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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.
TofroDOS [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
Tofrodos is a text file conversion utility that converts ASCII files between the MSDOS (or Windows) format, which traditionally have CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) pairs as their new line delimiters, and the Unix format, which usually have LFs (line feeds) to terminate each line.
It is a useful utility to have around when you have to convert files between MSDOS (or Windows) and Unix/Linux/BSD (and her clones and variants). It comes standard with a number of systems and is often found on the system as "todos", "fromdos", "dos2unix" and "unix2dos".
TreeLine [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
Do you have lots of sticky notes lying around with various useful information jotted down? Or many lists of books, movies, website logins, personal contacts, or things to do? Can you find them when you need them? Well, I often couldn't. So here's my answer.
Some would call TreeLine an Outliner, others would call it a PIM. Basically, it just stores almost any kind of information. A tree structure makes it easy to keep things organized. And each node in the tree can contain several fields, forming a mini-database. The output format for each node can be defined, and the output can be shown on the screen, printed, or exported to html.
- Stores almost any type of information, including plain text, HTML, numbers, dates, times, booleans, URLs, etc.
- The tree structure helps keep things organized.
- Each node can have several fields that form a mini-database.
- Several node types, with different sets of fields, can be included in one file.
- The node format, including fields, output lines and tree-view icon, can be defined for each node type.
- The right-hand view can show one of three views - for showing output, editing node data and editing node titles.
- Clicking on URL fields in the output view opens the link in an external web browser.
- There are internal link fields that select another node based on a reference or a keyword.
- An executable link can run an external program or open a file when clicked.
- Formatting information can be copied from another TreeLine file.
- There are two search commands available.
- Undo and redo commands are available for all modifying operations.
- The formatted output can be printed with parent/child lines and headers and footers.
- TreeLine files are XML by default, but there are options for automatically compressing or encrypting the files.
- The data can be exported to HTML.
- An XSLT file can be exported to work with the XML TreeLine files.
- Tab-delimited tables and tab-indented text files can be imported and exported. Plain text files and Treepad files can be imported.
- Mozilla and XBEL format bookmark files can be imported and exported.
- Generic XML files can be imported and exported, allowing TreeLine to function as a crude XML editor.
- Batch file conversions can be done from a command line interface.
- There are several sorting options.
- The nodes can be filtered.
- A node's icon and output format can be changed conditionally based on its data.
- Text data can be spell checked (requires an external program - see the System Requirements section).
- Data can be automatically arranged using either parent references or categories from data fields.
- There is an outline numbering feature.
- There are many other options for customization, including user-defined keyboard shortcuts.
- The user interface and documentation are available in English, French and German.
TxTprint [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
TxtPrint is a small application designed mainly for one purpose: Printing out text files. By numerous settings, you will have precise control over the output. TxtPrint can be used to print all kinds of text files, but I think programmers printing out source code will appreciate the features most.
The main advantage with TxtPrint compared to standard text editors is the ability to divide the page in several columns and rows. This is very useful for saving paper and getting more text on a single paper.
An additional feature is to handle files with different file extensions differently. You can for example define that files with a certain file extension always should be printed using a predefined tab spacing.
TxtPrint works with Windows NT, Windows 95 and other Win32 enviroments.
VirtuaWin [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista). 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.
WinCPUID [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
WinCPUID is project for the Windows platform, that will help display important information about your processor. You can then save a summary of that information to a file, or generate a report for print. Check out the community at http://wincpuid.sour
WinDirStat [ Download Page ] [ Home Page ]
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants).
WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
- The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
- The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
- The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.
- Coupling. Select an item in the directory list: The treemap highlights it; and vice versa.
- Zooming.
- Built-in cleanup actions including Open, Show Properties, Delete.
- User-defined cleanups (command line based).
- Works with network drives and UNC paths.
- 'Create disk usage report' option.
- 'Submit bug report/Feedback' option.
- Online help.
- setup.exe.
- Language can be set to Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian. Just have a look at the Translation website if you want to help or if you want to know more.
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