Monday, January 23, 2006

MP Software's PHP Designer

MP Software

MP Software makes a great freeware PHP editor called, of course, PHP Editor 2005. They now also have PHP Editor 2006 in the beta development stage. The freeware IDE (integrated development environment) program has garnered some pretty impressive awards & reviews. If you code in PHP, it's worth checking out.

Terabyte Unlimited Freeware

Terabyte Unlimited

Terabyte Unlimited, makers of partitioning and multi-boot software, have a page of interesting freeware. Many are obscure and only work with their own software, but there are a few interesting ones such as:

BurnCDCC - This utility is used to burn an ISO file to a CD/DVD disc. Many new systems come with a limited CD/DVD software package which lacks the ability to burn .ISO files.

DISKINFO - This DOS utility will display BIOS and ATA details of your drives.

Drop to DOS - With Drop to DOS, you can right click on any folder and choose the Drop to DOS option to take to you a command prompt within that folder. Works with Win9x/WinME/WinNT/2K/XP.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Karen's Power Tools

KarenWare.com

Replicator Automatically copy and backup files.
WhoIs Discover who owns Internet Domain Names, and how to contact their owners.
Calculator A Calculator with a difference! This one can accurately handle numbers containing thousands of digits.
Cookie Viewer View and delete web "Cookies" left by the web sites you've visited.
Hasher Compute and verify MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashes of text strings, files, and groups of files.
Once-A-Day II Automatically perform tasks, the first time Windows starts or a user logs on, each day!.
Disk Slack Checker See how much of your disk space is being wasted.
Drive Info View information about the disk drives attached to your computer.
URL Discombobulator Understand those cryptic web addresses, and make a few of your own.
Directory Printer Print the names, and other information, of all folders and files on your computer.

... and many more!

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Fog Creek Software's CityDesk

CityDesk

Fog Creek has a great content management program that can be used to create web sites easily, but instead of requiring software on a web server, it runs on your desktop! You can also use it to create blogs and news sites. They have a free edition that publishes small sites of up to 50 pages, get it HERE.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

ABC Amber - Conversion Utility Software

ABC Amber

ABC Amber's award winning conversion utility software has the answer to just about any need you may have...even conversion to any of 50 languages! Convert text, images, databases, e-mail and more! Powerful, yet easy to use.

Trial software available, includes convertors for text, pdf, chm, MS Outlook, MS Access and MS Excel.

Darkwet.net

Darkwet.net Utilities

Darkwet has a number of freeware applications related to publishing:

cover xp - very easy to use software that prints cd covers without having to resize pictures

webcam xp - powerful webcam utility with an integrated http server so you don't need to install a web server on your computer. works under all windows os and the server port can be changed. now supports multi-cam!

webcast xp - this is the small brother of webcamXP. it uses a real streaming engine (windows media) and unlike the original windows media server it will be configured and ready in a couple of minutes.

gallery fx - the perfect tool if you want to create large html galleries in a few clicks. it has 7 different anti-alias modes for different pictures types. you can create as many presets as you want and use it as much as you want for free

businesscards xp - this tool will allow you to perfectly match your hi-res bitmap on any kind of Business Cards template within a few clicks... it uses a printing engine based on coverXP

staffDB - staffDB is an online staff manager database in asp/mysql which is based on myvideochat.net engine. it allows to store all the informations about the staff / workers including pictures and time charts and it can be used with external softwares connecting to the db to print access passes and addresses lists.

dvd subtitler - software dvd player created by gersen that adds missing subtitles on dvd movies, to use it you must have the script that goes with the movie for the desired language (compatible with most popular scripts formats). This software is requested by all anime fans because many dvds are in japanese only