pdftk - the pdf toolkit

"If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:

• Merge PDF Documents

• Split PDF Pages into a New Document

• Rotate PDF Pages or Documents

• Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)

• Encrypt Output as Desired

• Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms

• Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp

• Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels

• Update PDF Metadata

• Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document

• Unpack PDF Attachments

• Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages

• Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams

• Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)

Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris."

Optimizing Microsoft Office Access Applications Linked to SQL Server

Optimizing Microsoft Office Access Applications Linked to SQL Server

"One way to create applications that use Microsoft Office Access for creating user interfaces and that use Microsoft SQL Server for data storage is to link Office Access tables to SQL Server tables. This is the type of application created by using the SQL Server Migration Assistant for Office Access. This white paper presents techniques for improving performance and updatability in Office Access applications that use tables linked to SQL Server."

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

CamStudio on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/

ProCurve Networking by HP technical training

ProCurve Networking by HP technical training

Self paced, downloadable training modules . . .

Web2FTP

Web2FTP

A web-based FTP client . . .
"What is web2ftp ?
With web2ftp.com, you can access any FTP account through a Web interface - no matter whether there is a firewall or not. You can use webftp for the complete administration of your homepage, downloading files or just making small changes. "

Stock Photos

Fotolia: http://www.fotolia.com/

iStockphoto: http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php

Photos.com: http://www.photos.com/en/

Comstock: http://www.comstockcomplete.com/en/

IMFcompanion

IMFcompanion
"Since Exchange 2003 brought Intelligent Message Filtering (IMF), administrators were looking for help to verify, extend, or adjust, IMF operation."

There are a couple of tools to manage Exchange's IMF. See this link: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/IMF-Managers.html

IMFCompanion is slower than IMF Filter Manager but is more feature rich. It supports find operations which I have found useful as well as better sorting. It also has a feature that will allow whitelisting - essentially this drops the blocked messages back into the queue for delivery but this seems to only work when the program is running - a substantial limitation.

Archive Folder: C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot\vsi 1\UceArchiveThis is where my spam messages are stored by IMF.

Pickup Folder: C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot\vsi 1\PickUpThis is where IMFCompanion moves the spam when it wants Exchange to pick up the message and deliver it.

Google Code Search

Google Code Search

"Google Code Search allows users to query a massive database of publicly available source code and filter results based on license and programming language. With support for regular expressions and optional case sensitivity, the service is clearly designed for software developers."

Alternatives: http://koders.com/ and http://www.krugle.com/.

ProduKey - Recover lost product key (CD-Key) of Windows/MS-Office/SQL Server

ProduKey - Recover lost product key (CD-Key) of Windows/MS-Office/SQL Server

"ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer. You can view this information for your current running operating system, or for another operating system/computer - by using command-line options. This utility can be useful if you lost the product key of your Windows/Office, and you want to reinstall it on your computer."

http://www.nirsoft.net/

The Dude Network Monitor

MikroTik Routers and Wireless

The Dude network monitor is a new application by MikroTik which can dramatically improve the way you manage your network environment. It will automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout a map of your networks, monitor services of your devices and alert you in case some service has problems.

Some of its features:

• The Dude is free of charge!
• Auto network discovery and layout
• Discovers any type or brand of device
• Device, Link monitoring, and notifications
• Includes SVG icons for devices, and supports custom icons and backgrounds
• Easy installation and usage
• Allows you to draw your own maps and add custom devices
• Supports SNMP, ICMP, DNS and TCP monitoring for devices that support it
• Individual Link usage monitoring and graphs
• Direct access to remote control tools for device management
• Supports remote Dude server and local client
• Runs in Linux Wine environment, MacOS Darwine, and Windows
• Best price/value ratio compared to other products (free of charge)