Network Diagnostic Tool

The Network Diagnostics for Windows XP tool analyzes information about your network connectivity to help you troubleshoot network-related problems with your computer.

 

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Microsoft Calculator Plus

This application allows you to complete many different types of conversions; it also includes all the mathematical functions offered in Microsoft Calculator.

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13 Useful Firefox Extensions

All-in-One Gestures - This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.

Download Statusbar is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar.

Show Image is an extension for Mozilla Firefox which enables user to reload a broken image without loading the entire page.

MinimizeToTray always allows you to send Firefox to the tray by right-mouse clicking on the minimize button.

Enhanced History Manager is an extension that allows you search and sort browser history entries

CuteMenus is an extension for Mozilla Firefox which adds icons to the most menu-items in your popus and menus.

SessionSaver restores your browser exactly as you left it, every startup, every time. Not even a crash will phase it. Windows, tabs, even things you were typing they're all saved.

ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support.

Tabbrowser Extensions is a package for extending operations of tabbed browsing, for example tabs become reorderable by drag and drop.

User Agent Switcher adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.

Gmail Notifier allows checking for new Gmail messages directly from the browser's UI

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox.

DeskTask

 DeskTask connects to Microsoft Outlook and displays your calendar and task items on the desktop.

Features:

• Your tasks will always be visible, saving precious time to launch or switch to Outlook.
• Just minimize every window, and see what are the items due for today or tomorrow.
• DeskTask displays the whole week so you can be prepared to organize your work.
• Besides the calendar items, the Outlook to-do list (Folder Tasks) is also displayed. If you work with Outlook, DeskTask is for you

 

 

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10 Useful Free Windows Programs

1. Notepad++ - a great text editor with tabbed interface, configurable syntax highlighting, syntax folding, line numbering, multi-view, bookmarks and regular expression search.
2. Windows Live Writer - lets you post blog entries directly to your blog from within Windows Internet Explorer. You can add links, images, maps from Windows Live Local, and more. If you have more than one blog, you can use Writer to post to any or all of them.
3. Process Explorer - ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
4. GetRight - downloads, resumes and most importantly, splits up large downloads over HTTP or FTP into as many as 10 concurrent streams. Great with FlashGot for FireFox.
5. Paint.NET - an image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
6. Hamachi - 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.
7. Foxit Reader - a free reader for PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. You can view and print PDF documents with it.
8. SmartFTP - an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client which allows you to transfer files between your local computer and a server on the Internet.
9. RSS Bandit - an RSS/Atom aggregator (also known as an RSS Reader) for your desktop
10. Cropper - a screen capture utility.It makes it fast and easy to grab parts of your screen.

Code Style Enforcer

Code Style Enforcer is a DXCore plug-in for Visual Studio that checks the code against a configurable code standard and best practices. It is developed for C#, but some of the rules will also work for VB .NET, though not tested. The code standard is currently configurable with the following rules:
• Name rules, where it is possible to have different rules for different members, i.e. fields, constants, variables, methods, properties and so on.
• Visibility rules, where you can specify the visibility that is valid for different members. It is also possible to specify that the visibility has to be specified explicitly.
• Implementation rules, where it is possible to specify that interface implementations are to be made explicitly or implicitly.
The default rules are based on the C# Coding Standard from IDesign. It is the most complete code standard available and it is free to download.

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Free online Blog client - WriteToMyBlog

WriteToMyBlog is a free web word processor for your Blog.

 

 

 

Features

• Create Post entries with advanced word processor and have them published directly to your Blog.
• Advanced text styling.
• Control image positioning and wrapping.
• Add tables to your Posts.
• Easy tagging.
• Multilingual AJAX spellchecker.
• Works with all major Blog services.
• Publish to one or many Blogs at the same time.
• Select Categories to list in.
• Trackback support.
• Doesn't store or view any of your Posts or your Blog account details, simple acts as an interface gateway between you and your Blog service.
• View and preview your recent Posts.

 

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Seekafile - Open-Source Indexing Server

Seekafile Server is a Windows Service that indexes DOC, PDF, XLS, PPT, RTF, HTML, TXT, XML, and other file formats on the background.

 

Features

Incredibly fast search

• Incredibly fast searching powered by DotLucene (open-source search engine).
• It recognizes any change within a second.

Flexibility

• The index is stored in DotLucene/Lucene 1.3+ compatible format.
• The index can be accessed directly from other applications (you can search even when the indexing is in progress).
• Access the index directly from any custom application (ASP.NET, Windows Forms application, Java application).
• The download package includes an ASP.NET searching application.

Support for common file formats

Built-in support for the following file formats:

• Microsoft Powerpoint (PPT)
• Microsoft Word (DOC)
• Microsoft Excel (XLS)
• HTML (HTM/HTML)
• Text files (TXT)

Extensible using IFilter

Supports IFilter interface for searching other extensions:

• Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
• Microsoft Visio (VSD)
• Rich Text Format (RTF)
• XML
• etc...

Extensible using custom plugins

Supports custom plugins written in .NET.

Zero maintenance

• The indexer runs on the background as a Windows service.
• You specify the directories to be watched for changes in the configuration file.
• Indexer works in the background with low priority (it doesn't slow down other operations).
• Runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003 with .NET Framework 1.1.

 

 

Watch the new releases and other news on the Seekafile blog

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Subtext 1.9 “Daedelus”

"Subtext is a personal blog publishing platform that focuses on usability, elegance, and simplicity. If you’ve ever caught yourself throwing your hands in the air and declaring that you’re going to write your own blogging engine, then Subtext is for you."

New Features

 

1. Removed some old skins and added some snazzy new ones.  Also implemented a way for custom skin definitions to not get overwritten when upgrading code.
2. Improvements to the packaged skins.  Added the Previous/Next control to nearly every skin as well as Gravatar support among other minor improvements.
3. Comment Moderation.
4. Changed the default Html Editor to use the FCKEditor.
5. Implemented RSD (Really Simple Discovery) and the MetaWeblog API’s newMediaObject method so that Subtext works quite well with Windows Live Writer.

 

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The Most Intelligent Integrated Team Environment - TeamCity

JetBrains has released their integrated team environment.

"TeamCity is an innovative, IDE independent, integrated team environment targeted for .NET and Java software developers and their managers. It automates and coordinates key collaborative processes to eliminate manual systems and delays, providing tight integration with multiple build and test tools, real-time unit test frequency, server-side inspections and code coverage analysis."

Features

• Continuous Integration & Testing
• Efficient, Effective Build Management
• Timely Automated Team Communication
• Server-side Code Analysis
• Code Coverage Analysis & Reporting
• Web-based Interface & Project Dashboard
• Extensibility
• Tight IDE Integration
• Pre-tested (Delayed) Commit
• Remote Run for Personal Builds

 

[Via LarkWare News]