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  • 20070112: Hey, we have birthday :) are they 8 years already? 4.8 million visits and counting, Protools still rocks, right? Cheers :).
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Daphne

hook, spy process | open source | windows

1.40

  • Process list highlighting with colors for custom, system and high CPU-consumption processes.
  • Corrected a bug: Save configuration on session end or system shutdown.
  • Corrected a bug: Process with more than 100% CPU at startup.

Daphne is a small (system tray) application for killing, controlling and debuging window's processes. You can kill a process by dragging the mouse over the windows, by right-clicking the process in the main process list, or by typing its name with the "Kill all by name" command. You can set a any window to be always on top, to be transparent, to be enable, et cetera. The main window displays a list of currently running process with detailed information about:

NSIS

open source | windows | setup

2.44

  • Fixed a bug that corrupted $TEMP under Windows 9x and NT and caused InitPluginsDir to fail (bug #1412159)
  • Fixed a possible buffer overflow caused by long values of $0, when using large NSIS_MAX_STRLEN builds (above 4096)

Nullsoft Installation System is a pretty small, efficient, capable installation system for win32.

  • Generates self contained, win32 executable installer.
  • Uninstall support (installer can automagically generate an uninstaller)

Eclipse

*nix | java | macos | open source | windows | ide, programmers editor

3.4.2

The Eclipse Project is an open source software development project dedicated to providing a robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, industry platform for the development of highly integrated tools. It is composed of three subprojects, Platform, JDT - Java development tools, and PDE - Plug-in development environment. The success of the Eclipse Platform depends on how well it enables a wide range of tool builders to build best of breed integrated tools. But the real vision of eclipse as an industry platform is only realized if these tools from different tool builders can be combined together by users to suit their unique requirements, in ways that the tool builders never even imagined. The mission of the Eclipse Project is to adapt and evolve the Eclipse Platform and associated tools to meet the needs of the tool building community and its users, so that the vision of eclipse as an industry platform is realized.

thinBasic

basic | freeware | windows

1.7.7.0

A Basic interpreter designed for task automation under Windows Operating System.

  • More than 400 commands. Almost all Basic language keywords supported, user defined functions with local/global/static variables scope, For/Next, If/Else/ElseIf, Do/Loop, While/Wend, Select/Case, ...
  • Easy to use way to implement external modules able to improve thinBasic native language
  • Many official modules already developed.

Open Watcom

*nix | c, c++ | dos | macos | open source | windows

1.8

  • Support for C99 designated initializers has been added to the C compiler
  • Handling of enumerations has been fixed in the C compiler.
  • The C compiler will now warn if the right hand operand of a bitwise shift expression is a constant that is either negative or greater than or equal to the bit with of the promoted left operand.

Watcom C/C++ is a professional, optimizing, multi-platform C and C++ compiler with a comprehensive suite of development tools for developing and debugging both 16-bit and 32-bit applications for DOS, extended DOS, Novell NLMs, 16-bit OS/2 1.x, 32-bit OS/2, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Win32s, and Windows NT (Win32).

Zprotect professional

commercial | windows | protector

1.4.4

Zprotect is a next generation software protection system. It is designed to protect your software against cracking and reverse engineering! It uses state-of-the-art encryption, data compression, virtual machine technology and other revolutionary features to achieve its goals making it very difficult to break using traditional and latest cracking tools and schemes. It allows you to add a complete software protection and registration-key system to your existing programs in five minutes or less without you having to change your source code! Compared to other traditional software protection systems Zprotect pays more attention to code processing.

GoAsm

assembler | freeware | windows

0.56.4m

A free assembler (GoAsm.exe), which produces COFF object files ready to be given to a linker to create the final executable. My aim here has been to make an assembler with clean and obvious syntax, which is very quick, and which always tries to produce the smallest code. GoAsm also has some useful extensions to make programming for Windows easier. It supports all the SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! instructions and now has enhanced support for making Unicode programs.

Enigma Protector

commercial | windows | protector

1.61

  • NEW: DLL, OCX files protection!
  • NEW: DLL attachment. Not support in unregistered version
  • NEW: black list (list of keys Which must will not work in next versions). Not support in unregistered version

Enigma protector serves for software protection of applications. It defending your work from program crackers with state-of-the-art encryption, data compression, and other security features. Enigma protector provides creation trial and registered applications, with possibility of the checking mode parameters with help internal Enigma API functions. It allows you to design and add a complete software protection and registration-key system to your existing programs. It works with any language which produce Windows PE files. Enigma works with Win PE 32 executables (*.exe), screen savers (*.scr) files.

MAKEMSI

freeware | windows | windows installer

08.362

  • New "ComponentFind" and "ProductFind" commands.
  • The "FileFind" command can now validate that a directory exists.
  • Added the "In10Format" parameter to the "ComPlusExport" command.

MAKEMSI is a freeware tool with utilizes simple XML like text files for the reliable creation (or updating) of MSI based installers. Once set up subsequent rebuilds are automated, reliable, quick and in general require no MSI skills. Not only does MAKEMSI build the MSI but it creates HTML documentation for it as well!