Miscellaneous Utilities
Other / Miscellaneous utilities
This is a list of software (freeware / shareware) that can be used to various functions that may be useful to our membership's web viewing experience.
- Calendar: Free Online PDF Calendars (from the Incompetech website)
- Free Online PDF Calendars. Downloadable and very printable, these PDFs are extremely useful.
- Calendar: Calendars (from the Time and Date website)
- Free Calendars. Customizable, with holiday, moon-phases, seasons and other observances.
- Converters: Converters And Calculators
- A collection of measurement converters and calculators for all occasions. Most are interactive, some are just for information.
- Email Address Protection: Mask Email Image Generator (from the author's website)
- The Mask Email Image Generator will create a JPG image of your email address. Use it in place of text to fool
those evil spiders that seek out email addresses for purposes of sending junk email. Allows you to perform
without downloading software -- through the web
- Email Address Protection: Email link encoder (from the author's website)
- This antispam software utility enables you to encode your email links on your website so they can't be extracted by
rogue internet spiders looking for email addresses to add to junk mailing lists. This will help prevent you from getting huge amounts of spam.
- FTP Client: Core Ftp Lite (from the Core Ftp website)
- A secure ftp client that includes SSH/SFTP, SSL/TLS, IDN, browser integration, site to site transfers, drag and drop support,
file viewing, file editing, transfer resuming, firewall support, custom commands, URL parsing, command line transfers,
and much, much more.
- Graph Paper: Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs (from the Incompetech website)
- Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs. Downloadable and very printable, these PDFs are extremely useful.
- Malware Tool: Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (from the Microsoft website)
- The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks computers running Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows
Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software-including Blaster, Sasser, and
Mydoom-and helps remove any infection found. When the detection and removal process is complete, the
tool displays a report describing the outcome, including which, if any, malicious software was detected
and removed.
- PDF Creation: CutePDF™ Writer (from the CutePDF™ website)
- CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications
(must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!
- Web Browsing: Firefox Web Browser (from the Mozilla website)
- The award-winning, free Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects
you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy.
- Web Browsing: Netscape Web Browser (from the Netscape website)
- Netscape Browser 8.1 provides more security options, streamlines more standard browsing tasks and arms
internet users with more timesaving solutions to their browsing needs.
- Web Browsing: Opera Web Browser (from the Opera website)
- The Opera browser has received international recognition from end-users and the industry press for being faster, smaller
and more standards-compliant than other browsers, and it has gathered a cult following on the net. Opera is significantly
faster on computers with lower modem speeds and weaker system resources.
- Web Browsing: Safari Web Browser (from the Apple website)
- Experience the web, Apple-style with Safari: the satest, easiest to use browser in the world. With its simple, elegant
elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web.
Disclaimer
Disclaimer
Please note, that although the webmaster has used most of these utilities at one time or another and can vouch for their usefulness, as with all software used on your computer, the webmaster, ASQ Section 0502, and ASQ take no responsibility for the impact of the use or downloading of any software. Please be sure to comply with your company's policies on downloading and installing software on their computers, as this is your responsibility.
If you have any questions, contact 
, although please realize that I will not be able to troubleshoot your networking, operating system, application, virus/spyware/adware/malware problems.
Note that most utilities are for the Windows operating system. Although I do not condone a particular operating system, it is obvious that most of the people viewing this website are using Windows and Windows-based software. If you have any utilities for other operating systems (or better yet, useful websites for these operating systems), send them on to for inclusion, although I will not be able to test many of these utilities myself.
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