| Anyone who's spent enough time with a computer | | | | tasks become a lot more streamlined, you'll find |
| knows how much they have to meddle around with | | | | yourself opening fewer applications (like you can put |
| files. Everything boils down to storing things in files, | | | | your FTP client away for good), and your life will be a |
| sorting them, organizing them - no sooner than you | | | | great deal more organized. So what software really |
| have spent a few minutes at "real work", that you | | | | cuts it when it comes to being a file manager on |
| need to look something up, or find something - and of | | | | steroids? |
| course what you need is going to be a file tucked | | | | If you are on Windows, Power Desk Pro can definitely |
| away in the deepest recesses of your hard disk. It's | | | | serve as an answer to that question. It handles |
| time to get Power Desk. | | | | synchronization of folders across computers like |
| The mess just gets worse when you have a copy of | | | | magic. PowerDesk lets you login to your folders via |
| a folder over on another, remote computer. Everyone | | | | FTP as seamlessly as you would access "My |
| who has been in this situation can vouch for having | | | | Documents". It understands and recognizes well over |
| used a bad word at least once every time they have | | | | 150 different file formats, so you spend far less time |
| to deal with such a folder! That's because the files | | | | figuring out what's the best application to open that |
| tend to get updated in a completely ad-hoc way, and | | | | strange looking.ogg file. |
| you often have no way of knowing which one is the | | | | What's more, search gets more powerful than ever |
| latest version of a particular file. If this sounds like a | | | | inside Power Desk Pro. It doesn't matter which corder |
| familiar situation, then it's time to introduce yourself to | | | | of your hard disk you crammed that crucial file into - if |
| remote folder synchronization - a mechanism to | | | | you remember anything about it at all, rest assured |
| update ALL copies of a file that you make any | | | | that Power Desk Pro will find it for you. Also keep |
| changes whatsoever to! Sounds heavenly? Well, the | | | | track of how much space your files are taking up with |
| good news is that it's possible to do! | | | | detailed visual representations that are comprehensive |
| Also, if you ever work on a remote location that you | | | | and unlike anything you might have seen so far. |
| frequently FTP into, you know what a regular pain it | | | | There isn't nearly enough space to really get into all the |
| can be to use your unintuitive and often boring FTP | | | | coolness that an advanced file manager such as |
| client to perform all your transactions! Imagine if your | | | | Power Desk Pro will have to offer. But one thing |
| default file manager could open your remote FTP | | | | should really be clear - if you want to reclaim the time |
| location just as if it was another folder on your | | | | that you spend hunting for stuff, and opening and |
| computer... too cool to be true? But entirely possible! | | | | closing applications for the tiniest things, and pulling out |
| What is clear is that your default file manager isn't | | | | hair over a million different versions of the same file |
| quite up to the task. A power user certainly needs | | | | across five computers - it's high time that you started |
| more packed into his file manager - it is such a basic | | | | looking beyond Windows Explorer as your file |
| device that we sometimes take it for granted. With an | | | | manager. |
| advanced file manager that does more for you, your | | | | |