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.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
