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DocShield monitors and backs up changed files, restore previous copies

DocShield
Looking for a free application that will automatically save backups of your important documents which you can retrieve if something goes horribly wrong with your term paper, business report, or terribly important letter to your friend in Nigeria who has a proposition for you? DocShield will scan a folder for changed files at regular intervals and save copies to an archive. If you want to restore a previous version, just right click on the file in the DocShield interface and select View to get a list of earlier versions. You can open old copies of your document or save them as new files.

DocShield is a free Windows application. You can pay for a license, but the licensed version doesn't add any functionality, just a license number. In many ways, DocShield works just like FileHamster, a similar app we covered last year. But DocShield does a few things FileHamster won't, like backing up files to an FTP site. There's also a DocShield USB utility which lets you carry a portable version of your backups on a USB flash drive.

[via Freeware Genius]

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

FileHamster: real time backup and version tracking

FileHamster
Ever wish you had more than just a saved copy of every important document you've ever worked on? Like a copy of every set of revisions you've made to that document?

FileHamster is a free utility that performs automatic backups of any directory you select. It also keeps track of any revisions you've made. You can insert comments with each version and go back to previous versions of your work.

It looks like the program was designed with artists in mind, but it should work with any files that you regularly update. There are also a number of plugins for storing your backups in a Zip file, providing a log of your backups, or adding detailed notes for each revision.

[via lifehacker]

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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