Network and web apps for Windows
25 apps for looking at your network and the web: device and port scanners, latency and connectivity checks, DNS switching, route tracing and subnet math. Alongside them sit RSS readers, a link unshortener and taskbar widgets that keep a live readout in view.
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Webcam Motion Detector
Network and webPoint it at any camera and it watches for movement. When something moves it saves a clip — and because it is always holding the last few seconds, the clip starts before the motion did, so you see what caused it rather than what followed. Choose the camera, the sensitivity, how long it keeps rolling, and where the clips go. It records at whatever resolution your camera offers, sounds an alarm if you want one, and keeps watching from the notification area after you close the window.
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News Ticker Widget
Network and webHeadlines from the feeds you choose, scrolling across your desktop.
Internet Connectivity Checker
Network and webA link light for your internet connection, in the notification area. A wall jack sits by the clock and stays green while the internet is up. Open it and you get the response time over the last two hours, every drop with the time it happened and how long it lasted, and your local and public IP address ready to copy.
Network Device Scanner
Network and webType a range of addresses and it asks every one of them in turn, then tells you who answered. Names come from the router and from the network itself over Bonjour and UPnP, so the list reads Living Room Speaker rather than 192.168.1.34. Silent addresses get knocked on before they are believed, because Windows PCs ignore a ping by default and a lesser scanner reports them as absent. Open any device for its maker, model, reply time and what it is listening on. Save the lot as CSV or JSON.
Bluetooth Device Scanner
Network and webEvery phone, watch, earbud, TV and tag broadcasting over Bluetooth near you — what it is, who made it, and how far away.
DNS Switcher
Network and webEvery address you type is looked up by a DNS server, and by default that is whoever your provider picked. DNS Switcher shows which one this PC is asking, and changes it in two clicks. Pick Cloudflare, Google, Quad9 or one of eleven others — or a filtering resolver that turns away ads, malware and adult sites before they load. Sets IPv4 and IPv6 together, per adapter, and going back to automatic is the first row in the list.
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Network Monitoring
Network and webYour live download and upload speed on the desktop, for every network adapter, redrawn once a second.
Network Indicator Widget
Network and webSee what your network is actually doing. A twin-needle meter shows upload and download as they happen, a five-minute ribbon shows where they have been, and every adapter is listed with its own address and rates. A small indicator sits on your desktop and fades in whenever traffic starts.
RSS Keyword Alerts
Network and webTell it the words you care about, and it taps you on the shoulder when a headline uses one. RSS Keyword Alerts watches your news feeds from the notification area and sends a Windows notification for each match, with Read and Mute buttons.
Memory Usage Monitor
Network and webSee where your memory goes at a glance. Four rings show what is free, committed, cached and held by Windows, a headline says whether you have room, and a short list shows the apps using the most.
Latency Checker Widget
Network and webYour ping on the desktop, all the time. A small black pill floats above your other windows and shows your latency, with a dot that turns green, amber or red. Open the window for jitter, packet loss and the last 60 pings.
Link Maker
Network and webDrop a file or folder on the tag, and Symbolic and Hard Link Maker links it wherever you want, without moving it. Make symbolic links, hard links and junctions, right-click to link from File Explorer, and find and fix the links that broke.
CPU Core Load Reporter
Network and webWatch every thread of your processor work. CPU Core Load Reporter draws your actual processor with a glowing tile for each logical processor, warming from amber to ember as the load rises, so a busy or stuck thread stands out at a glance. Click any thread to follow it on a 60-second trace.
Subtle Blink Reminder
Network and webThe blink reminder you know - an eye and “Don't Forget To Blink” - now yours to place, size and fade. Choose exactly how often it appears, anything from every 3 seconds to once an hour. It blinks once and is gone, and it is hidden from screen sharing.
Tracert Route Tracer
Network and webType an address or a domain and watch the route to it build one hop at a time. Every router in between is listed with its name and how long each probe took, and a bar over each hop shows where the time actually goes. Stop it whenever you like, probe a single hop again, or ping one.
PortScanner
Network and webSee every connection your PC has open and which program opened it. TCP connections and UDP listeners appear on a patch bay, grouped by program, one numbered socket each, with a lamp showing whether it is carrying traffic, listening or winding down. Click any socket for the process ID, both addresses and the name behind the far end.
Easy Subnet Calculator
Network and webType an IP address and a prefix. Read back the network, the range, and how many hosts fit.
Taskbar RSS Reader
Network and webYour news, folded into the taskbar. Click the tray icon and Taskbar RSS Reader opens a small front page made from your feeds: a lead story with its picture, sections for each kind of news, and a count on the icon of what you haven't read.
Subnet Master
Network and webGive it a block and what you need. It lays out the subnets, in order, with nothing overlapping.
ARP Table Manager
Network and webYour ARP table as a telephone switchboard. Every address is plugged into a device with a patch cord, and a red cord shows a device pretending to be your router. Pin the addresses you trust, unplug the ones you don't, and ping any device without leaving the window.
Network Adapter Statistics
Network and webSee every network adapter on your PC as a port on a switch panel, with live link and activity lights. Watch true download and upload speed every second, copy any address with one click, and see how much data each adapter used each day.
Link Unshortener
Network and webSee where a short or tracking link really goes before you open it. Link Unshortener follows every redirect, shows each stop on the way, strips the tracking tags and copies you a clean link. Turn it on once and every short link you copy is revealed in a notification.
Trip Cost Calculator
Network and webPin your road trip on a map and see what the gas costs, leg by leg. Riders can join and leave at any stop, and Trip Cost Calculator works out what each person owes, to the cent.
Battery Report
Network and webSee how much your laptop battery still holds, how fast it has worn over the last year, and when it will reach 80%. Export a one-page health certificate to show a buyer or support a warranty claim.
Routing Table Manager
Network and webType any address or host name and see which route Windows sends it down, and why. Add routes that survive a restart, delete them, ping a gateway, and get a warning when a VPN takes over your internet. IPv4 and IPv6.