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Jester: Text Editor For Comparing Documents & Creating Song Parodies

Using the right tool for the right job is very important for the successful completion of any project. It can save you a lot of time and energy, enabling you to use it in other more important tasks rather than wasting time using the wrong tool. So, what do you do when you have to [...] (more…)

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PhotoFiltre: A Comprehensive Image Retouching Tool With Batch Support

We have previously covered some very useful image editors, such as PixBuilder and Artweaver Free, which provide you with handy toolbars and useful tools for editing images. Today, we have PhotoFiltre, a complete image retouching portable application that lets you perform basic and advanced editing of images, as well as apply a wide range of [...] (more…)

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SmoothDraw: Digital Painter With Adobe Photoshop Like Layers Support

Last year, we covered an open source application for digital painters called MyPaint, which provides users with various options to create a digital painting that resembles work on a real-life canvas. Today, we’ve stumbled across yet another simple drawing tool for Windows, namely SmoothDraw. The application offers a whole lot of tools, along with multiple brushes, effects and layer support. [...] (more…)

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Perform Network Security Auditing With Nmap Security Scanner

Nmap is an open source tool for network auditing and exploration. It can help system and network administrators discover available hosts and find out what services and operating systems they are running. It supports many advanced mapping and port scanning techniques and assists network inventory creation, service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. [...] (more…)

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IP Seizer Prevents IP Conflict By Tracing Available IPs On A Network

System And Network Administrators who work on networks with hundreds of computers often find it difficult to trace the range of IP addresses currently in use. I have personally worked on such a network and despite the fact that we had VLANs (Virtual LANs) to ensure that the hundreds of connected systems were never short [...] (more…)

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Hardware Lister Shows Hardware Configuration Information In Ubuntu

Hardware Lister is a small tool that provides detailed information of the hardware configuration of a Linux machine. It can report the memory configuration of your system, firmware version, main board configuration, version of your CPU and it’s speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. Although the information given by the GUI (Graphical User Interface) of [...] (more…)

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Find Out When Websites Or Network System Is Down With EasyNetMonitor

EasyNetMonitor is a portable network and website monitoring tool that allows you to check if a specified website or network computer is down. It has both free and paid versions and is a handy tool for monitoring websites and important network system (e.g. servers) in order to check their status in a timely manner rather than [...] (more…)

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Change Your MAC Address To Avoid Bandwidth Limitations [Hack]

Media Access Controller or (MAC) address is a unique identification serial number which is assigned to a network interface for communication over a network. Ryll MAC Editor is a tool that allows users to replace the MAC address of their computers. This can be particularly useful for people who often use free internet from public [...] (more…)

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Test DNS Server Performance In Chart And Stats With DNS Performance Test

In one of our previous post we explained the functions of the Nslookup Comand Line, which is used for querying the Domain Name System (DNS). DNS Performance Test is an easy to use tool that tests the performance of your DNS server and displays the real-time result in chart across Windows, Mac and Linux based [...] (more…)

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Find Out Your True Network Speed With Raccoonworks Speed Test

Measuring network transfer speed accurately can be quite difficult in the wake of uncertain data collected by different command lines and GUI based networking tools. It is common knowledge that pinging a website from the command prompt  shows variable latency rates as the accessibility to each website may rely on variable factors including the quality [...] (more…)

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Create Rich Digital Media Online With Cloud Canvas

Cloud Canvas is an HTML 5 based full-featured web application that allows users to create and save rich digital media content. The content created using this app can be saved as a PNG and in XML format (for importing and editing later on) in your Google Docs account. Cloud Canvas has a number of dynamic [...] (more…)

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Monitor And Troubleshoot Multiple Hosts (Networks) With Pinkie

You must have noticed that over the last few days we have covered some articles regarding network troubleshooting via the command prompt. There are many GUI (Graphical User Interface) based network troubleshooting tools as well that can help you trace a route, ping multiple hosts, perform forward and reverse DNS lookup, etc. Pinkie is a [...] (more…)