Seconded. :thumbsup: I've been using BitBucket for a couple of years for private repos. It's been reliable and easy to use. They support git and mercurial repos.

I use Pencil, which can be run as a FireFox plugin, or it's also available as a stand alone app.

Have you tried searching for "Windows Live Mail" in quotes along with whatever search terms you wish. For example, a search for <"Windows Live Mail" can receive cannot send"> seems to produce relevant hits.

I too use keepass -- and it does automatic entry on web forms, so that's not a reason to exclude it.

Obfuscators are easy to work around. De4dot, for example, is free, opensource, and will deobfuscate all the obfuscators mentioned here (along with many others). If someone has enough skill to do something with the original code, they probably have enough skill to use a deobfuscator.

LibTiff[^] is an open source library for reading, writing, and managing tiff files. The download includes a number of command line utilities, including tiffcp and tiffcrop which can combine multiple files into multi-page tiff files. Combine these utilties with your existing powershell script and ghostscript. What's in the PDF file? Just one or more images, or also text? Are the embedded images JPG? If you can simply extract images you could skip the ghostscript step (or any other "print to a file" step), which would probably improve performance. XnView[^] can be used to batch convert images from various file types, including pdf and tiff. PDFtk[^] is a utility for managing PDF files, with a GUI and also a command line interface. Can split pages and extract images from PDF files.

FreeFileSync http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/[^] is very good. Can be used to sync two folders, or to mirror one folder to another. It's similar to SyncToy mentioned by others, but has the advantage that it uses Volume Shadow Copy to copy files in use, which SyncToy does not (I believe). The "preview" window allows you to see what files will be copied and make changes if needed. Or you can run it in batch mode. One disadvantage of FreeFileSync is that it uses the SourceForge installer, so during install you have to look for and turn off the option to install some other piece of crap-ware.

Looks like they only support tfs and git. The OP is using subversion, so unless they want to move away from svn at the same time, that won't work. I have used Project Locker for both svn and git. Has been reliable and has reasonable pricing.

I don't know much about driver signing, but according to a post I read a while back on the Com0Com sourceforge forum, you can get third party driver signing for lower cost. For example, http://www.certum.eu/certum/cert,offer_microsoft_authenticode.xml[^]. I believe certum also offers a signature for free or close to it for open source drivers.\

If all you are concerned with is selection (not editing, etc.), then Pixort[^] is an excellent tool. The free version works fine (non commercial use). This gives you a one keystroke operation to dispatch a file to another folder and move to the next image. Pixort also lets you easily compare photos as you sort and select, which you may want to do to select the "best" shot. Another option is Irfanview [^]. Configure folders for the "Move" (F7) and "Copy" (F8) commands. This becomes 3 keystrokes to move a file to a specific folder and go to the next image. Sure you could write it, but why re-invent the wheel?

+1 for ToDoList. I use it extensively on a large number of tasks. For keeping track of how much time you spend on what tasks (is that what you want the timer for?), Grindstone [^] works pretty well. It's free, though not open source. Not very good at hierarchies of tasks though. I time only at the highest levels of my to-do list, so it works for me.

Xplorer2 does what you ask for. http://zabkat.com/[^] Xplorer2 is an an excellent dual pane, multi-tab, windows explorer replacement. If you pay for it, you also get a file search tool that is more powerful and less cumbersome than the windows search tool. DonM

Yes, it's the same company. The old units could hold heavy monitors, but were heavy themselves and difficult to move the position. And they were expensive. We attached them to the electronics rack in manufacturing equipment where they worked fairly well. The new units we now use are similar in function, but work better. They are designed for LCD monitors. Very nice, light, easy to move, they have a handle just below the keyboard tray so you can move the whole contraption to where you want it. I have never used them at a desk, or sitting, I've always used them standing at equipment, but with that disclaimer, I recommend them.

Baretail http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/[^]

I am looking for a charting control to be used in an MFC application that we want to convert to 64 bit. We have used ComponentOne Chart for years, but they do not have a 64-bit activeX version, and it looks like they aren't going to develop one. Requirements include: * 64-bit activeX control * line charts * what excel would call scatter charts -- chart a line based on X and Y data where the X values are not evenly spaced. * surface charts, where the input is Z values at X and Y coordinates, and the control charts a wire-mesh, or a smooth surface. * contour charts, where again the input is Z values at X and Y coordinates, and the control charts contour lines, or contour color bands. * can zoom in on the data, either through user interaction, or programatically. * ability to handle large amounts of data. In the 3D surface charts, we would like to be able to handle at least 100x100 so 10,000 data points, and 500x500 (250,000 data points) would be nice. I have searched and haven't found anything that meets our needs. Any suggestions? TIA, Don

There is an old program called DupDetector that is still the best I know for this. It works across one folder and all it's subfolders. It doesn't care about names, and is free. It can detect similar images, where the resolution has changed, or it's been cropped, or has been edited slightly, etc. I don't think it detects rotations. Supports jpg,bmp,png,tif,pcx,tga,wmf,emf,psp. It was developed by the person at http://www.prismaticsoftware.com, but that site has been shut down for a while now. The version I have is 3.1 dating from 2003. You can find it various places on the web by googling dupdetector, though most of them seem to be older versions and sometimes seem to have been repackaged (using a different installer). HTH

Comodo Firewall http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/[^] has a free version that works on vista 64. I use it on Vista home Premium 64 and it works well. The current version 3 seems to have a reasonable security reputation. Don

If anyone else is interested, Bram sent me some public sources that he didn't remember where they came from. But a quick google turned them up at http://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html[^]. This is "DiskId32 (freeware): A Win32 Application and Source Code for Reading Hard Drive Manufacturing Information". Thanks, Bram. Don

We're a very small company. I have considered rolling our own, but unless there's better information on how to do everything than I've found, I don't have time to do it. Not only do you have to learn about an encryption scheme, you also have to learn about how to tie things to the hardware (drive serial number, or whatever), how to block debuggers and decompilers from running, etc. And you have to write the UI components -- the registration dialogs, the app that you use to issue registration numbers, etc. Thanks for your thoughts. Don

I am looking for a software licensing system. This is one of those systems where you register the product, and you get a key back, enter the key in a registration screen, and the product is enabled. In our case, we're interested in this primarily for controlling access to different "modules" of a large application. I have done some browsing, and it looks like there are a number of tools to do this kind of thing, including Protection Plus, Software Passport, and Encryptor. Anyone have any experience with these or similar products? Recommendations? Things to look out for? Thanks, Don