New at NirSoft

[__philippe]

(Straight from the horse's mouth): http://blog.nirsoft.net/2013/07/08/nirs ... ta-center/

Nirsoft.net moved to a new data center

Two days ago, on July 6 2013, around 07:00 GMT, nirsoft.net Web site moved to a new data center and it's now hosted in SoftLayer data center at Washington DC .
Hopefully, this data center change will reduce the website downtime problems to minimum.

__philippe

PS
Just realized this may not be the most appropriate topic for posting this announcement.
Could the powers that be perhaps move it to "Resources & Links" ?

Thanks.

[webfork]

Just realized this may not be the most appropriate topic for posting this announcement.
Could the powers that be perhaps move it to "Resources & Links" ?

It's cool. I try to reserve moves for stuff that might constitute a thread hijack, and I don't think this will.

[__philippe]

(Topic title Inspired by Midas' recent "Software Annoyances" post in " Resources & Links" forum. )

As you know, Nirsoft is offering myriad of well-crafted, compact utilities which savvy users collect religiously.
(I am especially found of network-related ones, such as CountryTraceroute, TCPlogView, NetworkTrafficView ,..etc...)

For many of those programs, Nir provides a seemingly trivial cosmetic feature, which does actually proves very handy:
the ability to re-size the columns headers width, on-the-fly, according to column contents length, so:

Autosize columns................CRL+Plus (that is *CTRL and NumericPad Plus*)
Autosize columns+headers.....Shift+Plus (that is *CTRL and NumericPad Minus*)

Of course, this works perfectly well via a mouse click on the appropriate button in the "View" tab.

The snag is, a *physically separate Numeric Pad* is required to swiftly adjust the columns width back-and-forth *via Keyboard Shortcuts*.

Users of most notepads, for instance, are out-of-luck: no amount of keystrokes fiddling on the simulated "virtual" numeric pad will work,
at least not on Lenovo ThinkPad and similar machines, which use proprietary keyboard drivers signals intercepts.

AHK (AutoHotKey) to te rescue:

To circumvent this (minor) annoyance, I whipped up two tiny AHK macros, as follows :
(substituting CTRL right arrow / CTRL left arrow for Nir's built-in CTRL+Plus/Shift+Plus)

Code: Select all

================================================================
; purpose: send numpad "CTRL-Plus" signal to Nirsoft Traceroute - optimize columns width
; hotkey combo is "CTRL" "Right arrow key" 
^Right::
;KeyWait Control
Send ^{NumpadAdd}
return
;

=======================================================================
; purpose: send numpad "SHIFT-Plus" signal to Nirsoft Traceroute - optimize columns+headers width
; hotkey combo is "CTRL" "Left arrow key" 
^Left::
;KeyWait Control
Send +{NumpadAdd}
return
;

Try it, it's free...

__philippe

[Checker]

NEW: NetworkLatencyView

NetworkLatencyView is a simple tool for Windows that listens to the TCP connections on your system and calculates the network latency (in milliseconds) for every new TCP connection detected on your system. For every IP address, NetworkLatencyView displays up to 10 network latency values, and their average. The latency value calculated by NetworkLatencyView is very similar to the result you get from pinging to the same IP address.
NetworkLatencyView also allows you to easily export the latency information to text/csv/tab-delimited/html/xml file, or copy the information to the clipboard and then paste it to Excel or other application.

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I've added NetworkLatencyView to the database.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2508 ... please vote

[I am Baas]

•In order to capture the TCP packets properly, you have to install one of the following capture drivers:
◦WinPcap capture driver
◦Network Monitor driver - version 3.4 or later.

•You can also try to use the 'Raw Socket' method without installing any capture driver. However, this method doesn't work in some systems, as well as the latency values detected by using this method are not very accurate.

[Checker]

•In order to capture the TCP packets properly, you have to install one of the following capture drivers:
◦WinPcap capture driver
◦Network Monitor driver - version 3.4 or later.

•You can also try to use the 'Raw Socket' method without installing any capture driver. However, this method doesn't work in some systems, as well as the latency values detected by using this method are not very accurate.

See "Dependencies:". Like in HTTPNetworkSniffer or WebSiteSniffer

[__philippe]

Part of CountryTraceRoute's appeal is its ability to display geographic information for each sequential hop returned by the trace.
This magic is achieved by querying either one of two off-line, third-party GeoIP info DB, namely:

http://software77.net/geo-ip/
http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/

I tend to favor MaxMind's product, for its accuracy (resolution down to city name) and wider coverage.
MaxMind DB is updated regularly, *around* (but not always) the 1st Tuesday of each month.

To check the actual production date of the current downloaded DB version, one can either rely on the file time-stamp listed within the *.gz package,
or, even better, verify the hidden time-stamp buried deep-down the uncompressed *.dat file extracted from the *.gz package.

Here is a handy, very simple batch file to display this internal time-stamp:

Code: Select all

@echo off
REM display Maxmind file time-stamp
cs echo MaxMind GeoLiteCity.dat current version :
echo:
tail -c86 *.dat | grep -o -E "GEO.*Reserved"
echo:

Tail and Grep are small *.exe utilities both part of UnxUtils.zip, a nifty collection of stand-alone GNU/Unix-inspired tools, ported to Win32.
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Well worth the 3.36Mb download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/

Historical anecdote:
'cs' is an antediluvian, microscopic (119 bytes !) one-trick pony *.com file, first published in PC Magazine by Charles Petzold, circa 1988, which, you guessed it,
just "Clears the Screen".
Of course, MS 'cls' (built into cmd.exe) does just the same, but 'cmd.exe' Goliath weights a hefty 389,120 bytes vs 'cs.com' David with a mere 119 bytes ...

Cheers,

__philippe

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NEW: EventLogSourcesView

EventLogSourcesView is a simple tool that displays the list of all event log sources installed on your system. For every event log source, the following information is displayed: Event Source Name, Event Type, DLL/EXE Files containing the event message strings, Registry Modified Time, and version information taken from the DLL/EXE file (Product Name, Company, File Description, File Version)

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I've added EventLogSourcesView to the database.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2515 ... please vote

[Checker]

NEW: SoundVolumeView

SoundVolumeView is a simple tool for Windows Vista/7/8/2008 that displays general information and current volume level for all active sound components on your system, and allows you to mute and unmute them instantly.
SoundVolumeView also allows you to save a sound profile into a file, containing the current volume level and the mute/unmute state of all sound components, as well as the default sound devices, and then later, load the same file to restore exactly the same volume levels and settings.
There is also extensive command-line support, which allows you to save/load profiles, change current volume of every sound component, and mute/unmute every sound component, without displaying any user interface.

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I've added SoundVolumeView to the database.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2524 ... please vote

[Checker]

NEW: NetworkConnectLog

NetworkConnectLog is a simple utility that repeatedly scans your local area network (Using ARP and Netbios protocols) and add a new log line every time that a new computer or device connects to your network, and when a computer or device disconnects from your network.
After the connect/disconnect log lines are accumulated, you can easily export the log lines to comma-delimited/tab-delimited/html/xml file.

[Checker]

I've added NetworkConnectLog to the database.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2533 ... please vote

[Midas]

@__philippe: I posted some info on UnixKit-tiny, another UnxUtils alternative, at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 772#p66772...