The FAA’s plan to regulate drone usage has been a long running cause of concern among enthusiasts and those hoping to use UAVs for commercial purposes. Thus far speculation has pegged the budding regulations as unnecessarily restrictive, but the new officially revealed FAA proposal shows those concerns to largely be unfounded. Read more
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Find out why your hard drive is running out of space by scanning it with TreeSize Free.
TreeSize Free for Windows can help you determine what is taking all your hard drive space by displaying a directory tree. After selecting a drive or folder for scanning by running the application or selecting TreeSize Free from a folder’s right-click menu, you can change options such as displaying a folder’s size, allocated space, usage percent, or file count. File size can be reported in gigabytes, megabytes, kilobytes, or a combination (“automatic units”).
Other features include sorting files and folders by name or size, showing details of each subdirectory inside a directory tree, and performing filters so only certain paths or files are visible. A report can be printed from the results. Options include forcing the application to only use one thread (if you are performing other CPU-intensive tasks simultaneously), displaying or not displaying compressed files and folders in blue, and choosing the gradient colors used in the background of each folder to represent disk usage….
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Display memory, CPU, network, and other Google Chrome usage details.
For those trying to diagnose computer or networking issues when visiting resource-intensive websites, or just the merely curious, Google Chrome includes a Task Manager. This displays the amount of memory and CPU used by the browser and each tab as well as network activity, process IDs, and for developers the frames per second and ports used to debug native client apps (NaCl debug port). This way, you can determine if a particular webpage is using too many system resources, possibly slowing your computer down.
If you want extra information, a “Stats for nerds” screen shows the memory broken down by private and shared, as well as virtual memory usage. This details screen can even show basic memory usage statistics for other browsers such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox….
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This Windows XP – Windows 7 DOS replacement for the Unix du command determines the disk space used in various directories, and can output to CSV for import into Excel.
Most Unix operating systems come with a du command for users and system administrators to help determine which directories use the most space on a hard drive or other media. This is useful if file space is getting low and one needs to determine where to start looking for files to remove and/or archive.
The Sysinternals website, part of Microsoft TechNet, offers a free alternative to the disk usage command, and runs under Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (not tested in Windows 8). Simply download the zip file du.zip, unzip the executable inside to your main Windows directory, and you can check disk usage via the command line:…
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PrintFolders generates TXT or HTML files containing lists of directory contents for later distribution or printing.
For Windows users, while there is a free way to print directory contents, output customizations may take some work. Those who need more flexibility can try out PrintFolders, which generates TXT or HTML files containing the contents of a folder and its subfolders, or of all files on a drive. This file can be printed, shared, or stored with your backups as a file collection catalog. ID3 tags are supported, allowing you to record extra data regarding your MP3 music.
The output file can be configured: choose whether or not to include subfolders and limit the subfolder depth, toggle file extensions, support and display ID3 tags, limit files to those matching a filter, and include description headers for the folders. While the HTML output does not support stylesheets, you can change the background, title background, table border, text, and link colors, and a custom title may be supplied….
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Keep track of Windows memory usage via an icon in the System Tray area of the Taskbar with MemInfo.
MemInfo is a freeware Windows application that displays detailed memory usage in the System Tray area of the Taskbar. Memory used and a percentage bar is displayed as an icon; hovering over it displays more detailed usage information.
Configuration options include showing the page file or physical memory, showing actual value or percentage free, altering the refresh rate (useful for slower computers), and displaying a warning balloon for high memory usage. You can also change the font, text colors, and theme….
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GetFoldersize is a freeware disk usage utility for Windows that also can be run at the command line to generate reports.
GetFoldersize is a freeware disk usage utility package for Windows, written by Michael Thummerer Software Design. Select a source folder and the software scans it and its subdirectories, displaying the sizes of files and folders contained therein via a detailed expandable tree view. Click on a folder name to view the list of files contained, sorted by size and displayable in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes.
Options include increasing or decreasing the font size, changing the application language (German or English), and displaying folder levels with different background colors for easy differentiation. You can toggle the display of folders, drives, and/or files, as well as a list of the largest files. A preview window can be enabled for selected file types….
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