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== Cyberduck ==
http://cyberduck.ch/
Multi-protocol ([[Acronyms#F|FTP]], WebDAV, etc) and cloud storage (Amazon, Google, Rackspace, Microsoft) client.
== ISOrecorder ==
== ISOrecorder ==
http://alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
Simple utility to create ISO files, and burn folders or ISO's to disk (CD-ROM, DVD)


== LastPass ==
== LastPass ==
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DNS server benchmarking software - allows you to find the best (in terms of locality and speed of response) DNS servers to use
DNS server benchmarking software - allows you to find the best (in terms of locality and speed of response) DNS servers to use
== Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor ==
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
Allows you to break back into a machine for which you've lost the local admin password.
On Windows 2008 you can only clear the password, not change it, but that still gets you back into the OS. From where you can set a new password.


== PuTTY Connection Manager ==
== PuTTY Connection Manager ==
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Allows you to manage multiple PuTTY connections with auto-login, with passwords being stored in an encrypted database file.  Perfect if Mr Security has had his way in your organisation and your servers have varying, complex passwords.
Allows you to manage multiple PuTTY connections with auto-login, with passwords being stored in an encrypted database file.  Perfect if Mr Security has had his way in your organisation and your servers have varying, complex passwords.
Note that the site above appears to have been taken down and no longer exists - I've found a copy of the installer and it can be downloaded from here...
* http://dl.sandfordit.com/3rdparty/puttycm0.7.1.136beta.exe
** MD5: <code>81e0129376b4d9e653c5d82179feca84</code>
* http://dl.sandfordit.com/3rdparty/pcmcrypt.rar
** MD5: <code>8767e84ebf704ad8bd0302d4ddd4f70f</code>
If you are the original author or were the maintainer of the site and would be happy for me to host the supporting documentation for PCM (or would like me to remove the download link), please contact me at info[AT]sandfordit[DOT]com.
As an alternative, try [[#SuperPuTTY|SuperPuTTY]]


== RealVNC ==
== RealVNC ==
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RV Tools audits your virtual infrastructure and provides a nice diagnosis list, which is more like a to do of background maintenance tasks.  Its best feature is probably its ability to identify orphaned files on your datastores which can enable to free up quite a bit of precious SAN space.
RV Tools audits your virtual infrastructure and provides a nice diagnosis list, which is more like a to do of background maintenance tasks.  Its best feature is probably its ability to identify orphaned files on your datastores which can enable to free up quite a bit of precious SAN space.
== SuperPuTTY ==
http://automation-nation.org/superputty-tutorial
I haven't actually used it, but this seems to be a logical successor to [[#PuTTY Connection Manager|PuTTY Connection Manager]].  That said, from a cursory look at the documentation, its not possible to store encrypted session password, which was a very good feature of PuTTY CM.


== Synergy ==
== Synergy ==
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CD image extraction and editing software
CD image extraction and editing software
[[Category:Applications]]

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