David Trebacz Favorite Software and Website List
Here is a list of software and sites that I've found helpful in my travels in the personal computer world. Consider this my personal endorsement of each to my friends.
Broadband
| www.dslwebserver.com | Great site with information on how to run your own web server on your DSL line. Very informative. |
| www.dslreports.com | Best source of information on DSL providers and current happenings. The only place you should go to for SBC-Ameritech DSL support! |
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Web
| www.aprelium.com/abyssws/ | Abyss web server -small, but powerful web server that runs this site. |
| http://www.magentocommerce.com/ | Full featured open source eCommerce software, that I'm experimenting with to host my bothers website. Runs in a LAMP environment and is easily visually customized with CSS. |
| www.palacio-cristal.com | Dynamic DNS updater that has worked great. Small application that runs on your PC and updates your DNS address to a DNS service like http://www.dyndns.org. |
| http://www.dyndns.org | Offers free DNS hosting service. When combined with a Dynamic DNS updater it makes it real easy for your PC on a DSL line to be available for the world. |
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Open Source
| http://www.kubuntu.org | Kubuntu operating system. Open source alternative based on KDE and Ubuntu. Currently using for my main desktop environment. |
| http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ | BackUPPC is my open source backup solution for my entire network. Easy to configure and use. Works across Linux and Windows network very well. |
| http://keepass.info/ | Open source password storage allows me to store and securely update all my passwords across Windows, Linux, and Windows Mobile 5.0 clients. It is a very small and efficient program. |
| http://www.nomachine.com | Great no cost tool to remotely access my KDE linux desktop. Open source client -server version is free, but not open source. |
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Windows
| www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/ | Good list of Windows applications that run automatically in the background when Windows starts. |
| www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml | Great program that let's you easily control what programs run automatically under and Windows operating system. Nice replacement for msconfig that Microsoft screwed up in their implementation of Windows XP. |
| www.safer-networking.org/ | Spybot -the greatest spyware removal program -and it's really free. So good I sent in the requested donation. |
| www.grisoft.com | Dump Norton antivirus products and try this great free antivirus software. Installed it on one computer and only used a little over 2 Mb of RAM. Updates are also free. |
| http://www.ccleaner.com/ | CCleaner safely cleans up Windows temporary files (worked well on Windows XP) off your hard drive. Especially good if you running and older machine with limited hard disk space. |
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Video Editing
| www.dvdrhelp.com/author | DVD R help site. Lots of good information to wade through the complex world of DVD authoring. |
| www.videoguys.com | Site with all kinds of no nonsense video advice. Does promote some products. |
| http://www.canopus.us | I use the Canopus ADVC-100 to convert my old videos to AVI using their hardware solution. I have used it several times and it has prove to be very reliable. No problems with video to audio synchronization -even on 2 hour tapes. I bought mine from some Macintosh company -hey it was cheap $259. |
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Photography
| http://picasa.Google.com/ | Picasa is a great free photo organizing and basic editing tool from Google. It also allows to easily send your pictures to be processed -or upload them to free Google web albums. |
| http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ | Invaluable command line tool that I used for fixing dates in EXIF picture headers, when I had the date set incorrectly in my Canon 40D. I used it to easily change the date offsets in thousands of pictures. |
| Microsoft SyncToy | Free Microsoft tool I used to keep two copies of my pictures and images always synchronized. |
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