Handbrake – open source video transcoder

Handbrake free/GPL video transcoder – works great to transcode videos.

http://handbrake.fr/

 

Macrium Reflect – hard drive imaging software

Macrium Reflect is a windows imaging software like Acronis. http://www.macrium.com/

Pretty good especially that it has a FREE version too that serves basic needs very well

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

 

 

Infrarecorder – windows cd/dvd burning

Infrarecorder – free cd/dvd burning software – works great.

http://infrarecorder.org/

 

Wireshark

Wireshark is the de facto standard network traffic analyzer. Its available under GNU GPL.

http://www.wireshark.org/

Inssider – Wifi tool

Inssider is a very very nice and useful free Wifi network tool http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/
Helps you analyze the different wireless networks available, signal strength, channel, overlaps etc

(This could be considered as an alternative for netstumbler which might have been revived by its author at http://stumbler.net/)

BandwidthController – network traffic management

Windows tool that allows to control bandwidth used by different machines in the network. http://bandwidthcontroller.com/

• Useful to restrict bandwidth and also to test how applications would behave based on available bandwidth
• Used it once a couple of years ago. works great. There is a free single user versionhttp://bandwidthcontroller.com/download.html