Category: Internet

Tokbox.com

27 May, 2010 (14:20) | Internet, Productivity, Utilities

Video chat with up to 20 people for free.  Tokbox requires no download, only an internet connection and a webcam.
http://tokbox.com

Ultimate Windows Tweaker

6 April, 2010 (08:16) | Internet, Network, Portable, Utilities

For those of you that remember and loved the TweakUI utility from Microsoft, Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware tool that takes the concept of the old TweakUI and supercharges it for Windows Vista and 7. You can tweak hundreds of settings and variables—system tray icons, the menu pop-up speed, security [...]

YouTube – Music Discovery Project

4 February, 2010 (15:12) | Internet, Multimedia, Streaming, Websites

You will be able to enter just about any query for a music group or artist, where it will be followed by a playlist that pops up alongside a thumbnail video and a description of the band. This is still an experimental product, so expect a number of kinks to be worked out still before [...]

PDFMyURL

1 February, 2010 (14:32) | Internet, Productivity

Saving something as a PDF file is a great way to preserve it for future reference or for sharing with others, without risking the site changing before you look at it again. PDFMyURL makes it easy to convert sites to PDF.
Point PDFMyURL at a website URL and it will convert the site into a PDF [...]

inSSIDer

14 October, 2009 (19:51) | Internet, Network, Security, Utilities

inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn’t work well with Vista and 64-bit XP, we built an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for the current generation of Windows operating systems.
http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

HTML to PDF converter

20 March, 2009 (15:22) | Internet, Productivity

If you’d like to save a web site for posterity without the mess of saving the page and all its files, the web-based HTML to PDF Converter can crank out a PDF.
The service is pretty straightforward, with a spot to plug in the link to website you want to convert, then click Make PDF and [...]

Dropbox.com

26 February, 2009 (18:45) | Favorites, Internet, Portable, Productivity, Utilities, Websites

Dropbox instantaneously backs up and syncs your files over the internet and to any computer. After you install the application, it will create a Dropbox folder on your hard drive. Any file you put inside that folder will automatically be synced and monitored for changes, and each time a change is saved, it backs up [...]

iStewie.com

21 September, 2008 (23:56) | Internet, Websites

Apple iphone / touch mobile web sites.  Excellent resource for iphone webapps, tips, tricks, links and iphone / touch friendly websites.
http://istewie.com

random.org

6 November, 2007 (11:40) | Internet, Utilities

RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use the numbers to run lotteries, draws and sweepstakes and for their games and gambling sites. Scientists use them for random sampling [...]

retailmenot.com

6 November, 2007 (11:01) | Internet

RetailMeNot.com is an easy way to find online coupon codes. Enter these codes at the checkout page of participating merchants for instant discounts.  
http://retailmenot.com

bugmenot.com

6 November, 2007 (10:59) | Internet

Find and share logins for websites that force you to register.
http://bugmenot.com

Giveaway of the Day

5 June, 2007 (10:52) | Internet, Utilities, Websites

Well, that’s a convenient initiative allowing you to get the best commercial software titles – for free. Every day we offer licensed software you’d have to buy otherwise, for free! Yes, we are giving away software, and you can download it from our site, right now and right here and our goal is to give [...]

fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo/

5 January, 2007 (13:43) | Internet, Websites

National traffic and road closure information.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo

weather.gov

5 January, 2007 (13:40) | Educational, Internet, Websites

Official US weather, marine, fire and aviation forecasts, warnings, meteorological products, climate forecasts and information about meteorology.
http://weather.gov

K9 Web Protection

22 December, 2006 (01:52) | Internet, Security

Blue Coat® K9 Web Protection is a content filtering solution for your home computer. Its job is to provide you with a family-safe Internet experience, where YOU control the Internet content that enters your home. K9 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat’s Fortune 500 customers around the world, [...]

Rasterbator

11 December, 2006 (20:20) | Internet, Utilities, Websites

The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator

The Linux Equivalent Project

7 December, 2006 (16:21) | Educational, Internet, Multimedia, Productivity, Utilities, Websites

Database of popular windows apps and their linux equivalent.
http://www.linuxeq.com/

The Portable Freeware Collection

29 November, 2006 (17:24) | Games, Internet, Portable, Security, Utilities, Websites

Tons of USB friendly applications.
http://www.portablefreeware.com

Baby FTP Server

29 November, 2006 (16:53) | Internet, Portable, Utilities

This Baby FTP server has only the most necessary features and is yet powerful enough to be a basis for a more complex server.
http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/baby_ftp_server.html

Baby Web Server

29 November, 2006 (16:52) | Internet, Portable, Utilities

This program was build as an alternative for Microsoft’s IIS. The main goal was to design a simple web server with support for ASP. Setting up Baby ASP Web Server is very easy: copy the executable to a directory of your choice, set the directory of your webpages and it’s ready to run!
http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/baby_web_server.html

Spybot – Search and Destroy

13 November, 2006 (22:06) | Internet, Security

Spybot – Search and Destroy is an adware and spyware detection and removal tool. This includes removal of certain advertising components, that may gather statistics as well as detection of various keylogging and other spy utilities. In addition, it also securely removes PC and Internet usage tracks, including browser history, temporary pages, cookies (with option [...]

WOS (Webserver On Stick)

30 October, 2006 (20:26) | Internet, Portable, Utilities

An Apachewebserver with PHP and MySQL develops its full power now on every USB Stick on the world. Just plug in your USB stick in any Windows ® computer. A complete Apache webserver with PHP and MySQL starts. And you can enjoy the full power of WOS (Webserver on Stick).
http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wos/wos.htm
Also see XAMPP @ http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html 
Also see The Uniform Server @ [...]

POP Peeper

24 October, 2006 (18:44) | Internet, Utilities

POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, or RediffMail accounts. Send mail using your SMTP server or through your webmail account directly from POP Peeper. POP Peeper supports HTML [...]

AVG

18 October, 2006 (21:51) | Favorites, Internet, Security

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is a free anti-virus protection tool developed by GRISOFT for home use. We invite you to join the millions of satisfied customers worldwide who have downloaded the software and now enjoy the benefits of AVG Anti-Virus Free.
http://free.grisoft.com

Portable Apps

16 October, 2006 (20:14) | Educational, Games, Internet, Multimedia, Portable, Productivity, Security, Utilities

A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your [...]

Filezilla

16 October, 2006 (18:12) | Favorites, Internet, Portable

FileZilla is a free, open source FTP client for Windows. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS).
The main features are the site manager, message log, file and folder view, and the transfer queue.
The site manager allows a user to create a list of FTP sites along with their connection data, such as the [...]

CCleaner

13 October, 2006 (22:36) | Favorites, Internet, Security

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

ZoneAlarm

13 October, 2006 (22:35) | Internet, Security

ZoneAlarm is a software firewall produced by Zone Labs. It includes an inbound intrusion detection system, as well as the ability to control which programs can create outbound connection – the latter is not included in the Windows XP Service Pack 2 firewall.
In ZoneAlarm, program access is controlled by way of ‘zones’ which the computer’s [...]

FireFox

13 October, 2006 (22:07) | Favorites, Internet, Security

The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Gaim

12 October, 2006 (22:33) | Favorites, Internet

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks.
Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you [...]