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SI Ping
$0 - Pingram Software

Test communication with remote computer and check its online status over the Internet with free and visual Ping tool for Windows.

What did your mom do when you got sick being a kid? Most probably the first thing she did was giving you a thermometer to check your body heat. If you are trying to access a remote computer and are not getting a response, chances are that computer is not functioning properly. In other words, it might be sick. But how would you give a thermometer to that PC?

There is a free tool called ping.exe that comes with most versions of Windows. You can use this tool to poke the remote PC and check its response. To use ping.exe, you would typically invoke a command line, which would open a black console window, and type ping.exe followed with IP address of the computer you want to check. Usually you would get a response right in the console window in a matter of seconds. You would judge - or, rather, guess, - the remote computer's health by the cryptic numbers printed as decimal integers. If the remote computer is not available, or if the network is not available, or if some link or a piece of hardware in between you and the remote PC has failed, you'll get nothing. It is up to you to guess what and where have failed.

SI Ping, on the other hand, gives clearly legible and well formatted output by providing easy to understand and well explained numbers. It displays all the vital information, such as time to access the remote computer, in milliseconds, and allows you to ping more than one computer by simply selecting their address from a combo box. Thanks to its user-friendly, convenient user interface, SI Ping is much more convenient to use than the Windows ping.exe.

SoftInstitute releases well-designed, simple to use products that help computer users solve one particular problem. Our products are free, and typically perform just one task, such as ping, trace route, or lookup, but do it in a convenient manner.

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Web Image Collector
$14.95 - DataFire Technologies INC

Web Image Collector is the perfect tool for downloading thousands of images from the web. Simply enter a web site address (URL) or search keywords, and within seconds you will see numerous thumbnails of downloaded images. Junk images such as icons and advertisements are filtered out using the configurable filter rules. All images can be previewed using the built in slideshow and they can be sent to friends using the built in email feature.

WIC can automatically sign in to membership based sites and download entire image galleries. It can also search TGP galleries or image search engines using keywords so that your result images match what you are looking for.

WIC is a stand alone product and does not require you to have IE, FireFox or other browsers installed. It is stable, powerful, and it has an easy to use interface.

Optional advanced features let you filter your image search by using a variety of different methods. You can filter URL addresses by keywords to allow or ignore certain web sites. You can filter images by width, hight, file size, and file extension to skip thumbnail images or large space wasting images. You can save your images in one main directory or you can build a directory tree for a visual guide to where each image came from.

You will always have the latest release with our built in software update service. WIC includes free access to our update service which can automatically upgrade your software with new features.

WIC is a Java based program, and it is available in Windows, Linux and MacOS. There are separate files for each operating system, so please visit our website if the file for your operating system is not listed here.

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SI Lookup
$0 - WinCatalog.com

If you have a domain name, you can use one of the numerous Whois tools to determine its owner. Whois provides complete information about the owner of any domain name, up to the level of mailing addresses and telephone numbers. But what if you don?t have a domain name? What if all you have is a mere IP address? Or what if you don?t need information about the domain name, but are much more interested in who owns the Web server where it?s hosted?

Quite often it is still possible to determine the owner, or, rather, the assignee, of an IP address. IP addresses in North America are assigned by ARIN, an independent, nonprofit corporation that provides IP registration. It is possible to unveil details about the organization that uses a particular IP address, or, to be precise, a block of IP addresses.

There are no tools that come with Windows which can look up information about an IP address. Instead, you can visit ARIN database, learn about its query syntax, and fire up search on an IP address. If the address does not belong to the North American block, you will quite often see only the basic information specifying the country and organization responsible for assigning IP addresses there. To discover owner information of your original IP address, you then will have to visit a whois server of that organization and repeat the whole process.

While there?s nothing wrong in doing all these queries, it takes an awful lot of time. We at Soft Institute wrapped the same thing into a convenient package. SI Lookup queries the right server right automatically, and returns clearly legible, well formatted output. It displays all the vital information and allows you to query more than one IP address by simply selecting it from a combo box. Thanks to its user-friendly, convenient user interface, SI Lookup is much more convenient to use than the online tools that Unix-age non-profit organizations provide on the Web.

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Mar Password Generator
$0 - WinCatalog.com

Password Generator allows to generate any quantity of passwords with one mouse click. Using Password Generator you do not have to think out new passwords. Password Generator will do it instead of you.

Password Generator is easy to use and does not need install/uninstall feature. Also it does not change the Windows registry.

Password Generator is a freeware product. You may distribute unlimited copies of this program in its original form to any legal place unless we notify you otherwise.

Main features:
- Generating passwords 1-24 symbols in length.
- Ability to exclude dubeous symbols (1, l, O, 0 etc.).
- Including special symbols (@, !, #, etc.) into the password.
- Composing password using only symbols you listed in the 'other symbols' field.
- Conditioning the password pronouncing by adding vowels using special algorithm.
- Ability to test passwords.
- Ability to save to the text file or to copy to the clipboard one password or a password list.
- Easy to use.
- Small size.
- Freeware.

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WinCatalog Standard
$39.95 - WinCatalog.com

It?s more than a simple CD catalog. It?s WinCatalog.

What is WinCatalog? Three words answer is ?cd catalog software?. But WinCatalog is much more. Actually, WinCatalog is a program for cataloging disks, folders, files and even non-file items like books or home inventory. With WinCatalog you can take stock of every item from your environment.

Here are some parts of the program.

Each PC user, web surfer or music fan has dozens of disks burned with programs, downloaded web pages or music, digital photos or other files. And he/she periodically asks three questions: (a) which disk a file (document, song, etc.) is burned on, (b) where that disk is located and (c) who has taken the disk?

WinCatalog will answer these questions at once.

You do not need to re-purchase a song just because you can?t find the purchased one. With WinCatalog you will never loose your files again. Just type a song title and WinCatalog will tell you which disk it is burned on and which shelf the disk is located on.

Cannot find a disk? Run WinCatalog and it will tell you who (and when) have borrowed the particular disk.

Do you want to catalog books? You can catalog books in the same way as disks and track the every book location and availability.

Do you want to catalog your garage storage? It is not a problem, use custom records. One item in the program can represent one real thing from the storage. Attach a comment if you want and you will always know what is kept at home.

Do you want to try WinCatalog for FREE? Download WinCatalog today and get your time unlimited FREE trial. The evaluation version allows adding up to 5 volumes into a single collection file. Start cataloging right now and you will be able to merge your collections in the future.

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SI Cataloguer
$0 - Pingram Software

How many DVD movies, MP3 and Audio CDs do you have in your collection? If it's more than a few, chances are that more than once you will be unnecessarily wasting your time in order to locate the needed one. It's all part of a routine that you could have avoided should you catalogued your media in the first place.

You might get away with not cataloguing your music and movies, but if you have at least several data disks with pictures, files and backups, you're in real trouble! Either your start organizing the disks properly or you're doomed to spend boring hours inserting the disks into PC and trying to find a file named... hold on, what was the name of that file? Oh no, you have to do it all over again!

Stop wasting your time and get organized! You're inserting your disks one by one anyways in order to locate a single file - you don't even have to stop doing that! Just install SI Cataloguer, and it will automatically index the contents of your disks while you're busy inserting and removing them - except that it'll remember the disks' content, and you'll never have to do this all over again!

SI Cataloguer performs the indexing of all files and data such as picture properties and MP3 tags on your entire collection of CDs and DVDs. And indexing means you're no longer limited to a file name - instead, you can use any property of a file to locate it right on your computer and without the need to insert an actual disk that contains the file. You can type the performer's name, and see a list of songs from all your CDs that are performed by the singer. If you do not remember the artist's full name, type any part of it, and you'll see a complete list of artists whose names contain your search request. SI Cataloguer organizes files and media on all of your hard disks just as effectively as it does on CDs, offering you the same ultra-fast indexing and instant search capabilities.

SI Cataloguer is completely free with no adware or spyware.

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