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Googlesystray-windows system tray app for google services

http://googsystray.sourceforge.net/

Googlesystray is a system tray app for Google Voice, GMail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google Wave. The idea is to be able to keep track of all that stuff without having to keep a bunch of browser tabs open, or constantly checking them. It notifies on new messages, alerts, etc., and provides basic services quickly (Reading or sending a new SMS message, or marking an email read, for example.)

WinCalendarTime-replace standard windows clock

http://wincalendartime.sourceforge.net/

WinCalendarTime replaces the standard Windows clock with an enhanced clock, if you click on it a calendar is displayed.

WHS Backup Database-Backup-windows home server backup

http://www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4078

WHS Backup Database-Backup (BDBB) that includes a couple of bug fixes and two exciting new features. Thank you to erail, cavediver, JohnBick, jmpage2, and Timothy Daleo for your help testing in the Private Beta.

* Correctly shows available space for Server Storage (thanks redjessie!)
* Correctly displays TrueCrypt encrypted drives (thanks JohnBick!)
* Automatically backs up the Client Registry keys necessary to properly link the backups with the Client PCs
* Automatically backs up the entire WHS.reg in case the user wants to manually restore part or all of the registry
* Prompts user to restore the backed up Client Registry keys when restoring the Backup DB
* Supports backup and restore to network locations, including UNC and Samba shares
 

WinToFlash-Create bootable flash drives

http://wintoflash.com/home/en/

winToFlash is a software for transfer your Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 setup from CD or DVD to flash in some mouse clicks. This is about you can install your Windows from flash card, USB stick, HDD, etc to your computer or netbook.

And this is not all it can do. WinToFlash can transfer your live CD/DVD to flash card, for example, BartPE. After all you can erase your Flash card and format it with you Windows for every day use.

Piwik-web analytics software program

http://piwik.org/

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more.

Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.

Piwik is a PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript tag. Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track (or use an existing plugin to do it automatically for you).

RibbonCustomizer Starter Edition – classic menu add-in for Microsoft Office

http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer/starter.php

ibbonCustomizer™ is an add-in for Microsoft® Access™, Excel®, Outlook®, PowerPoint® and Word 2007. It allows you to customize the Ribbon User Interface with only a few mouse clicks! Microsoft did not include that ability in Office 2007, but with this add-in you are no longer stuck with a static User Interface!

Quick Overview

• Get Classic UI tabs for Excel, PowerPoint and Word 2007
• Use up to three pre-defined customizations in the form of .RIBX packages per Ribbon
• Quickly switch multiple customizations on and off
• Provide an easy way to add any groups you want to your Ribbon
• Reset tabs to the Microsoft default
• RibbonCustomizer™ is currently available only in English. It is possible to use it with a non-English Office, but not supported. Other languages will be supported in a future version.
• Includes one 30-days free trial of the Professional Edition.

inSSIDer-free Wi-Fi network scanner

http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn't work well with Vista and 64-bit XP, we built an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for the current generation of Windows operating systems. A year later, inSSIDer was discussed by Lifehacker and Tekzilla! 

Ekahau HeatMapper-free wi-fi coverage mapper

http://www.ekahau.com/products/heatmapper/overview.html

Ekahau HeatMapper is a free software tool for quick and easy coverage mapping of Wi-Fi (802.11) networks. It's the only free, easy-to-use tool that shows, on a map, the wireless network coverage in your home or small office. HeatMapper also locates all access points. HeatMapper also provides a real-time view to all access points and their configurations.

SimpleSysInfo -Computer System Information

http://www.emro.nl/freeware/

SimpleSysInfo is a program which allows you to retrieve information from your computer. When the information is retrieved you can send it everywhere by simple selecting the email button. It's possible to print the information and save it to a text file. SimpleSysInfo also supports creating a HTML file which is less hard to read.

Areca-java personal file backup software

http://www.areca-backup.org/

It is released under the General Public License (GPL) v2.
Backup Engine Features :

    * Archives compression (Zip & Zip64 format)
    * Archives encryption (AES128 & AES256 encryption algorithms)
    * Storage on local hard drive, network drive, USB key, FTP / FTPs server (with implicit and explicit SSL / TLS)
    * Source file filters (by extension, subdirectory, regular expression, size, date, status, with AND/OR operators)
    * Incremental, differential and full backup support
    * Archives merges / deletion : You can merge contiguous archives in one single archive or safely delete your latest archives.
    * As of date recovery : Areca allows you to recover your archives (or single files) as of a specific date.
    * Transaction mechanism : All critical processes (such as backups or merges) support a transaction mechanism (with commit / rollback management) which guarantees your backups' integrity.
    * Backup reports : Areca generates backup reports that can be stored on your disk or sent by email.
    * Post backup scripts : Areca can launch shell scripts after backup.
    * Files permissions, symbolic links and named pipes backup. (Linux only)
    * Support for delta backup (store only the modified parts of the files – not the whole files)

Graphical User Interface :

    * Archives content explorer. (including a 'find file in archives' feature)
    * Archive description : A manifest is associated to each archive, which contains various informations such as author, title, date, description, and some technical data.
    * File history explorer : Areca keeps track of your file's history (creation / modifications / deletion) over your archives.
    * Backup simulation : useful to check wether a backup is necessary
    * User's actions history : Areca keeps an history of all user's actions (archives deletion, merges, backups, recoveries).

Device Remover – The Powerful Device Manager

http://www.pro-it-education.de/software/deviceremover/

• In-Depth view of all installed Devices, Device Classes, Drivers and Services on a Windows System (Hidden, Detached, Current installed, Problematic Devices,etc,…)
• Easy mass removal of multiple Devices On-The-Fly
• Modification/Manipulation of Devices, Drivers and Services on the System
• Live detailed View of Device Detections on the System
• Multiple Device Problem solving Features and Functions
• And many many more useful Features,…

Norman Malware Cleaner

http://www.norman.com/support/support_tools/58732/en

Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman program utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware).
Note that it should not be used as a substitute for running normal proactive antivirus protection, but rather as a reactive tool to handle systems that are already infected.

By downloading and running the program below it will clean an infected system completely:

    * kill running processes that are infected
    * remove infections from disk (including ActiveX components and browser helper objects)
    * reveal and remove rootkits
    * restore correct registry values
    * remove references created by malware in hosts file
    * remove windows firewall rules for malicious programs

System requirements

    * Supported operating systems: Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista
    * Operating systems not supported: Windows 95

BackUp Maker-Creating system data-backups

http://www.ascomp.de/index.php?php=prog&prog=backupmaker

BackUp Maker is the professional solution for creation of data-backups. The ease of use as well as the range of functions enable you to create backup tasks for saving files and folders with a lack of time.

Once the backup task has been configured you may forget backup creation confidently – BackUp Maker saves your files fully automated, depending on time and interval settings or on system events like Windows log-on or log-off.

GFI Backup Home Edition-Easy- back-up and recovery

http://www.gfi.com/backup-hm

When was the last time you backed up all the important files on your hard disk? Do you have a backup copy of those precious photos taken on your last holiday, of your resume and other important documents you have created, or of your favorite music and movies? While most computer users admit backups are important, few people actually do so… until it is too late and the damage has been done.

By minimizing the risk of loss, backing up your files is similar to taking out an insurance policy on your data. Now, with GFI Backup™ 2009 – Home Edition, you will never have to worry if your hard disk fails or a virus wipes out your data.

GFI Backup 2009 allows you to back up all your important documents, photos, music, emails and program settings using a simple but smart wizard-driven interface to nearly every storage device (including local and external disk drives, LAN, CD/DVD, removable devices, remote FTP servers, etc.). Download and use GFI Backup 2009 today – a FREE easy-to-use backup software solution, designed for secure backups of all your important data. Because we care!

OpenGoo is an easy to use Open Source Web Office

http://www.opengoo.org/index.html

Manage tasks, documents, contacts, e-mail, calendar, and more… manage project progress, track time, and bill your customers.
Access all information from a single and elegant dashboard. Communicate with co-workers, clients and vendors.

Bacula-The Open Source Network Backup Solution

http://www.bacula.org/en/

If you are currently using a program such as tar, dump, or bru to backup your computer data, and you would like a network solution, more flexibility, or catalog services, Bacula will most likely provide the additional features you want. However, if you are new to Unix systems or do not have offsetting experience with a sophisticated backup package, the Bacula project does not recommend using Bacula as it is much more difficult to setup and use than tar or dump.
If you want Bacula to behave like the above mentioned simple programs and write over any tape that you put in the drive, then you will find working with Bacula difficult. Bacula is designed to protect your data following the rules you specify, and this means reusing a tape only as the last resort. It is possible to "force" Bacula to write over any tape in the drive, but it is easier and more efficient to use a simpler program for that kind of operation.

If you would like a backup program that can write to multiple volumes (i.e. is not limited by your tape drive capacity), Bacula can most likely fill your needs. In addition, quite a number of Bacula users report that Bacula is simpler to setup and use than other equivalent programs.

If you are currently using a sophisticated commercial package such as Legato Networker. ARCserveIT, Arkeia, or PerfectBackup+, you may be interested in Bacula, which provides many of the same features and is free software available under the GNU Version 2 software license.

Switcher-vista search able task switcher

http://insentient.net/Switcher/Overview.html

Switcher puts you in control of your windows. See all your windows on one screen, quickly search through them, even decorate them with your favorite colors and fonts. Let's get started!

Robert's Podcatcher and Random MP3 Loader

http://home.comcast.net/~rschoolf/podcatcher/index.html

Robert's Podcatcher is a program designed to automatically download Podcast audio/video files to your computer. It is designed as an alternative to iTunes or Juice Receiver. The program also can load your player with songs randomly selected from your MP3 collection, filling it to capacity. It's neat to see what songs will be selected for the day.

Xenu's Link Sleuth – checks Web sites for broken links

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

Additional features:

    * Simple, no-frills user-interface
    * Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
    * Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
    * Executable file smaller than 1MB
    * Supports SSL websites ("https:// ")
    * Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites
    * Detects and reports redirected URLs
    * Site Map
 

Agent Ransack-search for files on harddrive

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/Page.aspx?page=home

Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!Agent Ransack provides compelling advantages over similar search tools:
    * Regular expressions that allow complex rule based searches.
    * Immediate contents results view.
    * Various wizards to walk the user through the searching process.

Agent Ransack is provided FREE of charge for the benefit of the Windows community. If you find it useful please register it, free of charge.

Miro – free HD video player

http://www.fantasticfreeware.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

Miro is a free HD video player. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts.

Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about.

Best of all, Miro is 100% free and open source, developed by a non-profit organization and volunteers around the

HomeBank-manage your personal accounts

http://homebank.free.fr/

HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.«HomeBank» benefits from more than 13 years of user experience and feedback. Its development started in 1995 on Amiga computers. It is available for 52 languages on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, MacOSX, Nokia N*** and Amiga.If you are looking for an easy way to manage your accounts then «HomeBank» should be the software of choice. Take some time to try it out, you won't regret it.

Gnome Partition Editor

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information.

A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the adjacent one larger). The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents.

GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). See Features, before using it.

GParted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables.

Several (optional) file system tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted.
These optional packages will be detected at runtime and do not require a rebuild of GParted.

GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm for its Graphical User Interface (GUI). The general approach is to keep the Graphical User Interface as simple as possible. Every attempt was made to conform to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

ZoomIt-screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb897434.aspx

ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations.

ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs.
Using ZoomIt

The first time you run ZoomIt it presents a configuration dialog that describes ZoomIt's behavior, let's you specify alternate hotkeys for zooming and for entering drawing mode without zooming, and customize the drawing pen color and size. I use the draw-without-zoom option to annotate the screen at its native resolution, for example. ZoomIt also includes a break timer feature that remains active even when you tab away from the timer window and allows you to return to the timer window by clicking on the ZoomIt tray icon.

Extra Outlook-link exchange server during conversion

http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/01/02/run-multiple-instances-of-outlook-with-extra-outlook/

Under normal case whenever you launch another instance of Outlook.exe, it first checks if there is an existing Outlook.exe running and this is the reason why multiple instances are not possible. This tool actually modifies the Outlook executable and causes Outlook to not check to see if another Outlook is running.
To use this application, you will need to create multiple profiles in Outlook. Install Extra Outlook and then from command line you can call another instance of Outlook using the command – extraoutlook.exe “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\outlook.exe” assuming that Outlook.exe is installed in the given location. This will prompt you to select the Outlook profile you want to load.

With this application you can have one instance of Outlook connecting to your business mail and another one using your personal mail.

Important: This application modifies the Outlook files, so if you are not comfortable with that, please do not install it. Moreover if you have install plugins like Xobni, it might have issues loading, so use it at your own risk.

This application works with Outlook 2003/2007