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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
