Top 15 socat Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these.
These modes include generation of "listening" sockets, named pipes, and pseudo terminals.

1. Komodia Relay

Komodia Relay This small utility performs either TCP/UDP/HTTP port forwarding from a source IP and port to another destination IP and port.......

2. AlertPOP

AlertPOP AlertPOP! - Add non-intrusive popup messaging to you application. Quickly provide users with a non-intrusive popup message. Very similiar to the alerts provided by MSN Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Symantec Antivirus and MS Outlook 2003. Can be shown with just a single line of code or expand the alert to......

3. Simian

Simian Identifies duplication in Java, C#, C, CPP, COBOL, JSP, HTML source code and even plain text files.......

4. Notifu

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5. TrIDNet

TrIDNet TRIDNet is the GUI version of TrID, probably more practical to use than the CLI version, especially for those not very familiar with the command line prompt.In addition, with a simple double click, it have the ability to display a series of information about every match listed: the definition's file......

6. OpenSVC

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7. Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server Lite

Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server Lite Quick 'n Easy FTP Server Lite is a special version of our award winning FTP server, specially created for beginners who do not need all the advanced features of the professional version.Key features:- Simple, intuitive and cool looking user interface, with several pages for managing the users, configuration and security.-......

8. Dupemerge

Dupemerge Most hard disks contain quite a lot of completely identical files, which consume a lot of disk space. This waste of space can be drastically reduced by using the NTFS file system hardlink functionality to link the identical files ("dupes") together.......

9. NexusFont

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10. TinyUmbrella

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11. 7+ Taskbar Tweaker

7+ Taskbar Tweaker 7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows you to configure various aspects of the Windows taskbar.Most of the configuration options it provides can’t be tweaked using the taskbar properties or the registry.The tweaker is designed for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.The tweaks are divided into three sections:Taskbar items Controls......

12. ViGlance

ViGlance ViGlance is a free lightweight app (uses about 10MB of memory when running) that simulates the Windows 7 Taskbar. it doesn’t replace the entire Taskbar in XP. Instead it replaces just the portion where the Taskbar buttons normally reside, and leaves the System Tray, Quick Launch, and other native sections......

13. Free HTML Color Picker

Free HTML Color Picker Pick color from screen, in RGB and HTML code formats, easily and quickly!......

14. MouseZoom

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15. The Font Thing

The Font Thing The Font Thing is a freeware program for managing TrueType fonts in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0. It hasn't been designed for but work well under Windows XP and 7.This is an old software, but still one of the very best, lightweigth, fast and useful.Download is in......