Category: Geek Software of the Week

Do you have files that you can’t open and view, and/or read? Maybe you don’t have the right software for that file extension? Well, dewd, here you go! Free Opener, is, as the name implies, FREE, and will open 80 or more file types to view them!

Free Opener – Multiple File Format Viewer

“Free Opener allows users to view, edit and print many different types of files without having to download specialty software. Currently, the software supports over 80 different file formats including Microsoft® Office Files (.doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .msg, .vcf), Adobe® Files (.swf, .flv, .psd, .pdf) and many others.

Free Opener Features:

Open and edit DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, CSV files without installing Microsoft® Office.

Watch video files including AVI, WMV, FLV, MPG, MOV and MP4 formats.

Listen to any music or sound file: MP3, WMV, MID, WAV plus others!

View, crop, re-size and print your image files: PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, ICO, RAW and more!

Plus open 80+ other file types quickly and easily for free!”

So, you like the multiple desktop feature in Linux, and would like to have it on Windows? No problem! Here’s VirtuaWin!

VirtuaWin: A Virtual Desktop Manager for the Windows

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

VirtuaWin is designed to be simple and elegant to use yet still be highly configurable and extensible.

HAVE AS MANY AS 9 VIRTUAL DESKTOPS ON WINDOWS WITH VIRTUAWIN!

VirtuaWin is a freely distributed program and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

This is a truly different, and useful GSotW! It allows you to easily run a WAMP environment which you can use to run, test, and build a web server that will allow you to build and test web applications, which can then be moved to production servers. Pretty cool stuff!

Uniform Server – A lightweight mobile WAMP Server Solution

“The Uniform Server is a lightweight server solution for running a web server under the WindowsOS. Less than 10MiB, it includes the latest versions of Apache2, Perl5, PHP5, MySQL5, phpMyAdmin and more. No installation required! No registry dust! Just unpack and fire up! The Uniform Server is a WAMP solution that allows you to run a web server on any Microsoft Windows OS based computer. It is small and mobile to download or move around and can also be used or setup as a production/live server.

The miniServers are separate servers in their own right however they are based on the Uniform Server control architecture. The Uniform Server PHP MiniServer provides a graphical user interface to the PHP 5.4.* built-in web server.

Comprehensive Security

All applications are set to the highest security setting for a production live server.

Mobile

Run it live straight out of your USB stick on any PC. No installation or registry dust involved.

Updates

Updates are rolled out with the latest release of each application & components.

Settings

Easily change and manage your server settings.

Logs

Preset for logs and error logs.

Help & Support

A Support Community to help when you need it.

This is a very cool Open Source document viewer! There is a Windows version and a Linux version. It is very handy, and super-functional… you need this handy utility! Check it out!

Evince – Simply a Document Viewer

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.

Supported Document Formats
Evince is specifically designed to support the file following formats:

PDF
Postscript
djvu
tiff
dvi
XPS
SyncTex support with gedit
comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt)
Here is the full list of supported document formats

Features
For a full list of all the Evince features check our wiki page.

Search
Integrated search displaying the number of results found and highlights the results on the page.

Page Thumbnails
Thumbnails of pages show quick reference for where you’d like to go in a document. Evince’s thumbnails are available in the left sidebar of the viewer.

Page Indexing
For documents that support indexes Evince gives the option to show the document index for quick jumping from one section to another.

This used to be my favorite malware eliminator, and now that it has reached the 2.0 version level, it is time to look at it again!

Spybot – Search & Destroy 2.0

“Spybot – Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven’t intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been ‘hijacked’ (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don’t see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there’s no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.”

Are you an artiste? Do you fancy yourself one? Well, now you can art it up with MyPaint!

MyPaint – Open Source Graphics Application

“MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it.

• Available for Windows and GNU/Linux
• Designed for pressure sensitive graphics tablets
• Simple and minimalistic user interface
• Extensive brush creation and configuration options
• Unlimited canvas (you never have to resize)
• Basic layer support

MyPaint comes with a large brush collection including charcoal and ink to emulate real media, but the highly configurable brush engine allows you to experiment with your own brushes and with not-quite-natural painting. Before beginning it is a good idea to read the quick-start tutorial to see how the program is meant to be used.”

Much more functional than the original beta version! Even allows sound from the remote system! Give it a try, it’s free!

Chrome Remote Desktop

“Access other computers or allow another user to access your computer securely over the Internet.

Chrome Remote Desktop allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. Computers can be made available on an short-term basis for scenarios such as ad hoc remote support, or on a more long-term basis for remote access to your applications and files. All connections are fully secured.

Chrome Remote Desktop is fully cross-platform. Provide remote assistance to Windows, Mac and Linux users, or access your Windows (XP and above) and Mac (OS X 10.6 and above) desktops at any time, all from the Chrome browser on virtually any device, including Chromebooks.”

This is a FREE utility that you can burn using another Geek Software of the Week from the past… Imgburn. Anyway, once you get the ISO burned to a CD, boot off the CD, and step through the menu options. I suggest resetting the Windows “administrator” password to blank. Then you can log in as admin and reset ANY user account. Instructions, and the file, are at this link:

FREE Windows Password Recovery

“Reset Windows Password in Few Clicks — Password recovery solution that comes for FREE & gives you back the access to your system must be really valuable to you… So, here you go – Free Windows administrator password reset tool is waiting for you to be explored & used to regain access to your system that might have been blocked after you lost your Windows administrator password.”

This is a awesome tool from Ahsisoft! The FREE version is cool, the Pro version adds features, such as the ability to export results as a spreadsheet or HTML document. The Pro version has other neat features as well, but you may not need them for simply finding dupes on your drive and cleaning up. Try the free version, and if you need “more power” you can get the Pro Version… which is what I did!

Ashisoft Free Duplicate File Finder

Use Free Duplicate File Finder & Remove Duplicate Files

“You may not realize how many duplicate files you have after downloaded many files from the Internet or duplicate files scattered over your home or corporate network. Duplicate files are usually waste and unnecessary keeping them is merely a waste of valuable hard disk space. Your hard drives may be full of ducuments, iTunes, iPod, MP3, Photos, and Video and many of them are redundant.

Duplicate File Finder, is a FREE tool designed to find and delete duplicate files over home and corporate network while no software installed on other computer. Fast byte-to-byte and CRC32 comparison gives you the most accurate results and duplicate file finder searches duplicate file contents regardless of filename. A list of find duplicate files can be sorted, exported, and acted upon. A search session including results can be saved. Duplicate files can be remove, moved, or copied.

Why is finding duplicate files useful?

Deleting duplicates will help to speed up indexing and reduces back up time and size. Your computer isn’t fully optimized until you’ve removed all unnecessary clone files. Let Clone Remover find and remove the duplicates! Regain valuable disk space and improve data quality.

Benefits

• Identify and recover wasted disk space
• Reducing the time and media used for backups
• Minimize time used to unneeded virus scanning
• Increase free space on ‘limited’ resources, like laptops and memory disks
• Reduce files searching time
• Duplicate file remover to eliminate synchronization problems
• Runs much more quickly than others in its class, very safe and reliable

Features

• Powerful search engines (byte by byte and SHA-1)
• Find files with same contents, same name and zero size.
• Find duplicate pictures, video, songs(mp3, wma, ogg).
• Fastest among duplicate file finders, duplicate file cleaner.
• Very user friendly, Specially design for novice users.
• Works with removable media devices like Floppy, USB, etc.
• Search local PC and over network.
• Find duplicate files based on criteria : filename, byte to byte, CRC, etc.
• Fuzzy Match for files with little differences
• Can find duplicate from a selected set of folders (i.e., not from whole drive).
• Allows important folders you wish to be excluded from scanning altogether.
• Can use wild cards and protects the windows and system folders.
• Skips the hidden files and folder.
• Show files version and properties.
• Resizable popup picture viewer.
• Save job session and results for later review.
• Results can be exported in HTML and CSV formats.”