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These are system tools and little widgets to make your life a little easier maintaining your computer. This is also the catch-all category for any software that either doesn't fit anywhere else or that is waiting to get it's very own category on the main menu.
GOCR [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers. GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality has been improving in a daily basis.
Hasher [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
Compute and verify the MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 or SHA-512 Hash Value of any text string, disk file, or group of files! A Hash Value is a sort of digital fingerprint, uniquely identifying each text string or file. If two strings or files have the same Hash Value, then they are virtually guaranteed to be identical.
HovText [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
HovText is a small freeware and open source Windows application that removes any formatting from the clipboard and it also works as a simple clipboard manager. Any text in the clipboard will be pasted as raw text without any HTML code, font size, color or layout etc. HovText remembers also the last 10 copied texts (both formatted and unformatted) and you can filter out whatever text you need with regular expressions.
A typical scenario is to copy a qoute from Internet Explorer and paste this quote into Outlook or Word. In the most cases it will paste the formatting along also and that is often inconvenient as it spoils the current formatting. Some applications has their own way of importing the unformatted text, but with HovText ALL programs has this option and it works in the same way all the times.
Another typical scenario is that you need to copy all email addresses on a webpage or if you want to grep all movie links from a web-directory, then you just apply a filter and paste this into eg. a WGET script or Outlook and so on.
- Removes all formatting from the clipboard (removes HTML code, color and layout etc.)
- Clipboard manager that remembers the last 10 entries
- Can be installed and uninstalled (but you can choose just to copy the HovText.exe file)
- Runs on all 32 bit Windows versions (Windows 95 and above)
- Copies text only and not formels from eg. Microsoft Excel
- Can be activated or deactived via a hotkey or a single mouseclick
- Multiple users with independent settings on the same computer
- Possibility to remove identical lines
- Possibility to remove leading/trailing whitespaces or linebreaks
- Possibility to copy links only and choose linktype (movies, pictures, emails etc.)
- Possibility to specify a regular expression seachstring as a linktype
- Multiple languages - danish, dutch, english, french, german, italian, norwegian and swedish
- Possibility to delete all settings from the registry (no unnecessary mess)
- No registration or advertising (no nags)
- Freeware and open source
Iometer [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
As the Iometer User's Guide says, Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 - since then it got wide spread within the industry.
Meanwhile Intel has discontinued to work on Iometer and it was given to the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). In November 2001, a project was registered at SourceForge.net and an initial drop was provided. Since the relaunch in February 2003, the project is driven by an international group of individuals who are continuesly improving, porting and extend the product.
The tool (Iometer and Dynamo executable) is distributed under the terms of the Intel Open Source License. The iomtr_kstat kernel module as well as other future independent components are distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License.
jigdo [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
Jigsaw Download, or short jigdo, is a tool designed to ease the distribution of very large files over the internet, for example CD or DVD images. Its aim is to make downloading the images as easy for users as a click on a direct download link in a browser, while avoiding all the problems that server administrators have with hosting such large files.
jigdo is Free Software, distributable under the GNU GPL.
Kdiff3 [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
KDiff3 is a program that:
- compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
- shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
- provides an automatic merge-facility and
- an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
- supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM"
- supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
- Printing of differences,
- Manual alignment of lines,
- Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
- and has an intuitive graphical user interface.
- Windows-Explorer integration Diff-Ext-for-KDiff3 - shell extension included in installer (originally by Sergey Zorin: see also Diff Ext)
- KDE-Konqueror service menu plugin
- Simplified integration with IBM-Rational-Clearcase for Windows (Details).
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