Inno Setup - Free setup maker or installer

Inno Setup is one of the best free solution I have found and have known for years now. I found this wonderful software in a CD which came along with a magazine. I was in school and was making my first software and needed to make a installer for the same. It was very hard to use any of the enterprise level professional solutions like install shield. I even tried few other such free setup makers before coming across Inno setup but they would show alert that the setup was made using an evaluation version. That was really annoying.

Then finally I used Inno setup and found it very easy to use. I was really surprised to see the level of simplicity. Not just it had a fabulous wizard that helped me step by step in making a setup, it also had a editor where I could edit the source code to make the setup of my first software look like more what I wanted it to be.

Inno setup is fully supported by all the versions of windows including vista that makes sure that you never face any compatibility issues.

Special care is taken to make sure that as this solution is made free even for commercial use, it can actually be used for commercial use. Few features to support this statement are:

• Multilingual support (multiple languages supported)
• Support for setup types (Full, minimal, custom)
• Uninstaller (quite obvious I know, but its really important)
• Password protected installation

Inno setup had also been a SIA winner for consecutively 3 years.

In a nutshell Inno setup is a free professional solution for individual and enterprise needs of software deployment that is recommended by me and quality approved by SIA.

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Tabbed Console Interface - TCI

Few months ago I started working with Ruby on rails for developing web applications. It involves lot of tasks to be performed and monitoring them via console. Developers who are aware of linux and have done development on it must be aware about how easy it is to work with console or shell GUI in linux as it is tabbed and has several features to assist in development.

In windows we don't have such options and we need to work with multiple DOS boxes flying here and there. It is really a big pain swapping between several DOS windows on your screen.


Finally I could find TCI which enables you to get similar features like in linux for example tabs for having several DOS prompts under one roof and several advanced features that make working with DOS a happy experience.

TCI enables you to easily modify look and feel of DOS like background which can even be set to transparent.


Currently TCI is available for 30 day trial with full functionality and it is available at very reasonable price. Ease of development obtained after moving over to TCI is worth while paying.

Features:

• Create up to 64 tabs, of any console (Win32 or DOS) applications.
• Reorder and rename existing tabs.
• Save or print all or part of the scrollback buffer.
• Create any size window ( 80x25 or greater) and a scrollback buffer of up to 20,000 lines.
• Attach existing console sessions to the TCI window.
• Detach TCI tabbed windows.
• Select and copy text in either line or block mode.
• Search the scrollback buffer (with regular expression support).
• Programmable toolbar to start new tabs or send keystrokes / commands to existing tabs.
• Adjustable transparency level (separately configurable for active and inactive windows).
• Complete configuration adjustment through interactive dialogs.
• Supports Windows Drag & Drop.

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