I’m currently testing disk catalog software programs as you might have guessed already. Cathy is the second that I’m going to write a review about, the first disk catalog software was Visual CD. Cathy uses a different approach than Visual CD; It’s a portable and an ultra-fast disk catalog software which does not have all the features of Visual CD.

Cathy has a size of only 59 Kilobytes unpacked and creates a new disk catalog file after scanning and indexing a new disk. I previously mentioned that the indexing process was fast. It takes only a few seconds to index the contents of a full DVD. That is possible because Cathy indexes only the files, their path and information whereas Visual CD would index the contents of zip drives and media information.

Another benefit of using Cathy is its simplicity. Every disk catalog is searched automatically and results start to appear after seconds. Several filters are available to narrow down the search results. It is for instance possible to filter by date or length.

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Where did I backup that file again? If you have asked yourself this or a similar question you might need a Disk Catalog Software which keeps a record of the contents on all the media that has been processed by it. The basics of the disk catalog software Visual CD are easy to explain. Just pop a disk in and click on the New menu entry in the top menu.

Visual CD will start the disk scanning and file indexing process. I kid you not if I say that this can take a while depending on the amount and type of files on the disk. Most files get simply indexed but some get indexed with additional information. The contents of archives gets indexed as well or the tags of music files.

A disk catalog is created in the end and stored locally. Each disk catalog can be searched independently from each other or to search across multiple disk catalogs. The additional information, like mp3 tags, are included by default.

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Most Windows video capture software programs have some sort of limitations like a time limit or watermarks when capturing video. The good thing about Debut Video Capture Software (via Freeware Genius) is that it is totally free and comes with no limitations. The video capture software works with internal and external video capture cards, webcams and can also capture almost everything that is shown on the monitor screen.

Debut can capture the entire screen or a rectangular area selected by the user plus it can record sound from any source connected to the computer if so desired. It has a wide range of output formats and quality settings. Videos can be captured in avi, mov, flv and several other formats. Several video encoder options can be changed in the program’s settings.

Minor video capture editing is supported as well. The user can change the framerate and size of the output video and apply video effects and text annotations which comes in handy for demonstration videos.

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What a busy week. It’s almost the opposite of last week which was rather uneventful. Dozens of excellent software programs have been updated in this week and I really do not know where to start.

It took a long time to compile the list and I’m sure I probably forgot half of the applications that have been updated. To mention some remarkable ones: µTorrent, Locate32, Opera and Notepad++ have all been updated in this week.

The application of the week award goes to Teracopy this time, it’s a great tool that can speed up file transfers in Windows. As always, if you know of an update that is not in the list let me know.

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It seems that Lifehacker is having Ghacks week which I personally do not mind but the amount of articles that they referred to is stunning. I found reference to another blog that had a tutorial on how to change the default save format in Word 2007 from Docx to Doc.

I had some problems in the past when I saved documents in Word 2007 in docx format only to get cries for help of users who could not open the document because they were using a previous version of Word. I had the option to explain to them how they could open it (convert online or download the compatibility pack) or convert it to doc and send it to them again.

This happened several times and I finally decided to look for an option to change the default save format in Word. The article at Technix Update reminded me of that and I thought it would be nice to post the quick tutorial as well.

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