Windows Reference

Play MP3, OGG files with Microfi Nitrogen on Windows Mobiles

Winsockfix — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:25:15 +0000

Microfi Nitrogen is a native Windows Mobile application to play MP3/OGG songs stored on your Pocket PC, Windows Mobile and PDAs device. Microfi Nitrogen is free opensource media player relased under GPLv3 License. Nitrogen uses the opensource MAD and OVD decoders. As the official releases of MAD for Pocket PC seem to be discontinued, Nitrogen [...]

iPhone style Slide 2 Unlock feature for Windows Mobile

Winsockfix — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:45:02 +0000

S2U2 (Slide2 Unlock2) brings the iPhone style lock/unlock feature into your Windows mobile. S2U2 can be used as a screensaver and offers great customization options. S2U2 can show a lot of information while the system is locked which otherwise you might need to unlock and look into in normal scenarios. (...)Read the rest of iPhone style [...]

How to manage multiple Exchange mailbox accounts in Outlook

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:29:23 +0000

Some users have multiple e-mail accounts on the same server that is running Microsoft Exchange Server. Although you can only have one service in your Exchange Server profile, it is possible to access all of your Microsoft Outlook accounts without having to log on separately to each account. To log on to one e-mail account (account [...]

HashTab – Utility to verify File hashes in Windows

Winsockfix — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:12:20 +0000

HashTab is a simple free utility that provides Windows extensions to calculate file hashes. HashTab supports many hash algorithms such as MD5, SHA1, SHA2, RipeMD, HAVAL and Whirlpool. While there are many tools around to perform Hash checks, HashTab propably does it the most simple and easy way. It adds a simple tab to the [...]

SecureZip to encrypt and Secure your ZIP Archives

Winsockfix — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:36:45 +0000

One needs to understand the big security risks when sending confidential files on emails or infact transferring over the internet because, unless you encrypt your emails or send files through secure channel (HTTPS or SSH) there is every little chance a preying over the internet can intercept and extract information of your files. While encrypting [...]

NagStaMon – Nagios Network Monitoring from your desktop

Winsockfix — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:09:14 +0000

Sometime ago, we wrote about Nagios-Checker add-on for Firefox that sits and pops alerts for you when your Nagios Alarms or Alerts. Now, we have Nagstamon which goes one step further where it isn’t for Firefox but rather just sits there in the taskbar or floats around the screen to inform you in realtime about [...]

PeaZip – Crossplatform File Archiver Manager

Winsockfix — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:51:50 +0000

PeaZip is a free flexible opensource File and Archive Manager for Linux and Windows. PeaZip can create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP archives and can extract upto 87 types of archive including all the mainstream popular archive formats. (...)Read the rest of PeaZip – Crossplatform File Archiver Manager (171 words) © Winsockfix [...]

Configure IE8 to download more than two files at one time

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:18:02 +0000

By default, Windows Internet Explorer 7 and earlier versions limit the number of files that you can download at one time to two. Windows Internet Explorer 8 limits the number of files that you can download at one time to six. This change reflects the faster connection speeds that are now typical for most users. [...]

WinFF to convert videos in different formats in Windows

Winsockfix — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:44:57 +0000

WinFF is a simple free GUI for the opensource media converter ffmpeg, the command line video converter. WinFF will convert almost any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF converts multiple files in multiple formats at one time. WinFF is free opensource software released under GPLv3 license and is supported in Linux and Windows. WinFF [...]

gPodder – Free audio & Video podcast downloader in Windows

Winsockfix — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:29:59 +0000

gPodder is a simple, free opensource software (licensed under GPLv3) to download free audio and video content (”podcasts”) from the Internet and watch it on your computer or on the go on your mobile or iPod. gPodder can support feeds from RSS, Atom and Youtube. gPodder is available in Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and on Maemo-based [...]

Moovida – Feature rich Media Centre for Windows

Winsockfix — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:55:22 +0000

Moovida, previously known as Elisa is a free open source media player for Windows and Linux. Moovida brings together all your movies, music, TV shows, tunes and photos , internet videos/music/images etc in one simple innovative interface making it more a feature rich Media Center than a simple Media player. You can play all your [...]

MobaXterm – The free multitab Unix browser for Windows

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:21:05 +0000

MobaXterm (formerly known as MobaXVT) is an enhanced terminal with an X server and a set of Unix commands (GNU/Cygwin) packaged in a single portable exe file. Formerly known as MobaXVT, MobaXterm now includes a multitab native Windows terminal, a new X server based on X.Org for easily export your Unix/Linux display and a lot [...]

MobaSSH – Free SSH server for Windows

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:44:11 +0000

MobaSSH allows you to run commands and transfer files on a remote Windows PC from any operating system (GNU/Linux, Unix, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, …) through a fully secured and encrypted network connection. MobaSSH is 100% compatible with the Linux/Unix/HPUx/AIX SSH clients, but also with Putty or WinSCP on Windows. (...)Read the rest of MobaSSH – Free [...]

Error: Virtual Windows XP could not be restored because hardware-assisted virtualization is disabled

Winsockfix — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:04:04 +0000

In Windows 7 RC, when you try to start an application in the Virtual Windows XP (XP Mode) you may be faced with the error: “Virtual Windows XP could not be restored because hardware-assisted virtualization is disabled” (...)Read the rest of Error: Virtual Windows XP could not be restored because hardware-assisted virtualization is disabled (82 words) © Winsockfix [...]

Shortcut not created for application installed in XP mode

Winsockfix — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:45:47 +0000

Sometimes when you install an application in the XP Mode (Virtual XP) for compatibility issues, the shortcut may not be created in the start menu of your Windows 7 profile. An example would be an older version of Windows Media Player installed in XP mode. (...)Read the rest of Shortcut not created for application installed in [...]