Category: Software

SysInternals Windows Freeware is a useful website that should be known to every Windows developer. They provide free utilities for Windows that cannot be found anywhere else. The ones I found most useful so far are Process Explorer, FileMon, RegMon and Autoruns but there are many more.

Yahoo! released to the world a user interface library for web development. If you’re a web developer and looking to put some advanced controls on your website, this library is a good place to start.

Electric Sheep, apart from being a beautiful screensaver, is also a cool idea – users who watch it in action can indicate that they like it, therefore extending its “life” (duration) and causing it to “reproduce”.

(via Download Squad)

Here’s a cool way to show how an application can be written for a browser: using the XUL engine in Mozilla-based web browsers (e.g. Firefox) M.A.B lets you browse and search the different Amazon stores (if you install it you can also save the search results).

Not too long ago I offered Windows Live Messenger beta invitations. I still have 7 of them. Let me know in the comments if you want one.

Who cares? I use Firefox.

(What? It’s my blog. I’m allowed to post stupid stuff like that.)

Here’s the link to IE7 Beta 2 Preview if you’re still interested. Only available for legal copies of Microsoft Windows.

Hamachi is free software to create secure (mediated) instant peer-to-peer VPNs. From the Hamachi website: “With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. It is also free.”

I haven’t used it yet as I had no need for it so far, but this tutorial on how to set up VNC with Hamachi may be useful.

Recolored is only free while in its beta stage, but it’s a very cool program. It allows you to easily colorize black and white photos by specifying areas of color. The program does the rest for you.