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I’ve been using Microsoft’s Synctoy for awhile now to do daily backups of my laptop files to my server.

It works great, for the most part.  But I’ve noticed that with the “Echo” function (which I use), it does make a mirror of my laptop files, deletes any files from the server that are no longer on my laptop, but it doesn’t remove empty folders.

I just found Empty Folder Nuker by Simon Wai.  It’s a great little program, and there’s no installation required !

Features

Finds folders that contain only empty subfolders too Allows you to choose which empty folders to delete Uses the Recycle Bin where available Shell integration: right click on any folder in Windows Explorer and find empty folders within it No setup.exe: allows simple XCOPY-style deployment Free!

What a great deal !  Try it out if you’re having the same problem.

This looks like a really good opensource package for DVD authoring.  I found this via a tutorial on lifehacker.

DVD Flick is a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take several video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set.

DVD Flick is Open Source, meaning that anyone can download and view or modify the program’s source code. It also means that it is absolutely free of charge. Several external programs are used by DVD Flick to do the dirty work like encoding and combining of video material. All of these programs are free, some are Open Source too.

Supported file container formats are, amongst others, AVI, MPG, MOV, WMV, ASF, FLV, Matroska and MP4. Supported codecs are amongst others, MPEG-124 (XVid, DivX, etc.), Windows Media AudioVideo. MP3, OGG Vorbis, H264, and On2 VP56.

visit the DVD Flick website for more information.

I just started using this between a few computers, and it works GREAT !  I have it configured to just synchronize my bookmarks, not my cookies, history, passwords, etc.

Firefox users, try it out !

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

OSSEC HIDS – Open Source Security

pretty neat little tool that i saw on /. this morning.

OSSEC HIDS is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and active response.

Unix & Windows versions available.

Nvu (pronounced N-view) is a light, standalone web page editor that offers drag and drop WYSIWYG page creation with CSS and Javascript support. Nvu will publish directly to your FTP server from the desktop and plugs into the W3’s validation service to make sure your X/HTML’s kosher. Nvu’s got tabbed editing, in-application preview, spellcheck and lets you edit multiple sites at once. A multi-platform alternative to Frontpage or Dreamweaver, Nvu is free and runs on Mac, Windows or Linux.

I looked at Nvu about a year ago, and it looked great. Version 1.0 has just been released.

website: nvu.com