Wednesday 21 November 2007

Replacement file manager - x-plore

I've just installed x-plore from Lonely Cat Games.
This is a replacement file manager for symbian devices. Initial impressions seem good; I just used it to delete a load of files from a folder on my phone by simply dragging the stylus down the side of them to "tick" them all in one go. The font used is also very small which I like personally as you can fit a lot more on the screen.
The main view is a tree view, similar to Windows Explorer for instance, which makes it very easy to navigate around. You can do the usual file operations (move, copy, delete, open) and also some great sounding extra features I have yet to try, such as packing files into a .zip (or opening), viewing Word documents, viewing system folders on the phone (o/s dependant) and more. The featurelist from their site is as follows:

  • View all drives / folders / files on phone in tree view *
  • Integrated text and image viewer
  • View file details
  • Edit file attriutes (hidder, read-only, etc)
  • Rename and delete files
  • Create or edit text files
  • Create folders
  • Multi-selection
  • Copy or move files and folders
  • Send files by Bluetooth or Infrared
  • Extract files from Zip, Rar, Jar archives
  • Pack files to Zip archive
  • View Word documents
  • Hardware device info
  • View processes and tasks **
  • Built-in program update
  • Viewing, saving files in Messaging folders
  • Hex viewer and editor
  • Search files
  • Folder hotkeys
The full version is $9.50 which isn't bad (in the UK, that equates to under a fiver) so I'll continue to play around with it and update the trial once I'm happy.

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