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====VLC==== | |||
VLC media player can play almost anything. | VLC media player can play almost anything. | ||
* [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server] | * [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server] | ||
====AVIcodec==== | |||
AVIcodec is a free multimedia file analyser for Windows. It can tell you what codecs are needed to play an avi file. SOmetimes it also shows you how to find it. | |||
* [http://avicodec.duby.info/ AVIcodec] | |||
===Archive and Extract ZIP and other formats=== | ===Archive and Extract ZIP and other formats=== |
Revision as of 08:31, 6 April 2008
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Syslog logging
Download flash .flv and .mp3 from websites
Program som kan konvertere til mpeg.
Giver fint resultat med MPG VCD (Mpeg1) som output 2-pass encoding.
Boot Disks
Undelete files
Fundet her sammen med andre tools: http://users.telenet.be/Robvdb/USBMemStick.htm
E-Cad/EDA tools - Schematic Capture PCB design and Simulation
KiCad
KiCad is a free open source package for schematic capture PCB design and interface to simulators (SPICE). It runs under Windows, various flavors of Linux and has been ported to the Mac OSX.
Terminal emulation and telnet
Tera Term
Tera Term is an open source free software terminal emulator. It can run o both Vista and Vista 64 bit.
- When you follow the links to download on the TeraTerm Project page click on the American flag if the page show up in Japanese
Disk Tools
HD Tune
Disk benchmark and error check.
Read the S.M.A.R.T information and see the condition of your hard disk.
Ultradefrag
Q.: I've seen message "Can't load ultradfg driver!" on Windows Vista. I think that Vista is preventing this driver from loading because the signature check is enabled. How can I disable it?
A.: Thanks to Christopher Naegel for providing the following instructions:
- Open a command line with admin-rights:
- Start -> execute -> CMD (with admin rights).
- Type:
- bcdedit /set loadoptions "DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS"
- bcdedit /set nointegritychecks ON
- Close the command prompt and start group policy editor:
- Start -> execute -> gpedit.msc
- Go to:
- User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System ->
- Driver Installation -> Code Signing for device drivers
- Enable this policy and set it to Ignore state.
Network Tools
Wireshark
Text Editor
Notepad++
Why pay for a good text editor, when you can get the best for free.
Available in following languages:
Danish, Deutch, English, Espanõl, Français, Indonesian, Nederlands, Norwegian, Português, Português
(do Brasil), Suomi, Svenska and many more languages can be downloaded from: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php.
Games
Funny stuff
Pivot Stickfigure Animator
Create your own animated cartoons.
- Wikipedia Pivot Stickfigure Animator
- MSN Group aboun Pivot animation with examples
- Download Pivot Stickfigure Animator
Play Music and Video
VLC
VLC media player can play almost anything.
AVIcodec
AVIcodec is a free multimedia file analyser for Windows. It can tell you what codecs are needed to play an avi file. SOmetimes it also shows you how to find it.
Archive and Extract ZIP and other formats
7-Zip free file archiver use that instead of WinZip and WinRar.
- Supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
- Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
- 7-Zip is a winner in the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards 2007 in two categories:
- Best Project
- Best Technical Design
Create PDF files
PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
Other sites with great software
- NirSoft - freeware utilities: password recovery, system utilities, desktop utilities
- thefreecountry.com _ God side med masser af links til gratisprogammer
- thefreecountry.com Defragmentering (gratis)
Communicate with your mobile phone
gnokii
gnokii allows you to communicate with your phone - SMS, Phonebook, Calendar, Call management, PIN, ringtone and logo handling.
Tools to recover your lost Password, Product Keys, Serial Numbers or CD Keys
SIW System Information for Windows
SIW recovers Software Licenses (Product Keys / Serial Numbers / CD Key).
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol's standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources, however it also ships some "non standard" utilities for Microsoft Windows users.
AIDA32 (discontinued)
Everest-Home-Edition (the successor of AIDA32 - this link is the last free version available now Everest is not free anymore)
NirSoft
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