PDF Split and Merge (pdfsam) - an elegant tool that establishes the tasks stated in the name of the product. pdfsam is distributed under GPL license and requires Java Virtual Machine 1.4.2 or higher. This tools helps you in splitting PDF documents into individual pages, merge many pages into a single document, extract odd/even pages and many other features in its basic version. To learn more about this tool or to download a copy of it visit pdfsam.org

VMWare Player is a free software available from VMWare Inc. enabling the creation of guest OS within an existing OS Notes for a beginner ... * VMWare Player and VMWare Server are available for free * A .vmdk file is the virtual hard drive for the guest OS * A .nvram file stores the BIOS settings of the virtual machine * A .vmx file stores the configuration settings for the virtual machine. All you need is a text editor to edit the VMWare configuration settings. * A .vmsd file stores information about VMWare snapshots. (more…)

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WebScarab is a testing tool used for analysing application data that is passed between browsers and servers. It can be used to review and modify data at either end by intercepting data originating from http and https layers. This tool can also be used as a bandwidth simulator (slow/fast network), in session id analysis, spidering url's, parameter analysis and for many other testing schemes. WebScarab is developed as an open source tool by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and can be downloaded from OWASP website

Firefox is one of the best tool available for web developers which equips the developer with code testing and debugging capabilities. There are many useful firefox options and extensions that comes in handy during software development life cycle and in this article we will be listing few of useful plugins that we commonly use. To find information related to the page that is getting displayed on the browser click Tools > Page info. This will give you permission settings of a page, security identity of the page, feed url and other page specific information like page content-type, encoding, meta tags used, cookie permission settings etc. Web Developer extension Added as a toolbar in firefox, this extension gives CSS related information, page information, outlines page elements, tab index, gives topographic information and many such details. (more…)

Code Revision, Code Management Subversion (Tigris) Download http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html Open Source Version Control Book http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ Git Distributed Open Source Version Control Download http://git-scm.com/download Git Man Page http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html CVS Download http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ CVS Help http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/