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| This page includes
the most
excellent software for several operating systems - Check back often to
see what's new... |
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| Tech Tools - Local NET TOOLS that run on your computer | ||
| Links | O/S | Comments |
| Sam Spade for Windows | FREE - ESSENTIAL - The ultimate general-purpose Internet utility package, with some extra features to help in tracing the source of spam and other forms of Internet harassment. | |
| AnalogX - HyperTrace | FREE - VERY COOL - Trace Route tool | |
| LANguard Network Scanner | FREE - ESSENTIAL - scans entire networks and provides NETBIOS information for each computer such as host name, shares, logged on user name. It does OS detection, tests password strength, detects registry issues and much more. Reports are outputted in HTML. | |
| WS_Watch
- [starts download] |
FREE- VERY COOL - 16bit program that is not supported - Free form diagrammatic representation of networks with color icons that indicate the health of each device / address on your Local Area Network or remote Intranet / Internet. -- Screenshot -- | |
| InetBench: Internet Benchmark | FREE- VERY COOL - INETBENCH is an internet benchmark program that actually gives you practical, real-world measurements of exactly how fast, or slow, your internet connection really is. -- Also a valuable tool for evaluating the speed of your own web pages and to locate what may be slowing them down. - Software By: Lee Hite | |
| ID Serve | FREE- VERY COOL - Internet Server Identification Utility - from GRC | |
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| WebBased REMOTE Tools / Services for Internet users | ||
| Links | O/S | Comments |
| SamSpade.org | all |
Comprehensive set of online "Quick Tools"... Includes WHOIS, PING, Traceroute, DNS lookup, Author search, much more... |
| Geektools | all | anti-Spam tools, Traceroute, Whois |
| Traceroute, Ping, Domain Name Server (DNS) Lookup, WHOIS, and DNS Records Lookup | all | Excellent |
| Remote - Domain Tools | all | Time Saver - DNS, Ping, Traceroute, Whois |
| Netcraft What's That Site Running Results | all | - Server and Operating System a site is running |
| Netcraft Web Site Finder | all | - Search by partial address, Find server type, SSL Survey |
Internet
Traffic Report --  |
all | monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections. |
Web based password generator - 
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all
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Generate random passwords - No software to download or install. Just bookmark the link to have this important function easy and convenient. |
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| Internet Clients, Servers and Utilities | ||||||
| Links | O/S | Comments | ||||
| CLIENT - Netscape Communicator |  |
FREE - Out of Date but ok for some users - Internet client suite | web, email, newsgroup, online HTML editor, FTP, Gopher | ||||
| CLIENT - Mozilla | |
FREE - ESSENTIAL
- Internet client suite | web, email, newsgroup, online HTML
editor, FTP, IRC -- Strongly suggest Mozilla
v.1.6b or higher -- |
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| CLIENT
- Netscape 9 |
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FREE - EXCELLENT
- Internet
client suite | web, email, newsgroup, online HTML editor, FTP, IM,
phones, radio -- The Netscape commercial version of Mozilla |
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| CLIENT
- Konqueror |
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FREE - ESSENTIAL - KDE Web Browser | ||||
| more Web Browsers & Resources |
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| UTILITY - AnalogX POW! | FREE - EXCELLENT - Popup killer, Auto-Close WEB pop-up / pop-under or most any unwanted windows. Doesn't work with Mozilla or Netscape6+. but isn't needed for them. | |||||
| UTILITY - MailWasher | FREE - ESSENTIAL
- E-mail antiSpam filters, Black/White lists, Heuristics, DNS
blacklist
- Preview, Manage server side inboxs Multiple POP3 accounts... |
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UTILITY- The
Proxomitron -  |
FREE - ESSENTIAL - A web proxy filtering tool that provides surfers ultimate control over their view of the web. Especially useful in controlling advertising and web pages that attempt to deny you access to your browser controls. | |||||
| CLIENT
- gFTP |
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FREE - EXCELLENT
- gFTP is a free multi-threaded ftp client for *NIX
based machines running X11R6 or later. |
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| CLIENT - SmartFTP | FREE - ESSENTIAL - FTP Client | |||||
| CLIENT - XChat | |
FREE - ESSENTIAL - IRC Chat Client for Linux and Windows... |
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| CLIENT - mIRC- More Communication, IRC, IM, Phone clients | FAVORED - IRC Chat client for Windows |
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| SERVER - AnalogX Proxy | FREE - USEFUL - a small and simple server that allows any other machine on your local network to route it's requests through a central machine - easy, secure Internet connection sharing. | |||||
| SERVER - War
FTP Daemon Alternate download v.1.67b05 patch for v.1.65 |
FREE - EXCELLENT
- an
excellent and fun
FTP server for Windows. It features UNIX style security, a BBS like
Windows
interface for the system operator, the extreme flexibility, multi-
threading
and OLE support... Win95/98/ME/NT/2k/ |
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| System Utilities | ||
| Links | O/S | Comments |
| WinDrivers Backup | FREE - ESSENTIAL - Easily finds and backs up in organized manner all system drivers - works for stand alone systems AND across a network. Once you use this utility, its indispensable value will become apparent. | |
| AnalogX - DLL Archive | FREE - FOR EXPERT USERS - Take control over the cleanup of unused DLLs left by uninstalled programs | |
| Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel | FREE - ESSENTIAL - My favorite Startup Programs Manager -- Complete control of what programs start at bootup couldn't be faster or easier. | |
| Startup Cop | FREE- USEFUL - another excellent Startup Programs Manager. Remembers different startup configurations. | |
| RegCleaner4.3.0.780 | FREE no more - still
EXCELLENT - (Free
version available in the jv16
power tools 1.3 times out) This utility is not to be
confused with
the infamous "RegClean", RegCleaner is a product of a Finish
youth
(well he was a youth) named Jouni Vuorio. I've been using it since an
early
version, and have found It an excellent, safe and easy to use aid in
maintaining
a Windows box without the tool causing any system problems on its
own. |
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| PowerDesk Pro - Free Version | FREE - EXCELLENT - File manager alternative to Windows Explorer - new owner, check policy for free version... | |
| SequoiaView | FREE - USEFUL & FUN - A Windows shell, file browser that displays files graphically, based on size and type... Useful in analyzing program and data file patterns, disk fill volumes, finding large files, finding clusters of file types... and the displays of your disks and directories are intriguingly beautiful textured shapes and colors. | |
| WCPUID |  |
FREE - ESSENTIAL - True probing analysis of the system |
| Belarc Adviser |
FREE - USEFUL - builds a detailed profile of your installed hardware and software, report saved in html. | |
| AIDA32
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FREE
- USEFUL - Another excellent
System Information and benchmarking utility - v.3.93 |
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| Computer Profiler | FREE - USEFUL - Find and document many details about your machine. | |
| ASCII Chart and Character Picker | FREE - USEFUL - Æ¥ÿ€ | |
WMagnify (Screen Magnifier for
IX)  |
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FREE - ESSENTIAL
- A member utility of the Windowmaker
desktop environment - with Windowmaker installed, RUN wmagnify in any
GUI. Syntax for operating is here. |
| Magnify (Screen Magnifier for Windows) |
FREE - ESSENTIAL - Essential if you are as blind as I am. Of all the magnifiers I've tried, including those provided in Windows, this is the only one I've found usable and unobtrusive. It is excellent, but hard to find and not supported, so I have a copy for you. Click magnify12.exe to start the download (808k). | |
| X-Fonter | FREE - EXCELLENT - There must be a zillion and one font utilities, but Black Sun Eclipse's X-Fonter stands out. Especially useful for making images for webpages and other types of presentation. | |
| TweakUI | FREE - ESSENTIAL - Allows you to change some Windows settings without mucking around in the registry | |
| Xteq X-setup | FREE - USEFUL - The ultimate Windows tweaking utility - Open architecture which provides tweaking ability beyond that of TweakUI. | |
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| Productivity Programs and Tools | ||
| Links | O/S | Comments |
| OFFICE - OpenOffice | |
FREE- ESSENTIAL
- Office Suite - Supports Word/Excel formats and more |
| OFFICE - 602Pro PC Office Suite | FREE- EXCELLENT - Office Suite - Supports Word/Excel formats | |
| WRITING - NoteTab | FREE - ESSENTIAL - Text Editor | |
| WRITING
- KeyNote |
FREE - EXCELLENT - Rich Text Editor featuring an exceptionally useful hierarchical organization method. | |
| WRITING - WordWeb | FREE - ESSENTIAL - Thesaurus / Dictionary | |
| PIM
- KOrganizer |
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FREE - EXCELLENT
- KOrganizer is the calendar and scheduling
application of the popular K Desktop Environment. -- provides
management of events and tasks, alarm notification, web export, network
transparent handling of data, group scheduling, import and export of
calendar files and more. |
| PIM - Almanac | FAVORED- Powerful calendar that includes very well integrated other PIM functions. | |
| PIM
- PhoneDeck |
FREE - EXCELLENT - An address book that is actually useful. | |
| PIM - Palm Desktop | FREE - USEFUL - Yes, it works on your desktop PC - Very handy for scheduling multiple users, projects and other creative uses | |
| GRAPHIC - SnagIT | FAVORED - ESSENTIAL
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Screen/Media Capture and editing tool... Captures with SnagIT in Wine environment requires an extra step. Save your Linux screen or window captures to a folder set as the "Catalog Directory". Open in Snagit browser and "snag" the area desired. |
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| GRAPHIC - Gadwin PrintScreen | FREE- EXCELLENT - Screen Capture tool. A very easy to use and useful tip from TechTV | |
| GRAPHIC
- Futuris
Imager - |
FREE- ESSENTIAL
- Image editor / converter - IE Independent
Futuris Imager is first image viewer with open plug-in system - any developer can create plug-ins and add-ons for Futuris Imager. |
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| GRAPHIC - IrfanView |
FREE- EXCELLENT - IrfanView is a very fast, small FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Includes multiple (animated) GIF support, multi-page TIFF support and multiple ICO support. | |
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| Security and Privacy | ||
| Links | O/S | Comments |
| Firewall ZoneAlarm
v.2.6.362
- Download - Current
free Version |
FREE - ESSENTIAL
- Personal Firewall - the only software personal firewall I would
recommend for Windows at this time... |
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| Firewall Firestarter
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FREE - Personal Firewall for Linux -
Firestarter
in a Nutshell: Firestarter is a free firewall tool for Linux machines. Whether you simply want to protect your personal workstation or you have a network of computers to secure, Firestarter is here to make your life easier. |
| Firewall |
- see http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/17319 |
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| Script
Sentry |
FREE - MUST HAVE - Intercepts Scripts attempting to Run | |
| SocketToMe
& SocketLock |
FREE - MUST HAVE - For Win2K and WinXP to Close Raw Sockets | |
| IRC
Bot Detector |
FREE - Chatters SHOULD HAVE - Tests for Bots accessing Port 6667 | |
| PGP -------- |
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FREE - MUST HAVE - Secure Signing and Encryption (de facto standard) |
| GPG
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& more |
FREE - SHOULD
HAVE - The GNU Privacy Guard - GnuPG
is a complete and free replacement for PGP. Because it does not use the
patented IDEA algorithm, it can be used without any restrictions. GnuPG
is a RFC2440 (OpenPGP) compliant application. |
| Password
Corral |
FREE - MUST HAVE - Excellent password manager | |
| Password Generator - Web based for convenience... |
FREE - MUST HAVE - Generate random passwords - No software to download or install. Just bookmark the link to have this important function easy and convenient. | |
| Spybot
Search&Destroy |
FREE - ESSENTIAL - multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scum-ware components and lets you remove them safely. -- | |
| Ad-aware |
FREE - EXCELLENT - multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scum-ware components and lets you remove them safely. You can get the clamwin virus definitions manually at: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ | |
| AntiVirus Clam AntiVirus - |
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FREE - ClamAV
for Linux - ClamWin for Windows KlamAV: Bringing The Power of ClamAV To The KDE Desktop You can get the clamwin virus definitions manually at: http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd |
| AntiVirus F-Secure
F-Prot DOS |
FREE - ESSENTIAL - AntiVirus for many platforms, F-Prot for DOS is FREE and essential to keep up-to-date on a bootable floppy. FTP site. | |
| AntiVirus Frisk Software | |
FAVORED - F-Prot
AntiVirusTM
versions
for individual home users -- for Linux for FreeBSD - for Windows and DOS |
| AntiVirus AVG | FREE- ESSENTIAL
- AntiVirus for Windows |
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| AntiVirus OpenAntiVirus | |
FREE-
- The official Open Source AntiVirus software - More Info. to come |
| AntiVirus eTrust
by Computer Associates |
EXCELLENT- Free version called InnoculateIT is no longer offered, but this replacement is reasonably priced and as good as the predecessor. | |
| AntiVirus AntiVir -Win AntiVir -Linux |
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FREE - AntiVirus - versions for Linux, Windows, NT
and DOS - Includes DOS version as a safeguard to loosing the GUI to an infection - |
| AntiVirus Kaspersky™ Lab |
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EXCELLENT but expensive -
Virus
detector -- Linux and Windows |
| Rootkit
Revealer |
By SysInternals |
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