Rabi Poudel

IP Messenger is a free and open source pop up style LAN Messenger for multi platforms based on TCP/IP (UDP). It doesn’t require server machine to operate. It is very useful product for offices, where are large number of computer connected through LAN.

IP Messenger allows you to send messages via the IP number of computers within designated blocks of addresses. If you own thousands of IPs, you can send messages to thousands of computers. This product is only designed for use within your IP scope allocated to your corporation. Real-time stats show you successes and failures.

Pros:

• Simple, lightweight, and compact size.
• Very easy installation and configuration.
• File and folder transfer.
• RSA/Blowfish Encryption of communication data.
• Multi platform (for Windows, Mac and Unix).
• Command line support (eg: ipmsg.exe [port] /MSG [/LOG][/SEAL] <hostname or IPaddr> <message>
  example: – C:\> ipmsg.exe /MSG /SEAL localhost Hello.

Cons:

• Little help.
• No smileys supported in messages.

This product is recommended for small and large business having own LAN and WAN.

exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table), (also sometimes referred to as FAT64) is a proprietary file system suited especially for USB flash drives, introduced by Microsoft for embedded devices in Windows Embedded CE 6.0, in their desktop operating systems. exFAT can be used where the NTFS file system is not a feasible solution, due to data structure overhead, or where the file size or directory restrictions of previous versions of the FAT file system (32 GB drive and 4 GB file size limitations) are unacceptable.

It comes pre-installed in Windows Vista (SP 1), Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008. But exFAT isn’t native to Windows XP (Windows Server 2003 also) – which the vast majority of you are probably still running. Microsoft has released KB955704 to address the issue. You can simply download the package and install to get exFAT support installed in your XP machine and you’ll be able to seamlessly work with exFAT partitions in XP.

CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform is a donationware utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. The Piriform website states that as of 25 February 2010, CCleaner had over 450 million downloads.

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

Pros:

• Free software.
• Simple to use product even for newbies.
• Backup option is great.
• Registry cleaning feature works great.
• Selectable scan and history cleaning choices, customizable.
• Supports secure delete

Cons:

• Doesn’t get really deep into your system it seems so, one is left with possibly a lot of registry errors.
• Can be a little too aggressive in some cases.
• Doesn’t catch everything.
• Update could be better.

This product is recommended for everyone, specially using Windows XP. This simply works what it claims.

Notepad++ is a versatile text editor and source code editor for Windows.  One main advantage of Notepad++ over the built-in Windows text editor, Notepad, is tabbed editing, to easily work with multiple open files.

Notepad++ is a windows Notepad replacement with an eye toward programmers, although it should also appeal to the casual user who wants a cross between Notepad and WordPad. Notepad++ has some noticeable differences from WordPad. Support for tabs is key, letting users manage different documents simultaneously. Line-numbering is important, too, a feature that nobody mucking about in C should be without.

Pros:

• Supports syntax coloration of numerous languages.
• Easy to use and great interface.
• Almost endless possibilities to edit and customize.
• Allows FTP connection.
• Tabbed interface is great.
• Integrates seamlessly into windows explorer.
• Free and open source product.
• Great collection of plugins.
• Macro recording and execution.
• Powerful regular expression text search and replace.

Cons:

• VERY annoying software update nag notification.
• Not cross platform (only Windows binaries are released).
• Is very slow with large files.
• Newer version does not have the ability to view hexadecimal files.
• Does not have “Column Mode”.

Overall, Notepad++ is a great replacement for Notepad. It has tons of options, even some features which you could only expect to find in a paid-for IDE, yet it still starts in mere miliseconds. Not to mention – when it starts it loads all your tabs (yes, tabbed-documents, just like your favorite browser) just as they were when you closed.

Moon Secure AntiVirus is a free antivirus software download which claims to the best free and open-source antivirus solution for PC. This reliable antivirus software is intended for its use under the Windows OS’s and allows you to keep your system safe from all kinds of malicious files, such as viruses, spyware, keyloggers and all sorts of malware that you may come across on the Web even inadvertently.

Pros:

• Free and open source.
• Light on resources,
• Fairly good detection rate, based on Clam AV database.
• Simple installation, real time scanner.

Cons:

• Not matured product.
• Sometime real time scanner doesn’t work without notice.
• No spyware, firewall or heuristic engine.

It is fairly good anti virus product to hang with though it has lots of potentials.

Free Download Manager is a free open source graphical download manager for the Microsoft Windows operating system. This download utility is surprisingly attractive and full-featured for a freeware product, and its operation couldn’t be more straightforward. To download a file, just click a link in your browser or drag it onto the program’s tiny, semitransparent window.

Free Download Manager downloads files and convert videos (including flash) faster with open-source Free Download Manager. Its features include integration with all browsers, support of downloads from RapidShare, BitTorrent support, adjusting traffic usage, resuming broken downloads. Free Download Manager is released under GPL license and adds BitTorent support, flash video download, upload manager, portable mode, and remote control.

Pros:

• Fast download speed, easy to use.
• Powerful and comprehensive download manager.
• Very customizable.
• Previews of audio/videos and video conversion.
• Support for Bittorrent file sharing.
• Good browser integration (IE, Opera, Firefox, Chrome etc.)
• Free and open source.
• Features like scheduler, speed limit, mirror search, upload files, HTML spider etc available.
• Flash video downloader.

Cons:

• Incompatibility issues with Windows Vista and Windows 7.
• User interface is little bit complex.

This download manager keeps getting better with time as you increase the number of connections one can utilize per single download. This aspect actually reduces download times while increasing download speeds even on very slow machines. It is indeed a “MUST HAVE” for tool for every computer. It is simply SUPERB.

Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. It’s small and starts up very fast.

Pros:

• Easy installation.
• Lightweight PDF reader.
• A functional, minimalistic GUI.
• Command line capability.
• Organized manual for keyboard shortcuts.
• Decrease in execution time.
• Open Source.

Cons:

• Sometime takes a moment to load pages.
• User interface a little medieval.
• Fewer tools to play with.

It is recommended to those who are looking for quality PDF reader to replace insecurities with Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader (and the annoying ask toolbar).

Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. Here is some best Windows software that we know of.

1. Mozilla Firefox:

If you haven’t switched to Firefox for your web browsing needs, do it now. It stops annoying popups and it has tons of amazing plugins that can make surfing the web even better. I could evangelize all day about Firefox, but one thing’s for sure: the first thing I do on any new Windows machine is run Internet Explorer just long enough to download Firefox.

2. Mozilla Thunderbird:

Thunderbird is an email client that has five big things going for it: it’s free, it’s full featured, it’s lightweight and runs quick, it has an unparalleled spam filter, and it protects you from those ridiculous phishing attacks by clearly indicating which emails send you to a bogus website. If you’re not already using a web-based email solution, Thunderbird should be your client.

3. OpenOffice:

If you want to replace the rest of the Office suite, your best bet is OpenOffice. It includes very nice replacements for Excel and PowerPoint (and workable replacements for Access and other Office elements). In fact, I actually prefer their Excel and PowerPoint replacements to the real thing.

4. Pidgin:

This is a very clean instant messaging program that allows you to be on AOL Instant Messenger, Windows (MSN) Messenger, Yahoo Messenger (and others) simultaneously with one program. There are other free packages that do this, but Pidgin is stable and clean and simple.

5. Sumatra PDF Viewer:

Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Portable out of the box. Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. It’s small and starts up very fast. It’s designed for portable use: only one file so you can run it from external USB drive. Doesn’t write to registry.

6. BitTorrent:

From their website, “BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most efficient means of distributing, discovering, and consuming large, high-quality files on the Web. Our mission is simple: to deliver the content that entertains and informs the digital world.” In other words, BitTorrent allows you to download large media files and also use your bandwidth to help others download these files. Search for media files you want and download ‘em.

7. Free Download Manager:

Free Download Manager is a powerful, easy-to-use download accelerator and manager. This download utility is surprisingly attractive and full-featured for a freeware product, and its operation couldn’t be more straightforward.

8. Filezilla:

Many people occasionally have a need to FTP files to other computers; if you ever have the need to transfer files in such a fashion, FileZilla will do the job slickly and quickly.

9. Media Player Classic:

It is compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary. It comes bundled with K-Lite Codec Pack.

10. VLC Media Player:

If you get tired of having tons of media players on your computer, get this package that runs pretty much every media type you’ll run across without breaking a sweat.

11. 7-Zip:

It is open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked.

12. GIMP:

GIMP (short for the GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool. In addition to free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image work-flow steps such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats.

13. PDF Creator:

PDFCreator creates a virtual printer on your computer that, if you print a document to it from any program, creates a PDF of that document that can be read on any computer with Acrobat Reader on it. After installing PDFCreator, all you have to do is print like normal and out comes a PDF!

14. Moon Secure AV:

Moon Secure Antivirus is an opensource antivirus currently using the clamav engine due to fast response time and huge AV database. It aims to be the best Free Antivirus for Windows under GPL license. On access, on Exec scanner and rootkits preventions plus features from Commercial Antivirus applications.

15. Notepad++:

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL Licence.

The default internet browser for all Windows Systems is Internet Explorer, whereas the default browser for OS X (for Mac) is Safari, and for Linux it is Firefox. Opera is also widely used in mobile devices and computers as well. Another browser Chrome is showing its magic.

These are some popular browsers widely accepted everywhere. Occasionally it is necessary to use a different web browser when accessing information on the web.

Here are some list of unseen web browsers worth checking:

1. Avant Browser:

Avant Browser is an ultra-fast web browser. Its user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability.

2. Flock:

Flock is a “social browser” built on a Firefox core that integrates with web services for blogging, photo sharing, and bookmark sharing.

3. xB Browser for Anonymous Browsing:

The main advantage compared to other anonymous web browsers is that xB Browser requires no configuration or technical knowledge in order to achieve anonymity. xB Browser is open-source so you can feel safe knowing what goes into our code. Additionally, it is even portable on a USB stick so you can take it to work, school, or on vacation.

4. Browse 3D:

The Browse3D web browser offers user a visual advantage making finding and using web information more productive.  Using multiple browsing engines is made easier because each web page is represented by an image of that page not just a generic tab.

5. K-Meleon:

K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine.

6. Slim Browser:

Slim Browser is a multiple-site browser based on tab-page interface. It incorporates a large collection of wonderful features like recoverable popup killer, form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation, script error suppression, blacklist/whitelist filtering.

7. Enigma Browser:

Enigma Browser incorporates a large collection of powerful features like built-in popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation, script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist filtering, URL Alias and much more.

8. Sleipnir:

Sleipnir is designed to be a highly customizable browser that you can configure to suit your individual needs. With Sleipnir, you can create your ideal browser by changing the design, skin, and visual appearance. You can also add custom functionality to Sleipnir with a wide range of plugins and user scripts.

9. Lunascape:

Lunascape is the world’s first and only triple engine browser. It has been downloaded over 15 million times and it’s available globally in 11 languages.

10: Lynx:

Lynx is text browser which runs on Unix, VMS, Windows 95/98/NT, DOS386+, or OS/2 EMX.

11. Amaya:

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.

Management operates through various functions, often classified as planning, organizing, leading/directing, and controlling/monitoring.

• Planning: Deciding what needs to happen in the future (today, next week, next month, next year, over the next 5 years, etc.) and generating plans for action.
• Organizing: (Implementation) making optimum use of the resources required to enable the successful carrying out of plans.
• Staffing: Job Analyzing, recruitment, and hiring individuals for appropriate jobs.
• Leading/Directing: Determining what needs to be done in a situation and getting people to do it.
• Controlling/Monitoring: Checking progress against plans, which may need modification based on feedback.