Friday, August 30, 2002

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Folder Cache - the list of recently used folders in Open/Save dialog windows. This program is for people who actively use computer and who have to work with a great amount of folders and documents. Every day in our work we all use the limited and constant number of folders. Thousand others folders are used seldom and only create additional difficulties for searching necessary documents. In addition to the problem some of programs not save last used folder and show Open/Save windows in one constant folder.
Logitech IM Video Companion 1.01.1184

video add-on for MSN and AIM

Logitech IM Video Companion is an add-on for MSN Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger that allows you to send live video feed from your webcam with to of your contacts. Your friends don't need to manually install special software to view the live video. The program is optimized for Logitech cameras but will work with any compatible capture device.

Here's what you need to get started:

An instant messenger account with AOL® or MSN®
Any compatible webcam. For best results, use a Logitech QuickCam® or ClickSmartTM camera.
A free download of the Logitech IM Video Companion After a quick setup, you can start sending live video to your friends, family, and co-workers instantly.
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries offered under a liberal usage license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 68 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, Perl, or Java programming interfaces.

Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:

Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG)
Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image
Create a montage of image thumbnails
Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web
Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence
Create a composite image by combining several separate images
Draw shapes or text on an image
Decorate an image with a border or frame
Describe the format and characteristics of an image

Thursday, August 29, 2002

Internet anonymity for Linux newbies By Thomas C Greene in Washington

An excellent article from the Register on how to harden your Linux box.

D Note

This program allows you to effectively keep track of notes on your desktop as if they were post-it's. The program runs quietly in your system tray and you can start adding notes by double clicking on it. Notes maybe be repositioned, made transparent, resized, colored, locked, and hidden. Very light program (less than 100k). Just download, extract, and run.

The program comes in two flavors. The installer version using SuperPiMP technology was made for those who don't mind a few extra kilobytes of download (35 or so) and is an easy to use interface. The exe only version is exactly the same and is just perfect if you know what you're doing with your computer.

Very clean, effective way to keep track of random crap. Your notes are stored in the "notes" directory. They are rich text formatted (after the first line anyway), so you can open them up in Notepad to modify them if you really need.

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, it enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites and find reports and articles quickly and easily. It was launched by Elsevier Science, the leading international publisher of scientific information.

Locating scientific information on the web is easy with Scirus because it:

• Focuses only on web sites containing scientific content - quickly pinpointing key data by targeting sites that conventional search engines cannot find, such as university Web sites and author homepages.


• Searches both free and journal sources - saving you time by covering over 105 million science- related pages, consisting of 90 million Web pages, as well as 17 million records from sources such as ScienceDirect, IDEAL, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb, Neuroscion, BioMed Central, US Patent Office, E-Print ArXiv, Chemistry Preprint Server, Mathematics Preprint Server, CogPrints and NASA.


• Locates peer-reviewed articles - ensuring you do not miss out on this critical information source by finding more peer-reviewed articles than any other search engine.


• Delves deep into Web sites - revealing valuable information by digging far deeper than most search engine 'spiders' or 'crawlers' and indexing complete documents.


• Reads non-text files - allowing you to locate vital PDF and PostScript files that so often are invisible to other search engines.
Password Spectator v1.0 [240k] Windows (All) FREE

Password Spectator allows you to reveal passwords that are hidden behind ****** symbols. Many programs allow you to store your passwords, so you don't have to enter them each time, which is great, but may cause you to forget them. This little tool will reveal them for you. Reveals 2000/XP passwords as well.
Web-FTP is a fully featured ftp client designed for secure file management when used in conjunction with an SSL enabled web server. As a secondary function it can serve as an FTP client for users who's firewalls block FTP, since all communication is through the HTTP protocol.

Once you log in to Web-FTP it retains a session, which runs locally on your server, subsequent calls to the cgi (with the proper cookie) reconnect you to your session, therefore maintaining state. Since everything passes through a cgi, if you put that CGI on a secure web-server you will have secure ftp (as long as the ftp is the same machine as the http server, or is behind a firewall).
WikiWikiWeb

The ideas of 'Wiki' may seem strange at first, but dive in and explore its links. 'Wiki' is a composition system; it's a discussion medium; it's a repository; it's a mail system; it's a tool for collaboration. Really, we don't know quite what it is, but it's a fun way of communicating asynchronously across the network. The name 'Wiki' may seem strange too - what does it mean? The WikiWikiWebFaq answers this and other questions, but the short answer is that Wiki Wiki is Hawaiian for 'quick'. Indeed, you will quickly see how powerful it is.

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

FileMirrors.com is an anonymous URL sharing and file searching service. Searching and sharing can be automatically done for users of GetRight to help find more mirrors for your downloads.
File Detective 1.1

create HTML index reports

File Detective allows you to create a simple HTML index of files in a drive or folder. You can choose to include all files or limit the output to certain file types (e.g mp3). File Detective allows you to save individual report files or to append to an existing one - this way for example you can keep track of files on multiple CDs without having to re-insert the actual disks. The program creates report files only, it does not offer any search functions for existing reports.
bbCMS

bbCMS is a Web-based content management system. It allows you to:

Create and edit documents through your browser
Create and edit multiple HTML templates
Create dynamic lists of your documents with sort and filtering options
Manage multiple sections or multiple sites from one, secure location!
Have draft, published, and retired documents with different viewing options.

bbCMS can be used to run multi-page sites, web logs, issue-based zine sites, and large, multi-section sites.

bbCMS stores all data in XML files, so syndicating your content has never been easier. With a few simple steps, you can support RSS and any other syndication formats. You can even create WAP or low- bandwidth versions of your site. It's really easy!

bbCMS can interface with the other Brand Ben Brown products to create a cohesive, interactive site.