Si Trace and Ing Software for Windows

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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Paessler Site Inspector
$0 - Paessler AG

Paessler Site Inspector is a web browser that combines the two most frequently used browser engines (Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Gecko) into one program. Its advanced analysis features make it the perfect companion for webmasters and web developers. With Site Inspector's internal browser, users can switch between the two browser engines with just one mouse click, for example to compare the rendering of a page in both browsers. The sophisticated analysis functions, which also integrate into Internet Explorer and Firefox, make analyzing and debugging web sites easy.

The analysis features can be accessed from within the Analyzing Browser as well, with convenient toolbars that Site Inspector adds to Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Firefox browser. Whenever you access a web page using Internet Explorer, Firefox or Site Inspector's browser, you will find a wealth of analysis functions in the toolbars and menus. For example:

For any given URL, users can access lists of the images, forms, links, frames, meta tags or the scripts of a web page as well as the HTML source and HTTP headers.

Using the Highlight function, users can mark any HTML tag with a colored border inside the rendered web page (e.g., to show all TD tags in a page). An invaluable tool for web designers.

A pixel grid as well as guide lines can be shown applied to a web page.

All image tags and link URLs can be shown from within a web page.

You can copy the page URL, page title, page source, list of URLs and even the page as a bitmap to the clipboard.

The browser window can be resized to various standard screen sizes (e.g. 800x600) and you can zoom into a web page.

An extensive selection of tools that are available online (e.g. "CSS/HTML validation", "link checking", "ping the server", "traceroute the server", "show domain owner", "W3C markup validation") are also included and can be customized according to requirements.

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Website Performance Monitoring Tool
$69 - Data Recovery

A detailed study of uptime and downtime performance of websites represent that 7 hours per month your customers can not reach you, even if your site is up 99% of the time, that means you lost your some business and money. Website tracking utility monitors services of your web pages, sites, remote hosting server, IP address, web host like FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3 and other internet protocols. Software provides detailed information related to your site availability and response time so that you can find out how often your website goes down or slow responds. Whenever in any where in the world your sites are going down or slow respond due to host not found, connection failure, low bandwidth or connectivity network status, program sends a notification via email, runs a specific program or beeps sound. You can use this tracing application to remote your site performance for improving the chances of your business growth. Utility runs on windows operating system like 98, 2000, 2003, XP, ME, NT, Vista, Server 2008, Longhorn etc. Website checker program can create and monitor numbers of profile at the same time.

Features:
* Software provides the GUI facility that makes your monitoring application easy to understand, use and operate.
* Website checker program checks the uptime and downtime performance of your web pages.
* Tracing utility find out the accurate location of the fault and monitor them.
* Sites checker notifies you via email, beeps sound or runs a specific program whenever your site goes down or gets slow respond due to connection failure, host not found, low band width or connectivity network status.
* Remoting utility can easily create and monitor the number of profiles at a time.
* You can use this website tracker for improving your site performance and business growth.

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Log4VB
$30 - Klemens Schmid

As a software developer you know that professional software without Trace capabilities is almost inconceivable. Tracing is one of the most important trouble-shooting techniques during development as well as after delivery. With Log4VB your apps can create structured trace output, which can be displayed and analyzed while your app is still running.

The highlights of Log4VB are:

- Create meaningful, well structured trace output including the name of the application, the component name, source module and source procedure.
- APIs for creating trace output in various development environments like VB, C++, .NET.
- Trace viewer showing the trace output immediately without ending the program.
- Visual Basic add-in, which trace-enables your VB project within seconds.
- All components of your application (e.g. COM components) contribute to the same trace output.
- Supports dialog-oriented applications as well as applications running on servers.
- Activate the trace via the trace viewer rather than via your application.
- Freeware version available. You may deliver and install this together with your app.
- No need to search your hard disk looking for trace files.
- Trace output is available while the app is running.

The Freeware version of Log4VB is intended for being delivered with your app. Your customers can use it to record the trace output and send it to you for trouble-shooting purposes.

The Shareware version allows you to load the trace file and analyze it. Various search and filter capabilities support you with this. Program user interface and documentation is available in German and English.

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IsItUp Network Monitor
$19.95 - Taro Software Inc.

IsItUp Network Monitor is a server monitor, website monitor, port, and email system monitor. It continuously monitors multiple IP devices, websites, servers & alerts you via email or pager; graphs. Website content check; runs as a service; maintains performance statistics for each device it monitors - up time, maximum response time, minimum response time, standard deviation & error log. IsItUp tracks the last successful and last failed Traceroute.

Taro Software's IsItUp - When you need to know the status of your network. IsItUp continuously monitors multiple "pingable" devices using TCP/IP's Ping utility; it tests email servers by bouncing messages off auto-reply accounts and websites by using HTTP. Devices are monitored at specified intervals, notifying you, by email alert, pager alert, when they go down - or come back up.
Features:
- Monitor any number of devices, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Checks TCP/IP (ping) devices, websites, LAN servers, email servers, switches, routers, etc.
- Runs as a service
- Sophisticated website content tests
- Graphical interface is easy to customize and use
- Configuration "wizard" makes it easy to add devices and configure options
- Automatically watch any mail system by sending email messages and looking for returned messages
- System tests reports on uptime, average response time, and logs all data to a Microsoft Access database for you to work with on your own
- Notification by pager (modem), mail (MAPI or SMTP), or execute a batch job
- Multiple people can receive status notifications and each person has their own rules
- Rules allow you to specify how many times a query fails
- Notify on every "nth" failure
-Option to notify you when an item returns to operation (comes back up)

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Privacy Fusion
$10 - Privacy Fusion

PRIVACY FUSION combines Internet's most effective features to protect your privacy and increase PC performance and productivity. Features include a built-in IE/Netscape and Windows privacy cleaner, popup blocker, password manager, spyware cleaner, an innovative professional firewall and full-featured anonymous surfing.
Protect your privacy with our all in one easy-to-use suite! The Privacy Fusion Internet Suite!

The PRIVACY TOOLKIT feature - Protect your privacy by cleaning up all traces of your Internet and PC activities. It securely erases your traces no data recovery tools can recover them! Even deletes the hidden index.dat files! The Privacy Toolkit lets you do routine tasks to maintain your privacy like cleaning up the AutoComplete & IE histories, deleting Temp & temporary internet files, managing cookies, clearing the lists of recently used files, and a lot more - all from one location.

The ANONYMOUS SURFING feature - Privacy Surfing enhances your online privacy by hiding your real IP (Internet address) and your actual location. Giving you virtually a 'invisible' identity on the Internet! Surf the Internet with 100% Privacy! Privacy Surfing privatizes your personal data and ensures completely anonoymity!

The INNOVATIVE PERSONAL FIREWALL - This utility keeps your computer shielded from hackers by blocking all unsolicited network connections and traffic in and out of your computer without affecting your daily web surfing! It protects the integrity of the system from malicious computer code by controlling Internet connections to and from a user's computer, filtering inbound and outbound traffic, and alerting the user to attempted intrusions.

The SPYWARE CLEANER feature - A full featured spyware detection and removal utility. It scans system memory, registry, hard, and removable drives for annoying ad-wares, data-mining scum-ware, parasites, key-loggers, trojans, premium number dialers, browser hijackers and tracking components.

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