Easily remember folders with Rainbow Folders

Imagine if you could set different color to different folders to select the one you want from a huge pile of folders. Rainbow Folders is a freeware which allows you to set custom colors to various any folder. You can easily color any folders to any color you want.

It will easily speed up your navigation among thousands of folders located on your hard drive. You could mark important folders as red, working folders as blue, music folders as well green. However, my color sense isn't that good.

Once a folder is colored, it is visible in every Explorer window, every open/save dialog and in every folder selection tree as seen in many programs. You can also set a custom tooltip to be displayed with the folder every time the mouse comes in focus. And it does works with Windows Vista as well.

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Using Gmail as a Drive in Windows

Gmail recently increased their storage space to a massive 4GB. This of course is nothing compared to the current storage capacity of the hard disk drives, but what if you could use Gmail as an online data storage facility? For an online storage facility, it can do wonders.
Most of the companies offering online storage charge some fees for their facility, and Gmail also offers a massive 400 Gigabytes of storage which would cost $500 per year. But most users like me will be happy to use that massive 4GB of online storage facility for free. You can even save your important files and backups on Gmail.

You can use the Gmail Drive Extension (which of course is a freeware) to use Gmail as a drive in Windows and instantly store and retrieve files from your Gmail account like it was a normal drive on your Windows.

I use it to backup important data, not as my main backup location but a secondary one. All files that are stored on the drive are accessible on the Gmail website as well which means it is also possible to store files that you work with on different computers.

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