Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
ReNamer is a small, yet very flexible file renaming tool, that offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as remove contents of brackets, add number sequences, change file extensions, etc. For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule.
The program allows you to combine multiple renaming actions as a rule set, applying each action in logical sequence, which can be saved, loaded and managed within the program. In addition, ReNamer supports Meta Tags, such as: ID3v1, ID3v2, EXIF, OLE, AVI, Hashing and more; has an ability to rename folders, can process Regular Expressions, and supports Unicode filenames.
Download: ReNamer 5.30 | Screenshots
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
Construct is powerful and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications. It includes an event based system for defining how the game or application will behave, in a visual, human-readable way.
Features
- Create games and applications with:
- Super fast hardware-accelerated DirectX 9 graphics engine
- Add multiple pixel shaders for advanced special effects, including lighting, HDR, distortion, lenses and more
- Physics engine for realistic object behaviour
- Place object on different layers for organising display, parallaxing, or whole-layer effects
- Debugger giving you complete control over all aspects of your game for testing purposes.
- Smaller, faster specialised runtime for applications
- 50+ plugins ranging from Tiled Background to database access
Construct is developed and distributed free of charge.
Download: Construct 0.96
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
Fresh UI is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows operating system. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/NT4/98/ 95/Me, it covers the customizing and optimizing techniques that you’ll be glad to know.
This software is 100% free, no ads, no banner, no spyware.
Download: Fresh UI 8.10
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
HDClone copies the complete contents of hard disks and other IDE/ATA/SATA, SCSI, and USB media on a physical level. This allows to create even backups or copies of complete operating system installations smoothly. In combination with the special ‘SafeRescue’ mode of HDClone, this technique is also perfect for rescuing data in case of defective hard disks. Furthermore, HDClone works independent of partition layout, file system and operating system. Thus, it also works with proprietary data formats which could not be accessed otherwise. Besides copying complete drives, it is also possible to apply it to certain partitions only.
Download: HDClone Free Edition 3.6.1
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported.
Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary. Cobian Backup is not an usual backup application: it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as a “Scheduler for security copies”.
New on version 7:
• Designed and written from scratch
• Zip64 for zip files larger than 2 GB
• SQX compression
• Backup FROM and TO a FTP server
• Limit the speed of your FTP transfers
• SSL servers supported
• The program can now remind you if you have missed backups
• Strong encryption: Supported methods are Blowfish (128 bit), Rijndael (128 bit) and DES (64 bit)
• An open plug-in architecture to allow the program’s enhancement
• The interprocess communication is done using TCP/IP. This allows a better communication between the program parts AND the program can be administrated from another machine anywhere in the world.
• Backup to multiple destinations
• A backup history is displayed
• Compressed files can now be split
• A new user interface
• Remote backup
• Automatically remove old backups
• The application can be used as a command line utility. No separate command line program is needed
Download: Cobian Backup 9.1.1.193 Windows 95, 98, ME, Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
eToolz includes some of the most useful networking tools like: NS-Lookup, Whois, HTTP-Header, Google PageRank, MailCheck, Online-Tools, TraceRoute, Time, and ConTools. It supports also international domain names.
eToolz requires no installation and can be run from removable media such as USB stick.
Note: The application comes in German, but you can change the Language to English in “Sprache/Language”.
Download: eToolz 3.3
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
FlexTk is an advanced file management toolkit allowing one to search and classify files, scan file systems and apply rule-based, file organizing or data migration policies, analyze storage utilization, copy large amounts of files in a fault-tolerant way, identify duplicate files and free-up wasted storage space. All file operations are available through a centralized and easy-to-use GUI application with a built-in file navigator allowing one to execute any required command in a single mouse click.
FlexTk Express edition is absolutely free. The product contains no spy-ware, no ad-ware inside and may be used for any personal or commercial purposes.
Download: FlexTk Express 2.4.28 Windows 2000/XP/Vista
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.
In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.
CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications (Applications without version information and icons)
This utility is released as freeware.
Download: CurrPorts 1.40
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
It slices! It dices! The Windows Inspection Tool Set (WiTS) chops up Windows multiple ways providing you with cross-linked, filtered views into a Windows system. View operating system information, processes, services, users, network interfaces and connections, file shares, printers and more. Get notified of system resource status, new network connections, process starts and exits, service status and other system events.
WiTS may be freely used in both non-commercial and commercial environments.
WiTS supports Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
Download: Windows Inspection Tool Set (WiTS) 2.1.11
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
JavaRa is a small program that checks for updates of the Java JRE and removes old potentially vulnerable versions. Simply click “Check for Updates” or “Remove Older Versions” to start the process.
Download: JavaRa 1.08
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
Daphne is a small (system tray) application for killing, controlling and debuging window’s processes. You can kill a process by dragging the mouse over the windows, by right-clicking the process in the main process list, or by typing its name with the “Kill all by name” command. You can set a any window to be always on top, to be transparent, to be enable, et cetera. The main window displays a list of currently running process with detailed information about:
- CPU usage
- Process ID
- Process name
- Full path (and arguments)
- Priority
- Class (Process / Service)
- Current memory usage
- Peek memory usage
- Current swap usage
- Peek swpa usage
- Number of threads
Features:
- Detailed process list, including full path and arguments.
- Per process detail including: Windows tree, thread list, modules, enviroment variables.
- Using the windows tree you can: Show, hide, set always on top on or off, set focus, et cetera to any give window.
- Kill all by name: Kill all process using a given name.
- Kill menu: Customizable menu, each menu item has a process list to kill upon activation.
- Control inspector window for revealing hidden passwords.
- Drag and drop tool for killing, setting alpha, enabling controls and putting windows always on top.
- Run process:
- Start suspended process.
- Start suspended process as user. [Local users]
- Internationalization: Spanish support - Soporte para Español.
- Internationalization: Italian support.
Download: Daphne 1.36
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) is a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts included with Adobe CS3 Suites and applications such as Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. ESTK 2.0 is a new and enhanced version that allows you to create, edit and debug ExtendScript (Adobe’s JavaScript language) all with an updated user interface, a new text engine, and the ability to debug more than one script at a time.
Available for Macintosh or Windows.
Download: Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2.0.2
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
SUMo which stands for Software Update Monitor.Thanks to SUMo you’ll be able to keep your PC up-to-date by using the most recent version of your favorite software ! Unlike build-in auto update features, SUMo tells you if updates are available before you need to use your software
Download: SUMo 1.10.0.47 | SUMo Beta
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
Advanced Renamer is freeware program for renaming multiple files or folders at once. It can use several different methods for calculating the new name including multimedia tools for sound and picture files.
This program is perfect for arranging personal photos and music before burning them to cd-rom or MP3 player.
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Download: Advanced Renamer 2.54
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
RSTools - Automatically add code to your existing Visual Basic source code. You can either add code to the beginning or end of each selected sub/function (pre code or post code) or you can add both. Add those comments section to all of your code for maintenace when changing your code. Add trace function to your apps. All with the press of a button. Get cross-reference reports on your apps with ease.
Runs on Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista
Download: RSTools 6.0 Build 0
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008 |
TAME is a simple backup solution that is designed to perform backups of areas that most would not consider important. For example, once you have closed your messenger application, have you ever lost your conversation logs? With TAME, this is no longer a problem, as you can simply monitor the messenger program itself and when it closes, a full backup of the conversation logs folder is preformed and placed in a customisable folder. Backups can also be set to run at specific system times, while running silently in the background. Each backup that is made is time and date stamped so that you are fully aware of when each backup was made.
Each backup that is performed is controlled from its own window, which can be easily customised on the main window if you do not wish to see them running. Advanced options are also available to start each backup section on start-up and to start TAME when the Windows session is started. All of these features are available in an easy to understand environment that blends easily with Windows.
Download: TAME 1.0 Beta 1
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008 |
Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today. Its scanning engine is thorough, safe and fast.
Wise Registry Cleaner is Free.
Download: Wise Registry Cleaner 3.5.2 Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/XP-x64/2003/Vista/Vista-x64
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
TagScanner is a multifunction program to organize large music collections. It can edit tags of several progressive audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames. Also you may get album info via internet music database freedb.org. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments and APEv2 tags. Worksheets technology. Powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features. Playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML or Excel. Built-in player.Very useful interface.
Features
· Rename files based on the tag information
· Advanced multiple files TAG editor
· Supports MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack files
· Supports ID3 1.0 / 1.1 / 2.2 / 2.3 / 2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments
· Supports for ID3v2 Lyrics and Attached pictures
· TAGs generation from folder/filename
· TAGs versions conversions
· TAGs case conversions
· Import tag information from an online database (freedb)
· Manual text-search for information in freedb
· Worksheets technology
· Recursive subfolders support
· Powerful Playlists editor
· Write extended playlists like Winamp or Sonique
· Playlists export to HTML, Excel and CSV(e.g. for MySQL)
Download: TagScanner 5.0 build 524 Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
Autostart and Process Viewer gives you a control over applications which start with Windows, and shows which processes are running on your computer. But the most important thing is that this program helps you find out which processes and autostart entries are new. You can “accept” a process or a program starting with windows, and if a new (”unaccepted”) item appears - the program tells you about it.
Why? Simply because most trojans and viruses put themselves to the autostart, and/or, must run as a process, all of this without your knowledge (unless you have this program installed). Of course having a good anti-virus and anti-trojans software is a must, but the key problem is that a certain trojan/virus may not be detected by this programs yet (for example because a trojan is new, and the databases of anti-trojan programs are not yet aware of them).
Download: Autostart and Process Viewer 1.41
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