2010/07/29

Want to learn how to program computers? Hackety Hack is easy, simple, and free.

2010/07/29

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively....

2010/07/24

Application that tracks how much time you spend on various applications.

2010/07/21

We love Linux, and want to make it easier for others to do so, too. This first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Linux includes our favorite apps that get things done and make your desktop great.

2010/07/19

Launchy is a free cross-platform utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!...

2010/07/17

Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once

2010/07/17

Big collection of Linux VMWare Images.

2010/07/09

Lifehacker's List of Essential Windows Downloads

2010/05/27

Verander ieder stuk muziek in een hoempapa-nummer

2010/05/22

Use your iPhone as a Wireless Router for your PC/Mac

2010/05/16

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen? During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun. F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better....

2010/05/04

Nullsoft Beep is an application that makes your computer sound like computers sound in the movies. It requires Windows 95 or later with DirectX 3 or later.

2010/04/24

Virustotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines

2010/03/14

Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems

2010/03/05

Software to jailbreak the iPhone.

2010/02/17

This article lists some extensions that are known to cause problems.

2009/11/15

This program will install and run SABnzbd on the synology diskstations as a service. SABnzbd is a fully automatic newsposting downloader, including packing out rars or zips and checking them against par files.

2009/11/15

AtMail is an open source webmail client written in PHP. We aim to provide a elegant Ajax webmail client for existing IMAP mailservers, with less bloat and a focus on an intuitive, simple user interface.

2009/10/17

I've written software that turns an old Commodore PET into a playable synth. I've created [a] website and have released it as GPL open-source software, so anyone can download it, use it, share it, and modify it if they're interested. The original PET didn't have a dedicated sound chip, so the vibrato, distortion, and drums sounds represent unique innovations....

2009/09/01

AutoIt is a freeware Windows automation language. It can be used to script most simple Windows-based tasks (great for PC rollouts or home automation).

2009/08/10

A list of free web server software that can be run from a flash/usb drive. These servers typically run Apache, MySQL, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin.

2009/06/16

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new machine learning schemes. Weka is open source software issued under the GNU General Public License....

2009/06/08

There are a ton of great, free applications that have been created in less than 1Mb - I didn't fully realize just how many until I started putting this list together. This is by no means a complete list, so if your favorite got overlooked make sure to share it in the comments!...

2009/06/01

We wouldn't have so many computers in the workplace or home if it weren't for the applications that drive adoption. In a very real sense applications were the lifeblood of the computer industry. The term 'killer app' gets tossed around quite liberally these days. Nearly every piece of software released seems to be pitched as having the potential to send shockwaves throughout the IT world. In reality, there have been precious few applications which have truly changed the computing industry over the years. This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing....

2009/05/28

2009/05/28

Fredhopper Access Server is search and merchandising software tailored to the needs of online sales channels. It uniquely follows people's logic to help users intuitively find what they look for - and more. As a result, companies working with Fredhopper sell more....

2009/05/25

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

2009/05/14

With Balanced Insight Consensus® deliver in half the time without compromising cross project alignment. Translates business requirements into a prototype.

2009/05/13

SpagoBI is the unified Free Platform for the development of Business Intelligence solutions at enterprise level. Thanks to its wide offering of analytical tools and to its new and intuitive user interface, SpagoBI supports day-to-day and strategic business, both at the decision-making and operational level....

2009/05/13

MicroStrategy helps thousands of customers make better business decisions every day with unified Reporting, Analysis, and real-time business Monitoring. To see it for yourself, give MicroStrategy's free 30-day Evaluation Edition a try.

2009/05/10

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!...

2009/05/10

Many people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start....

2009/05/10

FreeOTFE is a free, open source, "on-the-fly" transparent disk encryption program for PCs and PDAs

2009/05/10

File & Folder Unlocker is a powerful yet easy-to-use system utility that gives you complete control over the locked files and folders on your computer.

2009/05/10

MaZZick is a portable app which will let u do simple or complicated every-day tasks like launching files or folders ,doing a google search , typing a phrase , copying , deleting , closing windows ....... anything using only ur mouse like a wand.

2009/05/08

curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks....

2009/05/08

Thumb drives were once used to store files and make data portable, but due to the rapid increase in storage capacity over the pass few years these gadgets now have a bigger role. Some even run the entire operating system on a thumb drive. The more we rely on thumb drives, the more demands we have in terms of tools and applications to facilitate the transfer and security of files. If your thumb drive plays an important role in your daily job, here are some you might be interested....

2009/05/04

The best way to recover from unexpected data loss is to be properly prepared. With one of the following tools on hand, you'll always be ready to save your data from the Reaper.

2009/04/15

Spotfire's interactive information visualization and analytic solutions give users a remarkable experience for quickly and easily querying data and reporting results for superior business intelligence. From portfolio management and customer retention programs to key processes such as CRM, marketing, research, bioinformatics, yield and asset management and design for manufacturing, enterprises around the world rely on Spotfire's business analytics software to improve operational performance....

2009/04/13

KNIME, pronounced [naim], is a modular data exploration platform that enables the user to visually create data flows (often referred to as pipelines), selectively execute some or all analysis steps, and later investigate the results through interactive views on data and models....

2009/04/13

The below is an extract from Fred Brooks' (Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.) book, The Mythical Man-Month. This is one of the best explanations of why programming is so interesting. It touches on all aspects of the mystique of programming.

2009/04/13

Here I have some great little utilities (3 softwares and 2 web scripts) that you can try to use your Gmail account space as your external hard drive. You will be able to download (or should I say copy) attachments from your Gmail account to your computer just as you would do from a drive on your computer. You can also use this space to upload content direct from your computer and save it online in your Gmail account....

2009/04/04

Windows only: Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren't cool enough, it's portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive.

2009/04/04

Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a Ubuntu system running as a Windows application. This system is built with the Colinux Kernel, Xming X server and Pulseaudio server for Windows. Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a useful tool when you need to move yourself to other machine that have Windows as operating system....

2009/03/25

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like.

2009/03/23

Visualization and analysis software. Developed in cooperation with the Technical University Eindhoven.

2009/03/22

Modern psychology has attempted to classify how good we are at a certain skill by observing how deep it perforates that iceberg. It thus describes four stages of competence an individual can achieve. In this article I’ll try to apply this simple scheme to the skill we practice everyday: programming....

2009/03/22

Unlike software-specific text replacement features, Texter runs in the Windows system tray and works in any application you're typing in. Texter can also set return-to markers for your cursor and insert clipboard contents into your replacement text, in addition to more advanced keyboard macros. Did we mention it's free?...

2009/03/10

A freeware add-on for Windows lets you mark folders with color-coded icons to make a search for important information a "one-glance" affair.

2009/03/10

LabelsWin (tm) is a unique add-on for Windows Explorer that allows assigning of colour labels to file and folder icons. This feature appeared in Mac OS first, and remained unavailable in Windows until now. This is how colored file and folder icons look in Winsows XP Explorer....

2009/03/10

This plug-in adds a new Menu entry to the Office 2007 ribbon (specifically in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). When clicked, your ribbon displays the classic Office 2003 menu, complete with the buttons and file menus you're used to from your old Office 2003 install. As Samer from FreewareGenius points out, not every single bit of functionality remains in the UBitMenu toolbar as is available in Office 2003—due mostly to changes in Office—but most of the features you're used to remain in all their glory....

2009/03/09

TheLastRipper can save Last.fm streams to mp3's, while downloading album cover, appending ID3v2 tags and organizing you music after Artist/Album/Track. TheLastRipper will also help you generate playlists from the data available from you Last.fm account.

2009/03/08

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

2009/03/04

Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. In this metaphor, doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a financial debt. Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future....

2009/03/02

Simtools.xla and Formlist.xla are add-ins for Microsoft Excel (version 5 and later). Simtools adds statistical functions and procedures for doing Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis in spreadsheets. Formlist is a simple auditing tool that adds procedures for displaying the formulas of any selected range. Also available here is Torndiag.xls, an Excel workbook for making "tornado" sensitivity-analysis diagrams. Simtools and Formlist were developed to facilitate applications of probability and statistics, and to help managers do complex decision analysis. These programs are distributed as freeware for individual use, and may be freely redistributed to students and faculty in an academic institution. All other rights are reserved....

2009/03/01

Oracle SQL Developer is a free and fully supported graphical tool for database development. With SQL Developer, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements. You can also run any number of provided reports, as well as create and save your own. SQL Developer enhances productivity and simplifies your database development tasks....

2009/02/27

Content Management Comparison Tool

2009/02/27

If you are a Microsoft ® Outlook ® user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can update your Twitter status and follow your friends without having to open any other applications. OutTwit seamlessly integrates Twitter into Outlook.

2009/02/27

Keeping your Windows computer virus-free doesn't have to cost you a lot of money. Heck, it doesn't need to cost you any money. There are plenty of good options available for those of you on the hunt for free antivirus software.

2009/02/24

ProM is an extensible framework that supports a wide variety of process mining techniques in the form of plug-ins. It is platform independent as it is implemented in Java, and can be downloaded free of charge.

2009/02/22

Open source software for mind mapping.

2009/02/22

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool.

2009/02/21

Het Extended ISO 9126 model of Quintmodel is een uitbereiding van de ISO 9126 standaard voor softwarekwaliteit uit 1991. In de ISO 9126 standaard worden zes kwaliteitseigenschappen van softwareprodukten gedefinieerd, te weten Functionality, Usability, Efficiency, Reliability, Maintainability en Portability. In de appendix van de standaard worden aan elk van deze eigenschappen (characteristics) een aantal deeleigenschappen (sub characteristics) toegevoegd....

2009/02/19

Mind mapping software is used to create diagrams of relationships between ideas or other pieces of information. It has been suggested that the mind mapping technique can improve learning/study efficiency up to 15% over conventional note taking. Some mind mapping software is 3D, though full 3D functionality is difficult to achieve with the forms of interface devices readily available to users. Some mapping programs incorporate other learning optimization techniques including electronic flashcard style testing. The following is a list of mind mapping software....

2009/02/16

BARCELONA (AFN) - De telecomindustrie zet de komende tijd fors in op software voor mobieltjes. In navolging van de Amerikaanse computer- en elektronicafabrikant Apple gaan diverse bedrijven virtuele winkels openen waar gebruikers van een mobiele telefoon softwareprogrammaatjes kunnen kopen....

2009/02/15

MTASC is the first ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler. It can compile large number of .as class files in a very short time and generate directly the corresponding SWF bytecode without relying on Macromedia Flash or other tools.

2009/02/13

Graphviz reference

2009/02/13

GUESS is an exploratory data analysis and visualization tool for graphs and networks. The system contains a domain-specific embedded language called Gython (an extension of Python, or more specifically Jython) which supports the operators and syntactic sugar necessary for working on graph structures in an intuitive manner. An interactive interpreter binds the text that you type in the interpreter to the objects being visualized for more useful integration. GUESS also offers a visualization front end that supports the export of static images and dynamic movies....

2009/02/13

Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments. After a quick install, you'll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook - and suddenly information will become much easier to find. When a new email arrives, the sender's full communication history appears in the Xobni sidebar, including past conversations, attachments and contact details. Xobni also includes a blazing fast email search tool....

2009/02/13

Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. It has several main graph layout programs. See the gallery for some sample layouts. It also has web and interactive graphical interfaces, and auxiliary tools, libraries, and language bindings.

2009/02/13

Cytoscape is an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and integrating these interactions with gene expression profiles and other state data.

2009/02/13

PivotLink delivers on the original promise of business intelligence by enabling anyone in your organization to make smarter and faster business decisions. As the leading provider of SaaS business intelligence solutions our innovative approach gives users the freedom to explore and analyze their information so that they can better meet the demands of today's rapidly changing business environment....

2009/02/13

Prefuse is a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations. The original prefuse toolkit provides a visualization framework for the Java programming language. The prefuse flare toolkit provides visualization and animation tools for ActionScript and the Adobe Flash Player....

2009/02/13

GGobi is an open source visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data. It provides highly dynamic and interactive graphics such as tours, as well as familiar graphics such as the scatterplot, barchart and parallel coordinates plots. Plots are interactive and linked with brushing and identification....

2009/02/13

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information....

2009/02/09

DecisionIris is an interactive data visualization enterprise-wide solution that enables you to discover new insights in the information you work with every day. The DecisionIris platform enables your organization to easily deploy intuitive, self-service analytics to business users. It empowers end-users to explore the data, make meaningful business decisions, view real-time information, and share business intelligence with cross-functional teams. Easily see trends, patterns and relationships in data with unprecedented speed....

2009/02/09

2009/02/03

The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. If you have a question about a tool or how to use them, please visit the Sysinternals Forum for answers and help from other users and our moderators....

2009/01/31

Software supplied to run a Russian pipeline was deliberately planned to go haywire, causing the biggest non-nuclear explosion the world had ever seen, says a book published this week.

2009/01/21

Scott Murphy is a man who needs no introduction. For 15 years, he stood on the forefront of the adventure gaming revolution at one of the biggest names in PC entertainment. It was deep inside the lair of Sierra On-Line that Murphy and his crony Mark Crowe—known to the world as the Two Guys from Andromeda—created Space Quest, an adventure game franchise that has proven itself to be among the most enduring series the genre has to offer. Exactly 20 years, 6 games, and 3 collections later, fans of Space Quest are still playing these and other games of his creation on their antiquated computers or with fan made emulators, all the while reminiscing about the rough and tumble days of gaming dominated by the graphic adventure....

2009/01/18

2009/01/18

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

2009/01/18

It is famously difficult to teach people to program, and CS lore says that there are simply people who get it and people who don't. Saeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat, two computer instructors at Middlesex University in the UK, put that idea to the test, and ended up not with two kinds of people, but three....

2009/01/18

I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties.

2009/01/17

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era....

2009/01/14

Hiring smart software developers is not easy. If you're not careful you might end up hiring a bunch of moronic mandrills, like I did last year. And you don't want that. Trust me. Stand-up meetings are very hard to do in a tree. The key is to ask challenging questions that enable you to distinguish the smart software developers from the moronic mandrills. And to help you with that, I decided to publish my private list of 100 interview questions for software developers....

2009/01/13

Experts Announce Agreement on the 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors - And How to Fix Them Agreement Will Change How Organizations Buy Software.

2009/01/13

RenteTrekker is een Windows programma om verschillende spaarrekingen te beheren.

2009/01/10

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics....

2009/01/08

R is the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia. It is becoming their lingua franca partly because data mining has entered a golden age, whether being used to set ad prices, find new drugs more quickly or fine-tune financial models. Companies as diverse as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Shell use it....

2009/01/06

Qemu Manager 5, is an easy to use management tool for the fantastic QEMU emulator. It has a wealth of features for creating, managing and running multiple virtual machines.

2009/01/05

2009/01/03

Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol....

2008/12/28

Code review can be wonderful, helpful and incredibly daunting. This paper looks at how you can do code reviews for your project without provoking your fight-or-flight instincts. We quickly gloss over why you should do code reviews in order to focus on the social dynamics of how code gets reviewed, particularly in open source projects. After all, part of what makes open source so great (and sometimes intimidating!) is that your code gets eyeballed by experts around the globe. We look at the effects that different technologies can have on code review culture, what reviews can actually achieve, how other disciplines do review and then highlight some traps that are all too easy to fall in to....

2008/12/28

This stuff can be installed on any portable drive, i.e. USB thumbdrive, PDA or an iPod. You can use them at work, school, or any other place where you can plugin your device. Check them out, you can either scroll-down for relevant category, i.e office software, email tools, messengers, games, etc. or get a ‘all-in-one’ package (all essential tools) . While there are more apps for windows users, I tried to include a mac version for each essential tool. All free. Enjoy!...

2008/12/27

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.

2008/12/25

SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence. One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards....

2008/12/22

GX WebManager is een commercieel platform voor Enterprise Web Content Management. Het stelt u in staat om websites te bouwen, te delen en uit te rollen. Onafhankelijk van uw leverancier.

2008/12/16

Welcome to one of the Internet's premier sites for detailed PC reference information. My name is Charles, and my goal is to provide you with the answers to your computing questions. Please enjoy your stay, and come back again soon.

2010/07/30

SQL is de de-facto standaard als het gaat om applicatie-databases. Maar er wordt meer en meer getwijfeld aan het nut van relationele databases, ten gunste van het zogenaamde 'NoSQL'.

2010/07/30

The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, can follow links, and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and submitted. Mechanize also keeps track of the sites that you have visited as a history....

2010/07/30

SelectorGadget is an open source bookmarklet that makes CSS selector generation and discovery on complicated sites a breeze. Just drag the bookmarklet to your bookmark bar, then go to any page and press it. A box will open in the bottom right of the website. Click on a page element that you would like your selector to match (it will turn green). SelectorGadget will then generate a minimal CSS selector for that element, and will highlight (yellow) everything that is matched by the selector. Now click on a highlighted element to remove it from the selector (red), or click on an unhighlighted element to add it to the selector. Through this process of selection and rejection, SelectorGadget helps you come up with the perfect CSS selector for your needs....