Category Archives: Recommended Free Tools

This category contains tools which I have found usefull.

For “no open source” free tools, consideration is needed if they are safe to use in that task or environment.

Calibre, portable tool for reading ebooks

Posted on 3 January 2012 by Admin

Calibre is good alternative for reading E-books on Windows. It supports both epub and pdf formats. The figure below shows some free books downloaded from internet sources.   Some sources for e-books: Project Gutenberg ManyBooks Links: e-book formats epub Digital … Continue reading →

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VLC, Tool for playing videos

Posted on 27 December 2011 by Admin

VLC media player is one of the alternatives for playing videos. Good: multilanguage portable option converts between media formats

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TestDisk, Tool for recovering data and pictures on hard disks and USB drives

Posted on 15 December 2011 by Admin

TestDisk is an free (open source) console based tool for recoving data. TestDisk includes another tool PhotoRec, which better for recovering photos from memory cards. (It is safer to recover files since it access USB drive as readonly.) It is … Continue reading →

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WinMD5, Tool for maintaining integrity of important files and documents

Posted on 15 December 2011 by Admin

WinMD5 is a great portable tool for calculating and comparing MD5 hashes of files. With this tool one can check that the content of your important documents and files has not been changed. Positive: Portable Open source drag&drop Can create … Continue reading →

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HxD, Tool for editing/viewing binary data like files, memory and disk

Posted on 15 December 2011 by Admin

HxD is a free tool which can be used for investigating not only files but also disks and memory. It supports big files and comes with additional features, like file wiping, checksum and file comparison. For a portable simple hex … Continue reading →

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wxHexEditor, Portable tool for viewing/editing binary data

Posted on 15 December 2011 by Admin

wxHexEditor is simple hex viewer/editor for binary files and hard & usb drives. Positive: Open source Portable Supports big files See another blog for other hex editors with more functionality.

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Undelete 360, Tool for undeleting and deleting files on hard disk or on USB drives

Posted on 14 December 2011 by Admin

There are several tools for recoving accidentally deleted files. One of them is Undelete 360. The success of the recovery depends very much on the immediate actions made after accidental deletion of the file(s). In some cases, the antivirus and … Continue reading →

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