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psake -build automation tool written in PowerShell

http://www.jameskovacs.com/blog/IntroducingPsake.aspx

psake is a build automation tool written in PowerShell. It avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML by leveraging the PowerShell syntax in your build scripts. psake has a syntax inspired by rake (aka make in Ruby) and bake (aka make in Boo), but is easier to script because it leverages your existent command-line knowledge.

psake is pronounced sake – as in Japanese rice wine. It does NOT rhyme with make, bake, or rake.

psake is a proof-of-concept still in the early stages of development. It consists of a single file, psake.ps1, which contains all the logic for creating a graph of dependent tasks and executing them in the correct order. You can download it from Google Code using Subversion or TortoiseSVN:

svn checkout http://psake.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ psake-read-only

EasyDiagram.NET 1.3 BETA

http://www.EasyDiagram.net

A custom composite control using pure AJAX and Javascript to provide real-time diagram and flowcharting to your asp.net 2.0 pages. Unlike most commercial products that I've seen, EasyDiagram.NET offers a smooth real-time redrawing of node hierarchy.

EasyDiagram.NET can be imported into your toolbox for use on your webforms. The component is 100% C# and implements ICallBackEventHandler for AJAX processing.

Finally, with the beta release of EasyDiagram.NET, the control should be usable with minimal effort. I understand that more documentation is needed, and it is forthcoming.

SUPERAntiSpyware-remove ALL the Spyware

http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html

SUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough AntiSpyware scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones!

3 Way Percentage Calculator

http://www.hypersolutions.in/product/3wpc.html

A nice freeware which Calculates the value in 3 ways. You can also set the number of digits after decimal point.

Any Wallpaper-automatically change wallpaper

http://www.anyutils.com/

Want to get rid of your ever boring desktop? Yes, you can have a new wallpaper experience now! This small and simple program scans wallpaper folders and change wallpapers at your desired frequency.

It's time to make a change – and Any Wallpaper can do it for you.

CopyWipe- copying or securely overwriting Hard Drive

http://drive-image-backup.com/copywipe.php

CopyWipe is a utility for copying or securely overwriting (wiping/erasing) entire hard drives. CopyWipe can ease and expedite the transition to a new hard drive by copying the entire contents of one drive to another. CopyWipe can also help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered, by securely wiping the contents of a drive. A number of options are provided for wiping, most of which exceed governmental standards (such as DoD 5220.22-M, NAVSO P-5239-26, etc.); this allows the user to choose an optimal balance between security and duration of the wiping operation.A USB 2.0-to-IDE adapter, along with CopyWipe, provides a convenient method to create and maintain a complete hard drive mirrored backup. Click here for an example of a USB 2.0-to-IDE adapter and here for another.

Query Express-query tool for MSDE and SQL Express

http://www.albahari.com/queryexpress.html

Query Express is a simple Query Analyzer look-alike, but being small and free it can be run where the SQL Server client tools are not installed or licensed. This makes it especially useful as a query tool for MSDE and SQL Express. It also connects to Oracle and other OLE-DB compliant databases.Query Express requires no installation and is packaged as a single 100KB executable. This is more than 300 times smaller than SQL Server Management Studio!Query Express Screenshot. Query Express is ideal for those not yet ready for the LINQ Challenge.Query Express has a fully permissive free license with no conditions attached. Full source code is included, which you can use in commercial software. Compatible with the .NET Framework versions 1.1, 2.0 and above—no additional downloads are required if you have Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista.

Bat To Exe Converter

http://www.f2ko.de/English/b2e/index.php

Bat To Exe-Converter converts your batch-script files to exe files.

ProcessQuickLink-process information in task manager

http://www.processlibrary.com/quicklink/

As many as 20 to 30 processes may be running invisibly, silently in the background on your PC. Some hog system resources, drastically slowing down your computer. Others are a threat to security and privacy. A few may be harmless.

The Windows Task Manager displays most of these processes but you have no information to learn and understand what is what.

Get the latest definitions and exhaustive advice on all the processes running on directly in the Windows Task Manager by downloading the QuickLink InfoBar from ProcessLibrary.com.

Easy Time Logs Free Edition

http://www.easytimelogs.com/etlfree.asp

Easy Time Logs Free Edition is Easy Trinity’s entry level Time and Project Management solution for individuals; it brings you easy-to-use interface and all essential tools. Easy Time Logs Free Edition allows professionals to organize your time spent for multiple clients and projects. Our Easy Time Logs Free Edition is so effortless to set up and use that it allows you to implement your time sheets application with little time and no money spent on the software.

Easy Time Logs Free Edition is Web-based software application so all this is available from any computer in a world; all you need is Internet connection available on that PC!

Easy Time Logs Free Edition comes with user friendly web interface and is secured with your password protection feature.

With all the features needed to handle your time spent for your clients and projects, Easy Time Logs Free Edition also comes with billing module to make your business EASY!

Incollector- tag based Information collector

http://www.incollector.devnull.pl/

Incollector is an application to collect various kinds of information (like notes, conversation logs, quotes, serial numbers, source code, web addresses, words). All the entries can be tagged, so you can find them very easily. There are also search folders which allows you to search for entries by specified criteria. You can also export (and import, of course) entries to an external file.

QuickPHP – PHP Tester and Debugger 

http://www.zachsaw.co.cc/?pg=quickphp_php_tester_debugger

# Freeware
# A PHP development web server
# The PHP version of Microsoft Visual Studio's ASP.NET Development Server
# Extremely lightweight in both disk space (file size) and memory footprint
# An empty WinForms .NET application uses more memory than this web server!
# Ideal for quickly testing your website locally
# Without the hassle of converting your machine into a web server
# Runs as a standalone application
# Serves HTML and PHP files
# Tested with PHPBB3 – from installation to a fully running forum
# Purely Win32 application – does NOT require .NET framework
# No installation required!
# Simply unzip into a random folder and run!

PDFsharp – A .NET library for processing PDF

http://www.pdfsharp.com/PDFsharp/

Welcome to PDFsharpPDFsharp is the Open Source library that easily creates PDF documents from any .NET language.The same drawing routines can be used to create PDF documents, draw on the screen, or send output to any printer.

It can use either GDI+ or WPF.

It includes support for Unicode in PDF files.

It also includes MigraDoc Lite which brings you all the high-level functionality not included in PDFsharp.

Version 1.20 demonstrates how to mix PDFsharp and MigraDoc Lite to create sophisticated documents.

PowerShell Pages-PowerShell in ASP.NET

http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellPages

PowerShell Pages is an ASP like language, based on the PowerShell runtime. Using a simple HTTP Handler, ASP.NET can render pages scripted using PowerShell script (including cmdlets, and CLR/.NET objects) to the web. Simple, fast and intuitive programming for simple pages that just need to display some content.

The first release of PowerShell Pages is a prototype. I intend to build out a more stable version based on the theory shown by this prototype.

PowerShellASP-ASP-like template language for Web Applications

http://powershelltoys.com/

PowerShellASP is an ASP-like template language for Web Applications; templates contain a mixture of markup (HTML, XML or whatever you want to generate) and inline PowerShell code. At runtime, templates/pages are fully translated to PowerShell code and executed as a single unit inside a PowerShell pipeline, with the results sent to the client browser.

PowerShellASP runs off the ASP.NET platform, implemented as a custom IHttpHandler mapped to *.ps1x files. Because of this, you can mix PowerShellASP pages alongside any ASP.NET application. This provides a great way to leverage PowerShellASP inside your existing applications as needed or you can create complete applications from scratch based only on *.ps1x pages.

VisualSVN Server-subversion server

http://www.visualsvn.com/server/

VisualSVN Server is a package that contains everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform. It includes Subversion, Apache and a management console.

You can use any Subversion client to connect to VisualSVN Server or a web browser to quickly browse though repositories. Also you may find VisualSVN useful to integrate Subversion into Visual Studio.

VisualSVN Server is less than 6MB in size and can be downloaded and installed in a couple of minutes with just few clicks.

Features
User friendly management console

    * Create, import and remove repositories
    * Dashboard showing overview status of Subversion server
    * Manage Subversion security policy
    * Start, stop and restart service
    * Repository browser
    * Manage users and groups
    * Edit Subversion hooks

And last, but not least – VisualSVN Server is completely free! 

AnkhSVN-Subversion SourceControl Provider for Visual Studio

http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/

AnkhSVN is a Subversion SourceControl Provider for Visual Studio. The software allows you to perform the most common version control operations directly from inside the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. With AnkhSVN you no longer need to leave your IDE to perform tasks like viewing the status of your source code, updating your Subversion working copy and committing changes. You can even browse your repository and you can plug-in your favorite diff tool.

Dial-a-fix-collection of known fixes for windows xp

http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Dial-a-fix#Mirrors.2Fdownload_locations.2C_and_articles

Dial-a-fix is an advanced utility for 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows written by DjLizard in Borland Delphi 7 that repairs various Windows problems, such as:

• Windows Update errors and problems with Automatic Updates
• SSL, HTTPS, and Cryptography service (signing/verification) issues
• COM/ActiveX object errors and missing registry entries
• and more.

Dial-a-fix (hereafter known as "DAF") is a collection of known fixes gleaned from Microsoft Knowledgebase articles, Microsoft MVPs, and other important support forums, that will assist you in repairing problems with your system. Although this tool is ordinarily meant for power users, technicians, and administrators, it is quite safe to use even without technical guidance (although guidance is recommended). Simply choose the solutions you wish to apply via checkmarks, and click GO. There are other buttons and tools present on the main dialog as well, such as the policy scanner. All tools and checkmarks identify their purpose when you mouse over them.

DAF's primary philosophy is to fix problems by setting various things back to their original Microsoft defaults. DAF currently does not interface with or repair any third party programs (and there are no plans to do so).

DAF works on all pertinent 32-bit versions of Windows: 98, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, and Server 2003. Dial-a-fix dynamically disables functions that are not applicable to your version of Windows. The version of Windows with the most support and functionality is currently Windows XP.

Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection

http://www.microsoft.com/

Community Technology Preview (July 2008)
Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection is a static code analysis tool for finding SQL Injection vulnerabilities in ASP code. Customers can run the tool on their ASP source code to help identify code paths that are vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks.

Dazzo's Wallpaper Changer for Vista

http://mike.dazzos.com/ (Updated)

http://gocomusic.com/mike/ 

After switching to Window's new OS Vista, I went in search of a good Wallpaper changer.  I could not find one, so I decided to create my own.

This wallpaper changer will monitor your chosen folder and recognize when new pictures are added or old pictures are removed.  It will also recursively drill down through each subsequent folder checking for images.  You can also set how often it rotates the images from 1 minute to multiple days.
 
Features:

    * Folder Monitoring
    * Auto Start
    * Recursive folder search
    * Change Desktop color to match image color
    * Rotate wallpaper every N length of time
    * Progress bar displays when next change will take place

    * Will not work on MS XP

Stop Notify Me- disable XP security notifications

http://leelusoft.blogspot.com/

Stop / Start Windows XP security notify. 

LINQPad is a fantastic freeware application that lets you interactively query SQL databases using LINQ (Language Integrated Query).

In this brave new world where LINQ will become more popular an will be broadly adopted by the .NET community it will become very important to become fluent with your use of LINQ. One way to accomplish this is by replacing your use of  SQL Management Studio for interactively querying SQL databases with LINQPad.

According the the LINQPad website you can "Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio !".  Does LINQPad replace SQL Management Studio for interactively querying SQL databases? 

Until I found Matt Perdeck's LINQ to CSV library an easy to use library to read and write CSV and tab delimited files with LINQ queries,  I would have said LINQPad is not ready.

In my opinion there are only two reasons not to use LINQPad and both problems are solved by LINQtoCSV.

1. LINQPad lacks the ability to export query results to a csv file.
2. LINQPad's output is limited to 1000 Records.\

Here's how to configure LINQPad to use LINQtoCSV.

Step 1: Download LINQtoCSV and copy to the folder of you choice.

Step 2: Add "LINQtoCSV.dll" Assembly Reference to Tab called "Additional References"  (Query >> Advanced Properties) or (F4)

Step 3: Add "LINQtoCSV" Namespace Reference to Tab called "Additional Namespace Imports"

Step 4: Press the Set as default for new queries button and close the window.

Step 5: Set Query Type to C# Statement(s)

Step 6: Add standard LINQtoCSV code to your Query.

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I have cataloged over 2700+ of only the best hand picked freeware programs since 2003.  To make the list it must be a true freeware application. No demos, trial, shareware, and etc. I continually add to the collection and add about half dozen new freeware applications every week.  The current size of my personal catalog is 50GB and growing. The programs a categorized by major groupings. (Disk, Internet, Security, Development, and etc)

DefaultMail-change the default email client in XP

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultmail.htm

DefaultMail utility helps you set the default email client for the currently logged on user account in Windows XP. Note that Windows XP's user interface does not provide you an option to set a per-user default email client. One setting affects all the users, machine-wide.

Pismo File ZIP-ISO Mount Audit Package

http://www.pismotechnic.com/pfm/ap/

Pismo File Mount Audit Package is a Windows application that allows users to mount the contents of ZIP, ISO, Compact ISO, Compact File Set and Private Folder files to the file system as virtual folders.

Pismo File Mount Audit Package is available free of charge for personal and business use. The latest version is available on the download page.

Developers can add support for additional file formats and virtual file systems using the Pismo File Mount Developer Kit, available on the download page.

UNetbooti-install linux iso to USB Drive

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely.
Requirements

    * Microsoft Windows 2000-Vista, or Linux, or a USB Drive.
    * A broadband internet connection to download the distribution packages (unless installing from pre-downloaded media, see below)
    * Spare hard drive space to install the OS in (varies depending on distribution)

Features

UNetbootin can install to your local hard disk or make a bootable liveUSB drive. It can also load floppy/hard disk images, or kernel/initrds, or (some) ISO (CD image) files, for installing other distributions.