tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90260582023-06-20T07:33:36.603-05:00Favorite UtilitiesSteve's repository of favorite Windows and Linux utilities.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1127227567802454742005-09-20T09:46:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:55:34.886-06:00deep<a href="http://www.neilgunton.com/utils/deep/">deep</a>: "A powerful and extensible Perl script which recursively traverses subdirectories, processing files that match a given filename pattern. There are different commands, which are summarized below. The script is free; anyone may use it with no restrictions."<br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I've been mentioned in the Changelog! </span><br />I was pretty happy to be able to make deep work on my Windows machine and sent my method to Neil Gunton who made it look nicer and added it to the script. <span style="font-style: italic;">[SLW]</span>SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1101929744772750302004-12-01T13:35:00.000-06:002007-11-14T13:55:15.139-06:00Sysinternals - PsTools<a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml">Sysinternals Freeware - Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000 - PsTools</a>
<br />These tools allow you to manage remote systems as well as the local one. The "Ps" prefix in PsList relates to the fact that the standard UNIX process listing command-line tool is named "ps", so this prefix is used for all the tools in order to tie them together into a suite of tools named PsTools.
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<br />The tools included in the PsTools suite, which are downloadable individually or as a package, are:
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<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml">PsExec </a>- execute processes remotely
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psfile.shtml">PsFile </a>- shows files opened remotely
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psgetsid.shtml">PsGetSid </a>- display the SID of a computer or a user
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml">PsKill </a>- kill processes by name or process ID
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psinfo.shtml">PsInfo </a>- list information about a system
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pslist.shtml">PsList</a> - list detailed information about processes
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psloggedon.shtml">PsLoggedOn </a>- see who's logged on locally and via resource sharing (full source is included)
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psloglist.shtml">PsLogList </a>- dump event log records
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pspasswd.shtml">PsPasswd </a>- changes account passwords
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psservice.shtml">PsService </a>- view and control services
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml">PsShutdown </a>- shuts down and optionally reboots a computer
<br /> * <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pssuspend.shtml">PsSuspend </a>- suspends processes
<br /> * PsUptime - shows you how long a system has been running since its last reboot (PsUptime's functionality has been incorporated into PsInfo)
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<br />All of the utilities in the PsTools suite work on Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The PsTools download package includes an HTML help file with complete usage information for all the tools.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1123242944509031082005-08-05T06:55:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:55:15.139-06:00tools4ever Free Command Line ToolsFreeware scriptable command line network connectivity tools - I find <span style="font-style: italic;">T4ePortPing</span> especially useful when checking connectivity to devices through a firewall. ICMP may be blocked, but TCP... that's an open book. ;-)<br /><blockquote>"Looking for a set of powerful command line utilities to integrate in your scripts or in your own application? We have put together a bundle of useful command line utilities for managing your network faster and more efficiently:"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">T4eWebPing</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Gets the response time and header code for any input URL; great for testing scripts, execution times and 404 errors on your website.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">T4ePortPing</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Connects to any TCP/IP port and retrieves the response time and error code. You can use this at the command line to check a single IP and port, or in scripts to automatically see which ports are open on your clients or servers.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">T4eSQL</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Connects to any ODBC database and executes a custom query, results can be written to a text file; useful for database monitoring (systables).</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">T4eDirSize</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Gets the free and used space of any directory or share, also counts the number of special files (encrypted, readonly, hidden, system, etc); great for monitoring free space and file statistics.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">T4eRexec</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">This command line utility is similar to the Windows REXEC command, but accepts a password as input and can therefore run in unattended mode. To run commands on a REXEC compatible OS, such as Linux, the REXEC daemon has to be running on the target system. Note that passwords are transmitted in clear text, for a more secure version look to the SSH versions below.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">T4eSSH</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">A secure implementation of the SSH protocol to get access to a UNIX/Linux operating system. This implementation uses the OpenSSH library and can run in unattended mode when using private and public key files.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">T4eUnixInfo</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">This tool uses the REXEC daemon to remotely execute several pre-defined scripts compatible with Linux, to get system specific information such as DISK, MEMORY, SWAP and CPU. Note that the password to access the remote operating system is transmitted in clear text, look below for a secure SSH implementation.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">T4eSSHUnixInfo</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">This tool uses the SSH daemon to securely execute several pre-defined scripts compatible with Linux, to get system specific information such as DISK, MEMORY, SWAP and CPU. This implementation uses the OpenSSH library and can run in unattended mode when using private and public key files.</span></blockquote>SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1123247932573265822005-08-05T08:18:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:55:15.138-06:00WinSCP :: Freeware SFTP and SCP client for WindowsThis is a great app for securely transferring files. It's also great when you'd like to use your Windows text editor (like <a href="http://myutilities.blogspot.com/2005/01/scite-scintilla-based-text-editor.html">SciTE</a>) to edit a file out on a Unix or Linux server.<br /><blockquote>WinSCP is an open source SFTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.<br /><a href="http://winscp.net/eng/docs/screenshots"><img src="http://winscp.net/eng/data/media/screenshots/commander.png" alt="WinSCP3 screenshot" width="341" height="225"></a></blockquote>SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1124157455565126292005-08-15T20:57:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:55:15.138-06:00Unison: Liberation through Data Replication<a href="http://web.mit.edu/pgbovine/www/unison_guide.htm">Unison: Liberation through Data Replication</a>: This document describes some of the benefits of using <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/">Unison</a> and provides some tips on doing so, although it is not meant to be a comprehensive how-to guide or <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html">user manual</a>. <br>Another discussion on <a href="http://blog.kowalczyk.info/articles/usingUnison.html">Using Unison can be found here</a>.<br>However, neither really answer my current question which is "When using the 'backupdir' parameter in batch mode, do the backups exist on the client/source or server/destination?"SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1126820348335980912005-09-15T16:39:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:55:15.138-06:00Synergy<a href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/">Synergy</a><hr>Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
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<br />Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. <a href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/about.html">Learn more</a> about how it works.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1150813618752694892006-06-20T09:24:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:55:15.137-06:00Console :: SourceForge.net<blockquote>Console is a Windows console-window enhancement. It was inspired by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.corion.net/econsole/index.html">eConsole</a>. Console features include configurable font, color, size, background image and transparency (on Win2000 and later) <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><a target="_blank" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/">Link</a></span></blockquote>SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1150814063215438422006-06-20T09:34:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:55:15.137-06:00KeePass Password Safe<blockquote>Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage's ftp password, online passwords (like SourceForge member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem... A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, homepage, etc. Unimaginable.<br /><br />KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard">AES</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twofish">Twofish</a>). For more information, see the <a href="http://keepass.sourceforge.net/features.php">features page</a>. </blockquote>SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-29269143669617675832007-04-13T09:31:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:55:15.136-06:00Synergy :: Sourceforge.net<div style="float: right;"><img src="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/images/logo.gif" /></div><blockquote style="font-family: courier new;"><a href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/">synergy</a>: [noun] a mutually advantageous conjunction of distinct elements<br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together.</span></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The real beauty of Synergy though, is that the machines sharing a single keyboard/mouse can be running virtually any operating system. Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris - they all work seamlessly!</span>SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-8421770911824536122007-11-14T13:28:00.000-06:002007-11-14T13:55:15.135-06:00Angry IP Scanner<b>Angry IP scanner</b> is a very fast <b>IP scanner</b> and <b>port scanner</b>. It can scan IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports. Its binary file size is very <b>small</b> compared to other IP or port scanners. <b>Angry IP scanner</b> simply <b>pings</b> each IP address to check if it's alive, then optionally it is resolving its hostname, determines the MAC address, scans ports, etc. The amount of gathered data about each host can be extended with the available plugins.<br /><br />It also has additional features, like <b>NetBIOS</b> information (computer name, workgroup name, and currently logged in Windows user), favorite IP address ranges, customizable openers, etc. <br /><br /> Scanning results can be saved to <b>CSV</b>, <b>TXT</b>, <b>HTML</b>, <b>XML</b> or <b>IP-Port list</b> file, can be used as a <b>command-line</b> utility in a batch file, etc. With help of <b>plugins</b>, <b>Angry IP Scanner</b> can gather any information about scanned IPs. Anybody who can write code is able to write <a href="http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/plugins/">plugins</a> and extend functionality of <b>Angry IP Scanner</b>. <br /><br /> In order to increase scanning speed, it uses multithreaded approach: a separate threads is created for each scanned IP address. <br /><br /> It is <b>free</b> and <b>open-source</b> software, so use it at your own risk. <br /><br /> <i>Disclaimer: The author is not responsible for anything you do using the program.</i> <br /><br /> This program is mostly useful for network administrators to monitor and manage their networks. <br /> For more information about IP and port scanning in general, you can see the corresponding articles on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_scanner">Wikipedia</a> or <a href="http://port-scanner.wikiverse.org/">Wikiverse</a>.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1105555692612745392005-01-12T12:48:00.000-06:002007-11-14T13:54:21.278-06:00SciTE - SCIntilla-based Text Editor<a href="http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTE.html">SciTE</a> is a free source-code editor for Windows and X. Originally built to demonstrate <a href="http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/index.html">Scintilla</a>, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.<br />On the <a href="http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEDownload.html">Download</a> page, you'll find installers and source code, but the one I like is the link to a <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scintilla/Sc1.exe">single-file executable called Sc1</a>. I put Sc1 in an easily-found (short path name) directory on my HDD and on my <a href="http://www.sandisk.com/retail/cruzer-titanium.asp">Cruzer Titanium</a> so I always have a full-featured text editor with me.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1130442363604467192005-10-27T14:46:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:35:25.887-06:00GnuWin32<a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/">GnuWin32</a>: "<em>GnuWin32</em> provides Win32 (MS Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP) ports of tools with a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</a> or similar open source <a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/license.html">license</a>. The ports are native ports, that is they rely only on libraries provided with any standard 32-bits MS-Windows operating system."<br /><a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/summary.html">Summary</a><br /><a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html">Packages</a> Include:<br /><ul> <li> <em>GNU utilities:</em> bc, bison, chess, compface, cpio, coreutils (fileutils, sh-utils, stat, textutils), diffutils, doschk, ed, findutils, flex, gawk, gdbm, gcal, gengetopt, gettext, gperf, <a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm">grep</a>, groff, gsl, gzip, hello, help2man, iconv, jwhois, <a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/less.htm">less</a>, m4, miscfiles, patch, readline, regex, rx, sed, sharutils, tar, texinfo, tree, units, unrtf, <a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm">wget</a>, which</li> <li> <em>Archivers and compressors:</em> arc, arj, bsdtar, bzip2, gzip, lha, libarchive, <a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zip.htm">unzip / zip</a>, zlib</li> <li> <em>Other utilities:</em> byacc, cpuid, cygutils, file, ntfsprogs, <a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/openssl.htm">openssl</a>, pcre, popt, re2c, rpl, sgrep, tree, x86info</li> <li> <em>Graphics packages:</em> asciichart, compface, gd, jpeg, jbigkit, liburt, libungif, libpng and png utilities, libwmf, netpbm, piechart, plotutils, tiff, xpm, zimg</li> <li> <em>Textprocessing- and postscript-related packages:</em> a2ps, barcode, bm2font, deroff, dvidj, enscript, freetype, grap, gri, groff, indent, libxml, nenscript, pdflib, polyglotman, psutils, scribe2latex, src-highlite, t1lib, t1utils, troff2latex, ttf2pt1, unrtf</li> <li> <em>Mathematical and statistical packages:</em> bc, calc, crypt, fdlibm, gsl, units</li> </ul>SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1132239738173876362005-11-17T09:02:00.000-06:002007-11-14T13:34:59.638-06:00tcptraceroute<a href="http://dag.wieers.com/packages/tcptraceroute/">DAG: tcptraceroute RPM packages for Red Hat/Fedora</a><br /><a href="http://michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/">tcptraceroute</a> is a traceroute implementation using TCP packets.<br /><br />The more traditional traceroute sends out either UDP or ICMP ECHO packets with a TTL of one, and increments the TTL until the destination has been reached. By printing the gateways that generate ICMP time exceeded messages along the way, it is able to determine the path packets are taking to reach the destination.<br /><br />The problem is that with the widespread use of firewalls on the modern Internet, many of the packets that traceroute sends out end up being filtered, making it impossible to completely trace the path to the destination. However, in many cases, these firewalls will permit inbound TCP packets to specific ports that hosts sitting behind the firewall are listening for connections on. By sending out TCP SYN packets instead of UDP or ICMP ECHO packets, tcptraceroute is able to bypass the most common firewall filters.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1132243266511780082005-11-17T10:01:00.000-06:002007-11-14T13:34:26.354-06:00MP3 Ripper - FreeRIP<a target="_blank" href="http://www.mgshareware.com/frmmain.shtml">FreeRIP</a><br />FreeRip is a freeware application that lets you save audio CD tracks to Wav or MP3 or Ogg Vorbis audio files. FreeRIP is also an audio file converter since it can convert and encode from WMA, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Wav files to Ogg Vorbis, MP3 or Wav.<br /><br />FreeRIP is a CD ripper, this means that it can record digital audio tracks directly from audio CD to files on your hard drive (this process is known as "ripping"). You can save tracks as CD quality WAV files or encode them to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 compressed audio format.<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.freedb.org/">freedb</a> CD database, and ID3 Tagging (Version 1 and 2) are supported. FreeRIP automatically downloads album and song titles from freedb Internet databases and stores them in the MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files themselves.<br /><br />There are even <a href="http://usite.hu/freerip-guide-eng/">tutorials</a> available in (currently) four languages.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1163610242393096892006-11-15T11:04:00.000-06:002007-11-14T13:33:06.282-06:00Hamachi<a href="http://www.hamachi.cc/">Hamachi : Stay Connected</a>: "LogMeIn Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking (VPN) application.<br /><br />In other words Hamachi is a program that allows you to arrange multiple computers into their own secure network just as if they were connected by a physical network cable.<br /><br />Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. Its core version is also free. "SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1104171732539047512004-12-27T12:22:00.000-06:002007-11-14T08:46:03.142-06:00How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts">How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)</a><br />Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST by KoRn<br />"Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:<br /><br />1.Type 'about:config' into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:<br />- network.http.pipelining<br />- network.http.proxy.pipelining<br />- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests<br />Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.<br /><br />2. Alter the entries as follows:<br />- Set 'network.http.pipelining' to 'true'<br />- Set 'network.http.proxy.pipelining' to 'true'<br />- Set 'network.http.pipelining.maxrequests' to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.<br /><br />3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' and set its value to '0'. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.<br /><br />If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!"SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1101264911478831832004-11-23T20:55:00.000-06:002007-11-14T08:45:29.900-06:00WinDump: tcpdump for Windows<a href="http://windump.polito.it/">WinDump: tcpdump for Windows</a><br />"WinDump is the porting to the Windows platform of <a href="http://www.tcpdump.org/">tcpdump</a>, the most used network sniffer/analyzer for UNIX. WinDump is fully compatible with <a href="http://www.tcpdump.org/">tcpdump</a> and can be used to watch and diagnose network traffic according to various complex rules. It can run under Windows 95/98/ME, and under Windows NT/2000/XP."SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1101264722615239732004-11-23T20:52:00.000-06:002007-11-14T08:45:11.151-06:00Ethereal: A Network Protocol Analyzer<a href="http://www.ethereal.com/">Ethereal: A Network Protocol Analyzer</a><br />"Ethereal is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product. Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking community to add enhancements. It runs on all popular computing platforms, including Unix, Linux, and Windows."<br /><a href="http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/">Windows Installer</a><br /><a href="http://www.winpcap.org/">WinPcap</a> is required for Ethereal to work.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1099690571111305882004-11-05T15:36:00.000-06:002007-11-14T08:44:44.160-06:00ArsClip - Jackass JoeJoe's freeware utilities<a target="_blank" href="http://www.joejoesoft.com/ac.php">www.joejoesoft.com - Jackass JoeJoe's freeware utilities</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ArsClip</span>: A FREE (freeware) utility for the windows clipboard. ArsClip monitors the clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Press a configurable hotkey and select an item (or items) to quickly paste into a program.<br />This is an awesome little utility that has earned its place on my USB drive. I never had much use for multi-clipboard tools until I found ArsClip, now I'm about lost without it - Thanks JJJ!<br />Oh, and I'm the reason behind this:<br /><blockquote><strong>Changes in v2.6.7</strong><br />New: Per-program pasting assignment option on system tray icon menu<br />(For Example, always use Mimic Typing for CMD.EXE)</blockquote>SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1099690284721102102004-11-05T15:31:00.000-06:002007-11-14T08:43:57.357-06:00bCheck's apps - Little tiny (but very useful) Windows Apps<a target="_blank" href="http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/%7Etsr22/apps/">bCheck's apps - It is your mama's software</a><br />Several small but very useful little utilites, I like to carry these on my USB drive just in case I need a screen capture or image viewer.<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/%7Etsr22/apps/#purrint"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Purrint</span></a>: Make your PrintScreen button work the way it ought. Save to file, print to printer, or copy to dumb ol' clipboard.<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/%7Etsr22/apps/#bmap"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bmap</span></a>: Yet another damn image viewer. 200k, and it works the way I wanted it to.<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/%7Etsr22/apps/#topng"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ToPNG</span></a>: Simple command line utility to convert between many image formats<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/%7Etsr22/apps/#iecrap"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IECrap</span></a>: Some useful extensions to Internet Explorer. Resize window to other size, Zoom Frame to take entire window, etc...SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1099684958144148812004-11-05T13:51:00.000-06:002007-11-14T08:42:42.048-06:00Total CommanderFor an old DOS geek like me, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ghisler.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Total Commander</span></a> is indispensable - this has to be my favorite utility ever. It resembles and mimics good ole' Norton Commander that made DOS so easy to use. TC is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ghisler.com/order.htm">shareware</a> and well worth the $32 investment.<br />For those looking for Open Source (a.k.a. freeware) <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/">Gnu Midnight Commander</a> is the Linux answer for Norton Commander users. There are even a couple Midnight Commander variants that run in Windows (<a target="_blank" href="http://homepages.compuserve.de/SiegwardJaekel/mc-gb.htm">here</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://home.a-city.de/franco.bez/mc/mc.html">here</a>) which work fine from a command prompt. Neither has been updated in a while...SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1105559031871297492005-10-05T15:54:00.000-05:002005-10-27T15:53:49.926-05:00USB Drives - Know 'em, Love 'em, Keep 'em closeUpdate: Sept 30 2005 - <a href="http://www.staples.com/">Staples</a> had a one-day sale. Offerings included the <a href="http://sandisk.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?vcode=SUD&partnum=SDCZ41024A10">1-Gig SanDisk Cruzer Micro</a> for $39.99 - no messy rebates. I've noticed, however, that the Titanium transfers files much <a href="http://www.everythingusb.com/forums/showthread.php?pagenumber=1&threadid=3016">faster</a>.<br />-----<br />I recently <span style="font-style: italic;">(posted Jan 2005)</span> picked up a great deal... <a href="http://www.staples.com/">Staples</a> had the SanDisk <a href="http://www.sandisk.com/retail/cruzer-micro.asp">512MB Micro</a> on sale for $29.xx (after rebate) and I noticed in a posting on <a href="http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/categories.cfm?catid=18">FatWallet</a> that when the Micro was gone, Staples was substituting the <a href="http://www.sandisk.com/retail/cruzer-titanium.asp">512MB Titanium</a>. The Titanium is normally in the $80 neighborhood, so at ~$30 plus tax this was too good to pass up. I called the <a href="http://www.staples.com/about/store/find/default.asp">nearest Staples</a> and asked if they had any 512MB Micro's on hand and heard "<span style="font-style: italic;">No, but we're substituting the Titanium for it</span>". Needless to say, I rushed right over...<br />I gotta say, this is one sweet piece of <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/">geek</a> hardware. The USB connector extends and retracts from the case like little data <a href="http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/flight14.htm">landing-gear</a>. Transferring files seems much faster <span style="font-style: italic;">(15MB/sec read and 13MB/sec write)</span> than with the SanDisk <a href="http://www.sandisk.com/retail/cruzer-mini.asp">256MB Mini</a> that I've been carrying for the last year-plus.<br />This calls for a quick review of <a href="http://www.everythingusb.com/">USB</a> flash drives that I've owned:<br /><ul> <li>Dell 16MB - USB 1.1</li> <li>Gateway 32MB - USB 1.1</li><li><a href="http://www.lexar.com/jumpdrive/jd_secure.html">Lexar JumpDrive Secure 128MB</a><br /></li> <li><a href="http://www.sandisk.com/retail/cruzer-mini.asp">SanDisk Cruzer Mini 256MB</a><br /></li> <li><a href="http://www.sandisk.com/retail/cruzer-titanium.asp">SanDisk Titanium 512MB</a> - <a href="http://www.everythingusb.com/hardware/index/SanDisk_Cruzer_Titanium.htm#spec">specs</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sandisk.com/retail/cruzer-micro.asp">SanDisk Cruzer Micro 1GB</a><br /></li> </ul> I already know that I'll be looking for a <a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000257026052/"><strike>1 or 2GB</strike></a> (<a href="http://www.pretec.com/PR/PR_PRETEC_120X_i-Disk_II_8GB.htm">maybe bigger</a>) drive between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2005.<br /><br />So what does a guy do with all that space? First, you add all your favorite <a href="http://www.usbapps.com/apps.aspx">applications</a>. Then whatever data you can't live without. If you're a geek like me, getting constant helpdesk requests, you add Anti-Virus, <a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/">Anti-Spyware</a> and other diagnostic tools.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1130255554337301272005-10-25T10:52:00.000-05:002005-10-25T11:55:58.363-05:00Mount .iso files under windows XPThis free program for Windows XP lets you create a virtual CD drive on your hard disk. <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe">winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe</a><br /><br />For anyone unfamiliar with the terms 'virtual CD' or 'CD emulator', they mean that you can copy the entire contents of a CD-ROM to your hard disk and run the programs or access the files without the original CD in your machine. This can make files more accessible, faster and more convenient. Given the speed and size of today's hard drives, you could easily fit a number of CDs onto your hard drive without noticing the difference. Assuming you had 30 full CDs, these would take around 20GB on a hard drive and all will be accessible after a few clicks of a mouse.<br /><br /><strong>Why would we want to do this?</strong><br /><br />One reason is convenience, imagine needing several (handfuls of) discs that you need to carry with you. Using a virtual CD, you can simply keep an image of the disc on your hard drive and access it with a drive letter as needed - no disc. In my laptop, the secondary battery takes place of my CD/DVD drive but I can still access the files I need through the Virutal CD drive.<br /><br />A second reason is speed. Hard drives are about 10 times faster than a CD, plus you can instantly access the file instead of grabbing the CD case, inserting the CD and awaiting for the contents to load. It's true, you could try copying the files over to the hard drive, but this can get messy, plus some programs require a CD to be loaded in order to run. This virtual CD program 'pretends' it is a CD drive (even though the files are on your hard drive), so your programs will run as normal.<br /><br />Note: This tool only works with ISO images - not BIN/CUE image sets.<br /><blockquote>Readme for Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel v2.0.1.1<br /><br />THIS TOOL IS UNSUPPORT BY MICROSOFT PRODUCT SUPPORT SERVICES<br /><br /><br />System Requirements<br />===================<br />- Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional<br /><br />Installation instructions<br />=========================<br />1. Copy VCdRom.sys to your %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder.<br />2. Execute VCdControlTool.exe<br />3. Click "Driver control"<br />4. If the "Install Driver" button is available, click it. Navigate to the %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder, select VCdRom.sys, and click Open.<br />5. Click "Start"<br />6. Click OK<br />7. Click "Add Drive" to add a drive to the drive list. Ensure that the drive added is not a local drive. If it is, continue to click "Add Drive" until an unused drive letter is available.<br />8. Select an unused drive letter from the drive list and click "Mount".<br />9. Navigate to the image file, select it, and click "OK". UNC naming conventions should not be used, however mapped network drives should be OK.<br /><br />You may now use the drive letter as if it were a local CD-ROM device. When you are finished you may unmount, stop, and remove the driver from memory using the driver control.</blockquote><br />For a more completed tutorial (including how to make an ISO from a CD) click <a href="http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=406936">here</a>. The article explains making an ISO using Nero - however, I prefer <a href="http://www.burnatonce.com/index.htm">BurnAtOnce</a> which is <a href="http://www.burnatonce.com/donate.htm">donationware</a>.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1129761671071445342005-10-19T17:41:00.000-05:002005-10-19T17:41:11.103-05:00Show Password onMouseOver<a href="http://userscripts.org/">Userscripts.org</a>: <a href="http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/">GreaseMonkey</a> script that reveals what's behind those asterisks when the mouse is over the password field.SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026058.post-1129759226516351962005-10-19T17:00:00.000-05:002005-10-19T17:00:26.720-05:00Unhide Passwords<a href="http://www.contrex.ca/gecko/">Firefox Extensions - Unhide Passwords</a>: "Nobody standing behind you, peeking over your shoulder?
<br />Then why struggle with hidden password fields?
<br />Tired of typos, forgotten CapsLocks, or just trying to figure out what the original password was?
<br />Turn those password fields into regular text fields, and forget about those hassles."SWeidnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795348965204231149noreply@blogger.com0