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qTrace: Sophisticated Screen Capture Utility With Automatic Bug Report Logging

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If you’re a software developer, it’s better to invest more time into testing or development, rather than on documenting its usage and preparing bug reports, whichever applies to your area of work. Albeit the fact that documenting the scenario is significant, you can easily lose focus if you’re inadvertently busy in capturing screenshots and not performing the actual task. I have tinkered around with several screenshot tools, both good and abysmal, but none I could found was as unique as qTrace. It’s such a handy software testing and reporting tool that may even entirely eliminate the need to capture screencasts. The application is aimed at project managers, IT administrators, software and web developers, and/or application reviewers like me, who frequently find the need to capture various screenshots in order to define, rectify or troubleshoot a problem. Suppose you want to write a step by step application guide, qTrace can do wonders by automatically grabbing all the screenshots for you, which itself is a great time-saver. For that matter, it can also let you submit defect tickets to various supported trackers, such as Assembla, Bugzilla, Fogbugz, HP Quality Center, QASymphony’s qTest, Rally etc. Similarly, it comes with Dropbox integration to automatically save the bug reports to the cloud storage. Continue reading for more details. Read More

Fiddler: Monitor HTTP Traffic For Any Application & Filter Data Tracking

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Ever wanted to know which servers the HTTP requests traverse while reaching a specific web server? Fiddler is a comprehensive web debugger for Windows, which tracks and logs all HTTP connections, and data exchanged between your network interface and internet. The application gives insight into files, connections, cookies and other objects that were exchanged during each session. Apart from inspecting the HTTP traffic, it also sets breakpoints and manipulates both incoming and outgoing data to let you view the data that is being downloaded and uploaded. Moreover, the application is capable of tracking traffic from all applications that support proxy connections, processes, and especially web browsers to view send and receive requests.  Additionally, it can be used to debug internet traffic from mobile devices including Android, Windows Phone & iPhone. Read More

CleanGenius: Delete Logs, Caches & Unwanted Apps, Monitor Space Usage [Mac]

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MacCleaning is a simple memory monitor and cache cleaner for Mac, reviewed early in December 2011. In the brief period of one month, the app has been upgraded with two major features, and has been renamed CleanGenius Free. Like the previously-reviewed version, it has both a free and a pro version. New features added to CleanGenius Free are, an uninstaller that will allows you to uninstall multiple apps at once, and actively monitor free space on all mounted drives. In addition to the cache and log cleaner, the app monitors space consumption in your downloads, logs and cache folders. The menu bar interface still works, but the main window is where you uninstall apps from. Read More

Anuran: Record & Archive Custom Logs In Chronological Order

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Anuran is productivity app that is meant to record and archive text based logs that can be scheduled as a timed pop-up window. You can enter your logs within this (pop-up) window, after which the log will be archived into simple, time stamped, plain-text log files. Anuran's pop-ups are designed to be non-intrusive, and record log files in an organized format for later use. These chronological logs resolve the issue of creating and saving custom logs for recording important events (e.g., during software development or when resolving system issues). Read More

Monitor Multiple Log Sources For Output & Events With Logview4net

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Logview4net is an open source log analyzing application that can monitor multiple different sources for output or events. It serves as a simple log monitor for text based log files, and also for more advanced features such as monitoring incoming UDP/TCP traffic, Event Log entries, STD Out/STD Err, RSS feeds, as well as MS SQL and MySQL database tables. In addition to viewing log files, the program can also perform certain actions when defined keyword is identified, including highlighting, ignoring (text) and playing a sound. Read More

Glogg: Use Filters To Highlight Important Events In Complex Log Files

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Many a times, database managers, programmers and system administrators need to find and analyze potential issues, errors, warnings, disconnections etc., from enormous log files of deployed solutions. The log files can be read by general-purpose text editors, but they don’t offer advance features, required to analyze the log files such as auto-refresh option to keep a check on system log files, filters to quickly search specific text string, highlighters to mark important keywords/strings in a log file. Glogg is a cross-platform log file explorer, developed to view, search and analyze large and complex log files. Supporting regular expressions, it lets you search whole text strings & keywords and apply defined character-based filters over the log files to highlight all the important events. Read More

Extract Required Windows 8 Log Files With Windows 8 Log Collector

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It is often required by system administrators to fetch different kinds of log files to identify system issues. For example, you might have to check event logs in order to identify issues with a startup applications and to investigate a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). Collecting these log files from numerous sources can be quite a time consuming task. Windows 8 Log Collector is a portable application that quickly fetches numerous Windows 8 log files for MSINFO32, Mini dump, event logs, host file, and Internet Explorer. Read More

Analyze Mac Time Machine Error Logs With TM Error Logger

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Time Machine is to Mac OS X, what System Restore is to Windows. Time Machine is an built-in feature of Mac OS X which lets users create regular backups of their Mac including, system files, pictures, music, documents and all other important user folders. Using Time Machine, you can bring the previous Mac OS X state back without having to manually find and revert the changes made to the system. If you use Time Machine to create backups daily, you may know that it often fails to recover all the data back. In such a case, it become quite tedious to identify the root cause of the problem which Time Machine faced during the restore process. TM Error Logger is small Mac app that solves this very problem. It is designed to show current and previous Time Machine error logs, so you can analyze the issues Time Machine encountered during the process. Read More

Disable & Delete Zeitgeist Logs In Ubuntu With Activity Log Manager

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Zeitgeist service comes pre-installed in Ubuntu and logs all activity such as files accessed, visited websites, etc. Activity Log Manager Zeitgeist is a GUI based application which lets you gain control of the information that Zeitgeist logs. It allows creating blacklists according to file or application type to disable logging for specified applications and user activities. This ensures that your personal information can be controlled from showing up in Zeitgeist logs. For example, you can use Activity log Manager to disabled logging for visited websites, certain file types (e.g. Libre Office files) and so on. Read More

Hide Call Log On Your iPhone With HiddenCallLog [Cydia Tweak]

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Phones might have turned into smartphones, but the users are essentially the same. Most of us still face those day-to-day problems that haunted us 10 years ago, and in many areas, things haven’t changed all that much. There were annoyingly interfering friends (or family members) in the past, and there still are. But the modern world lays special emphasis on privacy and such issues are never taken lightly. No matter how technologically safe the devices or networks become, there are still the age-old methods of prying into your personal life like snatching your phone and taking a good look at all your data. Not if Cydia can help it! HiddenCallLog is a free Cydia tweak that will make your complete call log invisible with a single touch. The Cydia app makes your call log appear to be completely empty, but the best thing about it is that you can get it back as easily as you made it disappear. Read More

Asa Log Viewer Shows Logs Of Windows Current Events By Log Type

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Asa Log Viewer is a simple application which allows you to view current Windows logs. As far as the functionality is concerned, it’s quite different from previously featured log viewers and analyzers, Vlogger, LogExpert, and MasS Log Viewer, just to name a few. Its primary focus is on all the major Windows devices and elements which may throw exceptions while running or working in background. Since it’s not easy to identify the culprits for Windows errors, it, in contrast to Windows Event Viewer, enables user to check if specified Windows elements have thrown any exceptions or not. Take Internet Explorer as an instance, what would be best way to identify the problems you face with IE. You might search for log files to see conflicting instances which prevent IE from working properly, but with Asa Log Viewer, you just need to select Internet Explorer from the list and choose Errors Only option to view all the error logs that have been reported by Windows for Internet Explorer. Read More

Analyze FileZilla Server Logs And Usage Statistics With FTPstats

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One problem which administrators face while using FileZilla Server is that it doesn’t maintain event logs in a simple readable form, forcing admins to dig deep into information shown on main interface or FileZilla Server Log file to find out how many users logged in previous sessions, which steps did they take over shared folders, which files they changed and opened, etc. If you’re facing all such problems and often find yourself scrutinizing each log info, check out FTPstats. It focuses on only Server file and folder usage and event statistics rather than other useless information, such as, connection mode switching, connection denied, password required for user, username and so on. You just have to provide FileZilla Server.log file path and it will instantly compile server usage statistics. Read More

ididwork – Share Work Logs And Manage Employee Reviews

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For small companies or teams working remotely, tracking tasks and feedback can be a real challenge. For people remotely managing multiple teams, reviewing tasks and performance can pile up over time and the bigger or more complex the team, the harder it is to manage the tasks. ididwork is a web service that simplifies work logging for employees and makes it easier for managers and peers to provide feedback on tasks. Read More

Vlogger – Perform String And Line Number Based Filtering Over Log Files

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Managing log files can become a tiresome task, especially when you’re dealing with lengthy log files containing some invalid and unsupported characters. Searching such characters require using dedicated log file organizer which can seamlessly search every string instance you want to find in a log file. Take Windows event log files for an example, if you want to find all the previous instances related with system hibernation and shutdown, Windows Notepad might not be able to find strings having shutdown, hibernations or other Windows events triggered in the past. Vlogger is a small yet powerful Adobe-Air based open source log manager, supporting LOG, HTML, TXT formats and string / line number based filtering. To review imported log files by applying variety of other functions, you can export the LOG files to Excel supported format. Read More

Get Advanced Logs For Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 And 2011

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Windows MultiPoint Server is a member of the Windows Operating System family which provides a way to tap into unused processing power of a single PC. This gives multiple users their own computing experience, as  older hardware is reused, to provide end users with most current Windows 7 experience. You can even use large screen monitors and split screens to further enhance the user experience. It allows powering one computer for multiple users who can connect to it using RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). While it bring a lot of cost reductions for a business, it also needs strict monitoring to ensure that several end users are not adversely affected. Microsoft has recently launched the Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 Log Collector. It is an optional tool that can be used to obtain logs and debugging information. This can help in investigating server issues with more detailed and enhanced logs for Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 and 2011. This logging information can be quite helpful for IT professionals and intermediate users who may require troubleshooting the Windows MultiPoint Server. Read More

LogExpert GUI Alternative of Unix Tail Command For Windows

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LogExpert is a file analyzing software that brings powerful tools to review log files, analyze events by date and time, and bookmark important log file content in order to keep check on errors and other discrepancies that occurred with applications being observed. It enables you to open multiple log files side by side for comparisons. With MDI based interface, you can keep track of multiple log files, compare them, differentiate each opened log tab by colors, evaluate generated events, and analyze log files of one specific session. It is an open source GUI replacement of Unix based tail command for Windows which lets you easily apply filters and search log file content by using regular expressions. The bookmark feature is the best amongst others. You can comment out a selected portion of long log file in order to mark down important changes. As we all know that randomly generated log files don’t comply with one specific log format standard, it features Columnizer option to quickly split log lines into columns to fit one well-defined log format. Additionally, it is very flexible in terms of using third-party plug-ins to use advance log related functions. Read More

Apply Analytical Expressions To Analyze Log Files With MaaS360 Log Viewer

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Generally, all applications save errors, exceptions and other coded issues in a log file, so users can review the problems. Log file is a simple text file which is responsible for holding all the unknown and known issues which might erupt while running the application or executing a specific function of it. Many power users, who like to delve deep into log files find it tiring to manually search through the log file to view and analyze one specific event. Therefore, notepad should be replaced by a powerful and dedicated log viewer which, while offering all the essential tools to edit logs, provides options to apply analytical expressions to quickly find and analyze the events. One such tool is MaaS Log Viewer. It is written specifically to view and analyze log files of almost all the formats with facilities to apply regular and analytical expressions to make events reviewing easier for you. Read More

Gnome Activity Journal Keeps Log Of All Activities, Opened Files And Folders In Ubuntu Linux

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GNOME Activity Journal (formerly known as GNOME Zeitgeist) is Linux based application which is designed to easily find files from your local locations. It keeps a chronological journal, containing all the logs from user activity. These logs can be revisited anytime in order to find the exact location of files. For example, let say, you download a video from YouTube which is saved to a directory that you are having problem finding. Instead of downloading the file again or searching your system endlessly, you can simply open the Gnome Activity Journal and open the file from your log history by double-clicking the file name.  Moreover, it saves visited website history, messenger conversation history, email records and much more. Read More

Show Apple Console Log Messages On Mac Desktop With ConsoleGrowl

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Just like any other Operating System, Mac also keeps console logs to assist users in troubleshooting a wide range of errors. Mac Console lets anyone find out problems that arise during execution of an application, so they can be properly addressed. To look for a specific error message, one has to search through the log for a timestamp when problem occurs with the application in question. If you’re tired of going through log file each time to know about one particular problem, ConsoleGrowl might come helpful. It uses Growl service to show Apple console messages as notifications on the desktop in realtime. Read More

Keep Track Of File Uploads And Changes With Romaco Log Master

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It becomes quite hard to manage websites especially when you need to keep a constant check on all the uploaded files/folders and other important file changes. Even though you can keep an archive (which is to be uploaded) under yours scrutiny, it is a bit cumbersome job to always keep track of the files which are to be uploaded or replaced. Log Master is a small application which operates on logging each & every file that you upload, move or replace. Moreover, it can also be considered as a complete management tool for organizing all the files – images, videos, documents, and other media files while keeping a separate log as defined by the user. The application working is based on creating LOG files, accompanied by multiple types of filters. According to the developer, the application is not necessarily meant for managing website uploads, if someone is facing any difficultly in streamlining one huge pile of files, it can create logs upon specific Entry Type to ensure that nothing will be missed or misplaced. Read More