- Anetto LanSurfer 3.0 Share, share, share! — LanSurfer is a good enough solution for the well-known «large-LAN-search» problem. The software is characterized by a fast search engine, comprehensive feature set, and easy-to-use user interface. LanSurfer offers all the features that are already a commonplace for this class of software: Views all the top-level folders shared on all network computers alongside with the public HTTP- and FTP-servers inside the LAN. Wildcard-based resource…
- Network Searcher, Dig Deeper — Every modern operating system has a built-in file search engine; some of them can even search network resources. They are pretty, well-animated, and impressive. However, they are extremely slow, and when it comes to the real «get me something I don’t know what exactly» job, they imitate the search process, but all they can normally find is something that lies right above the surface and doesn’t actually require search —…
- LiveProject Free Project Viewer, Read and Share Project Files Naturally — Can you even imagine having to install a heavy-weight editor just to view documents created with it; say, Photoshop for viewing images or MS Word for reading rich-text formatted documents? Doubtful, to say the least. Such idea sounds like an absurd. So many viewers are out there; they are light, easy to install and operate, and are specifically made for viewing necessary files. Now, what if we need open something really…
- Advanced Network Search — If using search engines on the Internet has long been a habitual action for millions of users worldwide, doing the same in local networks still seems to be quite exotic. It is assumed that users know where the necessary files are located and keep the names of the frequently visited systems in their memory. However, these days local, area and corporate networks may get extremely large, so the task of finding the necessary music…
- Easy Duplicate File Finder – highly efficient duplicate files removal — The good thing about today’s hard drives is their size. Having up to a terabyte of free disk space silently spinning in your PC case makes you forget about saving space and paying attention to copies of folder and files scattered across the drive. However, the abundance of copies may become quite confusing, especially if you try to keep your archive of program distributives more or less up to date. Finding…
- iSCSI Cake (CCDisk) - an elegant solution for sharing server-side storage resources across your LAN/WAN — When you need to share your server’s resources across your network — no matter great or small — you can achieve this in a number of ways. However, there is a surprisingly elegant solution of this problem that you may not be aware of yet. iSCSI Cake is a storage server which enables you to export the server’s storage resources to multiple clients that will be able…
- Duplicate File Finder .NET - a jolt of fresh air for a clogged hard drive — Since the majority of today’s hard drives are measured in hundreds of gigabytes or even in terabytes, we rarely pay attention to how we keep our data organized, if at all. A visit of a friend with a portable hard drive full of movies, photos and music or a LAN party leaves chaos on your data storage and you may be quite surprised to find several copies of the same folders and files…
- Remote Files Server - an affordable alternative to expensive and cumbersome file sharing systems — As your corporate or community network grows in size, you may eventually bring some order to it and get rid of hundreds of randomly named folders clogged with thousands of file with equally indecipherable names. This would be a relatively easy task for an experienced network administrator using a server operation system. But what if you are not that advanced and just need to configure proper access to shared files for…
- Index Your Files - lightning-fast file searches that won't cost you a penny — When regular users want to give a solid boost to their computers, most of them head straight to the nearest computer store to purchase faster CPU’s, more RAM, faster hard drives and even RAID arrays. Unfortunately, most of them don’t even realize that the same results can be easily achieved with the help of specialized software that indexes files on their hard drives and results in much faster, almost instantaneous…
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