Listary is an amazing software that augments your Windows experience with a number of useful features. In fact, once you start using Listary, it is difficult to fall back to vanilla Windows. While it promotes itself as a “Better and united file browsing experience for Windows” it often turns out to be more than just that.Listary as its name suggests has a lot to do with lists, in this case lists of files in an explorer window. One of the immediately-visible additions to Windows Explorer is a quick search bar toolbar that pops up when you start typing a file name. Normally when you have a folder open in Explorer that has hundreds of files, it is fastest to start typing the starting characters of the file’s name. So if you are looking for “SkypeSetup.exe”...

Facebook has been in the news a lot in the recent past. In fact, it has witnessed unprecedented growth in recent years and investors have evaluated it at close to $100 billion, as it goes public. We asked the Facebook team a few queries that we had. Here are their responses.A lot is being spoken about Facebook and Privacy. What are the measures undertaken by Facebook, to ensure that user privacy, and personal data is safeguarded under all circumstances. Recently, private pictures belonging to Mark Zuckerberg were hacked into. Could you elaborate on the vulnerability exploited and what were the measures undertaken to ensure protection?Security of our site is a top priority for Facebook, and we devote significant resources to helping people protect their accounts and information. We...

Windows Explorer gets the job done, but for most tasks it is too slow and clunky and is rather keyboard-unfriendly. If you are a heavy keyboard user, the kind of person who tries to remember all the shortcuts for an application so that there is little need to reach for the mouse, Proto is the perfect file manager for you.Proto aims for utter simplicity rather than showing overly rich and graphic icons. Right off when you launch it you see that it does away with the dual-pane layout most Explorer-replacements tout. It does support multiple tabs though, although that might not be apparent at first glance. Also rather than taking up most of the screen, it appears in its own small window that is dedicated almost entirely to content, since there is little chrome to speak of.Proto has more in...