2009

Selasa, 10 November 2009

Hitman Pro 3.5

Because not all antimalware programs can detect all viruses, trojans, worms, etc�.one will have to run multiple antivirus tools to scan and clean your system. Hitman Pro provides a solution to scan your system using multiple AV engines at once and even has a cloud based system that can detect unknown threats. The scanner is free and super fast! However, to remove the threats you will have to register (free for 30 days per computer). Make sure you uninstall it if you intend to run it once to clean your system, otherwise it will startup with Windows.

This application is not designed for prevention but rather for detection and cleaning of your computer from malware.

Download 'Hitman Pro'

Senin, 02 November 2009

TouchFLO 3D Wallpaper Changer (Windows Mobile)

If you cannot pick what wallpaper to use for your HTC TouchFLO 3D, Today, S2U2 enabled device, then you can use this simple and easy to use application for your Windows Mobile device. I use it myself on my HTC Touch Diamond 2, and every day it is a surprise what background will be used :)

Download 'TF3D' Wallpaper Changer

Jumat, 28 Agustus 2009

Virtual CloneDrive

Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. CD image files (usually .iso files) can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.
Probably the best virtual drive software, Virtual CloneDrive allows you to enjoy the freedom of a virtual drive and is completely free.

Download 'Virtual CloneDrive'

Kamis, 27 Agustus 2009

Nav N Go iGO

iGO is a GPS navigation software for Windows Mobile (and also iPhone). I was always a TomTom user until I tried iGO. The interface, maps and usage are a lot better than TomTom in my opinion. What I like most about iGO is that they paid close attention to what the user wants. The data on the main map display can be customized (speed, distance, time, etc�). Get a warning when you are driving too fast, custom wallpaper, save a trip log and a lot more. One of the most intuitive features that I really love is the smart way of searching for names. When you start to type a street name, only the characters that can be used are visible on the screen keyboard. The keys that are simply not needed (because your search would have no results if you would type that key) are left away so you don�t mistype. You have to simply see it in the video, really simple but genius concept.

Visit 'NavNGo' website

Senin, 24 Agustus 2009

K9 Web Protection

Blue Coat� K9 Web Protection is a content filtering solution for your home computer. Its job is to provide you with a family-safe Internet experience, where YOU control the Internet content that enters your home. K9 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat's Fortune 500 customers around the world, wrapped in simple, friendly, and reliable software for your Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista computer.

Blue Coat's unique Web filtering technology divides Internet content into 60 distinct categories. These categories are stored in the master Blue Coat database, through which we maintain and update more than 15 million ratings of websites and domains. A Web site will fall into one or more of these categories, based on the content of the site. To meet your particular needs and preferences, you can configure the software to block or allow specific categories.

Download 'K9 Web Protection'

Kamis, 13 Agustus 2009

Firefox Add-on: Gmail Notifier

The original notifier for Gmail. Supports checking multiple accounts as well as Gmail Hosted accounts.
Download 'Gmail Notifier'

Jumat, 07 Agustus 2009

FileMenu Tools

FileMenu Tools allows you to customise the context menu of Windows Explorer. And it lets you:

Add some built-in utilities that perform operations on files and folders.
Add customised commands which run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
Configure the "Send to..." submenu.
Enable/disable commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.

Download 'FileMenu Tools'

Rabu, 05 Agustus 2009

Microsoft Office Word / Excel / PowerPoint viewer

A free tool not many people know about from Microsoft is the Word and Excel viewer. If you receive a word / excel / powerpoint document from someone, then you will probably use Open Office to view it if you do not have Microsoft Office installed. But why install a large program such as Open Office, or even Microsoft Office if all you will ever do is view documents and not edit / create them.

For these scenario�s there are the free Microsoft Word / Excel and PowerPoint viewers.

Download "Microsoft Office Word viewer"

Download "Microsoft Office Excel viewer"

Download "Microsoft Office PowerPoint viewer"

Selasa, 04 Agustus 2009

WinMerge

WinMerge is an ideal tool for viewing differences between two text based files (.txt, .as, .cpp, etc�) usually used in programming environments. I personally use this tool in collaboration with a file versioning tool (Tortoise SVN). When is this tool useful? Example: You have a local copy of �mycode.as� and another person has that same copy on their computer. You work on that file and make modifications. At the same time the other person also makes modifications on their own local version of that same file. When you upload that file into subversion, and the other person uploads their version as well, there will be a conflict as both have been modified. WinMerge can then show you the differences and merge them for you. You can make modifications in the view panes if you wish and save the merged file.

Download 'WinMerge'

Senin, 29 Juni 2009

VirtualDub

VirtualDub Tutorial

VirtualDubMod Tutorial

VirtualDub is an easy to use lightweight and very powerful video editor and encoder. You can encode video�s into any .avi video format that is installed in your system (divx, xvid, mjpeg, etc�). It also lets you extract audio tracks from various video formats (avi and mpeg) and re-encode video�s using other audio files as a soundtrack. Using the timeline you can also trim pieces of the footage. Using a wide set of video filters will let you edit the color, contrast, sharpness, size, etc� of the output video. You can download virtualdub plugins (just Google for them) and extend the capabilities of virtualdub to include automatic video stabilizing to convert shaky video recordings to more steady ones.

There is also a modified version called VirtualDubMod with some extra features.

Download 'VirtualDub'

Download 'VirtualDubMod'

Jumat, 26 Juni 2009

The Font Thing

The Font Thing is a free font manager. It is very mutch like �SuitCase� for the MAC. You can browse installed and not installed fonts with a custom text. You can load or install fonts and unload or uninstall fonts. It also lets you create font groups and quickly load them. The difference between �loading� a font and �installing� a font is that a loaded font is only temporary available until you reboot Windows or unload it. This is very handy if you only need to use the font once, instead of installing every single font you need to use and end up having hundreds of fonts installed in your computer after a while, which slows down font browsing a you end up having a huge list of fonts to scroll trough in your applications.

Download 'The Font Thing'

Senin, 22 Juni 2009

IcoFX

IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.

With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there�s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. Create a favicon for your website or blog.

Convert your Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX.

Download 'IcoFX'

Kamis, 18 Juni 2009

Universal Viewer

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are:

Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode: any files, of unlimited size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed)
RTF, UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded texts
Image: all general graphics formats: BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF... plus all formats supported by IrfanView/XnView external viewers
Multimedia: all formats supported by MS Windows Media Player: AVI MPG WMV MP3...
Internet: all formats supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML XML DOC XLS...
Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins

Download 'Universal Viewer'

Rabu, 17 Juni 2009

SpaceMonger

SpaceMonger helps you to re-organize space on your local- or network harddisk. The unique feature of having an overview of files and folders in the relative size of actual disk space they consume is very handy. You no longer have to go to every folder manually to see how big that folder is, but rather see everything at once like a bird-eye overview of a landscape. From this map you can delete or move files and folders simply by right-clicking on them. You can also have other types of views such as file types and sizes.

SpaceMonger comes in a free (old) version and a paid (new) version.

Download 'Space Monger'

Senin, 08 Juni 2009

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free sourcecode editor. It supports many programming languages such as HTML, CSS, C++, Javascript, and even Actionscript (although I prefer FlashDevelop for Actionscript programming). It has code highlighting and hinting, and many more useful features. It loads very fast and is quite small. Best of all it�s free!

If you download the .bin.zip file of Notepad++ (without installer), you will be able to use it on a USB device.

Download 'Notepad++'

Rabu, 03 Juni 2009

FlashDevelop

FlashDevelop is a free Flash Actionscript editor. It supports project overviews, code hiding, code completion, functions and variables overview, debugging and a lot more. If you are a Flash Developer then this tool will make your life a lot easier.

Download 'Flash Develop'

Selasa, 26 Mei 2009

Total Commander (Windows Mobile)

A more efficient and free file browser for your Windows Mobile device. Just like it�s PC variant, it supports 2 (virtual) file panels. This application will allow you to copy, delete, move, edit, view and upload your files via FTP, Infrared or bluetooth. It will also allow you to edit the registry.

Download 'Total Commander for Windows Mobile'

Kamis, 07 Mei 2009

ExtractNow

ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily. ExtractNow is not a complete archival solution. It's main purpose it to allow the user to extract multiple archives easily.
Why wear out your clicking finger extracting files one by one when you can extract at once? ExtractNow does a fine job of bundling compressed files and extracting their contents in one fell swoop. ExtractNow has a clean, well-designed and easy-to-use interface. To extract files, simply drag and drop them into the main program window, or right-click the files while in Windows Explorer. ExtractNow supports the two most popular compression formats, ZIP and RAR, as well as a handful of other formats. Simple but not simplistic, this is a powerful and reliable program that will be of use to anyone who manages many compressed files.

Download 'ExtractNow'

Senin, 04 Mei 2009

PTFB (Push That Freakin� Button)

Do you often get popup messages where the only answer you can give is �OK� or you always click on the same answer? Computers are very good at automating things and making your life easier, so why not make use of this feature? For almost any computer annoyance you have, someone probably created a tool to solve it. All you have to do is look for it. That is how I found PTFB. Just drag the hand cursor to the button you want to click in the popup and click on �Start Watching�. From now on, you never have to click on that button again.

Download 'PTFB Free'

Download 'PTFB Pro'

Rabu, 29 April 2009

Media Player Classic Homecinema

Media Player Classic Homecinema is a very lightweight, clean, fast and powerfull mediaplayer. It has the interface of the old Windows Mediaplayer. Hence the name �Classic�. Don�t let the simple interface fool you, this mediaplayer is very powerfull and fast. It supports various video playback modes, easy adjustment of video dimensions (using the NumPad), automatic volume leveling (ideal for watching movies), creating bookmarks in movies, displaying subtitles (.srt, .sub, etc�), playing DVD�s, change aspect ratio, anti-tearing and tons of other options. The most amazing thing is that it starts up very fast (less than 2 seconds) and is very lightweight. With only 6.2 Mb as a standalone player, you can even bring it with you on your portable USB data carrier.

Since the original author of Media Player Classic stopped updating the program, someone else took the initiative to create an updated version with some new features and enhancements and added the name �Homecinema� to it.

Download 'Media Player Classic Homecinema

Selasa, 21 April 2009

Cam Wizard

Cam Wizard is a very easy to use CCTV Webcam security application. It can monitor the webcam and if there is movement detected, it can do a lot of things for you such as recording a video (with sound) of the webcam, take snapshots, upload the video�s / images to an FTP server, keep a history of video activity and automatically delete old files, pop-up when there is movement, etc. You can even monitor up to 4 camera�s at once.

Download CAM Wizard

Senin, 13 April 2009

Inno Setup

Inno Setup is a free compiler to create setup installers. I use it for my self made software. It comes with a built in wizard that guides you trough the process of creating a basic installer. You can save the generated script for later use when you need to publish a new installer for an updated version of your application.

Download �Inno Setup�

Kamis, 09 April 2009

Hiren's Boot CD

Hiren's BootCD is the most fundamental tool for any ICT person. You can use this CD directly from within Windows, but it's true power is seen when you boot from the CD, so you can operate on the computer without the operating system's (and viruses, trojans and rootkit's) interference. You can clean viruses, partition or clone your disks, test your system and a lot more.

Download 'Hiren's Boot CD'

Selasa, 07 April 2009

ZoomIt

One feature that any version of Windows is missing is the desktop zoom function. I guess because OSX has this feature standard in it's OS, Windows did not include it as it could be seen as 'stealing OSX's idea'. All this nonsense about 'who stole ideas from who' only results Windows and MAC in an inability to grow in functionality and user friendlyness. Take for example the ALT+TAB functionality in Windows to switch from window to window. Sure the Vista 3D ALT+TAB idea looks cool, but it is not as practical as the OSX version of window switching. Windows cannot use that idea since OSX allready uses it. And so there are also things that Windows does better than MAC, but MAC cannot use that because Windows allready did.

I think when they both stop being so childish about 'you stole my idea!', we will finally have big improvements in MAC and Windows.

Download 'ZoomIt'

Senin, 06 April 2009

Shark007 Codec Pack

Vista- or XP Codec Pack is a package of video codecs put together specially selected to work with Vista or XP. It includes the most popular video codecs such as Divx, Xvid, H264, Matroska, etc...

Download �Windows 7 Codec Pack� (for Windows 7 64 bit)

Download 'Vista Codec Pack' (for Windows Vista systems)

Download 'XP Codec Pack' (for Windows XP systems)

Jumat, 03 April 2009

Winamp

Winamp is an excellent mp3 (and video) player that supports plugins, skins, any audio format you can think of, podcasts, internet radio and tv and a lot more. Personally I don't really use all of the features of Winamp so I could go for a less bloated mp3 player. However, winamp has a few good audio enhancement plugins that makes your mp3's sound fuller and richer. One such plugin is called "Enhancer". I highly recommend this plugin. There are even skins available for this plugin.

Personally I only use Winamp to play audio files and not video's, as there is a better program out there to play video files (look in the Multimedia section of this blog).

I use a self made program called "RandoMP3 Audition" to play random albums in Winamp and cleanup my audio collection. I can choose to delete the entire folder that is currently playing, or just the current song, with just the click of a button. Thus only leaving songs I really like, and getting rid of the stuff that I would not like to have on my portable MP3 player aniway.

Download �Winamp�

Rabu, 01 April 2009

Ultramon

No it's not a creature from Pokemon or Digimon, but a very useful tool to extend your Windows taskbar to your extended monitors. It is actually amazing that even the latest Windows Vista does not make full use of your extended monitors by also extending the taskbar. With Ultramon, you can make your taskbar extend to the secondary display and even have the window taskbar buttons appear on that monitor. It can be very confusing to have the taskbar buttons of a window that is on the secondary monitor, appear on the primary monitor.

Ultramon can also move any window to the secondary display, or maximize the window over multiple monitors in an instant with just the click of a button.

It also supports multiple monitor wallpapers, so you can have one single wallpaper span multiple monitors, or even have one screensaver per monitor and a lot more!

Download 'Ultramon'

Selasa, 31 Maret 2009

Total Commander

Total Commander is an excellent file manager for Windows. The idea springs from the very early MSDOS version of Norton Commander. It has two file panels which makes it easy to copy and move files from two different folders. Total Commander has all you need to work with files. You can pack, unpack files from most compressed file types (.zip and .rar). It also supports other packed files such as 7zip and arj using plugins. If you miss a feature in Total Commander, then you can go to the plugins page on their website and download a plugin that gives TC the ability to do what you want it to.

Download 'Total Commander'

Senin, 30 Maret 2009

SyncBack SE

SyncBack SE is a file synchronization tool. It is very useful to automatically make backups of your files and sync files with an online FTP account. The best about this software is that it is very customizable. You can have backup and sync tasks run upon a specific interval, if there are changes in the monitored directory, if a disk is plugged in, etc.. The Pro version even supports scripting and burining to DVD / CD.

Personally I use SyncBack SE to:

make daily backups of my Users folder on Vista
send downloaded .torrent files to my other computer on my network
move downloaded torrent and emule files from one computer to another on my network
backup files from my mobile phone (by connecting my phone as a flash drive)
sync roboform data to a free online FTP account
backup my portable disk upon connecting

Download 'SyncBack SE or Pro'

Jumat, 27 Maret 2009

Revo Uninstaller

Sure Windows has a built in unistallers overview window, however it is not an uninstaller in itself. Sometimes a program does not show up in the overview of uninstallers (due to bad installers) or the uninstaller that comes with the software does not want to uninstall. You are then stuck with the application that cannot be removed.

Revo Uninstaller solves these problems and a lot more. The most usefull option to me is to sort the installed programs by date. If you just installed a new program that you wanted to try out, and you want to remove it, then that program is at the top of the list if you sort it by installation date.

Revo Uninstaller can also clean up left over registry entries and files, and comes with lots of usefull tools.

Download 'Revo Uninstaller'

Kamis, 26 Maret 2009

Pidgin

Pidgin is an open source messenger that combines many popular messenger clients (such as MSN, Google, Yahoo, ICQ, etc...) into one. It has a very clean interface and loads very fast. No spyware, adware, advertising, etc... And it also comes for many platforms such as Windows, MAC OSX, Fedora Core, CentOS / RHEL. It also supports plugins so you can add more messenger protocols, text encryption, etc... The only downside is that it does not support video and audio conversations.

Download 'Pidgin'

Rabu, 18 Maret 2009

Firefox Add-on: Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page...
One problem I had with FireBug was that it does not monitor traffic when you are redirected to another page, because the traffic log is reset. This is no problem for Fiddler.

Selasa, 17 Maret 2009

Firefox Add-on: WOT

WOT, Web of Trust, warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. Protect your computer against online threats by using WOT as your front-line layer of protection when browsing or searching in unfamiliar territory. WOT's color-coded icons show you ratings for 21 million websites - green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop � helping you avoid the dangerous sites. Surf safer and add WOT to your Firefox now.

Sabtu, 14 Maret 2009

Firefox Add-on: Lazarus

Automatically saves all forms for easy retrieval later on. Lazarus securely saves every form as you type it, and if the submission fails you can right click, and select "recover form" to restore the form to it's prior state.

Kamis, 12 Maret 2009

Firefox Add-on: Johnny Cache

Use JohnnyCache to block access to the disk and memory cache based on user-defined URL patterns. This can be useful if you are a developer and are working on a website.

Rabu, 11 Maret 2009

Firefox Add-on: IE View Lite

Not all sites are optimized for Firefox (example; Microsoft Updates). In that case you can click on the "IE View Lite" icon, or right-click on the page and select 'view this page in IE'. This will open Internet Explorer with the page you are currently on in Firefox, instead of manually launching IE, copying the URL from Firefox and pasting it in IE.

Senin, 09 Maret 2009

Firefox Add-on: FireGestures

FireGestures is a customizable mouse gestures extension which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures.

Reduce mouse movement by using mouse gestures instead of the navigation bar on top of the browser.

Minggu, 08 Maret 2009

Firefox Add-on: DownThemAll

If you have a web page with lots of links to files you wish to download, then instead of right-clicking on each and every link and selecting "save target as..." can get quite troublesome. Using "DownThemAll", you can save all the links at once in a directory you specify. It can even help you to download files in an accelerated way.

Sabtu, 07 Maret 2009

Firefox Add-on: Download Statusbar

Download Statusbar allows you to view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

Jumat, 06 Maret 2009

Roboform

Roboform is a password management tool that is available as a toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer, as a standalone program that sits in your tray, as a USB portable version and as a Windows Mobile application. It can save and fill your login data from any website. You can also make notes where you can type your own information. I use the safenotes to store my software licenses and other personal information.

It can also automate filling in forms for you such as personal name, bank account, credit card number (can notify you if it filled in a credit card number), phone number, adress, etc...

Every entry is stored as an encrypted file, so you do not need to worry that someone might steal your information. The advantage of this is that you can synchronize the login data with your PDA if you have a Windows Mobile device, as there is a free portable version of Roboform for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. This way I have all my logins and personal data available wherever I go in a safe and encrypted way. The only way to get to the data is to enter a password to decrypt the data.

A new feature of Roboform is the Roboform Online sync. When you have a Roboform licence, you can get a free online storage space. By adding the free "goodsync' plugin for roboform, you can have all your roboform data synced with all your computers.

Download 'Roboform'

Rabu, 04 Maret 2009

Firefox Add-on: Adblock Plus

Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

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