FastStone Capture

"FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word/PowerPoint document or upload them to your website. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects and many more. Other features include global hotkeys, automatic filename generation, support for external editors, a color picker, a screen magnifier and a screen ruler.

FastStone Capture saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats."

$20.00 Shareware

Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool

Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool

"Use the Exchange Server Public Folder Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV)-based Administration tool (PFDAVAdmin) to perform various management tasks related to public folders and mailboxes. The tool checks the permissions status of each public and mailbox folder and corrects any problems found. The ability to bulk export/import the permissions and replica lists make this tool invaluable in achieving greater productivity in managing public folders. The program can also reports content information of each public folder and mailbox folder such as the number of items in each folder, size of folder and most recent modification date of any item in the folder.

Note: PFDAVAdmin is supported when running with Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007."

Propagate permissions to sub folders, etc.

OpenWengo

"OpenWengo is a community of enthusiasts and developers, creating free software products related to communication over IP. The flagship product of the OpenWengo project is a softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place."

WengoPhone is a communication tool based on the SIP protocol. "It is more than just VoIP software: it is a full-fledged communications tool that lets you enjoy free calls, video conferencing, SMS, chat over many existing protocols (MSN, AIM/ICQ, Yahoo!, Jabber)"

Screenshots

Jing

Jing is "the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere."

A simple to use program to capture screen shots and video, Jing allows you to distribute via:

• Screencast.com
• Local folder or network share
• Clipboard (images only)
• FTP server
• Flickr

It's currently free. :)

BackupPC

"BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

Given the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now practical and cost effective to backup a large number of machines onto a server's local disk or network storage. This is what BackupPC does. For some sites, this might be the complete backup solution. For other sites, additional permanent archives could be created by periodically backing up the server to tape. A variety of Open Source systems are available for doing backup to tape.

BackupPC is written in Perl and extracts backup data via SMB using Samba, tar over ssh/rsh/nfs, or rsync. It is robust, reliable, well documented and freely available as Open Source on SourceForge."

SmartDraw

Visio competitor, SmartDraw allows you to draw:

• Flowcharts
• Org Charts
• Project Timelines
• Gantt Charts
• Marketing Charts
• Bar Graphs & Pie Charts
• Forms
• Floor Plans
• Scheduling Calendars
• and much more

Free trial available and then approx. $300.

SQL Server 2008 Books Online

Books Online for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the primary documentation for SQL Server 2008. Books Online includes the following types of information:

• Setup and upgrade instructions.
• Information about new features and backward compatibility.
• Conceptual descriptions of the technologies and features in SQL Server 2008.
• Procedural topics describing how to use the various features in SQL Server 2008.
• Tutorials that guide you through common tasks.
• Reference documentation for the graphical tools, command prompt utilities, programming languages, and application programming interfaces (APIs) that are supported by SQL Server 2008.

Windows Search 4.0

From a recent TechNet Flash:

Windows Search just got better. Windows Search 4.0 is now available for download. With it you can expect better indexing performance, support for the remote query of shared index locations, per-user group policy settings, and more. To try it out, select from the following operating environments:

• Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
• Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Server 2003
• Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista x64 Edition
• Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP
• Multilingual User Interface Pack for Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP

I HATED how search was so broken in Outlook 2007 on Vista and this upgrade has made things so much better.

Sysinternals Live

From a recent TechNet Flash:

If you’re a fan of the Sysinternals tools, check out the beta of Sysinternals Live, a service that makes it easy for you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool’s Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer, or at the command prompt as \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\, or view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser.

http://technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals

Info-ZIP

"Info-ZIP's purpose is to provide free, portable, high-quality versions of the Zip and UnZip compressor-archiver utilities that are compatible with the DOS-based PKZIP by PKWARE, Inc."

Tony uses zip32.dll and unzip32.dll in some of his applications - for DB backup and restore purposes.