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August 20, 2008
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Over the years I have found some favorite software that I use and recommend. This list is far from complete at the moment but will grow as I have time to update it. I'm cheap but willing to support software developers so much of the software I use is freeware or shareware. With the exception of a good mail client/PIM I've been able to replace all my commercial software with free or open source equivalents. Since I work with both Win32 and BSD systems most(but not all) of the software is cross platform. I've listed them below with a short description. Please note that any associated costs are listed in US Dollars.
| Software | URL | Cost | Free? | OSS | Description | Platform |
| Servers Alive | http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/ | 90.00 | yes | No | Great network monitoring software for reasonable cost. Free for 10 or less checks. | Win32 |
| Analog | http://www.analog.cx/ | 0 | yes | Yes | Web site log analyzer. | Win32, *nix |
| Paint Shop Pro | http://www.jasc.com/ | 99.00 | no | No | Photo editing and image creation software for Win32. | Win32 |
| Mercury | http://www.pmail.com/ | 0 | yes | No | Great email server for Win32. | Win32 |
| MRTG | http://www.mrtg.org/ | 0 | yes | Yes | SNMP graphing software written in Perl. | Win32, *nix |
| WebCam32 | http://www.surveyor.com/ | 39.95 | no | No | Great webcam software. | Win32 |
| D4 | http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/index.html | 0 | yes | No | NTP time synchronization for Win32. Only drwaback is that it doesn't run as a service. | Win32 |
| Outloook | http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook/ | 109.00 | no | No | Say what you want about Microsoft but Outlook is the best email client available at the moment. | Win32 |
| Aranae | http://www.araneae.com/ | 0 | yes | No | HTML editor, has all the features and none of the cost. | Win32 |
| PHP | http://www.php.net/ | 0 | yes | Yes | Server side scripting that's free and cross platform! | Win32, *nix |
| MySQL | http://www.mysql.com/ | 0 | yes | Yes | The most widely used open source database. A perfect choice for mulitplatform development. | Win32, *nix |
| Perl | http://www.perl.com/ | 0 | yes | Yes | The granddaddy of all scripting languages. This is the master perl site. I use perl for Win32 fromActivestate.com. | Win32, *nix |
| Cygwin | http://www.cygwin.com/ | 0 | yes | Yes | Unix emulation for Win32. Run a virtually complete unix environment on your Windows system. | Win32 |
| OpenSSH | http://www.openssh.org/ | 0 | yes | Yes | SSH for everyone! | Win32, *nix |
| SamSpade | http://www.samspade.org/ | 0 | yes | No | A great set of DNS tools. | Win32 |
| LeechFTP | http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~jdebis/leechftp/ | 0 | yes | No | Great multi-threaded FTP client with a nice GUI. Unfortunately the author has stopped updating this and has created a commercial version called BitBeamer. | Win32 |
| SecureCRT | http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/index.html | 99.00 | no | No | The premium telnet/ssh terminal program. | Win32 |
| SecureFX | http://www.vandyke.com/products/securefx/index.html | 59.95 | no | No | The Cadillac of file transfer.... | Win32 |
| WinZip | http://www.winzip.com/ | 29.00 | no | No | The original Windows Zip program. | Win32 |
| Getif | http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/FILES/Tools/SNMP/getif/getif.zip | 0 | yes | No | SNMP browser. This isn't the official home page for Getif since that page is gone. | Win32 |
| Putty | http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ | 0 | yes | Yes | SSH, SFTP, SCP client | Win32 |
| Snort | http://www.snort.org/ | 0 | yes | Yes | Intrusion Detection | Win32, *nix |
| VNC | http://www.realvnc.com/ | 0 | yes | Yes | Remotely control your PC from anywhere. | Win32, *nix |
| Gimp | http://www.gimp.org/ | 0 | yes | Yes | Photoshop clone | Win32, *nix |
| Apache | http://www.apache.org/ | 0 | yes | Yes | THE web server... | Win32, *nix |
| MySQL-Front | http://www.anse.de/mysqlfront/ | 0 | yes | No | GUI manager for MYSQL | Win32 |
| Kiwi Syslog | http://www.kiwisyslog.com/ | 69.00 | yes | No | Free for most uses. The full registered version offers the ability to log to ODBC sources and archive log files. | Win32 |
| Report Magic | http://www.reportmagic.org/ | 0 | yes | Yes | Advanced reports for Analog | Win32, *nix |
| SquirrelMail | http://www.squirrelmail.org/ | 0 | yes | Yes | Webmail written in PHP. | Win32, *nix |
| Pumpkin TFTP | http://www.klever.net/kin/pumpkin.html | 0 | yes | No | Simple, gui based TFTP server. | Win32 |
| Kiwi CatTools | http://www.kiwisyslog.com/cattools2.htm | 69.00 | no | No | Simple but great tool to manage and report on your Cisco gear. | Win32 |
| PHPbb | http://www.phpbb.com | 0 | yes | Yes | Great web based bulletin board. | Win32, *nix |
