http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/10/winlibre-your-open-source-software-library/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/10/winlibre-your-open-source-software-library/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:22:41 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/10/winlibre-your-open-source-software-library/ I was thinking on rounding up some of the net’s best freeware apps and putting them into one easily installable pack. As these things go, it seems like some clever people have beaten me to it. While I am a bit sad, I am actually really happy to have found this, since they did a really good job and it will help me a lot.

If you re-install Windows (or OSX) a lot, you know that you need to go through the process of installing Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp, VLC Player and a whole lot more, and at times this can get a bit tedious. With the help of WinLibre or MacLibre all you need to do is download the installer and you can choose what you need, installing it with one click.

You can either get the 150Mb standalone version that contains everything you could install, or the 0.6Mb online installer version. I recommend the later, since you will be downloading the most recent updates for the apps. When you run the installer again, you can check for the latest software, without the need to download all 150 Megs again.

Tags: apps, Open Source, Tools

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/10/winlibre-your-open-source-software-library/feed/ 5 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/07/change-right-click-options-with-filemenu-tools/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/07/change-right-click-options-with-filemenu-tools/#comments Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:36:11 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/07/change-right-click-options-with-filemenu-tools/ Windows reacts in a predefined way if you right-click a folder, file or blank space. It offers all kinds of actions such as Open, Delete, Add to archive and Send to which is a convenient way but I sometimes have the feeling that some commands are missing in that dialog. The freeware FileMenu Tools makes it easy to add new entries to the file menu by offering a set of predefined actions that can be enabled with a mouse click.

You are free to create new folders, sub menus and separators and fill them with the content that FileMenu Tools offers. New options vary from the very useful Command Line From Here option which opens the command line window from the selected folder. You may also run a selected program with parameters (defrag or anti-virus for example) and perform many operations such as copy path, move to, advanced delete and advanced renamer.

Besides that you can edit the Send To dialog which I personally rarely use. You can disable current options and add new ones with ease. One application could be to move files to a special data folder once they have been downloaded and checked. There are certainly other and better options but this is just to show that adding new send to entries can be useful.

Tags: application, apps, context, file-menu, filemenu-tools, freeware, menu, send-to, Windows

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