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Free IT Tools

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16 tools we built because we needed them. Almost all of them run entirely in your browser — no account, no rate limit, and nothing about what you look up reaches our servers. Free, and staying that way.

Network & addressing

Subnet Calculator

IPv4 CIDR and mask calculator with VLSM splitting and scope detection.

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Subnet Mask Cheat Sheet

Every prefix /0 to /32 with mask, wildcard, hex and host counts. Printable PDF.

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MAC Address Lookup

Vendor lookup against the complete 35,084-entry IEEE OUI registry.

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DNS & email

DNS Lookup

dig-style lookup across 17 record types, Cloudflare or Google resolver.

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Email DNS Checker

MX, SPF, DMARC and DKIM graded, with a link to the fix for each problem.

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Cameras & power

Camera Storage Calculator

Storage and bandwidth from resolution, frame rate, codec and retention.

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PoE Budget Calculator

Whether your switch can actually power the cameras, APs and readers.

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Security & identity

Password Generator

Random passwords and passphrases with a live entropy estimate.

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Hash Generator

SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 via browser Web Crypto.

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Windows Event ID Lookup

59 event IDs that actually matter, and what each one tells you.

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Data & developer

JSON Formatter

Pretty-print, minify and validate with the exact error position.

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Regex Tester

Live matches, indexes and capture groups against your test string.

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Cron Expression Explainer

Plain English, field validation and the next eight run times.

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Base64 Encoder / Decoder

Full UTF-8 and URL-safe variants, both directions.

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UUID Generator

v4 random and v7 time-ordered, up to 500 at a time.

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Unix Timestamp Converter

Epoch seconds or milliseconds to UTC, local and ISO 8601.

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Common questions

Are these really free? Yes. No account, no rate limit, no paid tier behind a wall. Most run in your browser rather than on our servers, so they cost us very little.

Do you log what I look up? No. Most of these make no network request at all — disconnect and they keep working. The DNS and email checkers query public resolvers straight from your browser, so nothing of ours sees the query.

Which work offline? Everything except the DNS lookup and email checker. The MAC lookup pulls the IEEE registry once, then works from cache.

Can I embed these on my own site? No — the pages set frame-ancestors and cross-origin resource policies that block framing and hotlinking. Linking to them is very welcome.

Why we give these away

Most free tools online are stuffed with ads, gated behind a signup, or quietly logging what you look up — and the IT-adjacent ones are often subtly wrong at the edges, which is worse than useless. We would rather point people at something we trust.

The second reason is that some of you will eventually need someone to actually do the work, and when that happens we would like to be a name you already recognise. That is the whole arrangement. Use the tools, ignore the rest.

Suggest one

If there is something you keep opening a browser tab for, tell us and we will look at building it. Get in touch or call 541-508-8797.