All contents on your hard drive at your fingertips

There are several software tools that can provide a range of functionalities in order to perform a particular task in a simple and fast way.

Here is one such desktop utility that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray or menu bar icon with dynamic pop-up menu.

Hawkscope is an open source, cross platform (runs on Windows, Mac and Linux) application; once installed it will sits on the system tray and you can access any files, folders and programs from there with a mouse click or with a global short cut key combination.

Besides, it has some other functionalities such as hide unwanted drives, folders or files by adding them to blacklist, plug-in system like Open with, etc that you can configure through the option menu.

Download Hawkscope from Google code.

Comments

Surf the Web Anonymously With Firefox Add-on Phproxy

There are several web based proxy servers available to surf the internet anonymously or as from another country. The Firefox add-on (Firefox 3 – 4) Phzilla helps you view a webpage or surf the internet using the PHProxy (a type of web based proxy server) proxy servers. It is very easy and convenient to use.

PaperBus-free & fast web proxy solution for anonymous internet surfing

There are several free proxy solutions available for downloading (we had covered few of them in the previous posts), but from my personal experience most of them are very slow in my country.If you are looking for a free, fast and reliable proxy solution for anonymous surfing, Here is a new multi-platform application, PaperBus (ad-supported) which lets you surf anonymously and bypass internet filters.Paper bus (brought you by Open Terrace Ltd the same company that made commercial proxy service Freedur) is very easy to use. Simply install, and run. No registration required. The only down side is there will be an ad web browser tab popping up in every twenty minutes while you are using it.Another interesting feature of PaperBus is that you can create a list of websites you don't want to surf through PaperBus.PaperBus is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux systems. Download appropriate version from here. (via)

Restore Lost Capacity Of Your USB Flash Drive (How to)

Some malware can hide full capacity of your USB flash drive. For example, a 4GB pen drive sometimes shows only 500kb or less. An interesting part of this situation is that, even after removing the malware or formatting the USB flash drive, you will not get back its original capacity. Therefore, the question here is how to restore a USB flash drive to its full capacity.

Jkwebtalks

Search This Blog