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Meld

Bob Johnson — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:59:10 +0000

Meld it’s small diff and merge tool (less than 1 MB) from Stephen Kennedy. These applications are assigned for visual identification differences in files, folders and merge them if it’s required.Visually interface of Meld is ascetical – means that there are only the most necessary functions available in the main window: file, edit, settings and help sections.There are a few indispensable buttons to make work with the program faster and helpful as it’s possible:• New comparison – dialog to choose objects for comparison either files or directories (you are able to open more than two files or directories and edit them in place dynamically);• Save – possibility to save comparison results then use it for your needs (edit, print etc.);• Redo and Undo – buttons to discard or return changes in comparison results;• Cursors Up and Down – allows to moving up and down between differences to make view and work with changes easier and demonstrable;• Stop – button to stop comparison.So there are no difficulties also for inexperienced user to start working with this program. Besides basically features of file and directory comparison Meld has very useful feature: browse and view a working copy from popular version control systems such as CVS, Subversion, Bazaarng and Mercurial etc.Also one of advantages is full i18n support it means that Meld adapted to different languages and regional differences – 18 stands for the number of letters are available to work with: bg, ca, cs, de, en_CA, en_GB, es, fr, hu, it, ja, ko, ne, nl, pa, pt, pt_BR, ru, rw, sr, sr@Latn, sv, vi, zh_CN, zh_TW. It’s very helpful because one of the problems of similar software is impossibility to work with international characters correctly. Meld is published by GPL license so it’s absolutely free. Currently this application is available for Linux and Mac platforms.

ViceVersa PRO 2 released

Bob Johnson — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:06:19 +0000

The new version has more features and benefits:

Redesigned User Interface. Various skins are available.

Full UNICODE Support.

Enhanced Reporting (summary report, errors logging, plus other reporting enhancements, including average bandwidth consumption and total copied/deleted/added bytes logging). New Status/Execution Summary windows are displayed after the job is completed. Preview window is also available.

Access open and locked files and databases, including Outlook, Quicken, etc. (Windows XP/2003 only).

New VVLauncher can be run as a Windows service, without users logged in.

New subfolder filters in the comparison window.

Improved encryption (with 256 bit support).

ExamDiff Pro version 4.0 Beta

Bob Johnson — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:13:39 +0000

ExamDiff Pro version 4.0 Beta has been released. The following changes have been added to the program:

- Ability to create and edit filter sets

- Name filter improvements: ability to disable filters and a new interface for editing filters

- Date and size filters in directory comparison

- “Filters” right-click menu in directory comparison

– Exclude Name

– Exclude Extension

– Exclude Relative Directory

– Not Older Than

– Not Larger Than

– Not Smaller Than

- Option to perform full comparison of selected files in directory comparison without performing a full re-compare

- Ability to copy text fragments including padding lines

- “Compare To…” in Shell extension

- Ability to use environment variables (e.g. %WINDIR%) in file names

- Ability to delete matching files in both directory comparison panes

- Option to ignore word separators embedded in quoted strings during file comparison

- Ability to view report files right after saving

- Separate “Use Plug-ins” options for file and directory comparison

- New command line options useful for merging in some version control tools:

– /sn1:file use this name when you save the first file

– /sn2:file use this name when you save the second file

- New command line option useful for comparison invoked from version control

– /nh do not add files or directories to comparison history

- Resizing with Shift key pressed to keep the center of the main window

- Ability to toggle Full File Comparison from the toolbar

- Improved difference navigation

- Improved toolbar button defaults

- Fix: incorrect directory comparison of files with mixed linebreak styles in Full File Comparison mode

- Fix: text selection was colored in Print/Print Preview

- Fix: plug-ins that converted files into directories (such as the Unzip plug-in) were not considered during directory comparison