Archive for October, 2007

Get Swishy With It

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Swish is a low cost flash design solution for webmaster who want Flash animation on their sites can be deterred by the high cost of the premier Flash authoring programs.

On the other hand, some of the low-cost software solutions really don’t do very much. A program I’ve used for years, Swish, available for download at […]

Take Your Junk With You - Mobile Storage Devices

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Mobile storage devices come in many shapes, sizes and capacity, but they can be broadly categorized into two: flash-based and hard disk-based. Flash memory refers to solid-state, non-volatile memory chips, while disk-based storage uses spinning magnetic disk platters to store information.

Flash memory based storage devices can be further categorized into two: the USB flash drives […]

The Magic of Defrag - Magical Defrag 2

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Have you ever used Windows’s built in disk deframentation tool. The typical experience is that a well intentioned user will start the process only to get an estimated time of 17 to 25 hours and said “forget it”.

Ashampoo has solved the problem with a great tool called Magical Defrag. Magical Defrag works in the background […]

Shape Your Bandwidth With Netlimiter 2

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Netlimiter 2 – This software is not only data transmission counter but more complex application.

Netlimiter is able to monitor a “consumption” of transmitted data for all processes that are in touch with network connection. Furthermore it is possible to define the maximum transfer rate (both upload and download) for each single process. Program offers detailed […]

It’s An Emergency - Call BartPE

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

I found myself needing to ghost over a PC the first day on the job at a new company.

Come to find out, that they didn’t have a ghost server or any knowledge of ghost. Not wanting to spend too much time on this little project, I remembered using Bart PE to boot systems and recover […]

Tag Those Media Files With EasyTag

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

EasyTag is a powerful audio file tag editor for GNU/Linux or Windows.

It has support for: mp3, mp4, mp2, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and others. There are many features that make adding or changing tags in your audio files very easy. It can query the CDDB and compare track length to your files to identify music that […]