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the quarterly magazine of ILTA 45 Peer to Peer 7-zip: • 7-Zip is a comprehensive compression\ decompression utility that works with a multitude of compression formats including zip, bzip2, tar and gzip. audacity: • Audacity is a handy audio file conversion tool. If you find yourself juggling MP3s from court hearings, digital dictation files and voicemail messages from a unified voice messaging system, then this could be a helpful tool. filezilla: • FileZilla is a consensus choice as the best FTP client. It could be the most widely used FTP client in circulation. Kompozer: • This is a clean and fast Web authoring system. inkscape: Inkscape is an outstanding scaled vector graphics editor. The online documentation is superb. Compare it to Adobe Illustrator. GiMP: GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is the open source answer to Adobe Photoshop, and it packs a lot of power. vlc: VLC is the VideoLan multimedia player. It is self- contained, meaning that various media codecs are embedded in the player itself, including older, deprecated codecs, so that your audio/video will play in VLC even when it fails to play in other media players. notepad++: It's like Notepad but so much better that it should have four or five plusses instead of two. If you open an HTML file or VBScript in Notepad++, the editor colorizes the code. Wireshark: • Wireshark is arguably the best network traffic analyzer out there. Wireshark was covered in a session at last year's annual conference for which an encore webinar was presented in March 2009. truecrypt: • A new cross-platform encryption tool, TrueCrypt could be the last encryption tool you ever need. (Look for coverage of PDF Creator in the ILTA-U PDF session at the annual conference this summer.) infraRecorder: • This is one of the most reliable and easy-to- use media burners available. It is certainly better than many commercial products and will burn CDs and DVDs, including dual-layer DVDs. KeePass: • This password vault application will fit on a thumb drive and means you no longer have to keep passwords in Word documents. systemRescuecd: • This is a Live CD, i.e., a CD off which you can boot your PC. Loaded with utilities to recover passwords, recover data from a failing drive, repair boot files and more, it's a useful tool for PC troubleshooting. a sample of favorite server room applications includes: acrophobia: • A virtual network PDF printer, it's in wide use among ILTA member firms. nagios: • Probably the most popular open source network monitoring application, Nagios will alert you if a server or other network device is having degraded performance or is failing. Usage among ILTA member firms continues to grow following coverage of Nagios at the 2007 ILTA conference and subsequent encore webinar. linux-based firewall\routers: • Linux is a great OS for networking devices. Accordingly, there are many devices by manufacturers such as Astaro or Vyatta that run a Linux kernel and arguably outperform their proprietary brethren, such as Cisco, at a fraction of the price. Of course, many of us built our own routers years ago with custom distros such as IPCop, Untangle or pfSense, which have been extraordinarily reliable. General server applications: • DHCP, DNS, print and file sharing, ftp, Web hosting. (But not e-mail or databases.) Breaking Shackles the • • • •