October 5, 2011
Quickly rename your video files, find subtitles and so much more. If you use your computer to watch TV shows, or any kind of video, you should really check out FileBot. For TV episodes in particular, poorly named files may not be recognized by your media center of choice. FileBot is fast, stable and cross platform. Even better is that it does more than just rename files.
August 12, 2011
After a while, our computers become like cluttered closets, or even worse. One of the best ways to become more efficient is by simply getting organized in the first place; and when it comes to those thousands of files and folders that you’ve piled upon your hard drive, the best way to get organized is by using mass renaming software.
August 9, 2009
You know the feeling that comes to us all one fine day. You open your pictures folder and see a graphical stew of pictures which you have never bothered to rename and arrange. In this cluttered mix, you can’t tell between the snap you took of your birthday party last year or this year. During [...]
August 5, 2009
I have had this problem many times in the past – I am developing a website for a client and when I ask them to send me images, for something such as a gallery, they’ll send me lots of images and the name for each image wont have any meaning — something along the lines [...]
June 8, 2009
Ever get stuck with any unrecognizable file extensions? If you get a lot of attachments in the mail, you’ll know what I am talking about. It is amazing how messed up things can get if one of your friends or colleagues enters a wrong file extension. So, what do you do? How can you identify [...]
April 15, 2009
“What’s in the name?” That famous quote from Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” tells us that the quality of an entity ““ such as a rose or a person – will not change even if the name is changed. But if Shakespeare were born in this modern era, he might rethink the statement carefully. Name does [...]
February 2, 2009
Where do you go if you have several files to rename and organize? You hunt for software that will give your tired fingers a break from the sore monotony of renaming files one by one. If you are on such a lookout, then look at D-FileMU. D-FileMU is a small, lightweight free software that belies [...]
August 27, 2008
Even though I’m not much of a photo person, I do manage my photos. Mostly just collecting-grouping-tagging-retouching (using iPhoto), and resizing (using now not free anymore ImageWell) to be able to easily send to my friend or use the image for my blog. I also have a Flickr account but there was only 3 photos [...]
August 4, 2008
Let’s say you’ve got a bunch of pictures in your digital camera which you want to transfer to your PC and store them securely. When you transfer all the pictures you’ll find that the file names are a combination of letters and numbers which do not tell anything about the image. So what do you [...]
July 10, 2008
While you’re busy editing your images with Photoshop, Gimp, or a photo-manager like Picasa, what kind of image viewer are you using? Most of the time when you are viewing an image you aren’t using an editor, especially bulky ones like those listed above. You’re using a lightweight program that primarily lets you view, zoom, [...]
