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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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Device Doctor – Free Driver Update Software for Windows

November 28, 2009
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Device Doctor is a freeware/donationware Windows application that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for your devices. It also locates drivers for “unidentified devices” in the Windows Device Manager. Device Doctor queries their own manufacturer driver database and immediately fetches the correct driver files for your [...]

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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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RackTables, a nifty solution for datacenter/server-room asset management

November 8, 2009
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Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration, etc.
Lots of system and network administrators come to the point where they have to maintain quite complex documentation of the racks, devices, links and network resources they have in [...]

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Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash

November 7, 2009
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Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad tells us that making a bootable USB flash drive for Windows Vista and Windows 7 isn’t all that tricky, but it’s always nice to find an app that simplifies things. Not only does WinToFlash make the process about as easy as it can get, but it can also create Windows [...]

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Mozilla’s Thunderbird Team looks toward the cloud with Raindrop

November 6, 2009
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For almost all of its existence, Mozilla Messaging has been known for Thunderbird e-mail software with the traditional view that a person’s PC is the center of their computing existence.
Now, though, the Mozilla Foundation subsidiary’s scope is expanding beyond the confines of the computer under your desk or on your lap. In the near term, [...]

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10 tech mistakes small businesses make (and how IT consultants can help clients avoid them)

November 1, 2009
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Small businesses must concentrate their time and energy on knowing their own industry — and that often means that effective technology practices get overlooked. Erik Eckel over at Tech Republic explains the most common tech missteps he’s encountered, along with preventive measures to protect businesses and prevent serious problems.
“In today’s microwave society — in which [...]

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