Useful Freewares...

Skud

Skud

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At least version 4 of Macrium didn't support RAID drives. Don't know about v5, purchase ATI since. What happened with Reflect v4, it did take a backup but on restoring it in C:\, it deleted the D:\ partition. IRC, it did throw an error/warning that it is not compatible or something but I went forward. Luckily, I always move the Documents folder to D:\ drive and use FreeFileSync to back it up in an external HDD. So there was no data loss. But I learned my lesson.


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Some unique free image viewers here, well 21 of them:-

Twenty one interesting FREE image viewers that you've (probably) never heard of | freewaregenius.com
 
topgear

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^^ thanks for the feedback .. whether it's paid or free softwares can act really weird sometime ;-)


SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer - Network sniffer for Windows

*www.softperfect.com/products/networksniffer/scr_capture.gif

SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer is a free professional tool for analysing, debugging, maintaining and monitoring local networks and Internet connections. It captures the data passing through your dial-up connection or network Ethernet card, analyses this data and then represents it in an easily readable form. SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer is a useful tool for network administrators, security specialists, network application developers and anyone who needs a comprehensive picture of the traffic passing through their network connection or segment of a local area network.

SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer presents the results of its network analysis in a convenient and easily understandable format. It also allows you to defragment and reassemble network packets into streams. The program can easily analyze network traffic based on a number of different Internet protocols as listed below.

SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer features full decoding of the following low level protocols: AH, ARP, ESP, ICMP, ICMPv6, IGMP, IP, IPv6, IPX, LLC, MSG, REVARP, RIP, SAP, SER, SNAP, SPX, TCP and UDP. It also performs full reconstruction of top-level protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, FTP, TELNET and others.

The flexible system of fully configurable filters can be used to discard all network traffic except the specific traffic patterns you wish to analyze. SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer also features a packet builder. This tool allows you to build your own custom network packets and send them into the network. You could use this packet builder feature to check your network for protection against attacks and intruders.

The software requires Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Seven. Both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported. It also requires a network connection, which could be a wireless connection, or a modem that conforms to the NDIS standard.

Key features

>Works in promiscuous mode to capture all network packets.
>Decodes packets and displays them in an easy to read format.
>Lets you build custom packets and send them into the network.
>Offers a flexible traffic filtering system. Any filter can be inclusive or exclusive.
>Reconstructs packets into flows so you can easily see a complete data exchange of the Telnet, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, HTTP and other protocols.
>Lets you monitor loopback connections within the system.

Network sniffer for Windows, protocol analyzer, ip sniffer, LAN sniffer
 
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there's also other good and feature rich free download managers like :

GetGo Download Manager

Orbit Downloader
 
Skud

Skud

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Yup, that's the link. And its completely Adware free and Open source. Don't worry about any toolbars or other stuffs. It also has a built-in torrent client, so it can be your all-in-one download tool.
 
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Skud said:
Yup, that's the link. And its completely Adware free and Open source. Don't worry about any toolbars or other stuffs. It also has a built-in torrent client, so it can be your all-in-one download tool.
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thanks skud, have just installed it.
 
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^^ FDM's latest version on the official site is 3.8 build 1173 ( 28 dec 2011 )but the latest version is 3.9 RC 1 ( 27th Jan 2012 ) with the following improvements :

Updated the Bittorrent downloader module (fixed: High memory usage when downloading torrents greater than 2 GB).

[+] Firefox 10, Firefox 11, Firefox 12 support.
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www.freedownloadmanager.org • View topic - FDM 3.9 Release Candidate 1

Skud said:
Already mentioned to be excluded. ;)
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just overlooked that part ... thanks for pointing it out ;-)
 
kbar1

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NirCmd:

NirCmd is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface. By running NirCmd with simple command-line option, you can write and delete values and keys in the Registry, write values into INI file, dial to your internet account or connect to a VPN network, restart windows or shut down the computer, create shortcut to a file, change the created/modified date of a file, change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive, and more...
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[nirsoft.net]

My netbook doesn't have a key combo to turn the display off. So I use this instead. It can do many other things which might be difficult to do otherwise: eg. speak out the text in the clipboard (using Windows TTS).

Now, this may be mentioned before but I feel I too must:
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema

It plays every one of my videos without additional codec packs and is very light, unlike the lumbering giant that is VLC. Must have. And oh, its GPU accelerated video decoding is a lifesaver for me. Otherwise, I couldn't play HD videos on my puny machine... :-D
 
thetechfreak

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OpenPuff 3.40 - Yet not another steganography SW
OpenPuff Steganography & Watermarking
Read about this in this month issue of Digit. Really good concept. You can protect various types of files by saving in .jpg format. Have a look at the link.
 
topgear

topgear

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^^ thanks and there's one more good free app there ie Mult iObfuscator - moreover that site has many other free useful resources.
 
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nice find ... even softpedia seconds that

Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:

· Displays ad banners or other types of advertising material during its runtime
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Download FlashGet 3.7.0.1203 Free - Safe, High-speed, Multi-protocol support - Softpedia

but the old versions of flashget was ad-free but if it's has turned to an adware now one may skip using this.

but if anyone wants to use it he should look at here to know how to remove ads from flashget ;-)
*www.softpedia.com/progViewOpinions/FlashGet-2155,.html
 
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One more Free Download app ;-)

Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite freeware and shareware, mp3 files, movie files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners (which steal your bandwidth), no spyware inside it.

Fresh Download - Free Download Manager
 
Skud

Skud

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Last time I used it back in 2009 it was buggy as hell. Actually up until version 4-5 it was quite good, then the problems started. Don't know if it is stable enough or not these days.

BTW, they have a plethora of other free software like a all purpose multimedia viewer, PC optimization, customization, HTML editor, FTP client etc.
 
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