Amazon S3, which stands for Amazon Simple Storage Service, is an online storage service by Amazon that gives web developers access to a scalable and fast infrastructure. Webmasters and services may come into contact with Amazon S3 in various ways, for instance when setting up a content delivery network (cdn) or during new product launches [...]

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The default Windows file management tool Windows Explorer is in dire need of an overhaul. This includes – in my humble opinion – the interface but also the capabilities of the software. Microsoft recently made the announcement that the company will improve the file management capabilities of Windows Explorer in the upcoming Windows 8 operating [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Libraries are a new feature of the Windows 7 operating system. They are virtual folders that offer access to files and folders stored in one or multiple locations on the operating system. The core benefit here is that Libraries provide access to all the files at once, even if the data set is stored in [...]

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There are many ways to preview your files in Linux. Most often there is a single application used to preview a different file type. You have the Eye of GNOME for images, the Document Viewer for PDFs, and more. But what about a single application that will preview all types? Is there such a thing? [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

In the seemingly never-ending quest to find the perfect, light weight graphical file manager, I have gone through just about every one I can find. So far my favorite has been Thunar (see Thunar content on Ghacks for more information) which comes standard with a few distributions. PCMan File Manger can be found in the [...]

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There are a lot of ways to keep track of your files on your Linux machine. You can use the command-line tools, you can do index searching, you can manually search. But there is one method that is quite unique and keeps a real-time display of your daily interaction with files. This tool is the [...]

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File management is one of the key areas that the Windows operating system needs improvement. Microsoft is introducing several new features like the new libraries in Windows 7. It is still not that easy to keep an overview of extensive file collections no matter if they consist of documents, photos, videos or audio files. Third [...]

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Many users who like their files, CDs, DVDs and removable media organized use disk cataloging and file management applications to create a main index. This index can then be accessed on the computer system to obtain information about files even if the storage medium is not connected to the system at that moment in time. [...]

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Adding new entries to the Windows right-click context menu is no easy task if you only have the tools the Windows operating system is providing to you at your disposal. It is essential for a better file management to add entries to the shell context menu to access and manage files and folders easier and [...]

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