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USB Disk Ejector allows you to quickly and easily remove USB devices. It is useful when dealing with devices that refuse to eject, multiple devices, or if you don't want to see the "Now safe to remove this device" dialog. The program includes a variety of available advanced features including hotkeys, has available post-eject actions and more.

Functional from the command-line.

TimeZonesView displays all world time zones. For every time zone, the following information is displayed: name, description, current date/time in this time zone and date/time that daylight saving time begins and ends.

Advanced Onion Router is designed to bypass various barriers with a secure, anonymous Internet connection. The program attempts to circumvent firewalls, website censorship, web tracking tools and more. Allows user of almost any application that connects to the Internet. Unlike similar clients that require a configurable proxy, AdvOR is able to "force" a program to use the Tor network.

Note that the Tor site recommends against using the service for Torrent connections.

Note: Instructions for making Tor editions of Opera, Firefox, and Chat are included in the "Help" directory.

WirelessNetView is a small utility that monitors the activity of wireless networks around you. The program runs in the background and displays SSID, Last Signal Quality, Average Signal Quality, Detection Counter, Authentication Algorithm, Cipher Algorithm, MAC Address, RSSI, Channel Frequency, Channel Number and more.

NetMeter is a small network bandwidth monitoring program with numerous parameters for customization. You can view daily, weekly or monthly usage reports, as well as projected usage based on extrapolation of current data.

Note that the latest version of this program (Netmeter Evo) is not portable.

WebSiteSniffer is a packet sniffer tool that captures all the components of a given Web site and stores them in a folder of your choice. A variety of file types can be captured including HTML, Text, XML, CSS, Video/Audio, Images, Scripts, and Flash (.swf) files.

While capturing the Web site files, the main window of WebSiteSniffer displays general statistics about the downloaded files for every Web site / host name, including the total size of all files (compressed and uncompressed) and total number of files for every file type (HTML, Text, Images, and so on).

WinUpdatesList displays the list of all Windows operating system updates (e.g. Service Packs and Hotfixes) installed on your local computer. For hotfix updates, files updated with these hotfixes are also listed. The program includes official Microsoft links for selected updates and ability to uninstall an update.

You can copy the update information to the clipboard or save it to text/HTML/XML file.

YouTube Pal is a tiny video downloader for YouTube videos. It supports video format and video quality selection, download queue, pause/resume, download history, clipboard monitoring, stay on top and more.

MyEventViewer is intended as an improved alternative to the standard Windows event viewer. The program allows the viewing of multiple event logs combined into one list, as well as the event description and data in the main window.  The program lets you easily select multiple event items and then save them to HTML/Text/XML file, or copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+C) and paste them into Excel.

Vista+ users are encouraged to use the updated FullEventLogView utility.