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Download Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.4, Now Compatible With Ubuntu 13.04

| Date: April 25, 2013 | View Comments | Tags: clean, tweak, ubuntu, ubuntu tweak

Ubuntu Tweak, the popular tool that besides tweaking lets you easily install various applications that aren't available in the Ubuntu repositories, clean the apps / system cache and more, has been updated today, bringing support for the latest Ubuntu 13.04 along with some bug fixes.

Mechanig: Tool To Easily Perform Various Cleaning (And More) Tasks In Ubuntu

| Date: January 28, 2011 | View Comments | Tags: clean, linux, ubuntu

Mechanig

WebUpd8 reader Georgi Karavasilev, inspired by our own Y PPA Manager, has created a GUI tool called Mechanig which you can use to refresh the repositories, upgrade packages, clean leftover .deb and unnecessary packages and more.

Keep Your Desktop Clean With Directory Cleaner And Files Organizer

| Date: November 22, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: bash, clean, linux, organize, script, ubuntu

Directory cleaner and files organizer

In my search for a clean Desktop (because I got tired of cleaning it manually), I came across "Directory cleaner and files organizer", a script (with Zenity for a GUI) that automatically cleans any directory (and thus the Desktop folder) by moving the files to various folders such as all the pictures into ~/Pictures, the archives into ~/Archives, documents into ~/Documents and so on.

The script recognizes more than 470 extensions and the directories where it moves the files can be customized in the settings. Also, I'm using it for organizing my Desktop but you can use it for any other folder such as the ~/Downloads folder and so on.

Directory cleaner and files organizer has 2 options for cleaning: "Start-Cleaning" which moves all the files in the selected directory to the directories you've set in its settings, overwriting any existing files, and "Advanced-Cleaning" which is a smart way of moving the files:

BleachBit 0.7.4 Released

| Date: April 15, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: BleachBit, clean, linux, ubuntu

bleachbit 0.7.4

BleachBit is an application which deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space and maintain privacy. Think of it as a CCleaner but which runs on Linux too (BleachBit works on both Windows and Linux).


BleachBit 0.7.4 was released today, brining the following changes:

  • BleachBit cleans its own settings for privacy
  • Use EIC binary prefixes (1KiB=1000 bytes)
  • Add Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) package
  • Clean WordPad
  • Shrink Windows installer by 500KiB
  • Fix many bugs

Download BleachBit 0.7.4 (binaries available for Windows, Linux - including Ubuntu .deb files and source files).

Download BleachBit 0.6.5 Beta [Linux & Windows]

| Date: September 27, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: BleachBit, clean, linux, ubuntu, windows

BleachBit, the open-source CCleaner alternative needs your help for testing version 0.6.5. I'm already using it and find it very stable.

About BleachBit

bleachbit 0.6.5 betaBleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean over 50 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more.

Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.

It works on both Windows and Linux, it's open source and now portable.


Delete Duplicate Files On Your Windows System With Freeware Application Duplicate Cleaner

| Date: September 08, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: clean, software, windows

duplicate cleaner windows freewareDuplicate Cleaner is a very easy to use freeware Windows application which tries to find and delete duplicate files on your computer. You just have to select the drive or folder you want to analyze and after a few seconds, Duplicate Cleaner lists all the duplicate files it finds. The files are ordered by the place where they were found and you can completely remove them with just a click.

In the options you can choose which method to use when comparing files, like: size, date, type, etc.

Duplicate Cleaner features:

* The fastest way to find duplicate files
* Award Winning
* Deep scan music formats - MP3, M4A, M4P, WMA, FLAC, OGG, APE, etc
* Delete, move or hard link duplicate files. Save disc space!
* Multiple language support.
* For Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Win 7.
* Duplicate Cleaner is Freeware!

Duplicate Cleaner works on Windows 98,ME,2000,XP, Vista and you can download it from HERE.

Delete Unnecessary / Temporary Files in Linux with BleachBit

| Date: May 06, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: BleachBit, clean, linux, software, ubuntu



BleachBit is a Linux application that allows us to free up disk space, deleting unnecessary files that are either orphaned, temporary files or cookies, internet history, menu entries broken, etc.. and also helps to protect our privacy. It wipes clean Adobe Reader, APT, Bash, Beagle, Chromium, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, Second Life viewer, Skype, VIM, XChat, Yum, and more.

BleachBit comes with pre-build packages for Ubuntu and Debian -. DEB and Fedora, CentOS, Mandriva, RHEL, SLES, SLE and openSUSE - .RPM and you can also download the source files. Head over to the download page and choose your desired package.
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