Archive for the 'Utilities' Category

WordPress For Android

No Commented February 3 2010
Categorized Under: Geek, Media, Software, Technical, Utilities, Web

Simple and clean, WordPress for Android is a free download available here. Or, if you are an iPhone type, there is an app for that too.

Novell has a Wave?

3 Commented January 6 2010
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, Software, Techonomics, Utilities, Web

A friend sent this to me last night. I have been complaining about Novell for months now. It looks like Novell has been working on a real time collaboration tool for quite some time now. Honestly it looks better than Wave and has more functionality (please forgive me oh great Google gods). According to sources [...]

VM Fusion Brings OSX and Win 7 Together

one Commented October 28 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, OS, Software, Technical, Utilities, Web

If you’ve tried to run Win 7 with all the bells and whistles in an OSX environment, you’ve undoubtedly come up against a few problems. Have no fear VMware is here. Fusion 3 has some fantastic updates that will allow you to run Win 7 64 bit with Areo and Flip 3-D. Fusion 3 has [...]

Hot Key Haven for Windows 7

5 Commented October 27 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, OS, Software, Technical, Utilities

A fairly complete list of hot keys for Win 7: Basic Shortcuts F1 Display Help Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+Insert) Copy the selected item Ctrl+X Cut the selected item Ctrl+V (or Shift+Insert) Paste the selected item Ctrl+Z Undo an action Ctrl+Y Redo an action Delete (or Ctrl+D) Delete the selected item and move it to the Recycle [...]

Microsoft: IIS Flaw Found

No Commented September 1 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, Hacks, Malware, Software, Technical, Utilities, Web

Monday Microsoft hit us with yet another announcement of yet another Microsoft service that has been found to be vulnerable. IIS 5 ans IIS 6 File Transfer Protocol has not been attacked yet but has flaws allowing a possible attack. Code for attacking this weak spot have been posted on Milw0rm.org. Only older versions of [...]

Google Listen

No Commented August 21 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, Music, Utilities, Web

Google Listen is a new app for the android platform for listening to podcasts and general audio feeds on the tubes. Google claims that they will index ALL web audio in the future. Right now the podcasts etc. are fairly limited but it is “brand spanking shiny car” new From the Labs Page. “Listen is [...]

Vanish your online data

No Commented July 22 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, Twitter, Utilities, Web

Vanish is a project where you set a timer on a blog post, email or even a facebook entry. When the timer runs out the information is encrypted and no one can read it afterwards. Sounds good to me. From the website: “For example, using the Firefox Vanish plugin, a user can create an email, [...]

TweetDeck for the iPhone and more!

one Commented June 16 2009
Categorized Under: Gear, Geek, Twitter, Utilities, Web

UPDATE: Tweetdeck did not jump the shark with their new iPhone app and updates to the desktop version. They jumped in the pool, wrestled the shark by hand and ripped it’s eyes out, sucking the little sharkbrain out of the sockets for good measure. I have been on the iPhone app for several hours now [...]

Symantec and Mcafee Fraud Scandal

one Commented June 10 2009
Categorized Under: Software, Techonomics, Utilities

Both of the software security companies have agreed to settle a NYC lawsuit costing them $375,000 each. Both firms were sued by the NYC District Attorney General Andrew M Cuomo for automatically charging customers for subscription renewals that they had inadvertently agreed to. The charges were hidden in a long webpage or in the terms [...]

Softperfect Network Scanner – A Review

No Commented June 10 2009
Categorized Under: Hacks, Technical, Utilities

When I discovered Softperfect Network Scanner while at work on day I thought I had died and gone to that great blade server in the sky. It will scan though a whole subnet or domain. It will tell you the logged on user, OS, MAC, ping time and of course host name. You can drill [...]