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Free OCR library

Does anyone know of a good free or cheap (under £100/$200) OCR library? It needs to run on Windows and preferably be a .NET library, though a COM interface is fine. ...

Looking for WYSIWYG HTML editor

Any suggestions for a relatively simple, free, WYSIWYG, HTML editor? I have a friend in need of a art portfolio website and I want to her feet wet without forcing her to learn raw HTML or an overly complex (and probably expensive) program. Extra points if somehow this free editor is OSS UPDATE: sorry, still drinking my coffee Windows...

Oracle XE or SQL Server Express

Hi people, I'm starting a new project here (Windows Forms) and was wondering what's the best option today for a small (free as in beer) dbms. I've used SQL Server Express on the past projects, but time and time again I hear people saying that the product from Oracle is faster and more powerful. It will be used in a small company (aroun...

Please recommend a Java profiler

I am looking for the Java equivalent of gprof. I did a little Java profiling using System.getCurrentMillis(), and saw several GUI tools which seem too much. A good compromise could be a text-based Java profiler, preferably free or low-cost, which works in either Windows XP or Linux. ...

software: when to pay, when to use free?

What are your criteria when evaluating free vs pay software? Which is your "default" choice? update: Is the answer different for application and development software? ...

Standalone tools for debugging stored procedures

I was looking for a good free debugger for STP (Stored Procedures) as I need to make changes to a few of them as a part of my recent project. The stored procedures are stored in independent '.sql' files and not in the code. A debugger would speed things up quite a it in my case. Could anyone recommend any tools that can be used for this...

What is a good free library for editing MP3s/FLACs?

What is a good free library for editing MP3s/FLACs. By editing I mean: Cutting audio file into multiple parts Joining multiple audio files together Increase playback speed of file without affecting the pitch (eg. podcasts up to 1.3x) Re-encoding audio file from Flac -> MP3 or vice versa I don't mean software, I mean a library that ...

Free ASP.Net and/or CSS Themes

Where can I get some decent looking free ASP.Net or CSS themes? ...

Third party Visual Studio snippets

Do you know where I could find some useful third party (free) code snippets for VS 2008? ...

Good Databases with sample data

Does anybody know of any sample databases I could download, preferably in CSV or some similar easy to import format so that I could get more practice in working with different types of data sets? The Canadian Department of Environment has historical weather data that you can download. Unfortunately it's not in a format I can import int...

Free Online Private SVN repositories

Can people recommend an good free online SVN repository? I found OpenSVN.csie.org but the message in red is a bit scary. ...

Free Project management software

The company I work for has some project management issues. It's not that it doesn't work but that I get the impression it could work much better. I'm looking for a good, web-based, project management tool. I've been playing with dotproject which I believe is excellent but I'd like to hear some other approaches (if any). I'm specially i...

What's the best Free C++ Profiler for windows (if there are)

Hi, I'm looking for a profiler in order to find the bottleneck of my c++ code. I'd like to find a free, non intrusive, good profiling tool. I'm a game developer and I use PIX for Xbox360, I found it very good (but not free) I know the Intel v-Tune, but it's not free. There exists any free profiling tool? ...

Open Source FTP Client that supports synchronizing?

Does anyone know of a good open source FTP client for Windows that allows for scheduled synchronizing? I'm needing something also very....very... user friendly. ...

How can I calculate time schedules (for free)?

I am running a small office for a while and need to do some scheduling. Employees have widely varying availability (part time environment), and there are certain times of the day where I need certain numbers of people there. I also want to impose constraints as far as how many hours each person works. I have looked, and perhaps I have...

Are there any free java/flash image editor plug-in/applets that i can include in my site?

I am currently re-developing an e-commerce back end system and I was wondering if anyone here had come accross a free ajax script/plug-in/flash file which could allow our users to upload an image and offer some basic editing tools, i.e. crop, rotate, resize? We currently have a PHP based image resizing tool using the GD library that sim...

Does anybody know of a tabbed FTP client?

Am I the only person who has the need to view multiple directories at once (usually on the same remote server, but sometimes other ones too)? Disconnecting and reconnecting is driving me crazy. Preferably a free tool, but I'm getting to the stage where I'll try anything! Can you have multiple FireFTP tabs in Firefox? Alternatively, I'v...

Free supportticket software

I am searching for a better alternative to osTicket. Can you give any advise? [Update] I would want it not to be overfilled with features, since I want to be able to use it without having to get into it alot ...

Where can one find free software icons / images?

This may not be directly related to programming, but I always find it hard to get quality icons that can be used for software. I currently have the need for some type of "green checkmark image", and I always seem to be looking for print, save, delete types of icons... Anybody have good resources? Note: I rather not be stealing someone...

Open source or free testing solution

Hi, Is there a open source or free suite that can integrate testcases, tests, bugs and possibly the fixes(source code) together. Maintaining the requirements in this system is not a necessity (though, it would be nice to enter a requirement id for each testcase in a custom field). We are a small organization and cannot afford something...