tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81532232012-02-16T21:06:18.313-07:00Adventures in geek. Information Technology topics, tools and things I find of interest in my travels.Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.comBlogger2091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-20463088629476601062010-08-06T16:30:00.002-06:002010-08-06T16:33:19.545-06:00

"System resources, such as file data, registry data, and even in-memory data, can develop inconsistencies during the lifetime of the operating system. These inconsistencies might be caused by various hardware failures or might be caused by software issues. In some cases, these inconsistencies can affect the Windows servicing store, and they can cause software updates not to work. The System

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OutlookTempCleaner is a support tool for Microsoft Office Outlook. It gives you easy access to the Temp folder that Outlook uses to open attachments. It further allows you to automate maintenance to it via Windows's Scheduled Tasks.Main Program FeaturesEasy access to Outlook's SecureTempFolder used for opening attachmentsDetermination of the current size of the folderEmpty the folderCommand line

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"Used by millions of home users around the world, the Secunia PSI is a free security tool designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer against vulnerabilities in programs."Free for personal use. Both Microsoft and non-Microsoft software. Windows only.

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"Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Portable out of the box.Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. It's small and starts up very fast. It's designed for portable use: only one file so you can run it from external USB drive. Doesn't write to registry."

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“The Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web based tool that's designed to help IT administrators to troubleshoot connectivity issues with their Exchange Server deployments. It allows administrators to test connectivity to their Exchange domains remotely from outside of their organizations internal networks. In order to use this tool, you must enter the credentials of a working account from the

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Ubuntu can play many non-free media formats such as Flash, MP3, Quicktime, WMV, DVD, etc. These formats are not supported "out of the box" due to various conflicts in licensing philosophies but they can be installed with a simple command entered in a terminal window:sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extrasThis link indicates that this is for Ubuntu 9.04, 8.10, 8.04 but it worked for my 9.10

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"Stop Spam with the Anti-Spam-SMTP-Proxy (ASSP)Want to put an end to SPAM? Try the deadly poison of ASSP! Congratulations! You have just found the absolute best SPAM fighting weapon that the world has ever known! When it comes to killing SPAM nothing is as deadly as an ASSP! Check out the ASSP project site at sourceforge.net! "http://assp.sourceforge.net/

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"VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an

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http://sixrevisions.com/resources/15-best-places-for-designers-to-get-free-stock-photos-online/"I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a look at the prices on some non-stock photography sites (pictures of Gummy bears for $769.00 anyone?), but they reach far beyond the budget of the typical designer/developer. However, many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the

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KeePass is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.What is KeePass?Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage's FTP password, online passwords (like website member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you

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Macrium Reflect is an image backup program. There is a free Edition (for personal use).Absolutely free! No strings! The only free XP and Vista compatible disk imaging software with BartPE and Linux based recovery options. Create a disk image whilst running Windows using Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS). Image to Network, USB, FireWire drives and DVD. Built in scheduler. 32

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"Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’

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Openfiler is an open-source "storage management operating system" that takes the Linux OS and makes it into a SAN controller. It can all be configured with a web browser. It can act as both SAN or NAS. It supports multiple iSCSI targets with multiple LUNs.A Step-By-Step OpenFiler tutorial by David Davis: “Use OpenFiler as your Free VMware ESX SAN Server“ and how to configure for a static

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Since I'm looking at eBay tonight, another utility: jBidWatcherA Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you're not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management, MANY currencies (pound, dollar (US, Canada, Australian, and New Taiwanese) and euro, presently), drag-and-drop of auction

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If you like to shop on eBay, give the free eBay Desktop a try. It's faster and has a few useful features that the web-based version does not.

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YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox add-on that:filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. You can choose to have any of the following rules mark a comment for removal: More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox's built-in spell checker. All capital letters No capital letters Doesn't start with a capital letter Excessive

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Startup Delayer by r2 Studios purports to speed up windows boot-up time. Reviewed by PCWorld and highly rated.From the r2 web site:When Windows loads it's Startup file, it attempts to load every program in there at the same time. Therefore if you have quite a lot of programs starting when Windows starts, each program will try and grab CPU time so that it can load.If each program tries to do

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Prezi - an interesting-looking presentation tool. An interesting and creative PowerPoint alternative? Free, online version.

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Balsamiq Mockups is both a desktop application and online tool for designing user interface (UI) mockups. It sports a simple and powerful interface that makes for quick UI design and idea communication.An even better option: iPlotz

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"R-Studio is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software. Empowered by the new unique data recovery technologies, it is the most comprehensive data recovery solution for recovery files from FAT12/16/32, NTFS, NTFS5 (created or updated by Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista), HFS/HFS+ (Macintosh), Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris)

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This utility purports to streamline the initial patching process for a fresh Windows OS install. You download a whole mess of things and burn them to a CD, then answer some questions and the process is supposed to be fairly automated. I haven't tried it yet but if using a slower internet connection or doing multiple machines this could help a ton.

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Panda Cloud Antivirus is a free, light weight AV system that leverages the internet "cloud" to do its thing. I have tried it on a couple of machines (one with fairly minimal horsepower) and it seems to work well. Currently in beta.

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The CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a DirectShow filter pack.

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DiskDigger is "an all-in-one undelete and recover utility that’s simple, straightforward, easy to use, and most importantly, free!"DiskDigger can recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc), and of course your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers include photos, videos, music,

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EveryDNS.net provides free DNS services.static DNS services as well as many advanced services such as Dynamic DNSresolution, Secondary service, AXFR service, and domain2web redirection

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DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.This free (for home users) application performs the same task as Ghost; it creates exact hard drive images for archiving or migration.

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InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

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Interesting article with some good suggestions.

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Use this link to test a machine for Conficker infection:http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.htmlSince the Conficker worm blocks access to certain security sites, this can be used to determine infection. The page above consists of linked images from these security sites. So, if your PC can display the images, it is not infected . . . .

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My friend Ron introduced me to a free utility from Microsoft called RichCopy via a TechNet article. It is described as "An advanced alternative to RoboCopy".From the TechNet article: RichCopy is a free utility that comes to us from Ken Tamaru of Microsoft. The tool was first developed in 2001 and has been updated regularly to keep pace with evolving needs. Trust me when I tell you, this is the

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"Got an aging Windows laptop or desktop computer, but money's too tight to buy a new one? Fret not. There's plenty of life in your old PC. It may seem sluggish and on the point of expiring, and its hard disk may be nearly full to bursting, but there's plenty you can do to clean it up, speed it up and give it new life."Link

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PDF-XChange Viewer is "smaller, faster, and more feature rich than the Adobe reader". It is free for private and commercial use. Additional features are also available in the pro version that they sell.In addition to all the standard features here are some of the features available in the PDF-XChange FREE Viewer Add Comments and Annotations to any PDF file (subject to security settings) -

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TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.

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http://clonezilla.org/Open Source alternative to clone utilities such as Norton Ghost, Partition Image, etc.Drive imaging program, bare metal backup and recovery.

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I have had multiple occasions when upgrading VMware Player, Server, etc. where the process goes wrong and leaves me unable to cleanly uninstall or re-install.It happened again today. This time I was installing VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and it wanted to uninstall Vmware Player first. Well this failed and now I couldn't install either app.A little digging and I found a knowledge base article:

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While using Access 2003 to create a report to print on 4" x 6" labels on my SATO GL 408e label printer, I ran across some very strange problems with margins.I had created a custom paper size in the print driver on my print server (called custom stock in SATO lingo) and things seemed to be OK as I could see the new paper size in Access. The problems started when I tried to adjust the report

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A minor thing but I wanted to use a favicon for our new Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access site (also known as OWA or Outlook Anywhere). It was significantly harder to find the answer to this one than I expected . . . eventually, the secret was found on this developer forum posting. The (slightly modified) answer:This is done by modifying the asp file for the logon page.Locate the

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"This site helps you search for errors that other people have encountered. Someone's bound to have run into your error before, right?"There's also a Firefox extension with this description:Search the world's database of error solutions and the web simultaneously. Later, provide your solutions to help the next poor soul.The goal: No human should work on an error that has already been solved.

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Zamzar allows you to upload a file and convert it from one format to another. The list of supported file types is quite lengthy.

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Sometimes it's convenient to have a web-based option to deposit large files. This can facilitate the transfer of files that are too large to e-mail, etc.4Shared - 5 GB of space, private or shared, max. 100MB, files deleted after 30 daysDropBoks - 1 GB, simple site, no sharing yetOpenomy - 1 GB free, can share via linksBox.net - 1 GB free, can share, max. 25MBDropBox - Installed app, sychs, 2 GB

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An excellent blog posting describing may useful Exchange Management Shell "one-liners":http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/05/428833.aspxTo grant full mailbox access permission:Add-MailboxPermission [MAILBOX] -AccessRights FullAccess -user jcross

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Bug Shooting is "a free screenshot utility that was developed for software testers who use bug tracking systems including FogBugz, Gemini, Ontime and BugTracker.NET. Screenshots can also be sent to Skype or a default E-Mail application (e.g., Outlook).Since screenshots are frequently used to show system bugs or to reproduce the steps for a failed test, it is often very helpful to highlight,

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In no particular order:AVGComodo - includes firewall as wellAvira AntiVirMoonSecure - open source. Uses ClamAV.avast!Note that some are free for home use only.

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Infected with Spyware / Malware? Try some of these online tools:Ewido (Internet Explorer Only). There is a downloadable tool as well.Trend Micro HouseCallKaspersky Online Scanner

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"Initialization Error 0x80040FF2"!!You could try the Windows Update Troubleshooter (Internet Explorer only).But you might want to try this firs: DjLizard's Dial-a-fix"Dial-a-fix is an advanced utility for 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows written by DjLizard in Borland Delphi 7 that repairs various Windows problems, such as: Windows Update errors and problems with Automatic Updates SSL,

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Free file transfer services:www.box.netwww.SendSpace.comwww.SendThisFile.comwww.YouSendIt.com

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Did you know that Firefox is by default optimized for dial-up?!? Here's how to fix that:Type into the address bar about:configFilter for network.httpSet network.http.pipelining to true Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a higher number than the default of 4. Try 15.Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to trueCreate a new integer value called nglayout.initialpaintdelay and set it to 0

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An excellent article from Jose Barreto, a technical specialist on Microsoft's storage team.

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WinDV is a small and easy to use Windows application for capturing videos from DV device (camcorder) into AVI-files and for recording AVI-files into DV device via FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface. Capturing is very reliable thanks to use of large buffer queue. Timestamps recorded on DV tape by camcorder can be used to automatically split captured video into multiple files. During transmitting to

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"File Shredder is free desktop application for shredding (destroying) unwanted files beyond recovery."This tool allows you to shred single files, entire folders, or all free space on a hard drive.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-7565513654100490092008-09-07T14:36:00.001-06:002008-09-07T14:47:53.905-06:00

"ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder."ISO Recorder adds an option to the right-click context menu of ISO files. It

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-36921384168798048342008-09-07T14:25:00.000-06:002008-09-07T14:35:06.093-06:00

Certain versions of Microsoft Vista (Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate) offer a utility called Shadow Copy. This allows the user to right-click a file and choose to "Restore Previous Versions" - a very handy thing to be able to do when things have gone horribly wrong!Did you know that lesser versions of Vista (Home Basic and Home Premium) also store previous versions of files but do not provide

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-14210086664719381492008-09-07T14:21:00.000-06:002008-09-07T14:25:05.026-06:00

"FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word/PowerPoint document or upload them to your

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-75943828364747684072008-09-02T10:23:00.000-06:002008-09-02T10:26:11.375-06:00

Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool"Use the Exchange Server Public Folder Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV)-based Administration tool (PFDAVAdmin) to perform various management tasks related to public folders and mailboxes. The tool checks the permissions status of each public and mailbox folder and corrects any problems found. The ability to bulk export

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-77144308662070495962008-08-09T13:41:00.001-06:002008-08-09T13:47:00.889-06:00

"OpenWengo is a community of enthusiasts and developers, creating free software products related to communication over IP. The flagship product of the OpenWengo project is a softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place."WengoPhone is a communication tool based on the SIP protocol. "It is more than just VoIP software:

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-89320871787690201902008-08-09T13:36:00.000-06:002008-08-09T13:40:34.058-06:00

Jing is "the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere."A simple to use program to capture screen shots and video, Jing allows you to distribute via:Screencast.comLocal folder or network shareClipboard (images only)FTP serverFlickrIt's currently free. :)

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-75204456702820746852008-07-27T09:29:00.000-06:002008-07-27T09:31:31.011-06:00

"BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.Given the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now practical and cost effective to backup a large number of machines onto a server's local disk or network storage. This is what BackupPC does.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-21556767544339834802008-07-04T14:39:00.000-06:002008-07-04T14:42:17.558-06:00

Visio competitor, SmartDraw allows you to draw:FlowchartsOrg ChartsProject TimelinesGantt ChartsMarketing Charts Bar Graphs & Pie Charts Forms Floor Plans Scheduling Calendars and much moreFree trial available and then approx. $300.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-22694133814394441662008-07-04T13:10:00.000-06:002008-07-04T13:15:03.707-06:00

Books Online for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the primary documentation for SQL Server 2008. Books Online includes the following types of information:Setup and upgrade instructions.Information about new features and backward compatibility.Conceptual descriptions of the technologies and features in SQL Server 2008.Procedural topics describing how to use the various features in SQL Server 2008.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-7278452294976173802008-06-17T17:53:00.000-06:002008-06-17T17:57:49.875-06:00

From a recent TechNet Flash:Windows Search just got better. Windows Search 4.0 is now available for download. With it you can expect better indexing performance, support for the remote query of shared index locations, per-user group policy settings, and more. To try it out, select from the following operating environments:Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Windows Search

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-49964162138084140332008-06-17T17:49:00.000-06:002008-06-17T17:53:01.103-06:00

From a recent TechNet Flash:If you’re a fan of the Sysinternals tools, check out the beta of Sysinternals Live, a service that makes it easy for you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool’s Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer, or at the command prompt as \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\, or view the entire

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-89494278175518371432008-06-04T09:13:00.001-06:002008-06-04T11:04:03.784-06:00

"Info-ZIP's purpose is to provide free, portable, high-quality versions of the Zip and UnZip compressor-archiver utilities that are compatible with the DOS-based PKZIP by PKWARE, Inc."Tony uses zip32.dll and unzip32.dll in some of his applications - for DB backup and restore purposes.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-87517927858612130652008-05-25T15:19:00.000-06:002008-05-25T15:21:50.088-06:00

From a PCWorld Article I read recently:Test the speed of a flash USB drive with this freebie. The faster your flash drive, the more smoothly programs will run. When shopping for a drive, look at the specs and try to find one with a read rate of 15 Mbps (megabits per second or 1.9 MB/sec) or faster. If you already have a flash drive, you can test its speed with a free utility like

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-27837029171654480722008-05-25T14:56:00.000-06:002008-05-25T15:16:27.904-06:00

Some flash drives (AKA USB memory sticks, thumb drives, pen drives, etc.) come with a utility called U3 LaunchPad. Many devices from SanDisk and others come with this software. Like PortableApps, U3 allows you to use both files and applications from your portable drive.If you decide not to use U3, try the U3 Launchpad Removal Tool - for SanDisk drives and for non-SanDisk drives.If you change

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-66749606012524232922008-05-18T10:24:00.000-06:002008-05-18T10:26:22.728-06:00

http://portableapps.com/"ConvenientNow you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.OpenPortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). It's open source built

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-41551662545796119532008-05-17T17:40:00.000-06:002008-05-17T17:42:33.061-06:00

http://www.saferdomainsearch.com"A safer place to check for domain availability. A safe domain search. Please only use this website if you want to check if a domain is available. Do not use other websites unless they offer some guarantee that they do not share their domain lookup logs with 3rd parties."

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-84012987516436240502008-04-27T08:07:00.000-06:002008-04-27T08:09:28.731-06:00

"Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your computer against virus."

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-54842116358218859342008-04-26T11:25:00.000-06:002008-04-26T11:34:32.626-06:00

Media playback on Windows (and other) PDAs - works with Shift voice mail WAV files.The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) is a software media player. Supported operating systems include Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Smartphone, Palm OS and Symbian OS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core_Pocket_Media_Player http://tcpmp.en.softonic.com/pocket http://www.hpcfactor.com/downloads/

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-69552681184243561622008-04-24T20:10:00.002-06:002008-04-24T21:12:44.406-06:00

I had a bizarre incident today where one of my member servers (a terminal server) suddenly stopped allowing people to log on - giving a message indicating that the domain controller could not be contacted or there was a problem with the computer account. Turns out that the computer account for the server was no longer present in Active Directory Users and Computers.Dennis found an article

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-25793831503342704192008-04-23T21:21:00.000-06:002008-04-23T21:24:06.678-06:00

Use the GuerrillaMail site to create and use a disposable temporary e-mail address. Addresses are valid in increments of 15 minutes and are accessible via the web site. Handy.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-78294205288214400152008-04-23T21:08:00.000-06:002008-04-23T21:09:45.747-06:00

http://sectools.org/

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-23123405577282618992008-04-23T20:56:00.000-06:002008-04-23T20:58:18.160-06:00

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/ Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. This is the best Windows software that we know of. No adware, no spyware, just good software.A great list of great software.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-19595544249591066312008-04-21T20:18:00.001-06:002008-04-21T20:35:16.907-06:00

"Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders....plus loads more!"Works great and doesn't even need to be installed.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-66717308072289603102008-03-26T16:37:00.000-06:002008-03-26T16:41:33.791-06:00

"Create Scheduled Tasks To Copy, Ftp, Encrypt, Zip, And Email FilesAutomate Copy, Ftp, Encryption, Zip, And Email TasksPacked with features, the NTS File Mover can help you to automate all of your daily, weekly, and monthly file tasks:No need to struggle with writing batch files or trying to learn complicated scripting languages.Create scheduled tasks in minutes with a few clicks of the

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-27862766194010679622008-03-22T08:03:00.000-06:002008-03-22T08:05:51.292-06:00

"The PC Decrapifier will uninstall many of the common trialware and annoyances found on many of the PCs from big name OEMs. Below is the current list of software and items that the PC Decrapifier can detect and remove. You get to see the list of items it detects and then choose what will be removed automatically."

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-42611298733529469242008-02-02T12:17:00.000-07:002008-02-02T12:24:58.325-07:00

Nmap Free Security Scanner, Tools & Hacking Resources: http://insecure.org/

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-79978292179313646182008-02-02T09:42:00.000-07:002008-02-02T09:44:11.265-07:00

" . . . allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs. Specific features vary by program."Discussion:http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/access/ha101675271033.aspxDownload:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-79227263218659478042008-01-29T19:14:00.000-07:002008-01-29T19:18:02.009-07:00

"In general terms, DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program. Let's say you have to backup one file that is 500 MB every night. A normal file copy would copy the entire file even if a few bytes have changed. DeltaCopy, on the other hand, would only copy the part of file that has actually been modified. This reduces the data transfer to just a small fraction of 500 MB saving

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-39762521753209791252008-01-23T10:02:00.000-07:002008-01-23T10:06:28.931-07:00

"You create documents in Microsoft Word, spare no effort to produce proper headings, lists of contents, links and cross references, an index, and want to pass on the document as PDF file? You want to produce rich PDF files which contain all meta information from your Word document as bookmarks, hyperlinks, comments etc.? You look for a solution that costs little or even nothing?Your solution

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-81020746714347292882008-01-23T09:59:00.000-07:002008-01-23T10:01:19.474-07:00

"wxCommunicator is a cross platform open source SIP softphone enabling users to make multiple calls, use several accounts, chat and create conferences. It is very configurable and should work with any VoIP provider. It is based on customized sipXtapi client library and wxWidgets 2.8.x GUI library and distributed under GNU GPL version 2 license."

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-72667004336271110602007-12-30T15:39:00.000-07:002007-12-30T15:42:16.976-07:00

OpenVPN - An Open Source SSL VPN Solution by James Yonan"OpenVPN is a full-featured SSL VPN solution which can accomodate a wide range of configurations, including remote access, site-to-site VPNs, WiFi security, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls"

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-7843204390882698732007-12-30T15:34:00.000-07:002007-12-30T15:39:01.198-07:00

Speedtest.net - A free bandwidth speed testing site with a very slick interface."Speedtest.net is a broadband connection analysis tool with a huge selection of geographically dispersed testing servers."

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-87409910837403646382007-10-24T09:01:00.000-06:002007-10-24T09:03:50.438-06:00

"Free WinUnRAR is a little and easy to use utility. If you have it installed, you are able to decompress '.RAR' files in a fast and simple way (shell context menu - right click on file)."Works great. A nice alternative to commercial products such as WinRAR when all you need to do is decompress the occasional RAR compressed file.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-36820011980164009512007-10-15T10:45:00.000-06:002007-10-15T10:48:01.977-06:00

"ICSWEEP is a command-line utility to clear the Temporary Internet Files cache of ALL user profiles that are NOT in use when this command is executed.This utility was written for the purpose of allowing a SINGLE command to identify and clear Temporary Internet Files cache of ALL user profiles currently NOT in use. This tool could be simply run from the command line at any time, or added as a

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-22830279129203913602007-10-03T11:55:00.000-06:002007-10-03T11:59:46.274-06:00

Inkscape is "An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-49632199320799832202007-09-17T09:37:00.000-06:002007-09-17T09:40:47.866-06:00

Miro - free, open source internet tv and video player."Play virtually any type of video file."

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-35965278838006818662007-09-16T20:12:00.001-06:002008-09-19T16:52:34.084-06:00

"ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task:Read - Read a disc to an image fileBuild - Create an image file (ISO) from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a discWrite - Write an image file (ISO) to a discVerify - Check a

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-71286821767834483182007-08-31T15:36:00.000-06:002007-08-31T15:38:08.182-06:00

"Alfresco is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging."Seems to have good workflow support. Interesting use of regular file system and folders interface.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-18818342552064487662007-08-31T15:32:00.000-06:002007-08-31T15:35:47.108-06:00

"MailArchiva is a state-of-the-art email archiving system for companies of all sizes. It works in conjunction with popular mail systems, such as a Microsoft Exchange, to archive all incoming, outgoing and internal emails."

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-24003129246584842007-08-08T08:47:00.000-06:002007-08-08T08:54:49.454-06:00

Foxit Software - PDF ToolsA whole array of free and not free PDF reading, creating, editing tools including (among others):Foxit Reader - a small fast, free PDF readerFoxit PDF Editor - allows editing of PDF page contents (not free)Foxit PDF Page Organizer - split, merge, re-arrange pages, etc. (not free)

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-69901092787261419622007-08-08T08:37:00.000-06:002007-08-08T08:39:21.706-06:00

"The Alberta Recycling Management Authority (Alberta Recycling) is the not-for-profitorganization responsible for managing Alberta’s tire and electronics recycling programs. Knownsimply as “Alberta Recycling,” the organization reports to the Minister of Environment and is runby a Board of Directors representing many stakeholder groups."

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-71001761519767164132007-07-31T11:51:00.000-06:002007-07-31T12:08:08.818-06:00

SpamTitan is "the most comprehensive solution to email threats on the market today". I have implemented this solution to provide "protection from Viruses, Spam, Malware, Phishing and unwanted content" and it works very well. I used the VMware virtual machine image and converted it to run on ESX server.The interface is very impressive and setup was quite straight forward - no reading of the

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-1294561962785767072007-07-18T10:52:00.000-06:002007-07-18T10:55:11.605-06:00

"NASLite-2 CDD is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server Operating System designed to transform a basic computer into a dedicated SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTP and RSYNC file server. NASLite-2 CDD is specifically designed to boot directly from a CD-ROM and is intended for use in any low-security environment or application that requires the simultaneous availability of large amounts of inexpensive

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-65983386733057607062007-07-10T17:08:00.000-06:002007-07-10T17:14:48.919-06:00

Iperf is "a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss."This is an interesting tool used to test network throughput. I stumbled across it in an Ars Technica Forum thread.The recommended syntax and options (from the Ars thread):server: iperf -sclient: iperf -c server -l 64k -t 15 -i

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-17364812300826033712007-07-09T09:55:00.000-06:002007-07-09T10:09:35.910-06:00

"Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for UNIX, OS X and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet." It's a packet sniffer.Formerly known as 'Ethereal'. Project Page.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-61749535297170353372007-07-08T18:03:00.000-06:002007-07-08T18:13:53.885-06:00

Remember Scorched Earth? The wonderful and addictive little DOS-based game where two players operating tanks lob artillery shells (etc.) at each other?Well, I stumbled accross the SourceForge Project of the Month for May, 2007, Scorched3D:"Scorched3D is a 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth.Scorched3D can be played against the computer, other players and remotely acrossthe

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-12543291944281083852007-06-07T11:06:00.000-06:002007-06-07T11:07:30.683-06:00

VMTSPatchManager -- "The 'Windows Update' for ESX 3.x""VMTS Patch Manager addresses a critical need for VMware customers, allowing automatic (or manual) patching of ESX Servers platforms."Free and looks very slick. Runs on Windows platform using BITS service.

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-84424839614630091462007-05-28T14:27:00.000-06:002007-05-28T14:28:53.322-06:00

CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.Project Site

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-23656931105512051902007-05-05T08:40:00.000-06:002007-05-05T08:45:48.544-06:00

"Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin can work with: AIMBonjourGadu-GaduGroupwiseICQ IRCMSNQQSILCSIMPLE SametimeXMPPYahoo!Zephyr"Formerly GAIM, Pidgin 2.0 is a feature rich client for Windows, Linux, BSD, etc.ArsTechnica review

Jim Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800561901766338752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153223.post-91175488819869330772007-05-04T16:22:00.000-06:002007-06-07T11:07:54.559-06:00

Riley writes:"I found a great, free, application that webifies galleries very quickly, and very nicely. www.jalbum.net"I checked out their site and some sample galleries and it looks great! Sure can't beat the price.

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