Ping Tool and Synopsis - Visual Programming Tool Software for Windows

Altova MapForce Professional Edition
$499 - Altova, Inc.

Altova MapForce 2008 Professional Edition is the premier data mapping tool for transforming between XML, database, and flat file formats. This award-winning visual data mapper converts data instantly or auto-generates a royalty-free application for execution of recurrent conversions. Its underlying MapForce Engine can even be used as a flexible component within your own data exchange applications. With the power to map between any combination of XML, databases, and/or flat files, Altova MapForce is the definitive tool for data integration and information leverage. Simply open information sources and targets, drop in data processing functions from the customizable libraries, and drag connecting lines between the elements you wish to associate. MapForce automatically connects matching child elements. Numerous functions come standard with MapForce (e.g., filter, concatenate, sum, average, replace, etc.), and you can even create and save your own complex data processing functions. Once a mapping is defined, you can instantly view and save the output. Furthermore, with just a click of the mouse, you can choose between XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery, Java, C++, or C# and automatically generate an application to automate regular or repeated transformations. MapForce supports every major database, including IBM DB2, Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, and any other ADO or ODBC database. It even supports mapping XML data to and from IBM DB2 9: pureXML databases. MapForce Professional Edition integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Eclipse, so you can use its advanced functionality from within these leading IDEs. It is an indispensable tool for information architects, database administrators, application developers, and systems integrators working to programmatically integrate data in a cost-effective, standards-based way. Give your data direction! Download a free trial of Altova MapForce 2008 Professional Edition today.

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SAGA DVD Ripper
$29.95 - DVD-AVI.com

SAGA DVD Ripper is a powerful DVD copying and ripping tool which enables you to copy DVD to DIVX/AVI/MPEG1/MPEG2 files. It helps you to backup your favorite DVD movies to VCD,SVCD,AVI,Divx,Xvid format files with ease!

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Global Time Synchronizer
$14.95 - Magneto Software

Magneto Software Global Time Synchronizer is a versatile time keeping tool that has many features including the ability to modify the look of your standard desktop clock, an easy-to-use, convenient interface that uses skins to modify its appearance, and many other unique options. Extremely accurate because it synchronizes itself with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Atomic Clock servers.
Magneto Global Time Synchronizer key features:
- Fully customizable clock appearance can be modified by a wide variety of skins.
- Can directly download additional skins from the Global Time Synchronizer home website.
- Can be used as a floating (can be moved anywhere on the screen) clock or as a tray (replaces your current clock in the taskbar) clock.
- Can be made transparent to not interfere with your daily activities
- Displays calendar - Displays time in multiple time zones simultaneously and can keep track of time in different cities simultaneously as well.
- Displays upcoming alarms and allows you to schedule new ones
- Can be disabled or enabled at will - Displays time and date in multiple languages.
- Customizable date and time format, coloring schema and opacity level
- Can help you to keep track of your appointments with customizable alarms.
- Alarms can run any specified action on your PC at any specified time.
- Multiple sound formats supported (MP3, WAV, MIDI, and CD-Audio) for alarms.
- Synchronizes time with NIST atomic time servers.
- Can run in an automated mode where the user specifies the time intervals between synchronization with the NIST servers or in a manual synchronize- when-you-want mode.
- Supports SNTP (the Simple Network time protocol, RFC 1769)
- Time Protocol (RFC868)
- Proxy support: Socks4/Socks4A/Socks5
- Date and time format is chosen according to standards of specified geographic region but can also be changed easily.
- Displays time in multiple time zones,
- Sticky notes and more.

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Hot DVD Ripper
$23 - Citisoft Development CT

Hot DVD Ripper is a high speed DVD ripping tool. It can rip and convert your favorite DVD movie into almost all popular video formats, such as VCD(MPEG1), SVCD(MPEG2), DivX(MPEG4) and AVI. This software has a comprehensive settings that allow you to customize the settings of the files that you want to rip. You can split the DVD file into specific sizes. Furthermore, the batch file conversion support gives you ease in the conversion process. The resulting ripped file you get will be of excellent image and sound quality.

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Top DVD Ripper
$21 - Dptop Computing

Top DVD Ripper is an easy to use high speed DVD ripping tool. It can backup or convert your favorite DVD movie into almost all popular video formats, such as VCD, SVCD, DivX, MPEG, AVI and others. The software has a comprehensive settings that allow you to customize the files that you want to backup or convert. The resulting output you get will be a streamlined file with excellent image and sound quality.
In backing up your DVD disc, you can select to backup the whole disc or only the main movie to your hard disk. Furthermore, you can choose to backup by movie chapters - selecting only what you want only to copy. Comprehensive settings allows you to convert to VCD,SVCD or AVI according to your specifications.

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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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