7-Zip File Archiver

When you are working with files every day you come across compressed files regularly or the need to compress files. Today Microsoft Windows (I don’t about other systems) since XP has a built in support for the zip format. But what about other formats such as rar? There is a free solution that I recommend and use for the last couple of years, 7-Zip.

7-Zip is a free and fast archiver. you can find the latest version here http://www.7-zip.org/

The main features of 7-Zip according their official site:

1. High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
2. Supported formats:
   1. Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
   2. Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
3. For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
4. Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
5. Self-extracting capability for 7z format
6. Integration with Windows Shell
7. Powerful File Manager
8. Powerful command line version
9. Plugin for FAR Manager
10. Localizations for 74 languages

TeraCopy - תוכנה להעתקת קבצים

שלום, 
תמיד הייתי משתמש במנגון ההעתקה הרגיל של הwindows אבל ברגע שהייתי צריך להעתיק קובץ גדול או תקיה כבדה הייתי פותח תוכנה אחרת ומבצע את ההעתקה דרך שם.
עד שמצאתי תוכנה שנקראת Tera Copy שעושה בדיוק את הדבר הפשוט הזה העתקה של קבצים רק בצורה נוחה יותר ומהירה יותר.
אני ימנה את הדברים שמצאו חן בעיניי בתוכנה:

1. התקנת התוכנה פשוטה ונוחה, והשטח שהיא תופסת בדיסק הוא קטן ובלתי מורגש.
2. התוכנה מתלבשת על האופציות ההעתק והדבק, כלומר בשביל להעתיק קובץ אין צורך לפתוח אותה במיוחד , אלא ברגע שסימנת קובץ להעתקה ועשית לו הדבק במיקום כל שהוא התוכנה אוטומטית ונפתחת ומבצעת את העתקה.
3. התוכנה מראה את הסטטוס האמיתי של ההעתקה וגם את קצב ההעתקה (אם יש hard disk בעייתי אז רואים שהעתקה אליו או ממנו איטית יותר).
4. כאשר עושים העתק/עותק  של אותו קובץ לאותה תקיה/מיקום שם הקובץ החדש הוא לא "COPY OF FILE" אלא שם הקובץ נשאר אותו שם רק נוסף לו מספר סידורי אחריו FILE1,FILE2...
5. ניתו להוסיף עוד ועוד קבצים להעתקה במהלך העתקת קובץ אחר , לאותו מיקום כמובן.

בקיצור תכונה מומלצת לכל מחשב, התוכנה מגיעה בשתי גירסאות : חינאמית , ובתשלום אך אני לא רואה צורך בכך הגירסה החינאמית מצויינת.
ניתן להוריד מכאן:http://www.codesector.com/download.php
תחסכו זמן ותהנו.

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

• Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
• Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
• Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
• Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
• Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
• Full Unicode support.

 

 

TeraCopy  לעומת תוכנות העתקה אחרות

 

Eyes Relax

When you work long hours behind computer screen you feel that your eyes are getting tired. Adi found a great program that reminds you to take a break from the computer based on interval that you can define.

1. Eyes Relax – Website

2. Eyes Relax 0.54 (current version) – Download

Just don’t forget to install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 before (probably you already installed it in the past).

It’s an utility that helps avoiding eyes-related problems when working at a computer for several hours. Concentrating your eyesight on a computer screen can cause an eye strain. You can prevent this by taking regular breaks during the work and look at distant objects.

Eyes Relax is a tool that reminds you about taking those breaks. It a very flexible utility, which allows you to specify two independent (short and long) work periods, the length of the breaks, break types, notification sounds and many other settings.

Eyes Relax has also the parenting features. It can enter the password-protected Parent Mode in which the user is forced to take breaks (during the break the computer is locked). This is very useful since children often forget about the real world and play video games much too long.

From EyesRelax

Icy – Cydia Replacement for Jailbroken iPhone

 

If you have an iPhone and you performed Jailbreak you probably use Cydia for downloading additional apps that you cannot find in the official Apple appstore.

I feel that Cydia is too slow. Sometimes it takes ~2 minutes only to start Cydia. Luckily Ripdev team made a replacement for Cydia called Icy. The great thing about Icy is that it works on the same packaging system that Cydia use. So you’ll see the same sources and apps installed both in Icy and in Cydia.

What is Icy?

Icy is our take on the freeware package manager that uses APT repositories to install and remove packages available in another free iPhone installer application, Cydia. The goal was to create a fast, lightweight and more slick solution that is easy and cool to use. Icy is already at version 1.3, and we're working diligently on more improvements.

How To Install

From Cydia: Add a new source http://apt.ripdev.com and then install Icy from the Packaging category.

From Ripdev

WinDirStat - Disk Usage Statistics Viewer

Hi everyone.

I have always had trouble with organizing my hard disk. Few months after a fresh format and new install of the OS it always seemed that my hard disk was again full of “junk”. But the problem was that it was hard to find where the major “junk” files were located.

Now I finally found a program that show you statistics about your disk usage so you can easily clean all the “junk” from your disk.
So download it and clean your disk :)

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants).

1. WinDirStat Website
2. Current installer (contains both, Ansi and Unicode, releases)

WinDirStat Tutorial