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Stefan's Tools

Useful open source tools that make your life easier.

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Stefan's Tools is a collection of free, open-source Windows utilities. The tools include BowPad (a text editor with ribbon UI), CommitMonitor (SVN repository monitor), CryptSync (encrypted folder synchronization), DemoHelper (screen annotation and magnification), grepWin (regular expression search tool), SendMessage (Windows message sender), SKTimeStamp (file date changer), StExBar (Explorer addon), tabspace (tab/space converter), and several older unsupported tools such as TrafficWatcher (network traffic monitor).

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