Free Online Storage - box.net

1GB of online storage for free, more for pay.

Features

• Save backup copies of important files
• Move documents between your computers
• Setup sub-accounts for multiple user access
• Store photos and other important memories
• Share files or create online photo galleries

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Unlocker for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003

How often have you tried to delete or rename a file or folder and got
"Cannot delete xxx: It is being used by another person or program." ?

Unlocker is a tool which will help you removing this scandalous Windows
bug.

Simply right click the file or folder and select Unlocker. If the file
or folder is locked then a window will appear with a list of processes
locking the file or folder. Select the locks and click Unlock and you
are done.

Download Unlocker

[Via Roy Osherove's Blog]

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Powerful personal Wiki system - ConnectedText

ConnectedText is a simple but powerful personal Wiki system. With it you can store ideas, pieces of information found in the Web, thoughts, code snippets, recipes, lists, linking them with ease. Like a notebook in which any topic can be linked to any other.

ConnectedText Features

User interface

• Multiple workspaces open at same time, with tabbed browsing
• Several views can be docked
• Full support of Unicode
• Store all topic revisions, each with own notes
• Use of Cascading Style Sheets to render text
• Navigator to show topic relationship
• Full text search with boolean, phrase and proximity operators
• Complete history navigation
• Built-in web browser
• Plugin architecture
• OLE Automation
• Bookmark manager for topics
• Minimization to system tray
• Configuration of keyboard shortcuts
• Toolbar customization

Wiki features

• Automatic creation of table of contents for a topic
• Tables and bulleted lists
• Dictionary lists
• Support for GIF, PNG, JPEG and BMP images, with resizing and positioning
• Five levels of headers which can be collapsed/expanded.
• Text effects: bold, italic, underwrite, strike through, etc
• Paragraph indenting
• URL, mail and file linking
• Allows inclusion of a topic inside other, even from other projects
• Links between projects
• Anchor links
• Automatic URL detection
• Special category topics
• Mathematical formulas rendered using LaTeX
• Rename or delete any topic with automatic change of references
• Inline styles to improve text appearance
• Topics can have an associated icon
• Topics can be locked to prevent editing
• Include information dynamically from external sources using plugins
• Topic templates can be created

Editor

• Completion proposal of topic names
• Accept URL, file, image and text drag and drop
• Search and replace
• Spell checker
• Auto save
• Special paste to create a new topic
• Allows copy of images from browsers or other sources using drag and drop
• Allows transfer of topics between projects using drag and drop
• Images can be pasted from Clipboard

Tools

• Export topics to text, HTML Help or HTML file
• Import topics from text, HTML and RTF files
• See all topics that links to the current topic
• Compare any two revisions
• Topic analysis to help figure out linking problems
• History of topic changes
• Category tree view which shows the hierarchy of categories
• Images manager
• Revisions removal tool which removes unnecessary revisions based in a criteria
• Backup, restore and shrink functions to manage projects

Download ConnectedText (6.3 mb)

Patterns & Practices Guidance Explorer

Guidance Explorer is a tool to find and use relevant patterns & practices guidance. Guidance Explorer installs with a guidance library including performance and security topics for .NET and ASP.NET applications. The guidance library contains checklists and guidelines covering design, implementation and deployment topics. The tool and the library will evolve over time to include additional types of guidance.

Feature List

• Find guidance
  • Performance guidelines for .net 1.1 and asp.net 1.1
  • Security guidelines for asp.net 2.0
  • View guidance based on full library or default p&p views
  • Sort and filter by column
  • Add and remove columns
  • Full text search
• Build custom guidance set
  • Create new folder
  • Create new view
  • Drag items into view
  • Browse items in view
  • Browse all items from views in a folder
• Share guidance
  • Export view or library as XML
  • Import view or library as XML
  • Save guidance view or library as doc or html
  • Save checklist view or library as doc, html, or xls
• Add/Edit existing guidance
  • Add new item through UI
  • Edit existing item through UI
  • Rich text editor for content creation
  • HTML editor for content creation
  • Template with schema and test cases to guide content creation
  • Example to guide content creation

Get Patterns & Practices Guidance Explorer

[Via Larkware News]

Google AJAX Search API (Beta)

"The Google AJAX Search API is an experimental API that lets you integrate a dynamic Google search module into your web pages so your users can mash up Google search results with other content on your site or add search results clippings to their own content."

Sign up for a Google AJAX Search API key