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"David Mikhail, one of Fairfax County Public Schools' top Windows engineers had put together a master list of software to blacklist via GPO.  This gives us the flexibility to allow users local admin right with some comfort that known bad software can't be installed."

DAM Digital Asset Management Software Photo Sharing Software E-Commerce Photography Software

"Tired of crappy software? AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you great alternatives, based on user recommendations."

"Reposado, together with the "curl" binary tool and a web server such as Apache 2, enables you to host a local Apple Software Update Server on any hardware and OS of your choice. Reposado contains a tool (repo_sync) to download Software Update catalogs and (optionally) update packages from Apple's servers, enabling you to host them from a local web server."

"Ekahau HeatMapper is a free software tool for quick and easy coverage mapping of Wi-Fi (802.11) networks. It's the only free, easy-to-use tool that shows, on a map, the wireless network coverage in your home or small office. HeatMapper also locates all access points." In addition to the free software, paid laptop and portable versions are available, with and without wireless cards and other hardware.

"HTTP Commander is a web file manager known since 2002 and used by 100s of educational organisations and companies. It's a web file sharing and management, file upload -alternative to FTP, WebDav, Sharepoint, Novell, etc. colutions. This software is intended for fast and easy integration into web sites functionality of sharing and management files and documents at the server through a web browser over HTTP. Users can work remotely with personal or shared folders or edit documents online stored on a server." Brought to my attention (and demo'd) by Rob Shaw of Greenwood Christian Church at August Indianapolis CITRT.

Blog explaining Microsoft Licensing rules for various Microsoft software.

"ArcSight Logger is the first Universal Log Management solution that unifies searching, reporting, alerting and analysis across any type of enterprise log data, making it unique in its ability to collect, analyze and store massive amounts of data generated by modern networks. It supports multiple deployment options and can be deployed as an appliance and as software."

DameWare NT Utilities & Mini Remote Control remote systems management software for Windows. Now Featuring Smart Card Login & Authentication

Free hardware inventory and software inventory for windows networks

Software for use of partners

"The Managed Switch Port Mapping tool is designed to communicate with a managed ethernet switch using SNMPv1/v2c and map the physical port connections to MAC and IP addresses of the attached devices. The software is designed for use on Microsoft Windows® operating systems."

"Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It's lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use. And it just works."

"The OSX Missing Window Manager"

"xPrintServer fills the gap between the productivity of iPads and iPhones and the inability to print from those devices to office networked printers. As small as any iPhone, xPrintServer leverages Lantronix' patented technologies, along with open industry standards to enable wireless printing to nearly any printer attached to a network. No software. No apps to buy. No configuration necessary."

"I have seen number of posts on this topic with people having trouble setting the default zoom on incoming email (Outlook 2007 seems to remember the zoom setting for composing mail, but not for reading mail). The following macro will set the zoom every time an email is opened."

Open source content and asset management software called Pimcore, written in PHP.

"Stashboard is a status dashboard for APIs and software services. It's similar to the Amazon AWS Status Page or the Google Apps Status Page. Stashboard was originally written by Twilio to provide status information on its Voice and SMS APIs. Stashboard is designed to provide a generic status dashboard for any hosted service or API. The code can be downloaded, customized, and run on any Google App Engine account."

"Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration and much much more!" HT to @wantmoore for the find