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Free Mac Apps

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:41:13 +0000

Take part in the http://FreeMacApps.com Giveaway! 21 apps, over $1000 of combined worth for two lucky winners @TwistedMac

Remote Desktop Programs

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:08:21 +0000

mRemote – Discontinued – merged with Visionapp
Visionapp Freeware – obsoleted by XP SP3 + Visionapp’s overpriced commercial version.
XRDP
RoyalTS old is free, new is $30
MS remote desktop client for mac
Hopefully we’ll find others to add to the list

Nice Hex Editor

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:13:37 +0000

http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

MD5 – generate checksum from right click

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:31:03 +0000

http://www.easytousetools.com/md5_tool/download.php

Free Images

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:57:52 +0000

Websites are pretty booring without images of some sort. Professionals pay big money for world-class photos and illustrations. For the rest of us, searching google images is often the first place we look – however there is little guarantee that the images we find are ok to use.

Here are some links to various sites I’ve found that promise free photos, and by free, I mean free to download + Free to use*

* = within the intended use – for example, many pictures are free if you intend to put them on your website, so long as you credit the author, while almost no images are free if you intend to pack up a bunch of images and sell an image collection…

Sites that offer some free images:
Some of these grabbed from the awesome book: “How to Cheat in PhotoShop CS4″
Stockxchng (http://www.sxc.hu)
MorgueFile (http://www.morguefile.com)
Mayang textures (http://www.mayang.com/textures)

US Government public domain images:
Space images (http://www.nasa.gov)
Skies and Nature: (http://www.photolib.noaa.gov)
Military (http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/)

Free FTP software

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:28:02 +0000

I use Filezilla – seems to do everything I need

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

Free Disk Defragmenters

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:06:13 +0000

Hopefully one day soon, Solid state storage will make random access so fast that defragmenting won’t be necessary, but for now, here are a few free tools:

http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/

http://www.defraggler.com/

Cool jQuery Reference Site

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:54:14 +0000

if you use jQuery, you need to have a look at this interactive reference!

http://visualjquery.com/

Network Monitoring

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:48:29 +0000

Network monitoring is critical if you want to know that your computer systems are working.

I looked into a few choices:
Free:
SmokePing: pings a bunch of addresses and graphs the response times http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/

Nagios: Nagios is a free, full blown network monitor for Linux. When I looked into it, it was a fair amount of work to set up – there are a few books available

Another app is Groudwork opensouce edition.
I am always leary of open source software that has a paid version. Seems like what could be a great free app usually ends up being little more than a demo for the companies paid version.

Another tool I found is ServerSentinel (http://www.jam-software.com/serversentinel/index.shtml) Server Sentinel isn’t free, but it’s not pricey either $65. Has a nice variety of sensors (you can do a lot more than just ping an address)

Network Storage

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:33:31 +0000

There’s a number of Free open source network storage OS’s or applications layered on linux.

http://www.openfiler.com looks to have done a nice job