Server Side Apps

Full update of server applications running on a fairly old PC on Windows Server 2003.

… Major geek alert, skip with impunity!

• ActivePerl (freeware) – Required for local hosting of blosxom blogs via KFWS, the local webserver.
• AVG 8.5 (shareware) -- Antivirus, checks each incoming mail.
• Blosxom (freeware) -- Blogging software. Can be as simple or complex as you want it to be. Encourages fiddling with a host of plug-ins. I’ve found it a great way to learn HTML and CSS as well.
• CCProxy (shareware) – Internet proxy server. Also FTP and Socks. Serves the net to all the PCs and Notebooks while hiding behind the firewall.
• Cobian Backup (freeware) – Backup app. Scheduled server backups to the D-Link Network Harddrive.
• FileZilla Server (freeware) -- Local FTP server.
• Kerio Connect (shareware) – Mail Server. Fetches mail from various mailboxes and makes them available to both Outlook and its own web-based mail client interface.
• KFWS (freeware) – Local Web server. Great for testing local blogs before posting to the wide web.
• SoftPerfect Personal Firewall (freeware) – Firewall to hide the single point of entry/exit to the nasty nasty web that the server distributes to all the local PCs.
• TVersity Media Server (freeware) -- MP3 and video server. Serves our music collection to a D-Link 520 Media Server for playback of music thru our hi-fi.
• Ultra VNC Server (freeware) -- Allows remote use of the server from my desktop.
• What’s Next (freeware) -- Personal productivity application that supports David Allen's Getting Things Done system. Basically a To-do app, but focused on reducing the clutter of your daily tasks to just those that are essential.