Internet - Miscellaneous (47)

TraceRouteOK tracks the path of data over the web, internet and local network. The program is optimized for a fast list of data tracked and quick query of the data route. The program is useful for various network tests including network latency, detailing network hardware, seeing how many devices are between you and the Internet etc.

TakeStock is an investment portfolio manager to track US and international stocks, ETFs and mutual funds. The program can track dividends, capital gain distributions, margin equity and cash flow. You can view a security’s price chart, find historical prices, read company info and easily identify short and long term gains for tax reporting purposes.

Automatic functions include price quotes (usually delayed by 15 minutes) and alerts when a security’s target buy or sell price is reached.

ChromeCookiesView is an alternative to the standard internal cookies viewer of Chromium-based Web browsers. It displays the list of all stored cookies and allows you to easily delete unwanted ones. It also allows you export the cookies into text/csv/html/xml file.

NetworkUsageView extracts and displays network usage information, which includes name and description of the service or application, name and SID of the user, network adapter and total number of bytes sent/received by the specified service/application.

Draws from the SRUDB.dat database collected hourly in Windows 8 and 10.

simplewall is a program to manage network network activity on your computer. Includes the ability to create and edit your own rules and an internal blocklist, including Windows own spy/telemetry connections. The program can also prompt you for each new connection by a program to allow either full or limited connections.

Works with the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) on your computer.

DNS Jumper helps you modify Internet connection settings to apply custom DNS servers for your computer. Although most Internet services have default server, they are not always ideal. This management program can easily define and apply customized DNS server profiles, drawn from 50+ free server profiles.

With the "Fastest DNS" option, DNS Jumper will ping all the DNS profiles and select the fastest one to use in your area. Although the program is speed-focused, it lets you select any DNS server, some helping improve privacy, block ads, and more.

NetworkConnectLog repeatedly scans your local area network using ARP and Netbios protocols, adding a new log line every time a new computer or device connects to or disconnects from your network. This helps keep track of both machines that should be on your network (servers) and those that should not (unauthorized users).

Log files are easily exported to a variety of formats including basic spreadsheets or HTML/XML file.

cStatus is an advanced network scanning and monitoring tool for one or more addresses, and supports a data visualization, filtering and notifications. Monitoring supports ICPM and TCP ping with notifications, while IP address tools include port scanner, calculator, info and more.

Both live and historical activity reports are available for connection analysis.

Notably, the program includes a Traceroute function with the ability to return AS# (Autonomous System) number and network name for each hop traversed.

AppNetworkCounter counts and displays the data sent and received by individual applications on your system, a great way to see historical usage and monitor resource hogs. For every application, you can see the number of sent and received bytes, packets, IPv4, and IPv6 bytes. Functional for both TCP and UDP.

The program also displays the version information of the application - Product Name, Product Version, File Description and Company Name.

WinPing checks the connection in the local network or in the Internet.

QuickSetDNS allows you to easily change the DNS servers that are used for your Internet connection. You can set the desired DNS servers from the user interface, by choosing from a list of DNS servers that you defined, or from command-line, without displaying any user interface.

ProcessTCPSummary is a network analysis tool, displaying a summary of all process that have TCP connections or listening UDP ports. For each process, this tool displays the total number of TCP connections, connections for each status (established, listening, syn-sent, syn-received...), number of IPv4/IPv6 TCP connections, common port numbers and more.

If run as Administrator, you can also watch the number of TCP/UDP bytes sent and received by every process, as well as the current send/receive speed.

LiveTcpUdpWatch displays live information about all network activity on your system. The program displays the protocol (TCP/UDP/IPv4/IPv6), local/remote IP address, local/remote port, number of sent/received bytes, number of sent/received packets, connect/disconnect time (for TCP only) and the process (ID and path) responsible for this activity.

CarotDAV is a simple client for many remote file storage services including AmazonCloudDrive, Box, DropBox, GoogleDrive, Hubic, iCloud, OneDrive, OpenStack Swift, SugarSync and as well as WebDAV, secure FTP, and IMAP. Supports various view settings including detail, small/large icons, drag-and-drop interface, file transfer progress window (with speed listings) and a variety of sorting and grouping options. Allows for multiple instances to connect to multiple different services, but doesn't yet support transfers between them.

The program includes a WebDav server.

Includes dynamic encryption and decryption, automatic file-splitting (e.g. OneDrive's 25 MB file size limit) and doesn't store passwords in plain text if a master password is set.

DNSDataView is an interface for the NSLookup tool that comes with Windows. It allows you to easily retrieve the DNS records (MX, NS, A, SOA) of specified domains. You can use the default DNS server of your Internet connection, or use any other DNS server that you specify.

NetRouteView is a graphical alternative to Windows' standard command-line route utility route.exe. The program displays the list of all routes on your current network, including the destination, mask, gateway, interface IP address, metric value, type, protocol, age (in seconds), interface name, and the MAC address. NetRouteView also allows you to easily add new routes, as well as to remove or modify existing static routes.

NOTE: IPv6 not currently supported.

WirelessConnectionInfo displays general information and statistics about the active WiFi connection, including the SSID, BSSID, PHY Type, Signal Quality, Receiving rate, Transmission Rate, Authentication Algorithm, Channel Number, Total number of transmitted/received frames, and more...

NetworkCountersWatch displays system counters for every network interface on your system, which includes the numbers of incoming/outgoing bytes, incoming/outgoing and broadcast packets and more. You can also initialize all counters to zero at any time in order to watch the network counters for specific event. It also calculates and displays the current download and upload speed on your network interface.

eToolz includes some of the most important networking tools like DNS Lookup, Ping, TraceRoute and Whois. It allows also to check E-mail addresses (MX-Server) and to search/convert domain names showing DNS entries (A, PTR, NS, MX, TXT and SOA). eToolz supports also international domain names.

NetTraffic is a network bandwidth speed monitor supporting real time data rate chart, network usage history and quota usage meter. The window can be resized, will auto-adjust to clearly display speeds, and has a variety of colors and data visualizations.

MyImgur is a tool to quickly upload pictures to Imgur.com, is able to send multiple files in a queue, crop an area of the screen, clipboard, or capture the active window (by default F11). Once uploaded, the program can copy a link to the file directly to your clipboard.

The program can also auto-resize pictures and/or lower quality automatically if file exceeds a given size to speed-up uploads on slow connections. Captures can be stored from cropping or paste and supports multiple monitors in any configurations (spanned horz/vertically etc.).

Functional in Linux via Wine.

SterJo NetStalker is a basic, lightweight firewall manager to trust or kill processes that seek access to the Internet. The program is fully configurable with regard to inbound TCP connections, and with pop-up dialogs for outbound connections.

Functional in 64-bit Windows.

MacMakeup allows you to change the MAC address of any of the network interfaces present on your Windows system. This is sometimes referred as "MAC address spoofing". You can choose a new address of your choice, or get the new one with the help of the tool, which sets the OID part according to your preference.

InstagramSaver is an easy to use program to download Instagram photos and videos. Just enter the Instagram account you want and start downloading.

Note: program discontinued and no longer functional, linking to Softpedia.

Terminals is a powerful network tool that tries to unify various network tools and connections including a variety of client services, utilities, and search. Supports terminal services and remote desktop (RDP) client and uses Terminal Services ActiveX Client (mstscax.dll), as well as RDP, VNC, VMRC, Telnet and ICA Citrix connections. Tools include Ping, Tracert, DNS tools, Wake on LAN, port scanner, shares etc. and can search computers in Active directory or in your network by IP addresses.

The program includes a tabbed interface, customizable toolbar and uses a master password for increased security. Settings available for remote desktop size, screen mode, and fonts, as well as colors for terminal connections. Terminals saves password and connection profiles, scripts, and other methods to organize your available connections (including search). The program will import many other types of connections and even sync them with Amazon S3 service.

Note: This version works perfectly from network shares, but not from mapped RDP-Drives.

HakuNeko is a simple manga downloader for selected online manga reader websites. Works with Mangafox.me and Mangareader.net, then allows filtering based on title.

Client also available for GNU/Linux.

FreeMeter monitors network bandwidth on both the desktop and from a system tray. The program includes a configurable connection speed, update interval, color, transparency, and email notifier (POP/IMAP). You can monitor any or all network interface and use ping/trace/UPnP utilities.

HostsOptimizer rearranges the contents of the hosts file, so the DNS Client service can be enabled when there is a large hosts file. It does so with a maximum of 9 host names per single line, all comments removed (includes disabled entries) and duplicate host names deleted.

NOTE: the developer no longer lists this on his homepage. Linking to softpedia.

TSubtitleDownloader attempts to find subtitle files for a wide variety of movies. The program includes batch operations, able to add whole directories of videos and can download multiple subtitle languages if available (useful for learning a new language).

NOTE: Program discontinued, mirror link posted.

sStockQuote allows you to see how your chosen stocks are doing, limited to a raw list of stock prices (no portfolio features or stock charts).

Stock quote data is provided by Yahoo! Finance.

epCheck lets you easily view and track TV series data, drawing data from TheTVDB.com.

Mozilla Sunbird is a calendar client that supports the creation of scheduled events and the ability to get an overview of events on a particular day, week or month. The calendar can be shared by publishing it to a WebDAV-capable server.

Sunbird Portable is a portablized build of Sunbird.

Note:

• This project has been discontinued and is not recommended for a production or day-to-day environment, replaced by Thunderbird.
• Win 95, 98, or ME users must download an earlier version: V0.2 Rev 5.

Earl allows you to convert .URL files into standard Window shortcut files (.LNK). This can be helpful if you use an application that doesn't understand .URL files but does understand standard Windows shortcuts. For instance, some icon docks won't handle a .URL file dropped on them, but can work with regular Windows shortcuts.

PasteBin is a simple application powered by PasteBin.com and is designed to help you create, store and manage your pasted text even if you use a Guest account.

To get full use of the PasteBin features, create an account before using. Extra features will include the ability to delete created pastes and post using a recognizable name.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).

NOTE: Site offline, linking to Softpedia.

40tude Dialog was (its homepage is available only via Internet Archive) a multi-server, multi-threaded email/newsreader with Unicode character support. It supports multiple servers (POP3/NNTP) and identities, has filtering/scoring support, integrated email functionality and binary support (including support for multiparts).

Functional on 64-bit systems.

Simple Blogger is a simple editor to make posts to Google's Blogger.com service. Includes basic formatting and labels.

Also available for Linux.

Forum Spam List Checker will query the databases of over 15 common services and return the info that can help determine if a username, IP address, and/or email is a spammer/bot. Services include BotScout, FSpamlist, Project Honeypot, and Stop Forum Spam. No email spammer database is checked.

URLStringGrabber is a small utility that scans all opened windows of Internet Explorer and grab the URLs stored in them, including clickable links, images, script files, CSS files, RSS feeds, and flash (.swf) files.

Integrio Uptime Scout lets you monitor the availability (uptime) of your connection or specific websites, notifying you if the connection or server goes down. It supports different notification methods, such as popup messages, sound alerts and email. Alert notifications can also trigger execution of user defined commands or a third-party application.

Alerts automatically end when connection is reestablished.

NOTE: Site offline, linking to Archive.org.

IP2 shows your machine's IP addresses on both Wide and Local Area Networks (WAN and LAN). While most tools focus on the local address, this provides the address from the perspective of an "outsider" on the Internet. This is useful in diagnostics, connectivity, and analysis.

Fact200 is an Internet research tool that helps you find, browse and store information returned from search engines and various news sources. It is capable of prefetching result links and generating thumbnail previews so that you can view them quickly in tiled or slideshow mode. You can also store interesting web pages into a library where they are indexed and searchable.

NOTE: Main site offline -- linking to archive.org.

FreePOPs is an extensible mail proxy that primarily allows checking and downloading email from popular webmail systems using conventional POP3 email clients without a web browser. Most email clients should be set to localhost:2000 as the POP3 server and use the full email address (eg. username@webmail.domain) as the username.

Munnin-Light is a desktop client for all eBay platforms, including USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It allows you to watch desired items using drag-and-drop, manage your search favorites and repeat them at the touch of a button, calculate shipping costs using the integrated shipping costs calculator etc.

Note: Munnin-Light is the liteware version of Munnin, and comes with some feature restrictions. It also displays an advertisement banner at the top of the app window urging you to buy the payware version of the program.

Google Hacks is a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Google's search and map services. For example, you can use it to view a timeline of your search results, view a map, search for music, search for books etc. These can all be done manually by pointing your web browser at Google's search engine, but the tool certainly makes it more convenient.

MoonEdit is a collaborative text editor. It supports visible cursors with unique colors for each user, editing history, and keyboard sounds to let you know when other users are typing.

Cross-platform with clients available for Linux and BSD.

(December 2017: website seems to be offline, linking to web.archive.org)

FreshFind is a freeware search tool designed to make your internet searching tasks faster and more efficient. Features a configurable hotkey to bring the dialog up and a history of searches.