Review
This is a quick review
WhereIsIt is an application written for Windows operating systems, and designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs, audio CDs, diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, DVDs, or any other present or future storage media Windows can access as a drive.
The primary goal for WhereIsIt is to provide access to the contents of cataloged disks, even when they are not available on the system, or even not your own. You can browse their contents, search for items you need, use imported descriptions and thumbnails, and organize data using categories, flags etc.
WhereIsIt can be used to handle any kind of data, including downloaded programs, magazine CD-ROMs, music collections like MP3s or audio CDs, graphics collections, document backups, etc. WhereIsIt can handle lots of them, too, a couple hundreds or thousands disks in a catalog is nothing unusual, yet catalogs remain reasonably small, single-filed and easy to transfer or send to other users. You can also create more than one catalog, and at any time open and work with as many catalogs at once as needed.
WhereIsIt is easy to use for both beginners and advanced users. It features a familiar and well thought-out, Explorer-like user interface, combined with strong searching and reporting capabilities, massive archive file support (zip, arj, rar, ace, cab, lha/lzh, arc, tar, gzip, z, sfx, and others that can be presented in catalog as virtual folders), multi-language support, automated description and thumbnails importing through extendable plugins from more than 70 different sources, and much more.
The following full-length review applies to version 2.1
WhereIsIt is a piece of software that allows the user to create a categorized catalog of files and drives.
The application focuses on providing the user with an organized list or catalog, of the available and unavailable media files, consisting not only of information from your PCs hard drive, but also of remote file servers, CD’s, DVD’s and removable disks.
It’s a customizable and practical program, which allows you to create and work with more than one catalog at a time, these catalogs can handle any kind of information, from backup files to videos, and text documents, finally, and most important of all, is the capability WhereIsIt has to maintain organized a great number of disks and files per catalog, making of it a valuable tool for any company.
One of the strong points of the program is the number of plugins made available, and the multilingual capacity of the software, you can download and choose from lots of language files in order to make you feel more comfortable when using the application.
Plus, it’s highly customizable, not only thanks to the plugins, but also because it allows you to customize the font, toolbar, interface settings in general, colors, manage the size of the icons, you are also able to add description to the folders and drives, plus it features a catalog setup, and if you find these a bit too confusing, WhereIsIt includes a setup wizard to help you through the setup process. It truly is a unique program, it proves to be quite worthy as an organizer and file cataloger.
I generally point out the lack of an attractive interface as a detractor, but in this particular case, this is superfluous and unimportant since the features and potential make of WhereIsIt a 5 point program. |
