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Network Lights lets you monitor network activity from your keyboard

December 7, 2009
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Network Lights is a Windows program, which blinks keyboard LEDs Light Emitting Diode indicating outgoing and incoming network packets on network interface. Network Lights lets you monitor network activity upload/download from your keyboard ScrollLock and NumLock indicators. Each LED will flicker when network traffic is detected.
“I’d recommend against running Network Lights on a laptop which [...]

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Even Microsoft says IE6 must Die!

December 1, 2009
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Stephen Shankland over at CNET informs us that Microsoft is actively urging IE 6 users to upgrade. (If they allowed Windows 2000 users to upgrade to IE7 they wouldn’t be in this mess. They created their own monster in my opinion.)
Microsoft has begun a campaign to actively urge users [...]

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Pulse 2.1.2.4 Open Source Computer System Management Now Available

November 21, 2009
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Pulse 2 helps organizations ranging from dozens to 100 000+ heterogeneous computers to inventory, maintain, update and take full control on their IT assets. It has been designed to handle 100 000+ computers spread on many sites.  It supports heterogeneous platforms such as MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Mandriva, Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu., etc.), Mac OSX, HP-UX, IBM [...]

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Open source Adobe Reader alternative Sumatra PDF Speeds things up

November 20, 2009
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Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad hit another home run:
“Adobe has done a lot to improve Reader in recent versions. I’m more than happy to run an open source alternative, however. Sumatra PDF is ridiculously small (a 1.2Mb download), lightweight, and handles the PDFs I throw at it without skipping a beat.
Today, Sumatra has finally hit [...]

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How to Password Protect any Image File in Windows

November 18, 2009
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Amit Banerjee over at Techie Buzz found a cool little Windows App called Lock Image:
You can lock any image file with a password just as you lock files and folders in your computer. Lock Image is yet another portable application for windows that converts an image into an exe file and password [...]

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Comodo Easy VPN is a fast, free Hamachi alternative for Windows

November 11, 2009
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Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad writes how he previously used a combination of Hamachi and UltraVNC for hassle-free remote support setups. At the time (again, this was a long time ago), Hamachi had a lot of reliability and speed issues – so he ended up switching to TeamViewer. That is until Lee discovered Comodo’s free [...]

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10 Applications that can help you with Personal Information Management

November 9, 2009
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Lets face it, Post-It notes are great and convenient for jotting down notes, ideas, todo’s etc. But at the same time they can really suck and become totally impractical (when it comes to trying to find that one post-it). Personal Information Management (PIM) is very important to me.  Any given day I can have up [...]

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10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass

November 5, 2009
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Ben Dowling at Six Revisions wrote a great article about free network monitoring tools. When you have a website or a network, it’s helpful to be aware of any issues as soon as they occur. There are open source and freeware server/network monitoring tools that will supervise your infrastructure for any issues that may arise. [...]

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