Freewares / Free Softwares 19 Nov 09

Quick Config

Quick Config is a convenient tool to help change quickly various settings of your computer. This is a useful utility especially for those who travel with their laptops and wish to change network connection settings, set default printer and etc, with just a click. All one needs to do is to create one or more configuration profiles, set the required settings for each profile, and when a change is needed activate the profile by double clicking on it. Features: The current version of Quick Config can change - TCP/IP settings (IP address, mask, gateway, DNS server, MAC), state of network connection; computer name, domain or workgroup membership; map, unmap network drives; share, unshare local resources; Hosts file; Routing table, Sound volume and theme; Set default printer; Start, stop, restart system services; IE, FireFox and Opera network connection settings, Desktop- Display screen dimensions, color depth; and change default applications such as E-Mail client and others.

The 2942 KB Quick Config v1.1.6.55 (24 Oct 09) can be downloaded at http://intelloware.com/Download/QuickConfig.zip

Piwigo

Piwigo, a photo gallery software for the web, easily customizable. It's free and opensource, equipped with distinctly different features to publish and manage your collection of pictures. Piwigo has a snappy interface, and and amongst its features the "tree" takes the cake. This feature lets users create photo categories that expand and flatten the tree structure to view all the photos. Visitors can also set up user permissions and also create rating tabs for each photo, or groups of photos. Started in 2002, the project is now supported by an active community of users and developers. Piwigo supports numerous galleries of all sizes all over the world, from an individual ten-photos party to the images stock of an agency. This scalability is supported by smart browsing capabilities based on categories, tags and chronological search. Various extensions make Piwigo even more scalable and customizable to suit your own needs and desires.

Piwigo v2.0 is compatible with computers running Mac OS 10.3 or newer or Windows 95 and newer. Piwigo is both web and photo standard compliant.

For more details visit http://piwigo.org/

ooSooM

ooSooM is a task/todo management tool, free for personal use. It lets the person get on with the job on hand after securely logging the thoughts, ideas, etc in such a way that they can be found whenever needed. ooSooM does not attempt to force a predetermined 'methodology', it's a free format, lets you use it the way you want. You can prioritise and categorise your Todo Information, and each Todo or Vault Item can have it's own Colour Scheme, Font Size and Style. ooSooM has a Easy to use interface, requires no installation, no Modifications made to computer, Requires no additional Runtime installation, and can be run from a USB drive.

Developed by Arten Science, UK, the 32 MB ooSooM for Mac OSX, Windows XP, Vista, 2003 and 7 can be downloaded at http://www.artenscience.com/autoupdate/latestversions/oosoom_win.zip (for Windows),

and for Mac at http://www.artenscience.com/autoupdate/latestversions/oosoom_osx.zip

After downloading ooSooM and deciding that you would like to get rid of the nag screens, you need to contact Arten Science for a Serial Number (support@artenscience.co.uk)

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Please suggest a utility to back up installed drivers.

Double Driver enables viewing all the drivers installed on a system. The utility also lets you backup, restore, save and print all the chosen drivers. It can be downloaded at http://www.boozet.org/download.htm

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