Alice Dev Team: USBMate Software ($5)

Based in Novosibirsk, Russia, Alice Dev Team has incorporated its user-oriented approach of making easy-to-use yet efficient software solutions into USBMate.

USBMate is designed to protect user’s USB flash drives, external hard disks and flash memory cards from junk that eat up their storage space. Don’t let ‘erased’ files consume all the free space in user’s drives and memory cards. USBMate is a weapon to get rid of them. Users don’t even need any programming or system administration skills to use it. It allows user to get the most out of storage media.

When user erase files, they’re only moved to the trash. The data itself isn’t erased. Use USBMate and see how much free space really have left. Numerous features are included, such as: erasing temporary files left by Snow Leopard / Lion or Windows (.DS_Store, .Trashes, .Spotlight-V100, Thumbs.db, etc.), along with a functional anti-virus program. No complicated setup is required: install and go.

Every time USBMate is launched, the anti-virus automatically checks and purges the external drive or memory card’s contents of all AutoRun viruses. With its useful features, USBMate introduces a new way to optimize USB flash drives, external hard disks and flash memory cards. The user can avoid manual and boring tracking of junk which eats up storage space. This operation can now be performed with the click of a button.

With USBMate, the user can be assured that external storage media is optimized, clean and secure.

"Everything started from an idea to create a simple one-purpose application to optimize and accelerate the use of USB flash drives, external hard disks and flash memory cards on Mac computers which would be accessible to everyone, not only professionals, sysadmins and programmers. We researched what utility apps lacked, and found that most of them could be more personal and usable. They’re not perfectly suited as everyday apps. So we created USBMate our second application to bring user interface design perfection to the utilities category. USBMate is a simple, fast and fun tool to accelerate and optimize working with USB flash drives, external hard disks and flash memory cards on Macs’ a task that was once almost impossible," said Stanislav Kuptsov CEO, Alice Dev Team. "As a software solution, USBMate will satisfy any Mac user looking for truly effective and simple storage media optimization with a user-friendly and simple interface. It’s one of the most practical utility apps to use every day with Snow Leopard / Lion."