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Generate HTML index page of images or other HTML files #
  • Green Award Pich [7k] + Generates an HTML page of all images (JPG, GIF, PNG) in the current directory and (optionally) subdirectories.  Screenshot
  • Green Award HTI (Hyper-Text Index) 0.5 [16k] {S}+ Generates an index page of HTML files. Includes titles, meta descriptions, and H1 - H6 headings. ANSI C source code available on request, on a "don't laugh" basis.  Screenshot
(via Mike Mills)

/windows | Aug 23, 2010

Convert raw disk image or physical disk to virtual machine #
"Live View is a Java-based graphical forensics tool that creates a VMware virtual machine out of a raw (dd-style) disk image or physical disk. This allows the forensic examiner to 'boot up' the image or disk and gain an interactive, user-level perspective of the environment, all without modifying the underlying image or disk. Because all changes made to the disk are written to a separate file, the examiner can instantly revert all of his or her changes back to the original pristine state of the disk. The end result is that one need not create extra 'throw away' copies of the disk or image to create the virtual machine.

Live View is capable of booting
  • Full disk raw images
  • Bootable partition raw images
  • Physical Disks (attached via a USB or Firewire bridge)
  • Specialized and closed image formats (using 3rd party image mounting software)
Containing the following operating systems
  • Windows 2008, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98
  • Linux (limited support)
Behind the scenes, Live View automates a wide array of technical tasks. Some of these include: resolving hardware conflicts resulting from booting on hardware other than that on which the OS was originally installed; creating a customized MBR for partition-only images; and correctly specifying a virtual disk to match the original image or physical disk."
Related projects:
  • raw2vmdk - Mount raw images as VMDK virtual disks
  • xmount - Convert on-the-fly between multiple input and output harddisk image types
  • mbrChunker - Converts raw dd images to vmdk files (as of 20100812, this is now dd2vmdk)
UPDATE: In my testing, Live View 0.7b / VMWare Server 1.x (2.x not supported by Live View) on a Windows 7 64-bit host did not work, even after trying a number of suggestions in the forums.

Switched to a Windows XP host, and successfully tested with a raw disk image of an XP install. However, attempting to use a partition image instead of a full disk image resulted in the following error on boot: 
   A disk read error occurred
   Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
Apparently the MBR is not being written correctly, or perhaps VMWare just doesn't play well with images created from partitions.

Finally, I tried using an IDE drive (Windows XP installed) with two different USB and Firewire bridges, but that also failed: 
   ERROR>     Snapshot Creation Failed
   ERROR>     Problem preparing partition1 for launch
   VM Launch Failed
tl;dr: Windows XP is well-supported as a host, but you may not be able to work with anything other than full disk images.

/windows | Jun 18, 2010

Newly listed full-screen text editors #
Zeus Poplar kindly sends word of Q10, a full-screen portable text editor. Unlike the previously mentioned WriteMonkey, Q10 does not require .NET.

Green Award Q10 1.2.21 [357k] + Full-screen, portable text editor  Screenshot

UPDATE: Just happened upon another standalone distraction-free text editor on Ghacks:

Green Award Zenedit 1.4 [283k] + Minimalist text editor designed to prevent distractions  Screenshot

/windows | May 23, 2010

Windows Firewall alternative #
Newly added to the Internet page:

GhostWall 1.150 [656k] Windows Firewall alternative ideal for low latency applications.  Screenshot

/windows | May 23, 2010

Newly-added hex editor #
Green Award HxD 1.7.7.0 [789k] + Hex editor / disk editor / RAM editor with support for huge file sizes ("if it fits on a disk/drive you can open it"). Features include: fast find and replace, checksum calculation, file shredding, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics, and more.  Screenshot

/windows | Apr 24, 2010

Oh, you didn't need that boot loader, did you? #
It's been years since the outcry over TurboTax writing to the boot track forced them to drop DRM altogether. Inexplicably, AutoCAD continues to use this dangerous copy protection scheme (Macrovision FLEXnet or SafeCast or whatever it's called), writing to sector 32 of the boot track. As ExtremeTech pointed out long ago:
Unfortunately, these "reserved" sectors of the hard drive aren't necessarily a safe place for data. And they're an especially dicey place to keep licensing information ... Data compression utilities, "multiboot" utilities, password protection and encryption software, and sector translation software (which allows older computer systems to accept today's huge hard drives) may also reside in this area.
According to reports, Macrovision DRM has exposed customers to malware attacks, caused TrueCrypt volumes to become unbootable, and destroyed non-Windows partitions. To top it all off, SafeCast is apparently easily circumvented by the "bad guys" anyway.

Autodesk, a humble request: please refrain from making potentially dangerous, low-level changes to your customers' hard drives. It really ruined an otherwise perfectly good week for a friend of mine.

/windows | Apr 24, 2010

Full-screen, portable text editor #
WriteMonkey is a full-screen, portable plain text editor with: customizable colors, fonts, and sounds, statistics, bookmarks, text replacement shortcuts, autosave, history, Markdown/Textile shortcuts and export, and much more. Requires .NET Framework. (via Download Squad)

/windows | Apr 22, 2010

Excellent freeware firewall for Vista and Windows 7 #
Windows 7 Firewall Control 3.5 weighs in under 1.3MB, comes in both 32 and 64 bit versions, and has a portable version to boot! Runs fast and clean, with very little impact on system performance. Offers ingress (inbound) and egress (outbound) filtering. Brings back memories of ZoneAlarm's early, pre-bloat years. Shareware version also available.

/windows | Apr 21, 2010

4DOS > 4NT > TCC LE #
Take Command Console LE (TCC LE) is a freely available version of the command processor formerly known as 4NT (and before that, 4DOS). It's like cmd.exe on steroids, with command history, built-in file viewer, core scripting language, hundreds of new command options, and much more.

/windows | Apr 21, 2010

Migrate from Windows Mail to Apple Mail #
If you're moving from Vista's Windows Mail to OS X's Mail, look no further than Jürgen Lüthje's eml2mbx to convert your mail folders / eml files to mbox format. Or go the other way with his mbx2eml. Both apps are rather reminiscent of Ulrich Krebs' DbxConv, which converts Outlook Express dbx files to mbox or eml.

/windows | Apr 21, 2010

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