Eraser is a secure data

removal tool for Win-

dows. It completely removes sensitive data

from your hard drive by overwriting it several

times with carefully selected patterns. Eraser

is currently supported under Windows XP

(with Service Pack 3), Windows Server 2003

(with Service Pack 2), Windows Vista, Win-

dows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows

Server 2008 R2.

Shareaza is a very powerful multi-network

peer-to-peer ( P2P ) file-sharing client sup-

porting Gnutella² ( G2 ), Gnutella ( G1 ),

eDonkey2000 ( eMule ), DC++, HTTP, FTP

and BitTorrent protocols for Windows (or

Wine). It allows you to download any file-type

found on several popular P2P networks.

Shareaza is FREE & contains NO Spyware or

third-party products.

Scintilla is a free source code editing compo-

nent which includes useful features such as

syntax styling, error indicators, folding, code

completion and call tips. The project includes

SciTE (SCIntilla based Text Editor).

PortableApps.com allows you to carry your

favorite computer programs and all of your

bookmarks, settings, email and more with you

on a portable device (USB flash drive, iPod,

portable hard drive, CD, etc) and use them on

any Windows computer.

OPEN SOURCE

Software

Find and Develop Open Source

https://sourceforge.net/

Enter the world of OSS

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MALIT 209 (Media Technology in

Library & Information Science)

http://eraser.heidi.ie

http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/

Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit manag-ing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of com-puters of different kinds. Based on Source Forge downloads, Bacula is the most popu-lar Open Source backup program.

e M u l e

is a filesharing client which is based on

the eDonkey2000 network but offers

more features than the standard client.

eMule is one of the biggest and most

reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients

around the world.

http://www.scintilla.org

http://portableapps.com/

http://www.bacula.org

http://www.emule-project.net

For more OSS, visit sourceforge

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Open Source Software is also gaining

increased momentum in the enterprise.

Commonly cited reasons for the growing

interest, acceptance, and even preference

for Open Source products include low

cost, high value, quality and reliability,

security, increased freedom and flexibil-

ity (both hardware and software,) and

adherence to open standards.

Examples:

The ITPoster project will develop IT

related learning material in poster for-

mat. The posters which are intending to

be developed are BPMN poster, UML

poster, PRINCE2 poster, research meth-

ods poster.

jEdit is a programmer's text editor writ-

ten in Java. It uses the Swing toolkit for

the GUI and can be configured as a

rather powerful IDE through the use of

its plugin architecture.

ImageNets is an extension to OpenCV for

user-friendly programming of Robot Vision

algorithms. ImageNets uses Qt by Nokia.

Take a look at the videos to see how simple

to use it is. You can use the learning mate-

rial in the Wiki to get familiar.

Semantic Web Integrator and Query En-

gine, can be used to integrate information

from heterogeneous, distributed information

systems such as relational databases,

spreadsheets, etc. with Semantic Web tech-

nology.

FullSync is a universal file synchronization

and backup tool which is highly customiza-

ble and expandable. It is especially for de-

velopers, but the basic functionality is easy

enough for everyone. FullSync is a powerful

tool that helps you keep multiple copies of

various data in sync. I.e. it can update your

Website using (S)Ftp, backup your data or

refresh a working copy from a remote

server. It offers flexible rules, a scheduler

and more.

PDFCreator is one of

the best known programs to create PDF

files from any application. Start convert-

ing your documents and add encryption

with PDFCreator to secure them against

modifications. PDFCreator easily creates

PDFs from any Windows program.

PDF Split and Merge is an easy to use

tool to merge and split pdf documents.

Console and GUI versions are available.

The GUI is written in Java Swing and it

provides functions to select files and set

options. It's made over the iText li-

brary.The OpenEd project allows instruc-

tors of Information Technology to develop

and use Audio/Visual presentations to sup-

port the instruction of Open Source tech-

nologies including (but not limited to) cur-

rent Content Management Systems.

DrJava is a light-

weight programming environment for

Java designed to foster test-driven soft-

ware development. It includes an intelli-

gent program editor, an interactions pane

for evaluating program text, a source level

debugger, and a unit testing tool.

Software

http://www.jedit.org/

http://www.itposter.net/

http://imagenets.sourceforge.net

http://www.pdfforge.org

http://www.pdfsam.org

OpenED http://opened.sourceforge.net

http://drjava.sourceforge.net

SemWIQ http://semwiq.sourceforge.net

http://fullsync.sourceforge.net