- Online Tools
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- Fast.com
Bandwidth Test - measures transfer rates to servers
located across the U.S.
- Central Ops
- domain, email and network testing from your web
browser
- DNS Stuff -
browser based DNS testing
- Whois - find out
the registered owner of a domain and where it is
hosted
- File Utilities
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- MultiCommander
- a dual pane file manager for windows
- 7-zip - simple
application to manage common archive and compression
formats
- VeraeCrypt -
cross platform disk encryption utility
- Syncthing
- synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time
- ImgBurn -
burns audio CDs, ISOs, and video DVDs, including regular
DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray DVD
- Internet Tools
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- Vivaldi Browser -
a web browser built for performance, productivity, and privacy
- Firefox -
fast, secure and customizable web browser
- Thunderbird
- a pop & imap email client with powerful filtering
capabilities
- Filezilla - cross
platform ftp and sftp file transfer client
- WinSCP - scp and
sftp dual panel file manager
- Kitty - a
portable ssh client based on putty.
- Graphics and Media
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- Gimp -
a cross platform GNU Image Manipulation Program for image editing
- Paint.net -
a free image and photo editing software for Windows™ computers
- Irfanview -
small, portable image viewer
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Xnview - view and convert between 400 different
graphic formats
- WinFF
- a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It
is a video and audio conversion utility
- Handbrake - an
open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded
video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and
Windows.
- Audacity - a
free, open source software for recording and editing
sounds
- VLC - cross
platform media player that transcodes and streams almost
any media format
- Productivity
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- KeePassXC
- an open source cross platform password manager
- Notepad++
- an open source office suite (word processor,
spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, database)
- Libre Office
- an open source office suite (word processor,
spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, database)
- AbiWord -
a small stand alone open source word
processor
- Gnumeric -
a stand alone open source spreadsheet
- PDFCube -
CubePDF print driver & CubePDFUtiity to secure, reorder, import and extract pages
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PDF Xchange Viewer - A PDF viewer that includes
Annotations, Comments and "Typewriter" tools
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ShareX - an open source Windows screen capture and file sharing tool
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Flameshot - an open source and cross platform screenshot software
- VPN
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Tailscale - a cross platform software-defined network to connect devices and services
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Softether - an Open-Source Free ​Cross-platform Multi-protocol VPN Program
- OpenVPN - open
source, cross platform VPN application
- Private Internet Access - a fast and affordable commercial VPN provider with an emphasis on privacy
- VOIP
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- Asterisk -
open source telephone PBX
- Minisip - open
source, cross platform SIP software phone
- Phoner Lite
- freeware VOIP softphone
- SJPhone - VOIP softphone for PC and PDA
- X-Lite - popular VOIP softphone that suports video calls and instant messaging
- CallCentric - broadband VOIP phone service provider providing residential and business services
- Future-Nine - cheap voip provider who specializes in internet phone service and, low rate voip services
- Operating Systems & Virtualization
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- MX - Linux
distribution useful for older computers
- Debian - Linux
distribution with a library of over 18,700
applications
- Ubuntu -
graphical Linux distribution built on debian and known
for it's community of users
- Puppy -
small but full featured Linux distribution that loads
entirely into RAM
- VirtualBox
- open source, cross platform virtualizaton software
from Sun Microsystems
- Prescribed Technology Utilities
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