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85 Tools for Developers, Network Admins, and Multimedia Pros

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SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager

A fully-featured traffic management tool for Windows that offers cost-effective bandwidth control and quality of service based on built-in prioritized rules. These rules can specify a bandwidth limit for each Internet user. With this tool, you can apply speed-throttling rules to specified IP addresses, ports and even network interfaces with no changes to the existing network infrastructure.

Antamedia Bandwidth Manager

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Bandwidth Manager helps you control download and upload rate for every computer in your network. Computers can be limited with specified time and quota per session, when access is allowed, and set to logout after inactivity.

NetBalancer Free 3.1

Browse and do any Internet activity comfortably even when your download manager or torrent client downloads huge files from Internet. NetBalancer is an Internet traffic control and monitoring tool designed for Windows XP/2003/ Vista. Also, you can use NetBalancer to set download/upload transfer rate priority for any application and monitor their Internet traffic.

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Squid 3.1.6 GPL

Squid 3.1.6 is a reliable and convenient caching proxy that is designed for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more to reduce bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.

Traffic Shaper XP 1.21

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Traffic Shaper XP enables you to monitor and limit bandwidth usage on your computer or local network. You can create rules for upload and download activities and limit the bandwidth usage to X bytes/sec with the option to further filter the rule by local or remote IP addresses. The program also includes a real-time traffic monitor with detailed statistics for each ongoing upload or download. Traffic Shaper XP is limited to the TCP protocol.

BWMeter 5.4

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BWMeter helps you monitor and control your network. It is a bandwidth meter, monitor and traffic controller that displays and manages all the traffic on your computer or on your network. It can analyze the data packets and tell you where they come from, where they go, which port and protocol they use. BWMeter creates statistics for all

computers in your network, measuring and displaying all LAN traffic as well as download and upload from the Internet.

Cacti GPL

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up

to complex networks with hundreds of devices.

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Observium BSD License

Observium is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL based network monitoring system focused primarily on Cisco and Linux networks but includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems.

WaveDeploy 1.1

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WaveDeploy Basic sets the bar for simplicity, ease of operation, speed and efficiency when it comes to

conducting Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n network readiness tests and site surveys.It is a dynamic solution that provides passive and active measurements during a single pass through the surveyed facility. It offers the System Integrator, IT manager, and installer, the ability to quickly determine the basic health of the network.

E3MC NetMeter GPL

NetMeter provides a powerful suite of Internet traffic

management for home users as well as businesses.

Android Apps for Mobile

Barcode Scanner for Android 3.52

Scan barcodes on CDs, books, and other products, then look up prices and reviews, or search for a word in a book and find where it occurs with this tool. You can also scan QR codes containing URLs, contact info, calendar events, and more.

Advanced Task Killer Free for Android 1.9

This tool is known as ATK. It is a tool you use to kill running applications. Click to select or unselect the app you no longer want open. Long press to activate pop-up menu.

Quick Uninstaller for Android 2.2

One-click to uninstall trash apps, can also backup/restore apps. There's also an app installer. Clear caches in list view with a long press and then click Advanced.

Multi Mount SDCard

Apps to SDCard (Android) features list movable apps, sort apps, move between internal and external storage, show phone total and available size, sdcard total and available size, and a2sd sdmove app2sd SD space.

Dolphin Browser HD

A brand-new version of the Dolphin Browser for Android phones running 2.0+ of the operating system. Dolphin Browser for Android has multi-touch pinch and zoom and includes tabbed browsing, RSS subscription, syncing with Google bookmark, and gestural navigation. There's also a password manager and add-ons.

Wapedia for Android 1.8

Wapedia is a fast way to access the 3 million Wikipedia articles and many other wikis from your Android phone. Its features include auto-completion for fast entry of article titles, full-screen reading (kiosk mode), many languages, and alternative wikis.

Google Sky Map for Android

With Google Sky Map for Android, you can discover and browse the night sky just by pointing your phone to space. By using your Android phone's orientation sensors, this can show you a star map for your location. You can explore planets, stars, and constellations.

Gmote for Android 2

Gmote turns Android into a remote control for a computer, allowing users to run movies and music at a distance. It supports all of the standard remote control features such as play, pause, rewind, volume controls etc. It also has a built-in file browser that lets you select what to play. There's support for Linux, control Power Point, launch Web sites.

Facebook for Android 1.4

Facebook for Android makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. You can share status updates from your home screen, check out your news feed, look at your friends' walls and user info. Share photos from your phone, share links, check your inbox, and can even look up up to 125 friends' phone numbers from the home screen.

Twitter for Android (official) 1.0

Discover what's happening right now, anywhere in the world, with the official Twitter for Android app. Realtime search, trending topics and maps show what's happening now everywhere and nearby.

Google Voice for Android 0.3

With Google Voice for Android make calls and send SMS from your Google Voice number, save money with low priced international calls, listen to your voicemail and read voicemail transcripts, and manage your Inbox and view Call History.

Gesture Search 1.2

Gesture Search from google Labs lets you search your Android-powered device by drawing alphabet gestures on the touch screen. It allows you to quickly find a contact, a bookmark, an application, or a music track from hundreds or thousands of items, all in one place. It is fast and fun to use.

Google Earth

Google Earth app allows you to explore the entire planet in detail from your Android phone.You can search by voice for cities, places, and businesses. With this app you are enabled to browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more.

AndroZip File Manager 1.1

The app works with following archive types: ZIP (256 bit AES encrypted), RAR, 7ZIP, GZIP, TAR, BZIP2.It allows you create ZIP, TAR, GZIP. Using it you can manage files/folders, where single and multiple select, copy, delete, move, and sort functions are available.

Wi-Fi Analyzer 2.4

Wifi Analyzer turns your Android phone into a Wi-Fi scanner. The application discovers Wi-Fi networks around you. It can help you to find a less crowded Wi-Fi channel when setting up a wireless router or access point.

PicSay 1.3

With this app you can color-correct your pictures and add word balloons, titles, graphics, and effects like distortion. All in a fun, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface.You can also send the picture via e-mail or MMS, upload it to Picasa, set it as an icon or as wallpaper, send to Twitter and more, depending on what compatible applications you have installed.

Skype for Android

Skype is a software application that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee.

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