present that can do both jobs but none integrated both jobs at one go. Kryptelite is a free software Encrypts Sensitive Files & Folders using industry-standard AES cipher & with ZIP and BZIP2 Data Compression and then shreds the original so that it couldn't be recovered. Kryptelite is an excellent choice for those users who use encryption only occasionally. While it lacks bells and whistles of the more advanced editions, it still does the job perfectly and provides the same highest level of security.

Review: System Mechanic 11 Free - An Outstanding System Maintenance Suite

Although an Operating System acts like a Robot and just responds to sensory input, it does have some feature like a live species. It ages out like human or like any other live species with time. There are lots of sources of such aging like fragmentation in disk and registry, lots of junk files, invalid and junk registry entries, lots of unnecessary service and start-up items. Unlike a living system it is possible to repair and regenerate the youth of operating systems through proper maintenance.
Experts hold various different opinions regarding the mode of maintenance of an Operating systems. To be on the safe side it is preferable to try each and every mode and see its outcome. In this connection, it is worthy to mention that some operating system problems may originate from faulty hardware components like Hard Disk, Sata Cable, Motherboard, SMPS etc.
I usually perform maintenance of the operating system only when I see noticeable slowdown or system issues. Personally, I prefer to manually edit, clean things or with the help of minimum automation (software), because that gives me more pleasure and command over the changes to be performed. But those who are not so technically inclined and just want to have everything done with a few clicks of mouse, there are a number of system maintenance suites, free and paid. From my experience with those suites, most of those are either unable to cover up the entire maintenance protocols or just make false claims. There are only a few trustworthy suites available and System Mechanic from Iolo Technologies is one of such kind. This suite has both free and paid versions available and in this post I will be discussing about the Free product. The US based company recently has launched System Mechanic 11.

Abyssal Recovery Can Copy Corrupted Files from Local or Removable Storage

Have you ever faced 'CRC [Cyclic redundancy check] Check failed' error!! If you have already gone through such annoying error, you must have remembered that nightmare and don't want to repeat that.

Experts say,

The cyclic redundancy check, or "CRC" error, indicates a bad spot on your hard drive. The fact that you're seeing it when you try to copy a file indicates that the bad spot may be within the file itself.

Abyssal Recovery is a very useful type of software that can help in such situation. According to developers description,

Abyssal Recovery can rescue corrupted or lost data from damaged, scratched, or defective CD and DVD discs. .... can copy the files to another destination on your hard drive. Abyssal Recovery will skip the bytes which are not readable from file and copy all other bytes to extract maximum data. You can set the program to copy byte with byte to minimize the losses, or you can set a higher number of bytes to be copied once for a faster recovery.

Password Protect Folder Quickly with Portable GrekSoft Easy Directory Locker

Locking a folder containing important files is always a great idea if you want to restrict access to those files. I have wrote posts on software like Power Lock, LocK-A-FoLdeR that can help in such scenario. GrekSoft Easy Directory Locker is just another software that works similar way as Power Lock, except that it cannot lock files. The good part of the software is that it is portable, lightweight, easy to use and free.

Unerase Files with Free Wise Data Recovery

If you have deleted some important files accidentally, don't get too much depressed. Just keep your head cool because there are data recovery software that can unerase your files. Shift + Delete will visually delete files but leaves some traces which such software explores. Wise Data Recovery is such a free software that can efficiently undelete your 'deleted' to exactly the same state it was before. This is like PDFZilla Free File Undelete, that I discussed few days back. In developer description

Have you ever deleted some useful files by mistake? Have you ever regretted to remove some files which you want to use later? Have you ever lost some private data as the consequence of a sudden PC crash? Let Wise Data Recovery help you! Freeware Wise Data Recovery does well in recovering lost data, no matter which are images, documents, audios, videos, compressed files or emails. It can quickly and safely search and recover the file you want as long as you specify the drive, the file type, or the file name. Wise Data Recovery will also show you the difficult level of the recovery by indicating the data as "Good", "Poor", "Very Poor", or "Lost" in the scan result.

Encrypt Files with Portable Encryption Apparatus

Encryption is the only way one can protect his files and documents from the access of malicious users. I have wrote a number of posts on software can encrypt files and folders and hide it fro curious eyes. Encryption Apparatus is a new portable freeware that can encrypt any file with ease. According to the developer,

This software is designed to secure anything that others shouldn’t know. When encrypting, it creates new file, adds a tag and then writes changed bytes from the original file, regarding to the key. When decrypting, it creates new file named as the original, removes tag and writes changed back bytes from the crypted file. If the key is correct, decrypted and original files will be the same.

Change Folder and File Attribute with Portable AttributeMagic Free

Few days back I wrote about XChange Attribute that was able to change attributes of a batch of files. Today I will discuss about AttributeMagic Free from Elwinsoft, a portable utility that can change attribute of both files and folders. Additionally it can change the Date and Time of Creation, Modification and Access of those file and folder and also can change the file name and extension.

Add or Change File Extensions in Batch using Portable Batch File Extension Renamer

A filename extension is a suffix (separated from the base filename by a dot) to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding (file format) of its contents or usage. A software that is able to open a file recognizes that file with its extension. Often I write FORTRAN programs for my project in a text file and to run that I need to change the extension from .txt to .f. In my institute data file output from Laser Flash Photolysis setup has no extension, while our plotting software supports .txt and .dat files only. While manually renaming filename extension is not a hard task, it is laborious enough if the number of files are large. In such cases portable software like Batch File Extension Renamer comes handy. According to the developer

As a PHP developer I often find myself presented with a website where all the files are with a .html extension and I either have to manually rename all of the files or mess around with a shell. This tiny but powerful app takes away all that hassle.

Hash Code Verifier is a Cross-Platform Tool to Check File Hash in Batch

Previously I wrote about some free tools that can check file hash in Windows. Today I will write about Hash Code Verifier, that does the same in batch and in all operating system. According to the developer

Hash Code Verifier is a Cross-platform application to verify the Integrity of your download files. Hash Code verifier can be very useful if you want to check if a downloaded file is original and not corrupted or modified by hackers. In order prevent users from such problem, websites often publish MD5 or SHA hash of the file so that users can ensue that a file has not been modified by checking the file's hash value . Hash Code verifier can generate hash for a file and allow user to check with the provided hash value.

Quickly Change File Attribute in Batch with XChange Attribute

Do you remember the post where I discussed about unhiding non-system files!! Hiding a file like a system file can be done by altering the file attribute. XChange Attribute is a tiny freeware to quickly change file attributes among Normal, Hidden and Hidden + System. So, this software can also be used to 'unhide non-system files'.

Wise JetSearch Quickly Searches Files and Folders using WildCard

Searching for desired Files and Folders is a cumbersome job when you have a large number of files in your computer. Windows provides a search feature which is useful but takes up high resources and time. Wise JetSearch from ZhiQing Soft is a new software that makes files and directory search easier and fast and can even use wildcard. It uses a Desktop Search Widget that auto hides itself and on mouse hovering shows up. It do not use indexing for making the search process even faster but still the search is fast enough that makes the application a useful one. According to the developer

Wise JetSearch can help you search files or folders on all your local drives in just a few seconds. Input your keywords, select the drive and then start to search. After searching, Wise JetSearch will show you the searching results such as file/folder name, path, size and last modified date. Also, a right click can provide you with a direct and convenient way to deal with the file/folder you found out. What's more, Wise JetSearch only takes up few system resource.

Recover Deleted Files On-The-Go with PDFZilla Free File Undelete

Oh! have you just deleted an important file by pressing Shift + Del ? Well, don't get so upset because your file may not have gone forever yet!! Remember, I wrote about some software that are made to securely delete files!! So, Shift + Del is not the ultimate fate of a file. There are software that can restore files from the trace of 'deleted' files. PDFZilla recently have released a new product called Free File Undelete that does similar things.

Free File Undelete is a tiny Windows file recovery application that allows users to undelete lost files from their NTFS drives. The program file size is 694KB only, and it is portable so that users can share it via email or flash disk very easily.

Prohash Quickly Calculates File and String Hashes in Multiple Formats

File Hash carries the signature of each file and so to properly identify a particular file it is very useful to know its hash. Now there are a number algorithms to calculate file hash and of course no one is perfect. Previously I wrote about NoVirusThanks MD5 Checksum Tool and Compute Hash which does the job of computing file hash but none covered a wide range of file hash types as Prohash, a software distributed as free under GNU General Public License by Machinescript, Inc. According to the developer

The main use of Prohash is to compute hash values of files (or strings) and compare them against known good values to make sure that your data has not been changed or corrupted. The program's GUI is designed as simple as possible, it is extremely fast (computes 32 different hash values (including some 512-bit algorithms!!!) of a 1 GB file in something less than 5 minutes). It is a must-have utility for those to need a trustworthy tool to authenticate sensitive data.