I needed a possibility to create an encrypted space on USB sticks so that the data is not readable if you loose such a stick somewhere. Although there is BitLocker To Go and VeraCrypt, I ended up with a tool
Sample Data Generator
Sometimes you need for testing some sample data. Mockaroo is a service which generates sample data for you in different formats like CSV, JSON, Excel etc. If you just need some random text for filling up a form etc. you
Papercut – Simple Desktop SMTP Server
The problem If you ever send emails from an application or web site during development, you’re familiar with the fear of an email being released into the wild. Are you positive none of the ‘test’ emails are addressed to colleagues
DBEAVER – Universal Database Manager
I normally used “Squirrel” as a free universal database client to connect to databases like DB2, Oracle etc. I just found a new tool called “DBeaver“, which is also free. It looks very nice and it will replace Squirrel for
Logviewer for Windows
If you work with products like IBM Connections, IBM Sametime etc. you need a tool to view all the Websphere logs without the need to manually open them one by one. I used Baretail if the log files were on
MobaXterm – The complete toolbox for remote computing
Did I ever told you about MobaXterm? A tool I never want to miss again while working with different remote computers. It includes SSH, Telnet, RDP, FTP, SFTP, VNC, XSERVER and more protocols. It has a Cygwin like Unix shell
Problem Steps Recorder
The “Problem Steps Recorder“, which is part of Windows 7 and higher, seems to be a useful tool to document the steps for recreating a software problem etc. You can start it by running the command “psr”. [Thanks to Dennis]
WordPress: Paste Pictures From Clipboard
I really missed the feature of just pasting an image (e.g. made with a screenshot tool) into the WordPress editor. I know found a small tool which almost does that. It is called PicturePaste. And it just adds one additional
NirCmd – Freeware command-line tool to automate tasks on Windows
NirCmd is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface. By running NirCmd with simple command-line option, you can write and delete values and keys in the Registry, write values into
JXplorer – a powerful open source LDAP browser
I just found a great replacement for the LDAP Browser from Softerra which I normally used: JXplorer – an open source LDAP browser – http://jxplorer.org/. JXplorer is also free and does have, among others, the following nice features: It can