Slimstat is easy to read/use even for someone from outside of tech world, is very light for browser, user friendly, can be installed on any kind of platform, no matter if you’re using WordPress, Joomla, Modx or other content management system or if you have just a simple , static or not, website. I love it and yet my sister can’t live one single day without taking a look on her photo blog Slimstat statistics.

The installation process is quite simple, all you have to do is to follow close all of these steps and do have access to your cPanel/ftp account. Stay close and read this guide for installing Slimstat:

Preparation phase:

Open up your website cPanel and create a new database especially for Slimstat. Save all data for later on, for the Slimstat installation. Here an easy guide to create a new database using cPanel – check the 3rd step. Now that you have already creating the database wich will be used by Slimstat let’s go to the installation guide.

1. Extract the files from the zip archive and upload the entire slimstat directory to your server. E.g. http://www.example.com/slimstat/.

2. Open up http://www.example.com/slimstat/ in the web browser and follow the instructions displayed on the screen to connect slimStat to its database. Make sure you’re using exactly the same data you used for creating the database!

3. Add this line of JavaScript to your site’s HTML code, in the header section:

4. That’s it. Load http://www.example.com/slimstat/ in your web browser and start monitoring your website’s users with Slimstat statistics!

After a while I’ve discovered googling that the solution is a free Winamp plugin which is giving you the chance to drag-and-drop with right-click the songs, to copy all the mp3 files to a folder, from Winamp playlist to your preferred location; it can be to Nero windows if you’re thinking to burn a CD/DVD with these sons or maybe just to copy it into a new director on HDD.

The Winamp plugin is Drag ‘n Drop from Playlist Editor.
I’m sure you’ll find it as interesting I’ve found it myself :) Just think of a playlist using hundreds of songs from all over the HDD, lots of Windows directories… and different hard disk partitions.

PS. the plugin requires Winamp 5.3 or later

So, why is this software such a precious?
Let’s just assume that you have hundreds or even thousands of pictures on you computer. A part of this pictures you’re sending to your friends over the internet and you duplicate and resize this pictures in order to sent them. After a while your computer will be full of duplicate pictures (as it was my PC).

Or, maybe you are a big music listener. You will have tons of mp3s, a part of them in two or more places on your computer, as duplicates. To delete manual all this junk is a big pain. The only solution is to use a tool and DupeTrasher is it’s doing a great job cleaning your HDD for duplicates.

What is DupeTrasher actually doing?
DupeTrasher is searching on your HDD for duplicates. Once the search process is done you can let DupeTrasher to remove automatically the duplicated files/directories/archives or you can select them manually.

I had chosen the automatic method and the results were impressive – almost 9 GB of duplicates were founded and removed from my HDD, most of them pictures but a few movies and dozens of mp3s too. Of course you can use a free tool to do this but I have found very hard or, to be sincerely, impossible, to find a good free software to remove safely the duplicate files, and anyway what I found didn’t removed the directories which contained that files too.

What can I say more? I am really impressed about the performances of this small piece of software. For all of you interested in removing the duplicates from your computer I recommend that you check this duplicate file finder – DupeTrasher.