Soft82.com » Windows » Utilities » File & Disk Management » Nomad.NET 2.2.0.537 Beta

View screenshots

Nomad.NET Description

Nomad.NET is the successor of Nomad, a powerful file manager written a couple of years ago

Nomad.NET is the successor of Nomad, a powerful file manager written by me a couple of years ago. It is completely rewritten (no single line of code was taken from previous Nomad) using best ideas and algorithms and implementing everything in a completely new way.
Background

Several years ago I changed my employer and moved to Microsoft new technology called ".Net". For better understanding of many hidden areas, techniques and classes from new framework I started to write small simple applications that did what I knew the best - how to work with OS in file manager way. When I had dozens of such simple applications an idea to completely rewrite old Nomad on new framework had come. So in August 2006 the work began.
Current project state

Almost all features from original Nomad are implemented in a new way, more powerful and simple. Many new features were introduced too. Some features that I had not used in previous Nomad were dropped (for example custom toolbars support, and toolbars at all).

New Nomad was developed with multi threading in mind, so almost all long operations can take advantage of multi-core cpu (comparing, copying, searching, detecting archive format and so on - too many to list them all here).

I do not want to create all-in-one mega monster that plays mp3, shows movies, etc, as many other file managers do. My goal is to build only good file manager functionality. For other purposes there are dedicated programs that always do things better than such jack-of-all-trades programs.
Features

As for features of original Nomad, you can take a look at them on appropriate page. Here I describe the features that are significantly changed or just are new:

* One of the most powerful search engines on market (if I can say market, project is freeware). You can create very complex search rules, with ability to search in different encoding (complete encodings auto detect), use IFilter filters, apply custom text search rules (including regular expressions), search in hex, duplicates search and so on... For novices there is a simplified search that is not so scary at first sight.
* Powerful filtering system, based on the same core as search. You can use dedicated advanced filter dialog, or use simple toolstrip for quick filtering.
* Folder shortcuts were implemented in much more simple way that its predecessor.
* Much simpler, elegant and polished UI (program must look nice, right?) with support of themes, different toolstrip renderers and so on...
* Program layout was changed, too. You can use single panel or dual panel mode (horizontal or vertical). Each panel can have its own tree view that can be hidden or displayed horizontally or vertically.
* UI can simple scale according to your current system DPI settings, or manually (through Options).
* New breadcrumb folder toolstrip on every panel is much more powerful than simple folder name.
* Internal support for more archive types (using 7-Zip libraries). Program can also handle WCX Total Commander plug-in, even in more powerful way than Total Commander did. Currently only extracting is supported, no ability to create or modify them.
* FTP folders support added (with limitations yet, for example, only one http proxy allowed with no UI to configure).
* Many things were done more correctly - drag'n'drop from explorer, clipboard handling, shell file menus and so on.
* Support for shell shortcuts, url shortcuts (ftp only) and even shell folder shortcuts (rarely supported in other file managers).

As you can see, the main idea of new Nomad.NET is to do the same things in more correct and beautiful way.
Roadmap

I have no accurate roadmap as soon as the project is being made at my free time (and takes practically all this time). Current version is Beta 1 and right now it is very stable and have almost all planed features for the first version.

Features planned for future versions (you can email me if you have any good ideas):

* Ability to create new archives for primary formats 7-Zip, Zip, Tar. Wcx packing plug-ins support.
* Better FTP folders handling (support for more server types and proxies). Maybe secure FTP support.
* Support for custom item properties (EXIF, IDv2, meta tags, etc). Display such properties and search in them.
* Basic image preview and maybe thumbnail mode.
* Help (very low priority, I have neither time, nor desire to do this). It is not a big deal for advanced users. As for novice ones, the application has a lot of hints and infotips with feature descriptions.

Features already implemented:

* External tools feature (ability to call other programs from Nomad.NET with various command line arguments).
* Language translation (at this moment Russian and Belarusian translations exist)

Nomad.NET Version History

Nomad.NET Download Button For Your Site

If you want to place a Download Button for Nomad.NET on your website just insert the following code:

If you want a Link to this page you can use one of the logos bellow:

Nomad.NET User Reviews

New File & Disk Management Software

totalem May 28, 2012 Free file manager for Windows Vista and above				Wipe Free Space GUI May 24, 2012 A program which will securely wipe the free space on an ext2, ext3, ext4, NTFS, XFS, ReiserFSv3
Fishery Simulation May 24, 2012 Speed up the bootstrap process by typing in the directory				FindOnClick May 23, 2012 Search for files on any NTFS or FAT (FAT 12, 16, 32)
MultiHasher Portable May 23, 2012 A freeware file hash calculator				Mass Folder Manager Suite May 22, 2012 Automatically copy/delete/rename/create multiple folders or folder structures
Permanently Delete Files From Computer Software May 22, 2012 Permanently delete files so that they cannot be recovered using forensic methods				List The Contents Of Multiple Zip Files and Save As Text File Software May 22, 2012 A solution for users who want to create lists of the contents of one or more ZIP files
File Lock Professional May 21, 2012 A innovative file encryption software program that can password protect and hide files				DiskSavvy Ultimate May 21, 2012 DiskSavvy is a powerful, fast and easy-to-use disk space analyzer utility
Altarsoft Disk Cleaner May 21, 2012 Program for cleaning system from junk files and invalid registry entries				All File Renamer May 21, 2012 Rename files and folders in batch mode
Attribute Changer May 21, 2012 Attribute Changer allows you to easily change attributes for single or multiple files and folders				File Monitor Lite May 21, 2012 Monitor one or more files in a directory
CHM OwnerGuard May 18, 2012 A Security, DRM, Copy Protection, Licensing, Watermarking and Distribution Management solution				Auslogics Disk Defrag Portable May 18, 2012 Auslogics Disk Defrag Portable is designed for running directly from a USB drive wherever you need
Auslogics Disk Defrag May 18, 2012 Auslogics Disk Defrag - get the maximum out of your hard drive performance				Reg Organizer May 18, 2012 Extensive and extremely powerful set of effective Registry management tools
WinNc May 18, 2012 A tabbed file manager for Windows				Vee-Hive May 18, 2012 A tool for managing and organising your downloaded video files

Last 7 Days Most Downloaded File & Disk Management Products

Norton PartitionMagic 268 downloads It's easy to organize your hard drive.				HDClone Professional Edition 110 downloads moves or clones the content of hard disks on a physical level
WinMount 57 downloads Mount ZIP RAR ISO file to a new drive,so you can use files included directly				Supercopier 50 downloads Replaces Windows explorer file copy and adds many features
BootMaster Rescue Disk for Windows 40 downloads Partition recovery plus NTFS/FAT file undelete & data recovery for Windows				TeraCopy 40 downloads TeraCopy is a free utility designed to copy/move files faster and more secure
HDD Regenerator 39 downloads HDD Regenerator repairs bad sectors on hard drive surface				Yahoo Messenger Keylogger 37 downloads Yahoo messenger spy software allows you to monitor and record keystrokes
Microsoft Word Repair 32 downloads Word repair software to repair corrupt word files and recover data from them.				Where Is It? Portable 27 downloads Designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection

All Time Most Downloaded File & Disk Management Products

Norton PartitionMagic 220,952 downloads It's easy to organize your hard drive.				HDClone Professional Edition 30,103 downloads moves or clones the content of hard disks on a physical level
WinMount 21,661 downloads Mount ZIP RAR ISO file to a new drive,so you can use files included directly				Supercopier 10,191 downloads Replaces Windows explorer file copy and adds many features
BootMaster Rescue Disk for Windows 2,777 downloads Partition recovery plus NTFS/FAT file undelete & data recovery for Windows				TeraCopy 7,393 downloads TeraCopy is a free utility designed to copy/move files faster and more secure
HDD Regenerator 7,178 downloads HDD Regenerator repairs bad sectors on hard drive surface				Yahoo Messenger Keylogger 9,011 downloads Yahoo messenger spy software allows you to monitor and record keystrokes
Microsoft Word Repair 8,709 downloads Word repair software to repair corrupt word files and recover data from them.				Where Is It? Portable 1,992 downloads Designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection