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PowerGUI : PowerShell Editor »

PowerGUI is the PowerShell editor that I currently used.
As quoted from the website, PowerGUI is an extensible graphical administrative console for managing systems based on Windows PowerShell. These include Windows OS (XP, 2003, Vista), Exchange 2007, Operations Manager 2007 and other new systems from Microsoft. The tool allows to use the rich capabilities of […]

Free Diff Merge Tools »

3 great diff merge tools that can be used to compare files, directories of files and merge them.

WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
DiffMerge is an application to visually […]

Useful Hard Disk Related Software »

These are some freeware that can be used to defragment, recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

TestDisk
TestDisk is open source software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
As quoted from the website, TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost […]

Oops, I forgot my Windows Administrator password »

This is the problem faced by one of my friends. Before this I normally use EBCD to reset the Administrator password, but this time EBCD could not detect the Windows partition.
As quoted from the website, EBCD is a bootable CD, intended for system recovery in the case of software or hardware faults. It is able […]

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows »

Recently my friend laptop had some problem and it cannot be booted. Some of the system files are missing. The problem is that we do not have the Windows XP installation CD. The CD coming with the laptop only has the OS image. So there is no way for us to go into the Recovery […]

Recover Deleted Files in Windows »

Here are some freeware to recover deleted files in Windows. You maybe already using one of them.
Undelete Plus
Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down.
Undelete Plus works […]

Cain & Abel - A useful hacking tool »

This is the tool I used sometimes to recover passwords that I have forgotten. I do not encourage hacking. This tool is actually considered a backdoor sometimes by some of the security software in the market. Personally I think it is useful, but people tend to abuse it.
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool […]

Hack Your Windows Executables Resources »

These are interesting tools that you may already know. It is useful for me to extract information from Windows executables.
Resource Hacker is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on […]

Free .NET Obfuscation Tools »

There are a lot of commercial .NET obfuscation tools, but I only found 3 free tools.
DotObfuscator Community Edition
If you are using Visual Studio.NET, then it comes with a community version of DotObfuscator that you can use.

PDUSpy - A useful utility for SMS programming »

PDUSpy is a tool to that can be used to send SMS through your GSM modem or cellphone, and encode/decode PDU string found in GSM SMS. It can read SMS message from your GSM modem or cellphone.

For anyone who need to do SMS programming, I would highly recommend this tool.

Lingoes - free dictionary and full text translation software »

Lingoes is an easy-to-use dictionary and text translation software, It offers lookup dictionaries, text translation, cursor translator, index list and pronunciation of word in over 60 languages. These language are English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese and more…