TinyApps.Org Newsletter Issue 35 - Decemeber 13, 2003
"Very little is needed to make a happy life."
- Marcus Aurelius
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NEWS
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Please forgive the long ezine hiatus.
For near-daily updates, visit the blog:
http://tinyapps.org/blog/
The ezine will once again be published monthly, and
contain a collection of blog highlights.
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BLOG HIGHLIGHTS SINCE 2003/9/10
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Roberto Alsina's guide to turning a P75 with 800MB of
disk space and 16MB of RAM into a modern workstation
capable of performing: Graphical web navigation, E-
mail, MP3 audio, GNUTella and MPEG video
reproduction.
http://www.pycs.net/lateral/stories/4.html
Image and restore your hard drive with Knoppix via
remote ssh server, Windows/Samba file share or
another hard drive.
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/ImageYourHardDriveUsingKnoppix
A new section on the File page for finding duplicate
files has been added. DupeLocater has been joined by
CloneSpy and DoubleKiller. All three received the
Green Award, though DoubleKiller has an option to
store settings in the registry (and easily remove
them as well).
http://tinyapps.org/file.html#dupes
Computer First Aid Using Knoppix
http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/
ShowText has been added to the Text page. Only 6k in
size, it displays all ASCII text in a given binary
file. This can be especially useful in scanning for
cheat codes, dependencies, etc.
http://www.sylpher.com/dosuser/dosutils.htm
Keyring for Palm OS is an open source app which lets
you securely store secret information on your PalmOS
handheld. It offers secure triple-DES encryption, a
random password generator, export to MemoPad, and
support for a number of languages.
http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net/
FMT [121k] + Format floppies to 360kb, 720kb, 1.2mb
,1.44mb, 1.68mb and 1.72mb. With seven special
bootsectors.
http://www.paehl.de/english.php
Delpart [123k] + Delete NTFS partitions that defy
FDISK.
http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm
Many thanks to CoAX for pointing out ViceVersa Free a
"Windows utility that Compares, Replicates,
Synchronizes and Backups your data." It has an
installer, but is only a 510k download. It saved me
from some tremendous hassle this afternoon while
syncing a slew of files and folders.
http://www.tgrmn.com/
If you're still using Telnet or FTP, you need to know
about SSH and SCP. The Freeware SSH and SCP for
Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP page is a great place
to start.
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html
The folks at DriveSavers are simply amazing. Their
service, performance, and communication far surpass
the most optimistic expecatations. Based on my
experience with them a week or two ago, they will
remain my first and last call for data recovery.
http://www.drivesavers.com/
QuickTime Alternative - Play QuickTime files (.mov,
.qt and other extensions) without having to install
the official QuickTime Player.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1049831315
Real Alternative Play RealMedia files without having
to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player. Supports
RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx
.smi .smil), RealText (.rt), ReadPix (.rp).
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1054136293
The Meatrix (Flash required)
http://www.bancruelfarms.org/meatrix/
Audacity [1290k] {S}+ Audio editor that can
record/play sounds, import/export WAV, AIFF, and MP3
files, and much more. Windows, Mac, and *nix versions
available.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
From the mail bin: "I wrote some tiny apps I would
like to share with you and your readers. Most of them
are command-line utilities, written in C/C++ using MS
VisualC. Of course, no reg, no DLL."
http://debrock.org/
New Palm app: Strip (Secure Tool for Recalling
Important Passwords) v1.0 [45k] {S} Password manager
with 256 bit AES encryption.
http://www.zetetic.net/products.html
This looks interesting: DeepBurner, a freeware CD/DVD
burning app (with GUI) under 1.44mb! Features
include:
* Create and burn audio, data, and bootable CDs
* Create and burn DVDs
* Buffer underrun technology "Burn-Proof" (if
supported by drive)
* Overburning (if supported by drive)
* Creation of multi-session CDs
* Works with all IDE (Atapi), SCSI, USB and FireWire
CDR/W DVD/RAM drives
http://www.deepburner.com/
(via ShellCity)
http://www.shellcity.net/
Dariusz Stanislawek (creator of EDXOR) codes
wonderfully tiny apps. When asked about his design
philosophy, Dariusz replied: "(I)t's identical to
your site's motto 'Small is beautiful'. I choose C
and a bit of Assembler as my programming languages
and use the free Borland C/C++ compiler. I find
undocumented Windows API calls and every possible
programming/linking trick to make my apps small, fast
and efficient. My apps are very small, but please
note that they embed info/help, so effectively they
are even smaller :-)"
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/
Renamer v6.0 final [256k] {S} Rename multiple files
with change (very powerful), search/replace, insert,
trim and many other batch operations. Features undo,
preview, 'change'-operation and can work in sub
directories on specified extension. Can also change
name to ID3 v1 tags and modify files' ID3 tags which
makes it perfect for renaming MP3's.
http://www.albert.nu/default.asp?sub=programs/default.asp?sub=renamer/main.htm
Martijn kindly sent word of his project: "I have
written an application that may be applicable to your
site. It's called Enumerator, and is a moduler batch
processor, which, among others, can for example
rename a batch of files. Only two modules are
available at present, but more are in the making. It
can be found at http://enum.sereneconcepts.nl . It is
free and still in beta stage."
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