Eric Hartwell: Tools

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:40:31 GMT

Mitch's Must Have Programs. [Lockergnome - Mitchelaneous 4/5/2005] Within the time span of one year I have installed, reinstalled, deleted, and created more than any one person should on one computer. About a week ago I figured it was time I did a little spring cleaning. I totally reformatted my machine and put Windows XP back on just like it came out of the box. So what programs to I make a note of installing first? What do I use most often and what do I find the most effective? Here's my basic list: TweakUI, FeedDemon, Firefox, SmartFTP, Trillian, OpenOffice, NoteTab Pro, Audacity, Spybot, AVG Free ...

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:10:25 GMT

Microsoft releases free new VB 2005 refactoring tool [Scobleizer 4/24/2005] Microsoft has made an agreement with Developer Express to include a fully functional version of Refactor! with VB 2005 and Visual Studio 2005. Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2 is a free plug-in that enables Visual Basic developers to simplify and re-structure source code, making it easier to read and less costly to maintain. Refactor! supports more than 15 individual refactoring features, including operations like Reorder Parameters, Extract Method, Encapsulate Field and Create Overload.

Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:05:30 GMT

Best-ever Freeware Utilities [TechSupportAlert 3/1/2005 via Lockergnome 4/22/2005] There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This extensive list features Ian Richards' personal pick of the "best of the best," by category.

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:03:28 GMT

With Synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of only one of the computers while you use all of the monitors on all of the computers. You tell synergy how many screens you have and their positions relative to one another. Synergy then detects when the mouse moves off the edge of a screen and jumps it instantly to the neighboring screen. The keyboard works normally on each screen; input goes to whichever screen has the cursor. GNU GPL

Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:30:40 GMT

Perspective Wiki is a .NET-based, GPL Wiki that uses IIS and Indexing Service. Features include: User login and control of what can be edited, with support for transparent logins in Windows; Full version history of pages and their attachments so it is clear who did what; WYSIWYG formatting of and editing; easy attachments including embedded images and searchable documents (including searching over MS Office documents). Currently under active development.

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:53:32 GMT

A Baker's Dozen: Thirteen Things You Should Know Before Porting Your Visual C++ .NET Programs to Visual Studio 2005. Stan Lippman discusses issues that developers should be aware of when porting applications to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. [MSDN Just Published 10/1/2004]

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:42:14 GMT

Open Source WYSIWYG Editing Control: "HTMLArea is a free, customizable online editor. It works inside your browser. It uses a non-standard feature implemented in Internet Explorer 5.5 or better for Windows and Mozilla 1.3 or better (any platform), therefore it will only work in one of these browsers. HTMLArea is released under a BSD-style license. [Brad - Coding In Paradise 10/20/2004]

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:31:03 GMT

Dynamic HTML Lab: Pop-up Calendar 1.2. In the first maintenance release of our Popup Calendar, we added better navigation bar styling and the ability to clear read-only input fields. In this latest release, we include new functionality that enables you to separate form elements to display any combination of a user-selected date, month and year. By Peter Belesis. 1021 [WebReference News 10/21/2004]

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:28:55 GMT

AimAtSite IE Toolbar - the complete search solution provides History search, Favorites search, Current page search, Words highlighting and it helps you query search engines, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other Web search sites. The toolbar is available for free download [no feature limitations for a 30-day trial period]. It uses Microsoft Indexing Service to index the content of Web pages you are visiting to perform fast History and Favorites search. Unlike the Internet Explorer's built-in history search tool AimAtSite IE Toolbar provides better performance, sorting by rank or title or date of visit, pages abstracts and flexible queries. No favorites search feature is available in Internet Explorer. But our toolbar provides you with such functionality. With AimAtSite IE Toolbar you will never lose important information!

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:53:38 GMT

Microsoft has a very eclectic collection of products aquired for all sorts of reasons over the years and which see the light of day (or not) by many varied means. Microsoft Expression, for example, is a pretty good vector drawing app a la Adobe Illustrator which you can download for FREE! It's listed as version 3.3 Beta and 'not for sale' but does not seem to fit into any family, and it's an app of a type currently missing from Office so maybe it might eventually end up there... who knows? anyway, its a very worthwhile - if large (57.6MB) - download. [Eric Hartwell: Ping]

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:53:08 GMT

Password Scrambler by /n software inc is free and gives you a quick way to create unique passwords for all of the sites you visit by generating a one way hashed password based on your own private password and the target site's domain. Using it is as simple as clicking a new button on your IE toolbar. Nice! It looks like Keith Brown created a similar tool in a recent MSDN Magazine article. The last line in Keith's article says it all: What really matters is that you pick a password management tool that you trust and that you use it consistently. Don't settle for using the same password everywhere you go! [Scott Watermasysk 9/29/2004]

Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:13:53 GMT

Open Lucene Search Engine. It looks like someone has re-opened the Lucene.Net project as DotLucene. For those of you who did not hear, Lucene.NET was an open source implementation of Lucene (which is also open source). However, at some point, the project owners decided to close the project and form a new company to sell the code as a product. I have been using the OS version of Lucene for a while now (there was another implementation prior to Lucene.Net as well), so I was a little bummed to see it go away. I had also started to do some writing on .NET version, until the project disappeared. Looks like I can now finish that work and get it published some where. You can find the bits over on SourceForge. [Scott Watermasysk 10/8/2004]

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:44:22 GMT

Net Transport 1.8x - Records Windows Media Streams (via HTTP, RTSP and MMS), Real Video Streams (via HTTP, RTSP), Quick Time Video (HTTP). You can download password-protected files. BASIC and NTLM authentication is supported for HTTP, MMS and RTSP downloads. In addition, RN5 authentication works for RTSP downloads. Even OPIE (One Password In Everything) and SSL (Secure Socket Layer) are also supported for FTP. Platform: Windows Price: Free

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:22:47 GMT

Prevx releases free intrusion prevention software. It aims to offer consumers protection from new, unknown or zero-day threats. Prevx Home is the first host-based intrusion prevention product to be offered as a free download, following a model adopted by GRISoft and Spybot in the AV and anti-spyware markets, respectively. The official launch of Prevx Home follows two months of beta testing, during which tens of thousands of home users have downloaded and tested the software. The application is based on technology developed by Prevx for its enterprise intrusion prevention product. Prevx Home detects and block the behaviour displayed by malicious attacks without relying on signature updates. Prevx Home is designed to protect users against internet worms, Trojans, automated hacking tools and covert spyware. Nick Ray, chief exec of Prevx, said the company is talking to number of ISPs which wish to make Prevx Home available to their broadband and dial-up customers. For now, users can download Prevx Home (registration required) here. [The Register 9/6/2004]

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 02:38:42 GMT

Build Your Robot Online: Ever needed a custom part for a robot, case mod or hardware hack but lacked the tools or a machineshop to make one for you? Ever needed a custom circuit board? Well, PC Magazine's Bill Machrone writes about a few websites, Emachineshop and Pad2Pad, where you use their free software to design, price, and order anything you can design with the software. This is more useful to slashdotters than 3D 'printing' technologies like rapid prototyping since you get real working parts. It looks like they support a number of machines and fabrication techniques beyond traditional machining, like plastic injection molding and waterjet. As Machrone says, this is empowering stuff. This is something that should ignite a creative spark to all you hardware tinkerers out there in Slashdot land." [Slashdot 7/16/2004]

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:14:56 GMT

Tookie Tracks. Tookie Tracks is a transaction and contact manager for Real Estate Agents and integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Outlook. It uses your existing Contacts and has a transaction scheduler, a real estate listing tool, a transaction finances calculator as well as create custom client and productivity reports. [Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News 6/6/2004]

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:13:07 GMT

The pdf995 suite of products - Pdf995, PdfEdit995, and Signature995 - is a complete solution for your document publishing needs. It provides ease of use, flexibility in format, and industry-standard security- and all at no cost to you. Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer. Pdf995 supports network file saving, fast user switching on XP, Citrix/Terminal Server, custom page sizes and large format printing. Pdf995 is a printer driver that works with any Postscript to PDF converter. The pdf995 printer driver and a free Converter are available for easy download. Download Now. PdfEdit995 offers a wealth of additional functionality, such as: combining documents into a single PDF; automatic link insertion; hierarchical bookmark insertion; PDF conversion to HTML or DOC (text only); integration with Word toolbar with automatic table of contents and link generation; autoattach to email; stationery and stamping. Download Now | more details at www.pdfedit995.com . Signature995 offers state-of-the-art security and encryption to protect your documents and add digital signatures. Download Now | more details at www.signature995.com.

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:11:20 GMT

.Net On Lego Mindstorm: The University of Potsdam has a project to develop a .NET VM for the Lego Mindstorms system. While the thought of using .Net to program Lego Mindstorms may not be palatable, having a mainstream dev environment sure is. [Slashdot 9/12/2004]

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:51:27 GMT

The new Mail To The Future is ready to try out. It's remarkably like the app that was first deployed in early 1999, before easy blogging tools, when XML-RPC was still very new. It was a milestone, and today it's a vault for memory and visions of the future, with messages scheduled for delivery through 2030. It's important that the app be handled with care, over the years. UserLand is focused (correctly) on Manila and Radio, so I offered to host MTTF on the Scripting News server. If you have questions or comments, please post them here. If you can add to the history of MTTF, post comments here. [Scripting News 5/12/2004]

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:50:37 GMT

Flash MX based UML Modelling Tool.
Grant Skinner has just launched the beta of one of the sweetest RIAs that I've seen. GModeler is a programming tool for developers working with ECMA-Script and deriviative languages such as ActionScript and JavaScript. It's a UML modelling tool built entirely in Flash and supports importing XML exchange formats for UML. It also does a beautiful job generating HTML documentation and XML content for integration into the Flash MX dev environment directly. It's beautiful, useful, and also a great example of Grant's other pioneering work creating an operating-system style UI shell for Flash applications. [Jeremy Allaire's Radio 4/14/2004]

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:23:29 GMT

CSS Creator helps generate styles and layouts for your projects. You just choose from a number of values, and the code is written for you. The site features links to other sites that will be of benefit to you as well. You'll find resources that contain articles, tools, templates, and much more.

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:39:39 GMT

Bloglines is a free online RSS aggregator – no software to install, use from any connected computer. [Early Adopter 7/16/2004]

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:33:32 GMT

Tools Every .NET Developer Should Download Now (MSDN) [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger 7/28/2004]

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:45:52 GMT

Picasa Photo Organizer Software is now FREE for download from google [Amazon.com sells it for $24.99]. Features: Automatic digital image organizer and enhancement toolset ++ Easy to e-mail and print images ++ Import from camera ++ Crop and remove red-eye ++ Very simple to use

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:39:02 GMT

An Overview of Web Browser Express. Build your own Web browser that supports tabs and an integrated link to a search engine. [MSDN Just Published 7/20/2004]

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:05:38 GMT

WordToys [Free] The WordToys Personal Edition gives you nearly 30 free utilities that make Word easier to use and more fun to work with. Create your own Favorite Fonts, Symbols, and Bullets menus. Size To Fit shrinks or expands your document so it has the number of pages you need ...

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:58:54 GMT

EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware system information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for home PC users. It offers accurate system information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information, with three different report file formats: plain text, customizable HTML and the MHTML.

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:39:28 GMT

PDF SpeedUp allows you to significantly speed up the time it takes to load Adobe Reader. If you notice that when the Reader starts it loads many plug-ins which you may or may not need, this program simply disables the plug-ins and loads only the absolute necessary ones so the program starts quickly. It offers several options and you can also manually enable or disable the plug-ins as needed. PDF SpeedUp works with Acrobat versions 3 through 6.xx.

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:36:01 GMT

Cleartype Tuning Wizard. I have to (shamefully) admit, I never bothered to turn on ClearType. I don't know, somehow seeing each pixel reminded me I was working on a computer, I guess. But the ClearType Tuning Wizard (via Sriram Krishnan) rocks. Enabled.... [Early Adopter]

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:30:37 GMT

Duplicate Email Delete for Outlook. Use Duplicate Email Delete to search for duplicated mail messages in Microsoft Outlook folders and delete them. [Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News]

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:10:12 GMT

Microsoft Calculator Plus. This application includes mathematical and conversion functions. [Microsoft Download Center]

Tue, 04 May 2004 11:52:02 GMT

Ultimate Boot CD: Run diagnostics and utilities from a CD, not from your ailing hard drive.

Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:29:13 GMT

Rocket RSS Reader: Instead of being tied to a software newsreader, try the Rocket RSS Reader, a personal Web-based aggregator. There's no software to download - just sign-up for your free account and you're ready to go! This is a great option for first-timers that want to see what all of the fuss is about. The reader is simple compared to the software options out there, but it's useful nonetheless. The feeds are categorized under folders in the left hand column; you can subscribe to your favorite feeds, and even search for new ones within the window. One thing I noticed was that links within posts did not appear. This is kind of a letdown, but you can still click the Full Story link at the bottom of each post to get the proper links. Oh yeah, it also runs on all OSes and browsers, and contains support for Atom feeds as well. [Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics 4/28/2004]

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:32:01 GMT

Basecamp: project-management web-app: 37Signals has produced a new project-management app called Basecamp that looks like a winner. Not only is it extremely pretty and easy-to-follow but it's also open: information flows out of the app as RSS and can be bulk-exported in XML, so none of your precious project-management material becomes a lever to lock you into paying the (surprisingly reasonable) monthly rates. Basecamp can be skinned to look like your internal website and you can reference it with custom URLs that don't contain any hint that your project is being hosted anywhere but your own site: as the marketing bumpf points out, this is the kind of thing that can give you appearance of really intimidating savviness to your clients. [Boing Boing 4/28/2004]

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:26:01 GMT

PocketThinker. Replace Outlook Notes with an outliner and easily copy any item from the outline to Outlook's Appointments or Tasks. Send your outline as an HTML e-mail and if the recipient uses PocketThinker you can you can send your outline as an attachment and the recipient can save and view the outline directly. They can even make modifications to the outline and mail it back to you. [Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News 3/2/2004]

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:26:17 GMT

Open: Spreadsheet: Best-of-Breed. "Gnumeric is a spreadsheet of choice for businesses and schools that, in 29 languages, speaks volumes via columns, numbers, analytics, and software libre..." [Linux Today 2/25/2004]

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:25:38 GMT

eBay Command-Line Utility: ValTest. This is kind of an obscure one but it's something that virtually every developer who uses the eBay API needs to get started, and someone sent me email asking for it tonight, so here you go. To sell items on... [Jeffrey McManus' Grind 3/28/2004]

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:10:29 GMT

Add Contacts for Microsoft Outlook. New from Mapilab, Add Contacts automatically adds e-mail addresses to the contact folder when you reply to a message and/or send a new message. When you use Outlook 2003's Safe sender list and trust addresses in your contacts or use Rules Wizard to move messages from contacts to a new folder, this add-in helps you keep your contact list up-to-date. [Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News 2/26/2004]

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:08:26 GMT

Making IE Standards Compliant Dean Edwards has taken it upon himself to make Internet Explorer W3C compliant. He's created a stylesheet, dubbed 'IE7' that uses DHTML to load and parse style sheets into a form that IE can understand. Just include the style sheet in your HTML pages, and things should render correctly. [Slashdot]

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:05:01 GMT

Duplicates Remover for Outlook. Delete duplicate contacts, notes, tasks, journal and calendar items in Microsoft Outlook or Exchange Server folders. Duplicates can be marked, copied or moved to any folder. It supports searching across the folders. Works with MS Outlook 2000/XP/2003 or later. [Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News 3/1/2004]

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:03:19 GMT

FrontPage Web Templates: Customize your FrontPage-based Web site. The sites come complete with a home page, links, and pages ready for you to add your own content: Real Estate, HR Site, Dr. Site.
HRWeb is an integrated suite of three intranet portal products that provides human resources (HR) information to Microsoft employees. [Microsoft Download Center]

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:32:30 GMT

Cape Clear Software Releases Simplified Graphical SOA Editor. Cape Clear has announced a free service-oriented architecture (SOA) editor that supersedes its earlier WSDL Editor, providing a wide range of improvements such as new editing features, new WSDL views, improved usability, and performance. The Java-based SOA Editor offers programmers a graphical environment that simplifies the creation of standards-based Web Services. It also supports imports, faults, SOAP headers, multiple bindings, and parameter ordering. [The XML Cover Pages 3/23/2004]

Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:26:42 GMT

Fresh Diagnose is a utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard information, and much more... It can identify which RAM you need, how much the PC can accept, and even identify empty RAM slots. Freeware: expires 10 days after download

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:28:46 GMT

Turn any 3D file into a paper model. Pepakura Desinger is an application that converts any 3D CAD model (Maya, Lightwave, DXF, etc) into a printable fold-and-glue paper model. [Boing Boing 3/16/2004]

Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:19:44 GMT

Overview of Web browsers for Windows. The Opensourcery sends a message to the IE team: an overview of browsers.[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger 3/13/2004]

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:18:44 GMT

RockXP v2.0. {FREE" Change XP details} With RockXP, you can retrieve your XP Product Key, change your key and product ID, save your activation file, and get info on your machine like build and computer name. [Major Geeks] [Lockergnome Windows Fanatics 2/26/2004]

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:18:15 GMT

FocusViewer v2.0 {FREE: Image viewer with EXIF browser} FocusViewer is an image viewer and browser that supports most popular graphic formats including bmp, dib, jpeg, gif, animated gif, pcx, tiff, and tga. In addition to the viewer options, it allows you to create contact sheets, view slideshows, attach (optimized) images to e-mails, and take screen captures. The feature we liked best is the support for EXIF data that allows you to browse images while viewing detailed EXIF information (if available) for each image. Additional features include a customizable interface layouts and several image effects that can be applied. [SnapFiles] [Lockergnome Windows Fanatics 2/26/2004]

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:17:46 GMT

Lego Digital Designer v1.1 {FREE: Traditional toy goes digital} It's amazing what Lego builders are making these days with the toy's simple parts. This program offers different options, from traditional Lego parts to rainbow colored to aircraft. Select the pieces and put them on the board to build whatever your imagination desires. Use the software to map out an elaborate project and then build it with real parts. Young kids can use the program since it's simple and has tooltips explaining what each option does. The program takes up the entire screen and feels like it is in DOS mode, so nothing is wrong with your monitor. I'll stick to admiring others' works of art. [Lockergnome Windows Fanatics 2/26/2004]

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:07:07 GMT

Take a graphical look at the Net with 3d Traceroute The tracert command can be difficult to decipher for clients. Why not show them tracert results graphically with 3d Traceroute? We profile this handy program and show you how easy it is to troubleshoot a connection. Share your own troubleshooting experiences in this article's discussion.

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:40:42 GMT

RefactorIT. RefactorIT is a comprehensive refactoring and source code analysis tool. 9 completely automated refactorings, 12 code search tools and 21 metrics and audits only a click away! [WebDeveloper.com]

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:48:26 GMT

You can never have enough tools. I've been looking at Scott Hanselman's most excellent list o' tools. This is a great chance to setup my desktop dev box and my laptop with identical images of tools. There's a ton of stuff here that I didn't know about. Check it out, you won't be sorry.[iunknown.com]

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:29:52 GMT

Lance's List of Indispensable FREEWARE Software [Lockergnome Windows Daily]

123 Password Recovery This program reveals passwords that are hidden as strings of asterisks in Windows.
AIDA32 SysInfo Tool - This program provides extensive information on your computer system.
Dupeless - This program seeks out duplicate files on your hard drive.
FileAlyzer - This program displays files as hex, ASCII and in a safe viewer if the file type is supported. This is useful for looking at HTML files without activating hostile scripts and rogue ActiveX controls.
Gibson ID Serve - This program performs forward and reverse IP Lookup and displays server ID and other information.
IP Lookup - This program performs IP lookup and displays the WHOIS registration information on the domain holder.
IrfanView - This program is a great graphics file viewer for a wide variety of file types. Of special note is its ability to view Shockwave Flash animations (.SWF file type).
NetStat Live - This program provides details of your network connection.
NoteTab Light - This absolutely essential program is the best freeware text editor available for Windows, no doubt about it!
Ranish Partition Manager - This program is absolutely indispensable if you want to partition your hard drive and boot multiple operating systems from independent partitions. I have purchased many partition utilities, including Partition Magic, and this is better than all of them. Supports hard drive up to 137GB.
WS_FTP LE - This program is a nice FTP client.
X-Setup - This terrific program allows extensive "tweaking" of the windows operating system.
XOSL - This is a great program that supports booting of multiple operating systems and has a "pretty" user interface.
Zeleps Partition Resizer - This program is a fine hard disk partition resizer, but be sure to read the instructions.
ZoneAlarm - This absolutely essential program is a firewall to protect your computer's Internet connection.

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:26:29 GMT

Ultimate Boot CD v1.0 [6.0M] Windows FREE All-you-can-want boot CD} I'm a bad girl. I don't have a special boot CD or diskette around here. There are too many options, and I never know what I need in a boot disk. This one sounds like the solution for a person in my situation because it fits as many diagnostic tools as possible onto the CD. It comes with a memory diagnostic tool and a few hard drive utilities. Those who DO have bootable floppies can dump them all for one nice CD package. All you do is boot up with the CD and it goes right to the menu, waiting for you to select the tool to use. Note: The Web site does not list specific OS compatibility information, although the program was tested successfully on Windows XP. [Meryl] [Lockergnome Windows Daily]

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:24:44 GMT

Scott mentions his recent presentation, and links to the following Web service resources:

XSD.exe comes with the .NET SDK ASP.NET XSD Online Demo

WSDL.exe comes with the .NET SDK. WSDL Explained

YATT (Yet Another Trace Tool) from the fantastic Simon Fell

XML Spy 5.0 from Altova

Mind Reef's SoapScope 1.0

OmniOpera from Kamiak

GotDotNet's Free WebServicesStudio

Microsoft's Free SOAP Toolkit 3.0

Apache AXIS (SOAP Implementation)

IDL2SDL (and WSDL) from Infotects

Google's SOAP API and WSDL (.NET code included!)

Calling Google from PocketSOAP with a VBS Script from Simon Fell

Simon's WSDL Tools

XMethods Web Services Directory

Blunck's ieHTTPHeaders for seeing HTTP Headers within an IE Explorer Bar

Microsoft just release a killer doc on Threats and Countermeasures for Windows Server 2003.
Craig has an interesting article on the Birthday Problem. [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:23:48 GMT

GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. The site has an easy process for maintaining your entries. And can even generate RSS feeds for a given geographical area.
AuditMyPC.com {Free online firewall tests} You can audit your firewall, do a port scan, or do a privacy test to get immediate results, with information about how to act upon problem areas. The site also offers a PDA / WAP security scan. It features full scans of all 65,535 ports and user input scans that allow a visitor to test only the ports he/she needs.
Happy Google Hacks - a collection of interesting ways to do searching.
Have a look at this cool 3D animation of the Linux kernel source. This is how a source browser should look like!

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:34:13 GMT

BuddySoft Web Calculator. This easy to install applet may well be the most elegant calculator on the web. It comes in both floating and 'stuck' mode and is compatible with all web browsers and frame-sets. [WebDeveloper.com]