Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
DoubleKiller: Today's Free File
by Marc Perton Oct 20th 2005 at 10:26PM
I recently migrated my music library from one machine and platform to another, and somehow ended up with multiple copies of many of my files. Blame it on a careless click or two in iTunes (as in selecting "Consolidate Music Library"), but I ended up with a hard-drive clogging collection of music. I dreaded the task of going through my folders and deleting the dupes, but knew it had to be done. So, I looked for a free way to do it, and found DoubleKiller. The program lets you define various characteristics of files to be considered dupes, such as size and creation date — useful if you have, say, several files called notes.txt that aren't dupes. Once running, it makes quick work of scanning your drive and offers one-click deletion (or moving, if your cautious) of dupes. A pro version adds a few features, but for most purposes, the free one gets the job done.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
