Code Sector Blog http://blog.codesector.com Software news and reviews Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:13:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 CodeSectorhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesAdd to Any Feed Reader TeraCopy 2.07 beta http://blog.codesector.com/2009/10/11/teracopy-2-07-beta/ http://blog.codesector.com/2009/10/11/teracopy-2-07-beta/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:12:33 +0000 Jeff http://blog.codesector.com/?p=204 Please test this version, big copy jobs should work better now.

Download: http://www.codesector.com/files/teracopy207beta.exe

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Maverick Overview

More info and screenshots: http://help.codesector.com/Maverick.

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  • Fixed: Copy stops in the middle of operation (#52).

Download: http://www.codesector.com/files/teracopy206beta.exe

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  • Added: Option to use system write cache (#30). Use it for better compatibility with anti-virus systems and ftp-drives.
  • Fixed: Skipping files in move operation (#39).
  • Fixed: Deleting files without CRC test in move operation (#38).

Download: http://www.codesector.com/files/teracopy205beta.exe

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SoundMaven home screen

Version 0.8:

  • Improved GUI.
  • Top lists from several music publications (XML).
  • “Auto Rename Files” feature.
  • Track description from Last.fm (when there is one).
  • Proper links.
  • Audio controls on all screens.
  • Numerous bugs fixed… though there are still plenty of them. ;)

SoundMaven main screen

Download • Support development

Although it should work fine, we still consider this release a beta version. Feel free to post any ideas on how to further improve SoundMaven. Your feedback is very much appreciated.

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Version 2.01:

  • Click on the star or on the empty space to add a favorite folder.
    TeraCopy Links
    This use this window, right click on a file and select “TeraCopy…”.
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Not much time left, so please take your part in testing latest beta and submit bugs and ideas to our bug tracker. It also has a simple voting system, let us know which features you need the most.

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  • Added: Support for Total Commander 7.5 beta.
  • Added: Support for DirectoryOpus.
  • Added: Few display options.
  • Changed: Separate settings for double click and middle button click.

    • Direct Folders 3.61

    • Added: Support for Total Commander 7.5 beta 4.

    Download: http://www.codesector.com/download.php

    PS. Please do not submit AVG virus reports about Win32/Heur.

    Because this is a “generic” (so to speak) detection, the file has not been 100% confirmed to be malware by the virus analysts (e.g. it has not yet been given a name), so there is a chance that the file is being mistakenly detected and it is not actually malicious.

    VirusTotal report. You can turn off heuristic scanning or add exception for DF.

    ]]>     http://blog.codesector.com/2009/05/04/direct-folders-36/feed/ 46     TeraCopy 2 nightly builds http://blog.codesector.com/2008/12/27/teracopy-2-nightly-builds/ http://blog.codesector.com/2008/12/27/teracopy-2-nightly-builds/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:10:11 +0000 Jeff http://blog.codesector.com/?p=105 Dec 26:

    • Changed: When moving, source files are deleted immediately (after comparing size).
    • Changed: Buffer for small files increased.
    • Fixed: Sizes in TB not displayed correctly.

    Dec 27:

    • Fixed: TeraCopy now keep folders’ timestamp when copying.

    Dec 28:

    • Changed: Files added to the end of queue if target folder is the same.

    Jan 14:

    • Added: Manager that allows you pause/resume/switch to other TeraCopy windows.

      • TeraCopy Manager

    Jan 31:

    • Fixed: Files added to the end of queue if target folder and operation is the same.

    Feb 12:

    • Added: Favorite target folders [Pro].
    • Added: Auto-switch to Admin mode for UAC-protected folders.
    • Added: Warning about FAT32 4gb file size limit.
    • Fixed: Waiting processes now starting in correct order.
    • Fixed: Same/different drives detection under Vista.

    May 31:

    • Added: Progress indicator in Windows 7 Taskbar.
    • Added: Auto-hiding waiting TeraCopy windows.
    • Added: Clearing read-only attribute when copying from optical drives.
    • Fixed: Problem with 7-Zip.
    • Fixed: Trim file errors.

    June 10:

    • Added: Support for Total Commander 7.5b4, Windows 7 Explorer.
    • Added: SetFileValidData function to avoid file fragmentation.
    • Added: /Close switch.

    June 16:

    • Added: CheckFreeSpace option in options.ini file.
    • Added: handling long file paths (>256 characters).
    • Added: ini file settings: MaxPathLimit, NoClose.

    June 18:

    • Added: “TeraCopy…” entry in the 64-bit Explorer context menu.

    June 21:

    • Added: Additional check if Admin mode required to write files to the root folder.
    • Added: TeraCopy Links helper app:
      TeraCopy Links
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    If the album title is known (or detected), SoundMaven will automatically download and display album art (currently from Amazon.com and Discogs).

    Main Screen

    This is a screenshot of a SoundMaven Main window. The “Identify” button creates an acoustic fingerprint for an audio file and downloads proper tags from MusicBrainz database. To save these new tags, click on the “diskette” icon.

    The “Explore” button takes you this artist’s page on soundmaven.com. This is also true for other panels.

    The “Lyrics” button opens a separate window with lyrics for currently playing song, often with synchronization.

    Artist Screen

    Artist panel shows artist photo and biography excerpt taken from Last.fm, a list of similar artists, and links to official and fan pages, wikipedia article and other related sites.
    To view full biography, click on the text.

    Album Screen

    Album panel shows some information and average rating from Amazon.com, as well as an album description (if any). Click on one of the bottom links to search this album on iTunes Store, Amazon.com, eBay or Discogs.

    Track Screen

    And finally the track panel. Click on the file to locate it in Explorer. Bottom links still present, the last “Lyrics” button is in fact a Google search.
    If you click on the folder in the screen above SoundMaven will display the following menu:

    Menu

    Last screenshot shows an Album Art Finder, which can be used to rename existing images to “folder.jpg” or download album art from Amazon/Discogs with a single click.

    Album Art Finder

    Current version can control iTunes, Media Jukebox, Winamp and players that support Winamp api (AIMP, Foobar, KMPlayer, etc) via Previous|Play|Next buttons and sleep timer.

    Download • Support development

    We consider this a beta version. If you have thoughts on what functionality you’d like to see in subsequent releases, or how it should look like, feel free to post them. Any ideas on how to improve SoundMaven are greatly appreciated.

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