Update your bookmarks! The aldostools.com or aldostools.net are now aldostools.ORG
(yes .ORG!! not .COM or .NET).

To run my programs on Windows 7, Vista or 2008 you should install the Visual Basic 5 Runtime DLLs. Otherwise you will receive an error related to MSVBVM50.DLL. Windows XP or 2000 normally come with these DLLs already installed, so the runtime usually is not necessary if you are running XP, 2000 or 2003.

Almost one year, after the last version of the BEST Playstation emulator for Windows, ePSXe team release a new build: ePSXe 1.9.0. My ePSXe Launcher now supports it :)

Aldo's FileSync provides an easy and fast way to keep your files updated in different folders or medias. New: improved transfers of files larger than 4GB.

Measure your Internet bandwidth, CPU and memory usage with this network traffic and CPU performance monitor for Windows 7/Vista/2000/XP. It's ideal to monitor the network traffic and CPU usage. New button to quickly eject USB drives, enable/disable volume and quick access to drives.


Download: Aldo's NET Monitor 2.3.0.42 (87KB)

Aci 213r-14 Pdf !new! -

ACI 213R-14 provides comprehensive guidelines on the technology and application of structural lightweight-aggregate concrete, outlining material properties, mixture proportions, and design considerations. The standard establishes requirements for concrete with a minimum 28-day strength of 17 MPa (2500 psi) and an equilibrium density between 1120 and 1920 kg/m³. For more details, visit American Concrete Institute American Concrete Institute

1.3 Definitions For the purposes of this guide, the following definitions apply: aci 213r-14 pdf

ACI 213R-14 remains the gold standard for anyone involved in the specification and use of structural lightweight concrete. By mastering the principles outlined in this guide, construction professionals can build lighter, stronger, and more efficient structures that stand the test of time. As sustainable building practices become more critical, the insights found in this ACI report will continue to play a pivotal role in the future of the built environment. Bridge construction : FRP reinforcement can be used

I cannot directly provide a PDF file or a direct download link for ACI 213R-14 ("Guide for Structural Lightweight-Aggregate Concrete") because it is a copyrighted document published by the American Concrete Institute (ACI). such as seawalls

The official ACI 213R-14 PDF is a copyrighted document available for purchase through the American Concrete Institute Store. Many engineering firms also access this through professional subscriptions like Techstreet or IHS Markit. 

Density Range: It must have an equilibrium density between 1120 and 1920 kg/m³ (approximately 70 to 120 lb/ft³). For comparison, normal-weight concrete typically ranges from 2240 to 2400 kg/m³.

• Compressive Strength: Can be designed for strengths comparable to normal-weight concrete (often up to 8,000 psi or higher).
• Modulus of Elasticity (E): Significantly lower than normal-weight concrete (usually 50% to 75% of normal weight). This results in lower stiffness, which must be accounted for in deflection calculations.
• Tensile Strength: Generally lower than normal-weight concrete, impacting shear and diagonal tension resistance.
• Creep and Shrinkage: The guide notes that creep and shrinkage can be higher than normal-weight concrete, though this varies based on the specific aggregate used.

1. Bridge construction: FRP reinforcement can be used in bridge decks, piers, and abutments to improve durability and reduce maintenance.
2. Marine structures: FRP reinforcement is ideal for marine structures, such as seawalls, jetties, and breakwaters, where corrosion is a significant concern.
3. Highway infrastructure: FRP reinforcement can be used in highway pavements, retaining walls, and sound barriers to improve durability and reduce maintenance.
4. Building construction: FRP reinforcement can be used in building frames, slabs, and foundations to improve durability and sustainability.

1. Specification Writing: An architect specified "LWC per ACI 213." The engineer needs the exact table for splitting tensile strength or modulus of elasticity to finish their calculations.
2. Troubleshooting on Site: The concrete truck just arrived, and the slump is 2 inches lower than the original order. The engineer needs the guide’s section on "slump loss" and retempering.
3. Academic Research: A student needs to cite the formula for thermal conductivity of lightweight vs. normal weight concrete.

Updated some broken links to TTS engines, included link for demo page of AT&T NaturalVoices. Use these components with Agent Reader and Aldo's Text-to-WAVE.

Aldo's Macro Recorder is an small yet powerful tool that let you record keystrokes and mouse clicks in an easy way. New: Improved macro language with more commands and support for user defined functions (subroutines), new internal web browser for web scripting, integrates Auto Type By Keyword, improved installer and more.
Update: Solved issue with macro editor



Download: Aldo's Macro Recorder 5.01 (467KB)

Convert text, web pages, PDF and MS Word documents into audible documents in WAVE, OGG or MP3 formats. Listen the text copied to the clipboard.



Download: Aldo's Text-to-WAVE 4.0.2 (646KB)
Recommended voice: AT&T NaturalVoices™

This is an updated version to 2.7 of the Adhoc Messenger 2.0 for the Playstation Portable (PSP) originally created by FaT30YCG. Changed the name to reflex the main features that I have added. New features include: Based on LUA Player HM 6.5, support for UMD ripping, internet browser, folder creation/rename/delete and bug fixes. The program has a file manager/media player/picture viewer/notepad/karaoke/system tools. Supports MP3/MOD/XM/S3M/IT/STM/MTM/669 and text files. It displays random visualizations when the lyrics TXT is not found in ms0:/LYRICS

Download: LUA Shell with Adhoc Messenger 2.7 741 KB

This is a frontend for the PS3.Proxy.Server GUI created by CF3B5, which is a program that allows to download the content from Playstation Network Store to the PC and install them later on the Playstation 3.

Download: PS3.Proxy.Server GUI Extended 1.3

It is an automatic clicker utility, ideal for cheating on some games. New: Minimize to system tray.

Download: Aldo's Click-a-Lot! 1.5 (20KB)

Aldo's Zinc Frontend simplifies the usage of ZiNc 1.1, the great emulator of Sony ZN-1 and ZN-2, Capcom, Taito, Konami, Tecmo, and Namco Systems. New: Changed GUI to listbox.

New version of the shell front end for DAEMON Tools. New: Added support for the Compressed ISO (*.isz) recently added to DAEMON Tools 4.09. Works better with DT 3.47

Increase your productivity typing your frequently typed text faster than ever, with less effort and without errors! Just create a list of short keywords and define the text or keystrokes that should be typed, and Auto Type By Keyword will type them for you. New commands: DELAY, APPACTIVATE, WAITFOR, RUN



Download: Aldo's Auto Type By Keyword 1.1 (158KB)

This is a modification of 'TheNameless Full Screen Browser portal' for the PSP Browser. FSK = Full Screen Browser + javascript Keyboard. For more info click here...

This plugin for Mozilla FireFox developed by Mathijs Lagerberg, keeps trying to access a site when it returns a "404 not found error". I have added the ability to view the cached version of the page (when it is available) using Google's cache and WayBack Machine services. This plugin is useful to see a page even if the domain is temporarily down or the page is not longer available. Rated 4.92 of 5.

Aldo's SPAM Cleaner is a tiny but powerful POP3 email client with support for multiple accounts, spam filtering, message classification by folder, view attachments and more. Protect your computer against major SPAM attacks and save lot of your time wasted reading unwanted email. It deletes automatically all the SPAM, Worms, Virus, Junk emails, Unwanted and Phishing emails, email attacks and almost anything that you define before download them from your POP3 account.


Download: Aldo's SPAM Clean 3.0 (320KB)

Useful magnifier tool for people with visual problems, teachers that don't have a projector monitor, or simply for people that like to browse the Net far away of the PC screen or in a wide-TV screen. New: 6X and 8X, removed window title, fixed mouse pointer.

New generic emulator frontend with an ultra simple user interface that can be used to play almost any emulator. New features include: Easier folder navigation, fixed animated snapshots, and other new features that I don't remember :o)

New in this version: New screen resolution 1280x800 (common resolution on new laptops), added Above Normal & Below Normal process priorities.

PCSX2 is a great Playstation2 emulator that already runs some commercial games. It requires a copy of the PS2 bios (not included with the emulator) and a high-end computer to run games at "acceptable" speed. Also try the new pSX 1.7 emulator for PSOne games.

New version of DAEMON Tools, the free Virtual DVD-ROM that let you run images of PSX games from your hard drive. Download it here. See also DAEMount 1.7.0.

Vista Transformation Pack, WMP 11, SyncToy 1.2, Virtual PC 2004

New audio/video codec packs K-Lite Codec Pack 8.4.0. Also try avidemux if you plan to reencode your movies.

New: Updated with the game list of the new MAME 0.99.

Recently added plugins: ESSSPSX Pad Plugin 1.5, Pete's GPU 1.76 plugins (OGL/D3D), Soft GPU 1.17 and GPU OGL2 2.7.

New version of this Playstation emulator developed by Xeven. Very good compatibility, neat user interface and a lot of fixes in this update.

Protect your privacy against Spyware, Parasites, Trojans, Malware, Browser hijackers, tracking components, Keyloggers, Dialers.

Download: Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4 and Ad-Aware SE 1.06

>> Other Suggested Security Related Software:
Aldo's NET Monitor 2.0 - Check your in/out network traffic.
iNET Grabber 1.2 + AWeb - Capture/Filter web content.
Agent Reader 4.1 - Popup Killer, Block HOST Address and more.
Aldo's SPAM Cleaner 2.0 - Delete email threats from POP3 server.
HOSTS Manager 1.4 - Edit blocked domains/Merge HOSTS files
HOSTS file to block ads updated 05/10/06 (Right-click to save as HOSTS)
In Windows 2000/XP, to prevent browser slowdowns you should disable the DNS Client Service if you have a large HOSTS file

Web screen capture, block banners/graphics, merge multiple web pages and more.

Download: iNET Grabber 1.2 (315KB)

A new version of Adobe Acorbat Reader is available. New: Play back a variety of embedded multimedia content, built-in search and accessibility capabilities, organize eBooks, photo albums and more.. Compare prices: while Adobe ask US$9.99/monthly to create PDF, with Aldo's Text-PDF PRO+ you can create unlimited graphic albums and convert text files into PDF.

New BETA feature from Google Labs™ that automatically suggests you what to search while you type, making your search even faster! Also try Lost Goggles™ plugin, which add even more features to your search.

This unofficial patch will fix the limitation of 10 concurrent incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts imposed by XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), that prevents worms spread quickly on the Internet but also the SP2 make P2P applications (Kazaa, Ares, eMule, etc.) slow and virtually unusable for some users.

Pianito is a very intuitive and funny piano simulator great to learn music. Recommended for children and adults. New: Setup wizard for easier installation, improved chords playback, associate keys to wave effects and more. Check the new feature that allows you to play any MP3, Wave or MIDI file in background as your music rythm.




Download: Aldo's Pianito 3.5 144KB

BadIPUpdater is a tool that automatically keep updated the list of bad IP addresses banned by Kazaa Lite K++ 2.4.3. New: PGdb url history, prevent multiple updates in a single day, bug fix in PGdbDelimiter.

Download: Bad IP Updater 1.5 (96KB)

New: filter option that allows to replace text dinamically without having to modify the source file, support for up to 5 millions pages, more information about the command line parameters and two new optional parameters in the ActiveX version. Text-PDF PRO+ converts plain-text, formatted text using HTML-like tags and image files to PDF.

Download: Aldo's Text-PDF PRO+ 2.1 (251KB)
Download: Aldo's Text-PDF PRO+ 2.1 SDK ActiveX (177KB)

New version of the PSX movie and audio player: PsxMC 2.53 (freeware) and PsxMC 3.23 (shareware).

New: Fixed HTML importer for Game Shark Code Creators Club. [pec] is a GameShark emulator for Playstation emulators like ePSXe, VGS, Bleem and others.

Download: PEC Database Editor 2.1 (159KB)
Related Link: [pec] by Jens Duttke and DaNiL

New version of the driver to connect PSX pad in your parallel port. Includes schematics of Russian Direct Pad Pro 6.0, a translation of the publication in a magazine RADIO 12-2003.
Thanks to Roman Sergeenko for the news.

New: Added support for VirtuaNES, Nestopia, RockNESX. GoEmu is a generic, simple and universal front end for popular emulators like MAME, Snes9x, ZSnes, Project64, Gens, Nebula, VisualBoy.

New: Support for the new filters of VisualBoy Advance SDL 1.7

Edit and update your Windows HOSTS file with new websites/servers names without losing or duplicating your existing entries.

New: Updated with new features of Aldo's Macro Recorder 4.1, New memory usage chart in Free Memory tool, improved set windows always on top, Customizable action for left click on system tray icon of Agent Reader.. Other new features include support for TTS voices compliant with SAPI 5.1 and SAPI 4.0 and voice activated macros. For more information on required components and new features click here.


Download: Agent Reader 4.1 (712KB)
Requires: MS Agent components for Agent Reader and Aldo's TTW

Latest News: Updated GAMES.TXT 1.42.

New tool that modify the GUI of Kazaa / Kazaa Lite K++: transparency, multi window interface, hide the toolbars and player, and make it always visible.

The new macro examples file, now include 32 macro scripts that demonstrate the flexibility of Aldo's Macro Recorder 4.1 or use them to learn how the custom macros can be created.

No, this don't cure amnesia... but helps monitoring and increasing the free physical RAM available for Windows applications.

New: Fixed the Video button that was not working with ePSXe 1.6.

KTool is a customizable toolbar/macro, file organizer, popup killer and web address bar with many other features for Kazaa Lite. New: Integrated with Kazaa GUI Hacker 1.5 and kazap 0.3b+, add support for kazap on Kazaa Lite K++ 2.4.3, updated the start page.

Download: KTool - Kazaa Lite Toolbar 2.0a (250KB)

New: Updated to support the new features of SMS Plus/SDL r7.1.

The [pec] home page is back again. [pec] is an advanced cheater tool for PSX emulators.

Download: [pec] The Plugin v2.4 & Interface 2002.2
Related Link: [pec] Cheat Database Editor 2.1

Have you ever wanted to join small demo moviez in a single file? This small tool does the job, just select the splitted MPG files in Windows Explorer and drag & drop them over the Moviez window.

Download: Join MPG Moviez 1.0 (6KB)