Utilities

When needed ThinkPenguin technicians can access your computer through remote desktop support. Follow the directions below to install.

Directions:

1. Download & Install VNC
2. Download & Install Remote Desktop Support
3. From Applications -> Internet start Remote Desktop Support

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software like OpenOffice, GIMP, Pidgin, etc. Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

Wine is a translation layer that makes it possible to run many MS Windows applications on GNU/Linux and Ubuntu. Unlike using an emulator with Microsoft Windows Wine won't slow down on you. It has the ability to run applications at native speeds.

For information about Wine see:

http://www.winehq.org

This is an anti-virus application used for the most part to find MS Windows viruses. Please be aware that at this time your Ubuntu system has a very low risk of infection. It is unlikely that you could get without significant effort a virus/spyware/or other malicious software to run properly. This software anti-virus software is not recommended for most users of this operating system.

TorK is an anonymity manager which provides users the surf the web anonymously. With it you can communicate anonymously using many different communication tools such as email such as email, ssh, IRC and IM. To sum it up the programs gives you the control to monitor your anonymous traffic and non-anonymous traffic on the Tor network.

Sweeper can quickly remove temporary information, such as web page cookies, browser history, or the list of recently-opened documents. It helps provide additional privacy on a system shared between multiple users.

Using this wizard you'll be asked a few simple questions about what to back up, where to back it up, etc. It records these answers in some configuration files and sets up automatic backups for you.

qBittorrent can now be considered as a good alternative to other bittorrent clients. It provides a lot of features such as:

* A polished Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
* UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
* Encryption support (compatible with Azureus)
* Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
* Download from RSS streams

With pyRenamer you can change the name of several files at the same time easily.

* You can use patterns to rename files.
* You can use search & replace to rename files.
* You can use common substitutions.
* You can manually rename selected files.
* You can rename images using their metadata.
* You can rename music using its metadat

PuTTY is a terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols.

Some features of PuTTY are:

* The storing of hosts and preferences for later use.
* Control over the SSH encryption key and protocol version.
* Command-line SCP and SFTP clients, called "pscp" and "psftp" respectively.