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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.

Technical Notes

• Amazon EC2
• MediaWiki
• Newtek VT5
• Wirecast
• Wowza Media Server

Links

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 have used.

• 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.