Search files in a flash with SwiftSearch

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Windows 8 has pretty decent file-search capabilities built in, especially if you learn a few tricks for smarter searches.

Of course, not everyone has (or wants) Windows 8, and even those who do may find Microsoft's search engine lacking.

Check out SwiftSearch, a free, portable search utility that's remarkably small and remarkably fast. With it you can find just about any file, on any drive, in about the time it takes to read this sentence. In fact, forget sentence; the time it takes to read this word!

SwiftSearch has nothing to install; it's a fully self-contained executable, which explains its "portable" nature: You can run it from your hard drive or keep it on a flash drive if you're looking to build out your portable toolset.

Either way, it loads in seconds. All you do is type your search parameters and then click Search. I'm not sure how the program returns results so quickly giving that it doesn't index your drive (which is how Windows Search operates), but it does.

SwiftSearch also supports a variety of expressions you can use to perform more exacting searches, though these will definitely take a bit of study if you're not accustomed to searching this way. Click Help, Regular expressions for a cheat-sheet of the expressions you can use.

Once you've got your results, you can right-click any item for a menu of options, including Open and Open Containing Folder.

Much as I'm loving SwiftSearch, the program isn't perfect. Although you can sort your search results by clicking any of the column headers (Name, Directory, etc.), there's no file-type option. I want that for grouping things like Word documents and JPEG images.

Also, it would be nice if you could focus searches on a specific folder, but SwiftSearch works only with entire drives.

That said, if you find that it's meeting your search needs, you could even consider turning off Windows' search indexing, which may make your PC run faster. See Chris Null's "Software Speed Boosts for Your PC" to find out how.

Contributing Editor Rick Broida writes about business and consumer technology. Ask for help with your PC hassles at hasslefree@pcworld.com. Sign up to have the Hassle-Free PC newsletter (which is included in the Power Tips newsletter) e-mailed to you each week.

For more than 20 years, Rick Broida has written about all manner of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots. His credits include dozens of books, blogs, and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad under his pillow.
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Review: Wappwolf automatically converts and synchronizes your files

Wappwolf Wappwolf converted and automatically synchronizes files and puts in a predefined folder.

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Automation is the name of the game these days for Web applications, and Wappwolf aims to combine automation with the power of cloud computing.  Available for dropbox, Google drive and box, the Wappwolf offers on-the-fly conversion, as well as automatically move files to other folder animals, email alerts, Tweets, FTP upload and more. And once you have set the rule, everything behind the scenes is done.

First with Wappwolf, you sign with your dropbox login information and creates a special Wappwolf folder in your dropbox account be.

Alhough some options premium be paid, there is still much for the free basic users, their teeth to get. Free basic users can have up to 10 automation and 100 files of 100 MB per day. But when you pay $5 a month, you get unlimited automation and 1,000 files with 1,000 MB per day.

Before you do anything, you must first visit the Web site Wappwolf and choose the cloud service would like to use with the service. You must then sign in Wappwolf with your cloud computing credentials. In the event that Wappwolf give the entire test run your cloud computing account is scary to you, you can instead restrict its access to only one folder in your account.  And of course it goes without saying that you can at any time revoke Wappwolfs access to your cloud computing account.

After you sign in successfully, a special Wappwolf folder will be your cloud account.  This is where all the action will take place. If you perform an Automation rule, you can subfolder for each rule, so no worries about things, to make getting there really messy.

To start, just click on "create a new automated" and you will be prompted to select a folder (or create a new).  If you put a file in this folder, then the automatic conversion and action is done on the basis of the next step of the rule.

Every time, when you create a rule in the list of automation, with the ability to delete this rule and an upgrade to a paid plan for more options appears.

To set up this part of the rule, you will be... with all the automation options and there are a lot.  The sections are arbitrary file documents, pictures, audio, video, and send info expanded.  So, if the Automation "Convert to Kindle" means he would go then to the section "Documents" next set portion of the rule.  Click on "send to your Kindle", whereupon the file format and your Kindle email address to specify.

If the Automation "convert to JPG" then called the pictures section, select the image of your next port of call, where, what you want would be dealt to.  The same applies to audio and video. Select the action that you want performed. You get the idea. It is not at all difficult, and of course anything that you can do easily deleted and restored.  So that it does not damage the options messing around and see what you come with.

"All files" is particularly interesting because it offers a wide range of options, including email, file encrypt / decrypt them, pack / unpack it, or upload of the data into another cloud service.  You can even set up file folders automatically send out tweets, to generate Facebook status or a Goo.gl short URL.

To pay for the premium service, you would have to be a very great Automator and Converter: I have more than enough to be 10 automation. And the conversion features that paid such as MP3 conversion, can easily be performed by free alternatives (without the file automation, which also offers Wappwolf).

I would like to hear whether you think that this is a better conversion service as some of the competing services out there you in the comments. Is the automation of part of the service of the extra icing on the cake or something, it's beautiful, but completely unnecessary?

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Why sign in? Your files are always waiting for you with Office 365

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You've read about Office 365 Home Premium and the Cloud and how Office and SkyDrive are better together. If you haven't seen it, check out the Welcome to Office video below for a preview of how Office is connected to the cloud:

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This video plays when you first install the new Office and introduces the idea that signing in connects Office to you and to the cloud.

The goal of this article is to dig deeper into what signing in unlocks and why we're so excited about the functionality it offers.

One of our big investments in the new Office was around making Office yours. This means:

Getting to your stuff, Office programs, and settings wherever you go (even if you don't have your devices with you)Picking up where you left off from anywhere, across your devicesMaking Office a personal experience

In everyday life, this is working on your documents on a phone, PC, or tablet, regardless of whether you're at home, school, work, or on the bus. It means that even if you forget your laptop at home, you'll still be able to get to your files and Office programs, because they're associated with you, not stuck on just one computer.

Subscription and sign-in are how we make all this goodness happen.

Lots of great things! Signing in brings your whole world together. Here are 4 things that happen when you sign in:

The new Office incorporates the concept of "roaming": your stuff going with you whether you're on your PC, tablet, or phone, or someone else's, like a school, library, or work computer (or even a trusted friend's).

A big frustration is often that you have to reconfigure your Office programs every time you install them on a new computer. We asked: what if you didn't have to do that? What if you could just sign in and all your settings are just... there?

So, that's what we did. Here's what travels with you:

Places. The SkyDrive associated with your Microsoft account is already there to save to or open documents from, but if you have multiple SkyDrive (or SkyDrive Pro) accounts, you can easily add them by clicking Add a Place.

  

Any places you add here will be available across all of your programs (if you add a place in Word, it'll be there in PowerPoint.) If you sign into Office on someone else's computer, your places will be there as well.

Personalization. If you selected a theme for Office when you first installed it, this also goes with you. It's a visual cue that you're signed in as yourself and another way to make Office feel like it's yours.

Recently used documents. Whenever you launch a program or go to open a file, you'll see a list of your recently used documents. You can also pin important documents here. It doesn't matter where you are or what device you're on: if you're signed in, your most recently used (and pinned) documents will be there.

Pinned templates. Have a favorite template you like to use? If you pinned it to the Start Place (the first screen you see when you launch an Office program), it will remain pinned even when you sign in to Office on another computer.

Resume reading. Office remembers where you left off reading in Word and PowerPoint. The next time you open up that document you'll get a bubble which, when clicked, will let you jump to that location to pick up where you left off:

 

You will also be able to automatically resume reading across devices, like on your Windows tablet or Windows phone.

Connected services. You can connect accounts like LinkedIn to your Office programs. Plus, your Facebook and LinkedIn contacts will integrate effortlessly with Outlook. Connected services are there wherever you sign in to Office, and you can easily add or remove services from the Account section in any Office program. 

Custom dictionary. I don't know about you, but my last name always shows up as misspelled when I first use a program. We had a lot of happy people when we told them they only have to add a word to their dictionary once, instead of every time they install Office or switch computers!

With anywhere access at Office.com and SkyDrive.com, there's even more you can do with just a web browser:

Office.com. This is your go-to location to manage your Office account, including:

Your stuff on SkyDrive: A portal to your recent SkyDrive files, folders, and account on SkyDrive.com.Get Office apps: Download Apps from the Office Marketplace. These integrate with Office in cool ways, like being able to add LinkedIn and Twitter (by PowerInbox) functionality to Outlook.Gorgeous content. When you sign in, you can get access to over 700 new and beautiful templates designed for the new Office.

Plus, if you have an Office subscription, you can also:

Use Office on Demand. Create and edit documents with all the power of the Office desktop apps with Office on Demand. Manage your account. See how many PCs and devices you've installed Office on, install Office right from the web, or even remove devices to free up an install.

 

SkyDrive.com is where your files live when you save to the cloud. Here you can create and edit documents with the free Office Web Apps, and if you're on a computer without Office installed but have an Office subscription, you'll get the option to edit documents with Office on Demand for a full desktop app experience.  

Your files and settings aren't the only things that roam. Here's how you can get to your Office anywhere:

Office on Demand. If you have an Office 365 subscription like Office 365 Home Premium and are connected to the internet, you can stream and use any rich Office programs on any modern PC without having to install them. In short: you can get your Office programs anywhere in a matter of seconds. There's an entire section on Office on Demand in our Office and the Cloud blog post and even more deep technical detail in our engineering article Click-to-Run and Office on Demand.

Office Web Apps. The new Office Web Apps are now live on SkyDrive. You can use the Web Apps to edit or create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more from a browser anywhere, even on your tablet. For more details on some of their new features, check out this post on the new Office Web Apps.

Even install Office on the go. Need your full set of programs on another machine? You can install directly from the internet when you sign in to Office.com.

When your documents aren't stuck on one computer, it also makes it easier to share and work with others, regardless of where you (or they) are located:

Work offline. Even if you're about to get on a plane, you can still work on SkyDrive documents even if you're disconnected from the internet. Any changes you make will sync automatically when you go back online. This is called "offline sync" and is just one of the perks you get from installing SkyDrive client along with Office. Check out the Office and SkyDrive post for more info.

Simple sharing. Documents you save to the cloud can be shared right from Office. When you go to "Share", you can invite people you're working on a document with to read or edit documents right from Office. If they don't have Office installed, they'll be taken to the Office Web Apps and can work in their browser.

Work together (also called co-authoring). Coauthoring means that once you share a document with others, you can all work together at the same time. This is possible in Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote, both in the free Web Apps and the desktop apps on your PC or tablet. You're notified when someone else has joined to edit the document, and you can see their changes simultaneously alongside yours. For other programs like Excel, while coauthoring isn't possible, sharing is still simple and makes keeping track of changes easy. When you invite people to read/edit a document using Share, they can separately add their edits and comments, which means you don't need to email different copies or manage multiple versions of the same file. Plus, your document is stored in the cloud, so you can get to it wherever you go.

Present files online. This is a special feature in both Word and PowerPoint, and I can't tell you how useful this would have been for working on projects when I was in school. Even if you and your partner are working from separate locations, you can step through a paper or presentation together (there's even built-in IM functionality so you can message each other). Get more details over at the PowerPoint blog and the Word blog, where they discuss presenting files online in Office 2013.

We know that people don't like to sign in a lot or maintain multiple different accounts. Most of us already have several accounts for email, social networking, cloud storage, etc. You don't necessarily want to make a new one, or have to sign in when you didn't have to before.

With this in mind, we've done what we can to make it super easy while still getting you all the benefits associated with sign in. When we asked people what they thought of signing in, one of their main questions was, "Do I have to sign in every time I launch Word?"

The answer is a definitely not! All you have to do is sign into Office once and all your programs will remember you.

To make things even easier: if you use Windows 8 and sign into your computer with your Microsoft account, Office will automatically sign you in. And if you work at an organization that uses domain accounts, you'll also automatically be signed into Office on both Windows 7 and Windows 8. 

You can sign into your Office in a few different places:

First Run Experience. When you install Office, you'll see what we call the "First Run Experience" (where you're welcomed with the video and offered a chance to sign in.)

In Office. You can sign into Office from the top right of any app. In your Office programs just look for "Sign in" or "Sign in to get the most out of Office" at the top right:

 

Online at Office.com and SkyDrive.com. As mentioned in the "What happens once I'm signed in?" section, there are a bunch of things you can do online, too.

With so many different sites and services asking you to sign up for an account, it's tough to keep track of all the different usernames you use everywhere. We wanted to simplify the process as much as possible. That's why Microsoft on the whole is switching to using just one account for all of its services, from Windows 8, to Office, to Xbox.

The great news is that chances are, you may already have a Microsoft account without knowing it.

You already have a Microsoft account if you...

Play video games on your Xbox - it's the same account you use for Xbox LIVEChat with your friends on Live Messenger or MSN Messenger Have an @Hotmail.com, @Live.com, or @Outlook.com email address (your username is that email address, and the password you use for that email account is also your Microsoft account password)Sign in to Windows 8, your Windows phone, and more

But even if you don't have a Microsoft account, you don't have to create a completely new username or sign up for a new email account just to get one. You can use any email address you already own for your username. Then just create a password of your choosing. For more information on Microsoft accounts, check out this video.

One of the best things about all the work we've done in this space is that it's just the start. We've gone from zero to sixty in no time flat - from Office just being on your computer to living in the cloud in the blink of an eye.

Signing in gets you a ton already: roaming your documents and settings, using your Office programs from anywhere, coauthoring, presenting online, and more. But this initial push is just the first of many steps to enriching and personalizing the Office experience.

We're dreaming up more ways to make working across devices and collaborating with others an effortless experience from anywhere - one where you don't even have to think about the fact that it's happening; it simply works the way you'd expect it to.

That's why we love sign-in so much, and we think you'll love it, too. 

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Learn Photoshop - File Formats in Photoshop

If you have received your new digital camera, and you're ready to go out and take photos. But what is the next step? Well, get a form any Adobe Photoshop (preferably elements 3 or 2 CS) is a major step in the right direction. Once the program is installed, it would be not to pick up a Photoshop tutorial for it.

The Photoshop tutorial will help you understand what the program is capable of, and how you can use the tools to their full capacity. Which cannot respond, however, is what format it uses and saves in, and what advantages and disadvantages there are different file formats.

Photoshop has the ability to open and save many types of files, but more important still, you must be aware of why these types of files exist and how to use them to your best advantage. It is essential to know the different types of files, while you learn Photoshop. There are three basic things this concern file format, that will determine how you save your file: image quality, layering and the use of the web.

Image quality:

When you take your pictures, you want to use the pixel more high possible definition that provides your camera. For example, if you have a 5.1 megapixel camera, then you must use this parameter to capture your images - more rasterizing, more quality. The thing to remember, however, is that quality is high, plu file. You have the possibility to change the size of the file directly from the camera and need to consult the manual of your if it is something you want to do.

It is best to take photos in raw image and then convert into something smaller, later, because you will have the opportunity to manipulate the image when it is more important, it may be better. Once you have taken the photo and it imported to your computer, it can import as .jpg or .jpeg, or as a raw image. It is best to save raw images, because you will lose a part of the quality with the .jpg.

Overlay:

Once you have the photo in your computer, the photo will usually open using your default program, you will need to open Photoshop and open the image. You will then have the opportunity to make your resizing, stratification and manipulation in the program itself.

If you save the image directly in Photoshop, it will be to save it as a .psd, .pdd or .eps file. These formats will keep the large file, and preserve all layers, so consider when recording. If you are going to rework the image at a later date, it is better to save in this mode. If this is not the case, then you have some other choices.

The .tif or .tiff was frequently used with scanners at the beginning and will preserve the majority of the quality, but it saves large files and are best used if subjects them to a Publisher or printer.

The .bmp or a bitmap is a file Windows ® that creates good photos, but still creates a large file.

The .pdf is an Adobe Acrobat ® file and the texts and images of locks so that they cannot be handled more. If you want to create files like these, you probably need to buy the full Adobe Acrobat version.

Use of the Web:

The best file formats for Web use would be, of course, must be small file sizes. Several times, however, the compression takes some of the range colours and the dynamism of the photo.

Joint Photographic Experts Group - .jpg or .jpeg is probably the most popular Web form, because it compresses the small file, but still can display millions of colors. Photoshop give you the possibility to choose compressed how you want that image to be, and you'll want to play with Adobe Image Ready until you have found a file size of small size which does not seem to lose all the colors and the intricacies of the photo.

Portable Network Graphics .png is a recently developed format which became popular for the use of the Web. It compresses the files differently than .jpg does, but it leaves the best quality photos. He has the ability to maintain millions of colours and transparencies, but keep the relatively small file size. If you are on a PC, however, keep in mind that Internet Explorer does not support it.

Graphics Interchange format or.gif is the other popular Web form, but it is not ideal for photos. It is preferable for the graphics and illustrations, because it loads quickly and has the capacity to animation and the transparent color.

This should be a direction that is helpful to start in the world of manipulation and digital photography. Allow yourself time to explore all the possibilities of current programs and settings on your camera. Learn the basics of computer science in various photo editing programs can be a lot of hard work. If you want to be able to control all immediately, you'll only up shorted.

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