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Here you'll find all kinds of content I make available for download, ranging from my programs to accompanying documents for presentations I have given, or even just random stuff that disappeared from the Internet or became hard to find. If I feel it's necessary, I might even decide to put tools here that I want for reference, e.g. to use them on a university or library computer. Also I'm unsure whether I will always host all binaries myself or – if I have the feeling that a publisher might be reliable enough – I might just link to their binary directly, such as "http://download.anydesk.com/AnyDesk.exe", for example, for the sake of having the latest version. I will definitely only do this though for things that I primarily intend to use myself, like on a library computer, and so I would notice it relatively quickly if a link breaks, I guess. Also I would only do it if the link points directly to a file and not if there would be any cookieterrorbanners or other stuff to fight (click) through whatsoever. Either way, I'm sure this will get pretty random, and now you've been warned!

auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
This is a command-line tool which helps you identify most lossy audio compressions in WAV files. It was written by Oleg Berngardt and Alexander Djourik in 2004. I downloaded it on 2017/05/19 at 10:51 PM. It was incredibly helpful for the identification of fake lossless music downloads and in 2023 I needed it again but I couldn't find it online anymore so I went through my backups, and here it is. I haven't changed the filename, even though I think they probably meant "latest" instead of "lastest". Also, keep in mind that it was designed for CD-audio, so it only works with 44100 KHz PCM. Furthermore, it seems pretty much abandoned. I unfortunately didn't bother to download the source code, allthough I think it would have been there on the original site, whose domain now seems to point to some random game download in the form of an Android APK, which looks pretty cringe.

Phoner for Windows XP
This is the last version of Phoner that I know of that works seamlessly on Windows XP. A few days ago, I had to bridge a call from a damn old analog PBX to the Internet and luckily I still have my very first laptop with a Pentium 3 and a built-in modem, so I used that. However, when I downloaded Phoner, it threw a hell ton of errors, so I searched through my old hard drives and this is a version that definitely works on XP. I downloaded it on 2018/03/02 at 5:48 PM and while of course I don't guarantee that it is indeed the most up-to-date version that still works on XP, I decided to put it here for reference, in case someone else ever needs it. Phoner was written by Heiko Sommerfeldt and to my knowledge it's still maintained. So you can go to http://phoner.de for the latest version and further references.

Siemens SL45I stock MMC card contents
Here are (at least I hope) the original contents of the Siemens SL45I's MMC memory card, as Siemens published them on their now-defunct "mobile phones homepage". I needed them as part of a research for my Mobile OS project and to me this file definitely looks legit. It's a self-extracting archive, so you can also extract it with 7-Zip.

Windows XP welcome music or 1996 Internet Starter Kit - Velkommen - Original Mix (original lossless file)
This is the original lossless file of the music that gets played during Windows XP setup, formerly known as the Windows (XP) welcome music or the Windows XP initial startup music. You can find it on every Windows XP computer encoded as a 64 KBit/s WMA under "%windir%\system32\oobe\images\title.wma". It was also featured in a product probably called Microsoft Internet Starter Kit around 1996 and there it was encoded as a 16 KHz WAV. However, this is the lossless original which I downloaded from the SoundCloud profile of the author, Stan LePard, who unfortunately died in February 2021. May he rest in peace. I am confident he is okay with me offering it for download though, especially as in 2020, he said it would be cool if Microsoft used it again for the next version of Windows.