Friday 05 December 2008
What is DeltaCopy
In general terms, DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program. Let's say you have to backup one file that is 500 MB every night. A normal file copy would copy the entire file even if a few bytes have changed. DeltaCopy, on the other hand, would only copy the part of file that has actually been modified. This reduces the data transfer to just a small fraction of 500 MB saving time and network bandwidth.
In technical terms, DeltaCopy is a "Windows Friendly" wrapper around the Rsync program, currently maintained by Wayne Davison. "rsync" is primarily designed for Unix/Linux/BSD systems. Although ports are available for Windows, they typically require downloading Cygwin libraries and manual configuration.
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IrfanView is an image viewer with support for a large number of image, audio and video formats, including animated GIF, multi-page TIFF and multiple ICO files. It also supports creation of panaroma images, editing of multi-page TIFF files, as well as lossless JPEG rotation.
Some IrfanView features:
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HotKeyBind is a program that lets you use hotkeys (shortcut key combinations) to do common tasks: opening a web page, launching applications, opening files, shutting down the computer and so on.
* New actions:
o Click a window to terminate the program;
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Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
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KNot (pronounced "knot") is a floating-note application.
Features:
* Multiple colourful notes floating on your desktop
* Minimized to a 17x17 pixel square
* Send your notes to other computers in your local network
* Full colour spectrum support, drop shadow and imitate wallpaper colour
* Snap to grid, screen borders or other notes! Full Multi-Monitor support
* Store your valuable notes in simple to use and backup text files - no proprietory format
* Undelete notes
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