Digital Volcano's DuplicateCleaner

Last night's tip discussed Dup Scout, a program to find duplicate files on network drives. Compare Dup Scout with Digital Volcano's DuplicateCleaner, a free version of which can be downloaded here.

DuplicateCleaner not only allows you to search for files with the same MD5 hash value, it can also be used to find files with the same file name, file extension, date created, date modified, or file size.

The image mode of DuplicateCleaner can be used to find images of varying degrees of similarity.

If you know what duplicate files you want to find, there's an option under the File menu to import a list of duplicate files.

Thanks very much to Alfred Vachris for recommending this software!

EDI NotePad

Liaison has made available a free EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) editor here. As you can see in this example, EDI NotePad takes a raw EDI like this:

ISA*01*0000000000*01*0000000000*ZZ*ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO*ZZ*123456789012345*101127*1719*U*00400*000003438*0*P*> GS*PS*1234567890 *999999999 *20120126*1211*1*T*004010 ST*830*0001 BFR*00**001*DL*A*19990607*19991029*19990611 N1*SU*STURGIS MOLDED PRODUCTS*92*C84A N2*STURGIS MOLDED PRODUCTS *70343 CLARK STREET N3*PO OX 246 *STURGIS, MI 49091 LIN**PC*AA017830-1441*PD*TERMINAL (AN PC )*PO*C01000*RN*001 UIT*EA PO4*1*96*X4 REF*DK*A22 PER*EX*JOHN DOE*TE*4239827000*****12345 FST*1728*C*D*19990614 FST*1440*C*D*19990615 FST*1440*C*D*19990616 FST*1440*C*D*19990617 FST*1440*C*D*19990618 FST*7392*D*W*19990621 FST*7392*D*W*19990628 LIN**PC*AA017380-2030*PO*C50000*RN*001 UIT*PC PO4*1*108*X4 REF*DK*A22 PER*EX*JOHN DOE*TE*4239827000*****12345 FST*108*C*D*19990614 FST*108*C*D*19990615 FST*108*C*D*19990616 FST*216*C*D*19990617 FST*108*C*D*19990618 FST*756*D*W*19990621 FST*756*D*W*19990628 CTT*2 SE*31*0001 GE*1*1 IEA*1*000000018

. . and arranges the data in an easy to read form which adds descriptive labels to the EDI codes.

So for example, it reads the ST*830 code as, "Planning Schedule with Release Capability", and finds the pack size as 96 from the code, PO4*1*96*X4.

The data can be viewed in several different formats: HTML (as shown above); Text; Hex; or XML:

A full professional version can be purchased.

ClipX - free clipboard manager

ClipX is a handy little clipboard manager designed by Francis Gastellu and made available on his Blue Mars site. The free download allows you to save multiple clipboard copies and search through them.

After it's run, ClipX will appear in your system tray as a small clipboard icon.

Right clicking on the icon will bring up a small menu that will allow you to either scroll through the clipboard contents (viewing both text and thumbnails of images):

. . . search for text in multiple clipboard copies:

. . . and manage clipboard copies by editing or combining them.

ClipX can be configured to hold up to 1024 clipboard entries. Don't miss the option to add a hot key to paste the second to last entry on the clipboard.

Note that there is x86 (32 bit version) and a x64 (64 bit version) available.