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Monitor Multiple Computers From A Single PC Using Computer Monitor

When running processes on multiple computers at the same time, it is both time consuming and inefficient to check if it encountered any errors. Computer Monitor is a Java based application that can remotely monitor computers on a network from a single PC. The application lets you set a password for your server to prevent [...] (more…)

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NppJumpList Adds Windows 7 Jumplist Support To Notepad++

Notepad++ comes with an arsenal of useful plugins, which make it one of the most useful and versatile text editor. Today, we bring to you a plugin for Notepad++, namely NppJumpList that will add Windows 7 Jumplist support to Notepad++. Other than enabling Jump List, NppJumpList provides you with a list of available tasks that [...] (more…)

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Remove VMWare Player Menu In Full Screen Mode With VMWareMenuRemover

VMWare player is a widely-used virtualization application, enabling you to run virtual machines from multiple platforms, including Windows and Linux. Like any virtualization application, it provides a full screen mode to help users focus on the virtual machine, akin to it being a natively-run operating system on the physical machine. Unfortunately, this advantage is reduced [...] (more…)

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DualClip Translator: Use Hotkeys To Translate Foreign Language Text

When browsing through different websites, we often stumble upon text in a foreign language. Almost everyone knows about Google Translator and its usefulness when viewing web pages in another language, but what if you can translate the text without having to open Google Translator? DualClip Translator is an open source utility for translation of selected text, [...] (more…)

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Replicate And Backup Important Folders With Windows File Replicator

Mostly, it’s the value of the data stored in a hard drive that motivates us to create backups. Since the data keeps changing, regularly updating the backups in accordance with the data is a lot of hassle. Windows File Replicator is a simple backup tool that replicates changes made in your source folder to your [...] (more…)

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Re Text: Edit & Save Markdown Files in HTML, PDF and ODT Format

Markdown is a text-to-HTML filter that translates structured text into HTML. Markdown editors allow users to customize text documents and convert them into various formats such as HTML and XHTML. Re Text is an open source, multi-tab markdown editor for Linux, allowing editing of files in markdown and HTML format. The application includes a list [...] (more…)

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Browse Files & Folders From Within Notepad++ With Explorer [Plugin]

Notepad++ is a popular open source text editor, which supports many programming languages and can be used as an alternative to Windows Notepad. Explorer is a file exploring plugin for Notepad++ which provides a tree view for files and folders, allows viewing favorites, provides filtering and sorting options. (more…)

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symlinker: Create Symlink, Hardlink, And Directory Junction In Windows

If you rely on mklink Windows command line utility to create symbolic links for files and folders but hate using frustratingly tiring /D, /H, and /J switches to create symlinks, hardlinks, and folder junctions, respectively, we have a neat, little utility for you – symlinker (a.k.a Symbolic Link Creator) is GUI alternative to mklink utility [...] (more…)

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Swap Current Window Between Dual Monitors In A Click With DualSwap

When working with dual monitors, it can be really frustrating to continually swap windows from one monitor screen to another. DualSwap is a portable application that simplifies the window swapping process in a dual monitor setup. It sits in Windows’ system tray and monitors all active windows for quick screen-swapping. (more…)

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Monitor Network Bandwidth Usage In Ubuntu Linux With NTM

NTM (Network Traffic Monitor) an open source network traffic monitoring application for Linux-based operating systems, which displays network bandwidth usage by integrating with the default Network Monitor. It does not require root privileges to function, and can be configured to disconnect when a user-defined threshold is reached. NTM is useful for users who may have [...] (more…)

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BExplorer Brings Windows 8 Explorer Ribbon UI In Windows 7

Earlier we covered BExplorer (Better Explorer), which is an open source file browser for Windows. BExplorer is designed to be a viable  replacement of the standard Windows Explorer, as it provides a tabbed interface and additional toolbars. Recently, this project was revived with a Windows 8 style Ribbon UI. (more…)

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Compare Files From Windows Right-Click Context Menu With diff-ext

Finding out differences between two files through file comparison tools often becomes quite a hectic task, especially when you want to compare multiple file pairs. The file comparison tools require user to first specify the complete file source path and then enter the parameters for comparing or joining the files. diff-ext is a small Windows [...] (more…)

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Extract Text From Color Images With Ground Truth Text

I’m sure we all feel the need to extract text from an image from time to time. Normally, one can type out the words manually, however, that can be hard to do when there are large paragraphs to be copied from an image. A more efficient way can be to use an application instead of [...] (more…)

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Run Applications As Windows Services With ServiceRunner

Sometimes it is required to run applications as backend services to perform important tasks. Forcing applications to run as a services can ensure that the selected application can function in the backend as a service, even if another user is logged in. Application usage can be restricted on shared computers, as a program running from [...] (more…)

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Schedule Backup Of Outlook PST File With Backup my mail

Since Outlook saves all data, including emails, appointments, calendars, tasks, journals and other items in PST and OST files, it’s recommended to backup PST and OST on regular basis since it helps restore all Outlook user data back when it suddenly crashes or stops responding. Backup my mail is an Outlook backup tool which uses [...] (more…)