Create Shortcuts to Your Most Used Folders with MedalFolders

FARR – Launch Your Apps & Find Your Files Quickly

Hit a key combination, type in a few characters and up comes Firefox. Onlookers think its magic, but you know you have installed a program launcher. Launchers are all the more useful for quickly opening commonly-accessed files, launch applications or when you are like us and your installed programs list fails to fit on the screen!

I had been using launchy as my preferred program launcher for quite some time, until I found FARR. FARR stands for “Find and Run Robot”, a program-launcher in simple english. However, it has some neat tricks and a truck-load of options up its sleeve. Let’s take a look.

You can install and download FARR from donationcoder. The program is absolutely free for use, however the developers want you to visit the site so they give away a free license key that you might want to enter by clicking on About from the system tray menu.
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Create Shortcuts to Your Most Used Folders with MedalFolders

I get frustrated from time to time when I have to navigate to the same directories over and over again. I have lots of different folders for lots of different jobs and functions. So it would be awesome for me to have a link to all of them that I could bring up with a click or two. Mapped drives are OK but I still need to open My Computer and navigate to them. I found a great solution to create shortcuts, and it is called MedalFolders.

The download is a little less than 3MB and the memory footprint on this bad boy uses about 12MB of memory. Can you spare 12MB to make your life easier? I sure can!

Now let’s take a look at how it works and how it can create shortcuts and save you some time. First you need to download and install the application from the above link. You will run through the normal barrage of next, next, and a little more nexting. Finally hit finish and we can get started. [Read more...]

FARR – Launch Your Apps & Find Your Files Quickly