NetWorx – Free Bandwidth monitor that saves your bill

NetWorx is a simple and free, yet powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection. NetWorx can help you identify possible sources of network problems, ensure that you do not exceed the bandwidth limits specified by your ISP, or track down suspicious network activity characteristic of Trojan horses and hacker attacks. Click here to download
       It is a must for the users who have broadband with limited data usage.Just give it a try,its awesome.

The program allows you to monitor all your network connections or a specific network connection (such as Ethernet or PPP) only. The software also features a system of highly customizable visual and sound alerts. You can set it up to alert you when the network connection is down or when some suspicious activity, such as unusually heavy data flow, occurs. It can also automatically disconnect all dialup connections and shut down the system.
The incoming and outgoing traffic is represented on a line chart and logged to a file, so that you can always view statistics about your daily, weekly and monthly bandwidth usage and dialup duration. The reports can be exported to a variety of formats, such as HTML, MS Word and Excel, for further analysis.

Key features of networx is shown below..

*You can select the appropriate interface to monitor,ie you can choose your ethernet driver or dialup modem(if use mobile as modem with your pc suite) or to monitor both.

*Networx produce daily reports,weekly,monthly reports based on your usage.

*In addition to monitor data usage,it also contains other vital utilities like ping,trace route with advanced settings to monitor any suspicious activity in your system.

Networx provides the significant settings which make this software as my favourite one, is that it differentiates the off-peak and on-peak usages. For example,if you have broadband with limited usage in the day time and unlimited usage during the night time(some ISP'S like bsnl,mts,reliance are having plans similar to this).
 If you're having bsnl broadband with unlimited night usage(2am-8am), you can make the settings as follows,
*Right click the networx icon in the system tray and select settings, as shown below;

*Select advance tab

*Now you can see the week and time grid under the Hours in 24-hr format section.
*Make the grids between 2am-8am as green for all the days of the week(green indicates the off-peak time).
make other grids as yellow which indicates the on-peak time ie daytime.
*Click apply and ok button.
By this way,you can track the daytime usage by simply ignoring the night usage,so that you cannot exceed your data usage limit.
Now double click the networx icon in the system tray,you can see the usage statistics screen,select monthly or daily report tab,click the display menu as shown below,

 If you select on-peak hours,you can get the daytime usage results,like wise you will get the off-peak usage(2am-8am) separately.
Nice,Isn't it?

Camstudio - Screen recorder for windows

CamStudio is a screencasting program for Microsoft Windows released as free software. The software renders videos in an AVI format. It can also convert these AVIs into Flash Video format, embedded in SWF files. CamStudio is written in Microsoft Visual C++.It is a simple screen recorder for windows, which can be helpful in explaining the software workflows and procedures with the simple video demonstration.It is also crucial while you have any problems in your system,so that the problem can be recorded just like screenshots,we can show them to technicians or to post them in forums for seeking help regarding the errors in the system with a simple screencast. Click here to download.

Camstudio user interface

1.Click on the region menu,and select the appropriate regions to be recored ie fixed or full screen.You can adjust it accordingly.

2.Click record button.

3.Click stop after recording,it prompts you to save the file(it always save the file in .avi extension)

You're done,the video can be used to explain any concepts or to seek help finding the errors in your system with ease.

PDF creator- A virtual PDF emulator for windows

PDF Creator is a cost effective solution over the leading PDF product, Adobe Acrobat® 8. PDF Creator allows you to create PDF files from documents, spreadsheets, presentations, emails, websites, and virtually any file that can be printed. PDF Creator is a virtual printer so it's automatically integrated and ready for use in all of your favorite Windows® programs. This includes all of your Business applications, Multimedia applications, Web applications, Presentation applications and the list goes on and on. If you can print it, you can turn it into a PDF document.
Click here to download from sourceforge website.

1.Download and Install the pdfcreator,it will be installed as the printer driver for your system.

PDF creator user interface

2.You can just drag and drop your Microsoft office documents or spreadsheets or powerpoint slides file into the pdf creator user interface.You will get the following prompt.

3.Give the appropriate Document title and hit save.
5.Choose the location to save your file and click ok.
Thats it,pdf document is created with ease.

Free Commander- A powerful filemanager for windows

FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage your data stock. You can take FreeCommander anywhere - just copy the installation directory on a CD or USB-Stick - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer. Click here to download.

                                              Freecommander user interface

Main features in FreeCommander:

• Dual-panel technology - horizontal and vertical
• Tabbed interface
• Optional tree view for each panel
• Built in file viewer to view files in hex, binary, text or image format
• File viewer inside archives too
• Built in archive handling: ZIP (read, write), CAB (read, write), RAR (read)
• Nested archive handling
• Built in FTP client
• Easy access to system folders, control panel, desktop and start menu
• Copy, move, delete, rename files and folders
• Multi rename tool
• Wipe files
• Create and verify MD5 checksums
• File splitting
• File properties and context menu
• Calculation of folder size
• Folder comparison / synchronization
• Modification of file date and attributes
• Folder / program favorites
• File searching (inside archive too)
• File filters for display
• User defined columns for detailed view
• DOS command line
• Multiple language support           

The folder comparison/synchronisation is one of the significant feature of freecommander. It helps us to synchronize the documents,videos or pictures between our removable storage devices and pc and viceversa.

Lets check out the 3 easy steps to sync your Folders.

*Open the directories to be synchronised in freecommander,ie source directory in one panel and destination directory in the another panel.

*Select Folder->synchronize

*Click compare to compare the folder,it shows the files similar to both directory and the new files,select the appropriate under the show option

*Click Synchronize to the sync the directories,thats it.