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Magic – Hide-Show Active Window

http://www.limenetworks.com/products.html 

This utility will allow you to hide the current active window. Works with all the major applications out there. You can hide Internet Explorer Windows, Chat Sessions, Word Documents, Image Viewer, etc. This utility runs in the background, so no one will ever know you have something to hide. 

Home Revision Management System- RMS Tool

http://downstairs.dnsalias.net/

Home Revision Management System (Home RMS) is a simple revision management tool that allows you to keep track of changes to a project, and can automatically backup the project folder each time, so that you have a full set of file revisions available.

Briefcase Plus – folder Sync utility

http://www.rekenwonder.com/brfcplus.htm

Briefcase Plus - is a utility for backing up and synchronizing collections of files on two different computers, just like the Windows Briefcase.
But in comparison to the Windows Briefcase, Briefcase Plus has the following advantages:

• only modified files are ported to the briefcase. The briefcase retains the last time it was updated, and loads only files that have been changed since that time.
• the briefcase contents are compressed. This lets you take 100% to 500% more data on a briefcase.
• the files you work on will always be on the local hard disk (and not on a floppy disk), and will only be copied to the briefcase when you load the briefcase. So accessing these files will be much faster.

RocketDock – application launcher

http://www.punksoftware.com/ 

RocketDock is an application launcher that hides along the edge of your screen and reveals an attractive, alpha blended and animated launchpad when you hover your mouse over the area. You can drag and drop shortcuts into RocketDock, assign custom icons and choose from different interface themes. The position of the menu can be customized along with the optional icon label font and auto-hide behavior. RocketDock includes more than a dozen skins and is also compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y`z Dock skins.

Pros: Drag and drop support; multi-monitor support; compatible with various skins; low resource usage

AlterWind Log Analyzer Lite – server log analyzer

http://www.alterwind.com/ 

AlterWind Log Analyzer Lite allows webmasters to quickly generate a basic report from the server log file(s). It includes general access statistics, as well as report for visited pages, referring sites, traffic flow, search phrases and more. The reports are presented in an easy to read browser display.

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ 

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX movies, picture postprocessing, and show subtitles. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project or for video decompression (it can use xvid.dll installed with xvid codec too), postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL´ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

Windows Desktop Search

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx

 
Windows Desktop Search helps increase your productivity by:

    * Helping users quickly find and retrieve e-mail messages, documents, and many other file types located on their PC and company network.

    * Providing a familiar, integrated, and convenient search experience for Windows users.

    * Working with other Microsoft search technologies such as Live Search and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007.

SWF2XMAL Flash files to XAML

http://www.mikeswanson.com/swf2xaml/ 

In my spare time, I've been working on a tool that converts Adobe/Macromedia Flash (.SWF) files to XAML. Unlike my Adobe Illustrator to XAML export plug-in that was implemented in native code, this tool is a fully managed code application (managed code rocks!). The current version of the tool allows you to directly open a SWF file and browse through its frames one by one. When you've found a frame that you like, you can either export a XAML file or copy the XAML to the clipboard for easy pasting into your tool of choice. The conversion isn't perfect, and there are many areas for improvement. For common cases, however, it should do the trick. 

WMI Asset Logger – Network 

http://johnjthomas.net/ 

WMI Asset Logger is a multifaceted utility that has the ability to return a great deal of information about windows based computer systems on your network, all from the convenience of your Windows XP workstation. WMI Asset Logger is also much more than that too, it is an administrator’s friend. Once you have scanned your network the true power of WMI Asset Logger comes out. Using the right-click speed menu enables you to quickly perform many tasks. Simply right-click on the desired host and choose Remote Control (initiate RDP Session), Remote Management Console, Install Software, View/Browse/Delete Shares, View/Start/Stop Processes on remote systems, and more. If you have administrative rights to a XP workstation, but the firewall is preventing you from getting results, simply right-click on the system and disable the XP firewall. Wait one minute, and rescan the system. (Don’t forget to re-enable that firewall!)

Tired of having client/server based tools that blue-screen remote hosts? Or tired of dealing with messy Logon scripts to gather important information? WMI Asset Logger does not require any client-side installations and is a stand alone application. WMI Asset Logger uses all the tools that already exist on your XP Workstation to perform its duties. These utilities are native to windows and are much more stable than any add-on could hope to be. WMI Asset Logger also monitors its own progress too, if a client system hangs up WMI Asset Logger and you have to terminate it, it will automatically blacklist the computer system that was being scanning when it was terminated.

Just need a down dirty quick inventory of NetBIOS -> IP -> MAC -> FQDN relationships? Not a problem, simply perform an IP Inventory using WMI Asset Logger. WMI Asset logger will blaze through a list of 2000 computer with impressive speeds, and will even return the IP Address of systems that are currently off-line, allowing you to determine if a system’s account may need to be deleted. (No IP information typically means the PC hasn’t been seen in the duration of a DHCP lease cycle).

You can enumerate a list of hosts to scan using the master browser list, or through the use of ADSI (Active Directory Server Interface). WMI Asset logger can also import text files as well as directly import DSQUERY COMPUTER text dumps too. And as a last resort an IP Ping Sweeper that will ping every IP Address that exists between any two addresses. WMI Asset Logger has the ability to save scans to Tab delimited text files, Straight to Microsoft Excel, or directly to your default printer. The TAB Delimited text files can be imported into almost any spreadsheet or database application like Microsoft Excel , Microsoft Access, or FoxPro Databases.

JeffJr is a general purpose multimedia queueing too

http://jeffjr.sourceforge.net/ 

JeffJr is a general purpose multimedia queueing tool that allows real-time triggering and mixing of multiple audio and video clips. It is aimed at presentations and live stage shows that involve complex multimedia manipulation: starting/stopping audio/video clips at specific points in the script, etc.

Instead of having a separate DVD player, a CD player and a paper cuesheet listing that requires a backstage technician to seek-start-stop the tracks (in addition to normal stage work such as controlling lighting and adjusting the sound at the mixing desk), JeffJr concentrates all these functions into a single program running from a computer.

With JeffJr, you can:

    * Insert any number of MP3, WAV or MIDI audio clips, MPEG, DivX or AVI video clips and JPEG, BMP, GIF and TIFF images into the clip library and set the default playback volume and other options for each of these files.
    * Trigger the playback of complex combinations of these clips by creating custom events. You can start/stop multiple video and audio clips at the same time and control them independently; fade-in/fade-out, automatically pause or loop a clip at specified cue markers, etc.
    * Edit your own web files and control the events via an easy-to-use web browser interface where events can be associated to clickable hyperlinks. Thus, the paper cuesheet and stage script become an electronic cuesheet that can be annotated and scrolled; events are started as easily as sufring the web.

On any computer with dual-screen capability, the control windows can be shown separately from the video display, thus allowing you complete control over multimedia playback without being restricted to mouse pointers or buttons appearing on the projection screen.

Wordpress Plugin:Edit N Place lets you edit your post inline

http://www.headzoo.com/editnplace 

Edit N Place lets you edit your post inline; meaning you can edit a post without going in to the WordPress admin panel.
The plugin now includes quicktag buttons like bold, italics, link, img, and more. If you have the plugins Ultimate Tag Warrior or Jerome's Keywords installed, you can also edit your tags.

HTML2POP3 – convert webmail to pop3 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/html2pop3/ 

Convert Webmail to POP3.Is also included a SMTP/POP3 tunneling system that allow send and receive email in a private network HTTP PROXY based. All connection are plugin based. Over 250 email server supported and tested

Wordpress Plugin: Filosofo Home-Page Control

http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/home-page-control 

Filosofo Home-Page Control is a WordPress plugin that lets you:    * put pages on the same Permalink level (or higher) as the blog’s directory and    * set which page you want to be the “home” page.
Why would I want to do that?

    * Let’s say you wanted to use WordPress as a Content Management System, or CMS. If your website is www.example.com, you might want a page with relatively static content (i.e. not your most recent blog posts) to greet your visitors when they load www.example.com.
    * One way to accomplish this is to add a file named home.php to your theme; automatically, WordPress will open that page as the home page. Instead, this plugin allows you to choose any of your existing pages to be the default homepage, without having to create a home.php file.
    * Something else you might want to do is make a sub-directory of your site, say “blog,” to be the home of your blog entries, while allowing other pages to be on the same level (or higher) as that of the blog directory. For example, in addition to www.example.com/blog, you might want something like www.example.com/about or www.example.com/my_pet_frogs. (Normally, if the blog resides in www.example.com/blog, pages would be under that directory, so that you would have www.example.com/blog/about instead of www.example.com/about.)

QuickDNS (Commandline) – for Analog log analyser

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/qdns.htm

    If you've used Analog, the webserver log analyzes tool (no relation to yours truly), then you know it rocks. One of the best features of Analog is it's speed, but it's not as fast as it could be – Enter AnalogX QuickDNS! The only slow spot in Analog is it's DNS lookup, which QuickDNS handles! Simply execute it before you run Analog, and it will do all of the DNS work for it, and it even uses the same config file! At it's default setting it's about 100x faster than Analog (ie, it runs 100 simultaneous queries), so you'll notice a performance increase right off the bat. It also handles all of the DNS work that Analog normally does as well (rechecking valid and invalid links after a certain amount of time). Simple to use, small, and free, so download it now and start loggin'!

Report Magic – statistics from your web site log file analysis

http://www.reportmagic.org/

Report Magic makes usable statistics from your web site log file analysis. You have questions about your web site:

• Where are my visitors coming from?
• What search words and engines do my visitors use?
• Are there peak traffic times? Are there slow seasons?
• What browsers are my visitors using?
• What operating systems do my visitors run?
• Are there broken links on my site or other sites that link to mine?
• Which pages do visitors request the most?
• What ISP's or companies do my visitors connect from?

Analog – the most popular logfile analyser in the world

http://www.analog.cx/

Analog shows you the usage patterns on your web server. It's

• Ultra-fast
• Scalable
• Highly configurable
• Reports in 32 languages
• Works on any operating system
• Free software

Sothink SWF Catcher for IE – extract Flash movies from web pages

http://www.sothink.com/

Sothink SWF Catcher for IE adds a button to the IE toolbar, that enables you to extract and save selected Flash animations from the current browser page. It includes a preview of the Flash movies and options to save all movies to a specified folder.

Launchy – keystroke application Launcher-emulate vista 

http://www.launchy.net/ 

Vista's new Start menu lets you hit the Windows key, type a few letters until a match to your application of choice is discovered, and then press for a quick launch.

If that sounds easier than digging through the Start menus and submenus and you don't want Vista right now (or you have Vista but want the Classic Start menu), check out Launchy, open-source software from Josh Karlin. Launchy stays out of your way (invisible), until you press – (or other hotkey combination you choose). A small, skinnable command-line window appears, and when you type a few letters, Launchy anticipates your target file and displays it (and other alternatives).

As soon as the file you want appears in the window, just press . Launchy lets you customize the directories searched as well as the file types launched (so you can use it to open pictures or music files, for example, not just applications). All this and it's free!

AlfaClock Free Edition enhances your taskbar clock

http://www.alfasoftweb.com/alfaclock/

AlfaClock has quite a few of extra features that other taskbar clocks don't have. Like copy time/date to clipboard feature. Or afully customizable pop-up calendar. Created to ISO8601 specifications, it allows you to change the first day of the week, highlight weekends and holidays. AlfaClock takes very little system resources and is fully compatible with all Windows versions – Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.

Bandwidth Controller Personal Edition – Monitor and limit bandwidth usage

http://bandwidthcontroller.com/download.html

Bandwidth Controller Personal Edition enables you to monitor and limit bandwidth usage on your computer or local network. You can create rules for upload and download activities and limit the bandwidth usage to X bytes/sec with the option to further filter the rule by local or remote IP address. The program also includes a real-time traffic monitor with detailed statistics for each ongoing upload or download. Bandwidth Controller Personal Edition is limited to the TCP protocol.

Wireless Client Update – prevent advertising the wireless networks kb917021

This article describes the Wireless Client Update for 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2.

This update enhances support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) options in Wireless Group Policy. This update helps prevent a Windows wireless client from advertising the wireless networks in its preferred networks list.

Kdiff3 – compare line by line text files 

http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/

    * compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
    * shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
    * provides an automatic merge-facility and
    * an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
    * supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM"
    * supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
    * Printing of differences,
    * Manual alignment of lines,
    * Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
    * and has an intuitive graphical user interface.
    * Windows-Explorer integration Diff-Ext-for-KDiff3 – shell extension included in installer (originally by Sergey Zorin: see also Diff Ext)
    * Read what else is special in a short abstract (PDF).
 

phpMyEdit generates PHP code for displaying/editing MySQL tables in HTML

http://www.phpmyedit.org/ 

phpMyEdit generates PHP code for displaying/editing MySQL tables in HTML. All you need to do is to write a simple calling program (a utility to do this is included). It includes a huge set of table manipulation functions (record addition, change, view, copy, and removal), table sorting, filtering, table lookups, and more.

Fact Sheet

    * phpMyEdit is a popular open source application with hundreds of downloads each week
    * phpMyEdit is probably the fastest, most convenient way to generate forms to interact with a MySQL database
    * phpMyEdit based forms are highly configurable, and ideal for an administrative interface
    * phpMyEdit is a basic component of several complex information systems

CrossLoop – Simple Secure Screen Sharing

http://www.crossloop.com/

# Connect Any Two PCs on Earth
# Simple, Easy-To-Use Interface
# Available in 21 LanguagesNew!
# Works through Firewalls and NAT
# Secure Screen Sharing in under Sixty Seconds

What is CrossLoop?

Remote Control using VNC,

CrossLoop is a FREE secure screen sharing utility designed for people of all technical skill levels. CrossLoop extends the boundaries of VNC’s traditional screen sharing by enabling non-technical users to get connected from anywhere on the Internet in seconds without changing any firewall or router settings. It only takes a few minutes to setup and no signup is required

FeedBeast  – RSS Feed Reader

http://www.feedbeast.com/

FeedBeast is a free, professional-quality RSS reader for Windows built upon a fast-performing SQL database engine. It has a simple and intuitive user interface with many great enhancements to make your daily RSS interactions smooth and enjoyable and with just the right amount of options to give you what you want without overwhelming you with page after page of settings. In fact, it runs right out of the box with no configuration required!