| Category | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Media | Audacity | Free digital audio editor. Needs LAME to make MP3s. |
| Media | Exact Audio Copy | Free audio copy utility. Needs LAME to make MP3s. |
| Media | LAME | Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder. Library used by several applications to make MP3s. | Media | Tag and Rename | Trialware MP3 tag editor. Excellent for standardizing your MP3 collections tags. |
| Media | AV Album Art Fixer | Shareware. Scan all your albums for errors and empty album art. |
| Media | RazorLame | Graphical front-end for use with LAME. Useful for making ringtones. |
| Media | K-Lite Codecs | Free video codecs. |
| Blat | Win32 console utility to send mail via SMTP or post to usenet via NNTP | |
| Admin | Change | Changes text within a file |
| Admin | Dircase | Win32 GUI utility to change case on directory names |
| Admin | Echo | Ping-like utility with logging used for network debugging. |
| Admin | RegexBuilder | A tool for developing and testing regular expressions. Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. |
| Admin | Regular Expression Workbench | Graphical front-end for use with LAME. Useful for making ringtones. |
| Admin | Real VNC | Free remote control utility. Excellent. |
| Admin | FileZilla | Free FTP client. Excellent. |
| Admin | CutePDF Writer | Free PDF creator. |
| Admin | MWSnap | Free screen capture utility. |
| Admin | CCleaner | Free system optimization utility. |
| Admin | SIW System Information for Windows |
Gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings. Free and commercial version (I recommend the Technician's Version) |
| Admin | OpenDNS | Free configurable DNS service. |
| Admin | SpinRite | Commercial hard disk recovery and maintenance utility. A "must have". |
Utilities
These are are few tools and utilities that I've found useful.
