Assign Letters Automatically to Files

Don't miss that Bulk Rename Utility can be used to assign letters to a set of files. In the Numbering section, click on the drop down menu for 'Type', which has 'Base 10 (Decimal)' as the default. Change the setting to 'A -Z'.

Set the 'Mode' to 'Prefix' and add a space in the 'Prefix' field in the 'Add' section. The utility will assign letters to the selected set of files:

Ultrasearch

JAM Software has a free utility called UltraSearch which is available for download here. UltraSearch is designed to search multiple directories on multiple drives for files and content. It does not create a searchable index, but instead uses the master file table of the Windows file management system.

I tested it out tonight, and I can attest to the fact that it gets much faster results for file type and file content searches than Windows Explorer or other utilities I have used.

RegEx searches can also be run in UltraSearch.

Translate any object

Well this isn’t the tip most relevant to litigation support that I have posted, but this is my fourth night on vacation in Spain so please be patient with me.

One of the neat things the Google Translate app does is to superimpose a translation into English over writing shown on some object you point your camera on.

So if you have a package like this and don’t know what it says:

. . . open the app, click on the camera icon, and then aim for a portion of the object where lines appear together in the frame. You will get a readable image like this: