3 small apps

Been fairly busy with work (migration & integration) and play (Relic/THQ’s Company of Heroes ftw!) hence no updates at the blog. Here’s a quick post on 3 lifesaving applications that I’ve used recently till I can find the time to do a proper update. First off are 2 small password protected and encrypted notepad editors that are install-less and a couple of KB’s in size and the last application is a small dictionary program.

I needed to store the license keys of some application in a shared folder but couldn’t be bothered with NTSF permission et cetera, so I just dumped the file into the encrypted text file, place a password, go over to the users terminal, open up the text file, supply password, copy insert the license key and delete the text file after I’m done (confident no snoop would stumble upon it or open it during the duration of the install).

Fsekrit

Fsekrit’s weighs in at a mere 50KB and it’s self-contained install-less notes editor (somewhat like notepad) application that uses very strong encryption (256-bit AES/Rijndael in CBC mode).

Download from here.

Steganos LockNote

Similar to Fskerit, LockNote allows you to write, save, and automatically encrypt the notes you write from a stand-alone, install-less application. Also uses encrypted AES 256bit encryption technology from the CryptoPP program library.The advantage over Fskerit is that you can easily convert text files you already have by dragging them into LockNote. The downside? It’s almost 5x the size of fsekrit at 259KB.

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TinySpell

TinySpell is a cross-application spell checking utility that warns you of misspelled words and suggests replacements when you press the autosuggestion hotkey. If you suddenly change between application, eg. WLW to MSN and back, it’s a little slow in detecting the change though.

Download from here.