Free Download Managers

Many times we require an automated solution to get data (download) from a web space. An example would be to download complete source of a web based application package installer. Free Download Manager is one of the best Freeware tool that helps with such tasks.  You can simply import the list of URLs to download locations and set various options to control the downloads.  However, this doesn’t work for web pages which implement captcha’s. There is an another Freeware tiny tool called RDesc which has intelligence coded to auto respond to web pages with captcha’s for selected web sites (for […]

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Best Practices Using External USB Media

  Data copying to external media Parallel processing copying tools can cause the disk/data damage specifically when operating on USB media. Because USB (Universal Serial Bus) protocol work in serial communication mode which can’t render the IO operations at the intense rate of parallel processing copying tools. many cases, such an attempt can slow down the external media/disk performance and/or cause functional failures due to rapid IO operations. Always using a serial data copy tools can enrich the performance of your external disk and also offers copied data reliability. I personally use SolidCopy tool for any external data copy operations, […]

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Manage archival data

As we grow in time, our past learning transform to a vast data heap to be managed effectively to make efficient use of it whenever needed.  In this article, I’ll share some critical factors to be considered Data safety (no question of loosing data) and security (no question of loosing unauthorized access to the data). Ease of accessibility (how fast backup/restore or upload/download  and at what level file level). Scalability to support your future data Email: The most common/primary form of today’s electronic data is email. Here are few options to manage email The simplest and very common option is […]

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