| Program | Company | Operating System | Cost | License | Comments |
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 | Fookes Software | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Linux with WINE | $29.95 |
Shareware. | Programmable Text Editor.
This web site is developed with NoteTab Pro.
I use this tool every day for anything that requires a text editor, from taking notes to building websites.
There is also a free version, NoteTab Light,
and a more advanced version, NoteTab Standard, that costs $19.95.
See my NoteTab pages for my clips and scripts.
Also runs on thumb drives. |
Easy Thumbnails
 | Fookes Software | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Linux with WINE | Free |
Shareware. | Create accurate thumbnail images and scaled-down/up copies from a wide range of popular picture formats.
This program installs in WINE on Linux and successfully re-sized the sample image. |
Easy Imager
 | Fookes Software | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Linux with WINE | $34.95 |
Shareware. | Powerful application that makes it easy to display, manage, and batch-process images in all popular formats, and produce photo albums to suit every browser.
Installs and builds album from sample pictures.
Check for updates will not launch browser or email program. |
Album Express
 | Fookes Software | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | $24.95 |
Shareware. | Great tool for creating slick, professional-looking picture albums for home, friends and the Web.
Installs on Linux, but crashes when the program starts. Not sure if this is something WINE can eventually handle or not. |
Mailbag Assistant
 | Fookes Software | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Linux with WINE | $39.95 |
Shareware. | E-mail organizer that complements your mail program and offers powerful tools to search, sort, export, extract information, and archive your messages.
Installs and creates mbg, eml, and generic mail boxes and can read them from sample mail.
Check for updates will not launch browser or email program.
Minor errors at launch and exit of program. |
 | dataomega | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | $49.95 |
Shareware | A text editor and personal information manager with innovative, powerful features, InSight can also be an excellent tool for system maintenance, or as an Internet link manager, a multiple Clipboard capturing utility, and many more uses. |
| COMODO Internet Security | Comodo Security Solutions, Inc | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | Free |
Free for all uses. | Software Firewall. |
 | Mozilla Foundation | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | Email Program. Free and Open Source. There are versions for nearly any operating system.
There is also a portable version for thumb drives. |
 | Mozilla Foundation | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | Web Browser. Free and Open Source. There are versions for nearly any operating system.
There is also a portable version for thumb drives. |
Aid4Mail
 | Fookes Software | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | starts at $24.95 |
Shareware. | Archives, converts, exports, and migrates all your important emails.
Comes in Stamdard, Professional, and Enterprise editions. |
 | OpenOffice.org | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
LGPL and SISSL | Free and Open Source programs that can replace MS-Office™. Free for all uses. There are versions for nearly any operating system.
It can save documents directly to PDF.
There is also a portable version for thumb drives. |
Spybot Search and Destroy
 | Safer Networking Ltd. | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | Free |
DPL | Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. |
| Malwarebytes | Malwarebytes Corporation | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | Free |
Freeware | Scan and Remove Malicious Software. |
SyncBack
 | 2BrightSparks Pte Ltd | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | Free & $15.00 |
Shareware | Helps you backup, synchronise, and restore your files to the same drive, a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc), an FTP server, a Network, or Zip archive. |
| CSE HTML Validator | AI Internet Solutions | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | Free & $69.00 and up |
Shareware | Powerful, easy to use, user configurable, and all-in-one HTML, XHTML, CSS, link, spelling, and accessibility checker This program integrates with NoteTab and other editors. |
| TopStyle CSS Editor | Bradbury Software | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | Free & $79.95 |
Shareware | Program to simplify generating StyleSheets and more. This program integrates with NoteTab.
Installs on WINE, but errors out when starts up. This may be something that future versions of WINE or the real Windows option may resolve. |
 | Sam Francke | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | Free |
Freeware | Editor for csv files, delete,add and insert items. Delete and add columns and rearrange the column order, column search, Column sort and more ... |
NTREGOPT
 | Lars Hederer | Windows NT/2000/XP | Free |
Freeware | Registry Optimizer. |
 | Lars Hederer | Windows NT/2000/XP | Free |
Freeware | Registry backup. |
| PageDefrag | Sysinternals | Windows NT/2000/XP | Free |
?? | Pagefile Optimizer.
Sysinternals was purchased by Microsoft, but all of their utilities are still available. |
| FileZilla | . | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac/and others | Free |
GPL | FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. |
| FavTool | Microsoft | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP | Free |
Freeware | Convert Internet Explorer Favorites to Netscape/Mozilla Bookmarks.
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| Stinger | McAfee | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP | Free |
?? | Quick Anti-Virus Scanner of the most common viruses and trojans. |
| Xenu Link Sleuth | Tilman Hausherr | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Linux with WINE | Free |
Freeware | Find broken links on web sites.
Installs and runs on WINE, but has issues with checking external sites and stopping threads. This is written with MS-C++ with heavy use of MS-specific features. This would explain part of its odd behavior on Linux. Perhaps something WINE or configuration of WINE can resolve. |
| RASPPOE | Robert Schlabbach | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP | Free |
Freeware | Enable non-Windows XP systems to connect to DSL providers with PPOE connections.
PPP over Ethernet Protocol. |
KeePass
 | KeePass | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Linux with WINE | Free |
Freeware | Password storage for all your passwords.
Installs and runs flawlessly on WINE. It successfully reads the same data file from Windows.
KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). There is also a portable version for thumb drives. |
 | Igor Pavlov | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Linux with WINE | Free |
GPL | File compression and decompression utility.
Command line version runs on Linux (WINE).
There is also a portable version for thumb drives. |
 | Pidgin | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | Pidgin is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.
Allows sign-in to multiple accounts and multiple services. No need for multiple IM programs. |
| TightVNC | . | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | Remote PC Management via modem, network, internet.
TightVNC supports file transfer.
TightVNC is a free remote control software package derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. |
| Tidy | Dave Raggett | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | Command line HTML validator. |
LifeLines
 | LifeLines | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | Genealogy program with powerful reporting language.
Works great on a USB thumb drive on Windows. |
Linux - Operating System
 | . | Linux | Free |
GPL | Unix-based operating system.
Debian-based Knoppix CD is great for testing hardware for Linux compatibility and troubleshooting.
I have used:
Red Hat Fedora Core 3 & 4.
Slackware 10, 11, & 12.
Debian Etch. |
| Apache Web Server | Apache | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | Web Server. |
| MySQL | MySQL | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | SQL Database. |
| PHP | PHP | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | Web scripting and programming language. |
| Perl | Perl | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
GPL | Web scripting and programming language. |
| BitTorrent | Bram Cohen | Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac | Free |
MIT License | Utility for sharing and downloading large files, such as ISOs for Linux distributions. The bandwidth is broken up into small pieces to download a large file in many simultaneous streams. One CD, such as the Knoppix distribution, can be downloaded in a little over an hour for 700 MB. |
| ISO Recorder Power Toy | Alex Feinman | Windows XP/Windows 2003 | Free |
Freeware | Great utility for burning ISO images to CD without the need for expensive programs. If you want to try out a Linux Live CD, such as Knoppix, this will let you download the ISO and record it all on a Windows PC.
It has a companion command-line utility CreateCD. |
 | Vim | Multiple | Free |
Charityware | Vim is an improved version of the standard vi text editor from Unix. Vim is the default editor on many Linux distributions. It has a steep learning curve, but it has a lot of power should one choose to learn beyond the basics. |
| JKDefrag | Jeroen Kessels | Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 | Free |
GPL | Disk defragment and optimize utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies and USB disks/sticks.
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Does a much better job than the build-in Windows Defragmenter. |
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