My Favorite Free Web Applications
Who Called Us? - Everyone on the net contributes to a database of wierd, unknown or sales callers. It worked the first time I tried.
OpenDNS - Free, dedicated DNS servers to improve your domain translation and provide a universal set of servers.
DNS Stuff - A site with a suite of tools for checking on domain names, MX records, mail blacklists, and anything else query-able. No longer free beyond a few uses but that’s nearly all you will ever need anyway.
IP Pinger - Nice, fast and free tool to quickly ping a network and find out whats on it.
IP Calculator - Just in case you forget octet math…
Karen’s Replicator - Ahhh Karen, I imagine her to be just like her wonderful backup software; simple, stable, fast, and free.
DigitalPoint - Search engine keyword and back link tracking plus much more.
Spock.com - Research just about anything about people. Yourself, friends, family, dates, or just about anyone. Spock is busy gathering and organizing all the information it can find around the web… scary!
SplashCast - Combine video, pictures, audio… everything into a single multimedia stream.
Fraps - Want to know how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you’re getting when running games on your PC?
SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools like keyword density queries, pagerank, geolocation, etc. You’re never going to get on top of Google unless you do your homework!
TheGreenButton - The best place to find discussions, downloads, and technical help related to Microsoft Windows Media Center (MCE).
Google API’s - Application Programming Interfaces (API) for Google. Do some cool things using calls to code somebody better wrote.
LinkedIn - Stay connected to your professional community and see how many degrees of separation really are between you and Kevin Bacon.
Meebo - Combine all types of chat and IM into a single interface.
Google Maps - Google change the way maps are presented. Was anyone paying attention at Mapquest?
Live.com - Microsoft’s answer to Google… not bad. This is what you get for 80 billion dollars.
Craigslist - The reason your newspaper classifieds are dead. Do I really need to explain this? It’s free and effective.
My Favorite Security Applications (not always free)
Tufin - Where was this tool my whole career? This program does log reporting on Firewall logs, specifically Checkpoint but also Cisco and Juniper too. All output is HTML and can be automated when rules change etc. If you want to discover dead rules, conflicts, shadowed rules… whatever…. this tool is it.
YAPS - Y.et A.nother P.ort S.canner. It’s small, free and gets a simple job done when all you want to do is quickly see what ports are listening on an average box.
SmokePing - Great free tool for latency visualization of anything pingable.
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