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Welcome! This site is a place to document technical information and other stuff that I was not able to find easily and/or don't want to lose.
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Technical Notes
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Free Tools
Here are a number of free tools that I have found to be very useful.
Graphics
- GIMP GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package.
- Hugin Panorama photo stitcher.
- jhead Exif Jpeg header manipulation tool (can use -autorot flag in conjunction with jpegtran to automatically rotate images based on orientation data stored by cameras that support including many Canon Powershots).
- jpegtran Lossless jpeg manipulation including rotation (direct link for .exe version is here).
Video
- MPEG Streamclip Simple video editor that can read multiple formats and export them to QuickTime, DV, AVI/DivX and MPEG-4.
- VLC media player The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server
Other
- Directory Compare This handy utility will compare and/or synchronize folders including network shares and can be used for simple backups. Visit the author's home page for more handy tools: http://tp.lc.ehu.es/jma.html
- PuTTY Free telnet/ssh/serial client which supports tunneling and much more.
- KeePass Password Safe Secure, encrypted password storage with cross platform support including blackberry and other mobile devices.
- CDBurnerXP Burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs for free.
- 1-4a-rename A file renamer which renames many files at once (handy for combining pictures from multiple sources and prepending numbers to keep them in order).
- TrueCrypt Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux (I use it mostly for a virtual encrypted disk within a file which is mounted as a real disk).
Free Website Software
Here are a few free web tools and software packages that I use.
- MovableType Publishing Platform
- Gallery Your photos your website
- Secure PHP Form Mailer Script
- Secure Guestbook Script with Image Verification
- PHP RecipeBook PHPRecipeBook is a web based cookbook with the ability to create shopping lists.
- GNUMP3d Web based music indexing & streaming including recursive playlist generation.
- csv2png Very small precompiled utility for generating graphs from csv data.
- LimeSurvey Opensource survey application (run easy to use surveys on your own web server)
- AWStats Free tool that generates graphs web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics.
- MediaWiki Free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia (this site is running on it).
Websites that I frequent
Entertainment
- Google Apps I use Google apps for my email & calendars
- Facebook I use Facebook to stay in touch with friends
- Hulu Watch TV shows & movies online for free legally
- slashdot When I have time I check tech news here
Online Shopping
- Amazon
- Dealnews How to go broke saving money
- Salescircular Local store specials aggregated & sorted in one place
- Google product search Price comparison shopping
