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        <title>Free niche utility software of the week 2/25/08</title>
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            <title>Windows GUI Based MD5 Checker</title>
            <link>http://mikedopp.com/archive/2008/05/16/windows-gui-based-md5-checker.aspx</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Ever need a quick and dirty way to check the MD5 Hash on any compressed folder or executable?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;At &lt;a title="Work" href="http://www.lifetime.com" target="_new" rel="co-worker colleague"&gt;Work&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a title="Web Guru" href="http://www.joelevi.com/blog" target="_new" rel="friend acquaintance contact met co-worker colleague"&gt;Joe&lt;/a&gt; and I have had the occasional corrupt file from Microsoft and had to pull out of installing patches and such. This was a problem and a time waster. So in every deployment of any project we decided to be sticklers on checking the hashes. While yes there is a few utilities on the interweb or ExtraNet (both very bad slang for Internet) I have settled for the non installing executable to do my Hash Checking.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Some have even commented: "If your such a great developer why don’t you write your own?" I suppose I could however I have little time to rewrite the wheel.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mikedopp.com/images/mikedopp_com/WindowsLiveWriter/MD5CheckerforWindowsGUIBased_86F4/WinMD5Free.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="336" alt="WinMD5Free" src="http://mikedopp.com/images/mikedopp_com/WindowsLiveWriter/MD5CheckerforWindowsGUIBased_86F4/WinMD5Free_thumb.png" width="471" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Have a look and enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.winmd5.com/?rid=winmd5" target="_blank"&gt;WinMD5 Web Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="winmd5free.zip" href="http://www.winmd5.com/download/winmd5free.zip" target="_blank"&gt;winmd5free.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Hashes for safety:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;WinMD5Free.zip MD5: 73f48840b60ab6da68b03acd322445ee &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;WinMD5Free.exe MD5: 944a1e869969dd8a4b64ca5e6ebc209a&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1f94c47c-42b4-40c7-bcdc-543bd5dfcc53" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Flickr Tags: &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/MD5" rel="tag"&gt;MD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/Free%20niche%20utility%20software%20of%20the%20week" rel="tag"&gt;Free niche utility software of the week&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/WinMD5" rel="tag"&gt;WinMD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/Free" rel="tag"&gt;Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0b0df878-9c9f-4788-8f8a-890cef464f6b" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;BuzzNet Tags: &lt;a href="http://www.buzznet.com/tags/MD5/" rel="tag"&gt;MD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.buzznet.com/tags/Free%20niche%20utility%20software%20of%20the%20week/" rel="tag"&gt;Free niche utility software of the week&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.buzznet.com/tags/WinMD5/" rel="tag"&gt;WinMD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.buzznet.com/tags/Free/" rel="tag"&gt;Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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   &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8eb5277f-5f9b-4add-9218-abefbde099fb" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;IceRocket Tags: &lt;a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q=MD5" rel="tag"&gt;MD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q=Free%20niche%20utility%20software%20of%20the%20week" rel="tag"&gt;Free niche utility software of the week&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q=WinMD5" rel="tag"&gt;WinMD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q=Free" rel="tag"&gt;Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c271cd4e-3546-4006-9935-559dcf86c9e8" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;LiveJournal Tags: &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=MD5" rel="tag"&gt;MD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=Free%20niche%20utility%20software%20of%20the%20week" rel="tag"&gt;Free niche utility software of the week&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=WinMD5" rel="tag"&gt;WinMD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=Free" rel="tag"&gt;Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:199f38b3-f2fe-48d8-84c8-a129377ebc9a" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;43 Things Tags: &lt;a href="http://www.43things.com/tag/MD5" rel="tag"&gt;MD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.43things.com/tag/Free%20niche%20utility%20software%20of%20the%20week" rel="tag"&gt;Free niche utility software of the week&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.43things.com/tag/WinMD5" rel="tag"&gt;WinMD5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.43things.com/tag/Free" rel="tag"&gt;Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://mikedopp.com/aggbug/213.aspx" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>
            <dc:creator>mikedopp</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 13:04:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Free niche utility software of the week 2/25/08</title>
            <link>http://mikedopp.com/archive/2008/02/26/free-niche-utility-software-of-the-week-22508.aspx</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Free Video to Flash Converter.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Convert video to flash (SWF or FLV) to publish video on your web site or blog. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Convert *.avi, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mp4, *.m4v, *.wmv, *.asf, *.mov, *.qt, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dvr-ms. *.flv video files to ready for web *.flv and *.swf files. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For example convert avi to flv, mp4 to flv, mpeg to flv, mpg to flv, wmv to flv, mov to flv, 3gp to flv. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Free Video to Flash Converter contains no spyware or adware. It’s clearly free and absolutely safe to install and run.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;*It’s free for both personal and commercial use.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mikedopp.com/images/mikedopp_com/WindowsLiveWriter/Freenicheutilitysoftware_82DB/VideoToFlash_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="179" alt="VideoToFlash" src="http://mikedopp.com/images/mikedopp_com/WindowsLiveWriter/Freenicheutilitysoftware_82DB/VideoToFlash_thumb.png" width="240" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/download/FreeVideoToFlashConverter.exe" target="_blank"&gt;FreeVideoToFlashConverter.exe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:731a685d-63d2-4448-b6a7-63f97706a25e" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; 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margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;43 Things Tags: &lt;a href="http://www.43things.com/tag/Niche%20Software" rel="tag"&gt;Niche Software&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.43things.com/tag/Freeware" rel="tag"&gt;Freeware&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.43things.com/tag/Utility" rel="tag"&gt;Utility&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.43things.com/tag/Free%20niche%20utility%20software%20of%20the%20week" rel="tag"&gt;Free niche utility software of the week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://mikedopp.com/aggbug/166.aspx" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:33:23 GMT</pubDate>
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