Notepad++ v5.0.2 released bugfixed

Notepad++ is a free source code and text editor and Notepad replacement, which running under the MS Windows environment and supports several programming languages.

However it doesn't uninstall or overwrite the original Notepad program.

Notepad++ written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

What are the features of Notepad++ ?

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
WYSIWYG
User Defined Syntax Highlighting
Auto-completion
Multi-Document
Multi-View
Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
Dynamic position of Views
File Status Auto-detection
Zoom in and zoom out
Multi-Language environment supported
Bookmark
Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
Macro recording and playback

Here's Notepad++ v5.0.2 fixed bugs and added features (from v5.0.1) :

1. Fix crash bug for tags match highlighting.
2. Fix the huge file makes notepad++ crash issue.
3. Fix adding item in the history file list while deleting file from Notepad++ bug.
4. Fix a bug that file detection options set are not saved due to doc monitor plugin.
5. Improve opening file performance.
6. Fix bug when closing file using close button.

Download
Download Notepad++ from sourceforge UK

Documentations and other helps :
sourceforge
FAQ
How tos

Network Security Tool, Nmap 4.68 is out

Uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network
The name Nmap stands for Network Mapper. Nmap was designed to be a free utility for network exploration or security auditing.
Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime.

Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and both console and graphical versions are available.

The primary goals of the Nmap Project is to help make the Internet a little more secure and to provide administrators/auditors/hackers with an advanced tool for exploring their networks. Nmap is available for free download, and also comes with full source code that you may modify and redistribute under the terms of the license.

Download Nmap for free

Google introduces Knoll

To help you share what you know

The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, related information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information, with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of information.

The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion. google expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and they think that is good.

With Knol, google introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call "moderated collaboration." With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!

Features:
write any thing you like
collaborate with other authors
search for knols on a specific subject

create your own knoll

nBinder, executable compressor file binder and a password protector

nBinder allows you to pack and compress an unlimited number of files, maintaining their direct functionality. You also have available options like password protection, compression level, folder protection, URL files, complex commands, self removal, controls based on conditions that allow for conditional run, repetitive sequences and scheduled events, individual file options and more advanced options.

The primary disadvantage of common archives (.zip .rar .ace etc.) is that once files have been archived they loose their direct functionality, meaning they first have to be unpacked using the application used to compress them and the run. nBinder comes to fix this problem combining the advantages of archives with the direct functionality of the uncompressed files and many more other options like password protection and anti hacking protection for executables or complex commands that enhance functionality. Files compressed with nBinder are transformed into standalone executable files (.exe) that when executed they act the same as the packed files would if run uncompressed, maintaining their full direct functionality.
For example a packed movie when run will open the movie into its default application, without the user having to decompress it first. You can use the files compressed (binded, protected) by nBinder without having nBinder or other application installed on the computer. You can later extract the packed files from the output file either by using nBinder or by running the output file with a certain command line.

Award-winning file packer, compressor and protector used to pack multiple files into a stand alone executable with over 50 advanced output and file unpack options, conditional run and commands.

Download:
nBinder web site

'Cacheman XP', improve the XP performance speed

CachemanXP is a Windows tuneup utility designed to improve the speed and stability of your computer by optimizing caches, recovering RAM and fine tuning a number of system settings. Oneclick-Optimization makes it suitable for novice and intermediate users yet it is also powerful and versatile enough for computer experts.
Unlike other tuneup utilities, CachemanXP runs as a system service, minimizing resource usage and tweaking Windows at system-level.


Useful Functions of cacheman XP :
* CachemanXP displays a list of loaded Windows processes (Applications and System Services) along with detailed information including RAM usage.

* The most important CachemanXP process feature is Kill Process.
which stops the process when the 'task manager' is being ignored.

* RAM-Recovery
Inactive or crashed programs are simply moved from your physical memory (RAM) to a space on your Hard Drive called the Paging File (=Swap File).

*What does CachemanXP differently?
CachemanXP will not wait with the recovery until your system runs completely out of RAM. You can configure at which state (below value) CachemanXP should perform the recovery process. The postpone recovery on high system activity option ensures that no recovery happens if you are working on an important task and do not want to be disturbed. CachemanXP will wait until the job is done and perform the recovery thereafter. Since the recovery happens earlier as usual your system will have enough RAM available a much longer time.

Download from:
http://cachemanxp.outertech.com

Ultimate windows password cracker, the Cain 4.9.19 released

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort.

It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol's standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources, however it also ships some "non standard" utilities for Microsoft Windows users.

The latest version is faster and contains a lot of new features like APR (Arp Poison Routing) which enables sniffing on switched LANs and Man-in-the-Middle attacks. The sniffer in this version can also analyze encrypted protocols such as SSH-1 and HTTPS, and contains filters to capture credentials from a wide range of authentication mechanisms. The new version also ships routing protocols authentication monitors and routes extractors, dictionary and brute-force crackers for all common hashing algorithms and for several specific authentications, password/hash calculators, cryptanalysis attacks, password decoders and some not so common utilities related to network and system security.

Don't worry about the price. It is completely free !
Download Cain & Abel here