ZoneCD - WiFi hotspot/captive portal on a Morphix-based LiveCD. Success stories | Review

Mailbag Assistant from Eric Fookes (maker of NoteTab) is a swell shareware app that allows you to browse e-mail archives from: Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Mozilla Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pegasus, The Bat!, Forte Agent, PocoMail, Calypso, FoxMail, Juno 3.x, Unix mail (Pine, Elm, mbox, etc.) and EML message files.

I found it especially helpful in recovering "lost" messages from a Eudora mailbox.

By the way, in their instructions on migrating Eudora from Mac to Windows, Qualcomm recommends a freeware app called CRLF which does not seem to work under OS 9 (it was originally made for OS 7, IIRC). However the tiny Green Award winner XCRLF works beautifully.

RenameFiles 2.42 [148k] + Rename files recursively, add/delete strings, change case, preview before applying, much more.  

Microsoft to Users: Buy a Mac

Beginning February 28, customers who purchase Windows on a new PC will not be able to activate, nor reinstall their operating system without first calling Microsoft... Microsoft expects to expand the Internet product activation ban to all pre-activated Windows PCs in the next quarter.

(via BetaNews)

Ariya Hidayat kindly wrote in to suggest ExplorerXP, a file manager for Windows 2000/XP which includes tabs, batch renamer, folder size info, and more.

Even though Microsoft's Strider GhostBuster looks incredibly useful, there are apparently no plans to release it.

Perhaps the good folks at SysInternals read Bruce Schneier's plea and decided to do something about it:

RootkitRevealer is a free advanced root kit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit. RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits published at www.rootkit.com, including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender (note: RootkitRevealer is not intended to detect memory-based rootkits like Fu that don't survive reboots).

WallWatcher 3.2.16 - Collect, view, and analyze router logs from certain 2Wire, Airlink, Buffalo, Cisco, D-Link, Draytek, Gnatbox, Linksys, Lucent, m0n0wall, Netgear, Netscreen, Smoothwall, Sonicwall, Speedstream, Symantec, Westell, Xincom, and ZyXEL devices. Requires Windows 98 or higher.

Joel on pricing software (and just about anything else).

The Portable Freeware Collection catalogs freeware that can be extracted to any directory and run independently without prior installation.

TED Notepad 4.3.1 [81k] + Notepad replacement with Unix-like text functions, hotkeys, multiple clipboards, and much more. Written in pure ANSI C using the system API functions.    (via Kenny)

Fatal Harvest - Contrasting Agrarian And Industrial Agriculture (keywords: farm, farming, organic, monoculture)

PingPlotter 1.10 [424k] Graphical network troubleshooting and diagnostic tool. Shareware version also available (feature comparison).   

Blowfish Advanced CS 2.52 is an open source file encryption tool which supports: Blowfish, Twofish, AES, RC4, Triple-DES, Serpent, CAST. Runs under Windows 95 to Server 2003, and is available without an installer. (via Iain)

TinyApps.Org site search is now powered by KSearch, an open source Perl script. Please give it a try (using the form field at left) and tell me what you think.

Recently used Mac links:

• Apple Manuals
• iMac take apart guides with lots of photos.
• apple-history.com has a brief history of Apple, and a gallery with descriptions, specs and pictures of every Apple computer ever made.
• Tutorial: Now you see 'em, now you don't: Invisible files in Mac OS X

freeSee 1.2.0 [59k] Picture viewer for OS X.  

Wi-Fi-FreeSpot Directory - Free wireless hotspots

Privoxy is an open source "web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk." (via Rob Dench)

Off By One has been updated! If you have not seen this insanely cool, self-contained web browser with SSL (all under 1.44mb), now is the time to check it out. See the release notes for new features. (via Pete)

SyncBack v3.2.7 Easily backup and synchronise your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive. The 'No Install' will not install files into Windows or other PC system directories. Reviews

InstallSpy v2.0 Track any and all changes to the registry and file system, and also record all shell notification events (e.g. media inserted), when a program is installed, uninstalled, or run.