Archive for the 'Software' Category

Revo Uninstaller

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

These days we install several software applications for our use or just to try it. If we find that software to be unusable, we will uninstall it. Any software we install in our PC creates folders files and more importantly, the registry entries.

While uninstalling trough the wizard given in the software package or through Add […]

Simple Backup Solution

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

1 and 2 terabyte drive prices are now priced as commodities and they are easy to plug in and back up a hard drive on a PC.

They ensure those precious family photos and even the great American novel aren’t lost in a power surge or carelessly slopped cup of steaming coffee. The only hard part […]

Minimem Memory Optimizer

Monday, March 8th, 2010

A long standing condition of Microsoft operating systems is the loose control of memory for applications.

Use of a third party application to reduce memory use or reclaim unused yet unavailable memory is fairly commonplace. One such program is Minimem, a freeware memory optimizer developed by Kerkia. Originally, the program was developed to help deal with […]

LinkFixerPlus

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

LinkFixerPlus is a simple application that automatically fixes broken embedded file links.

This is useful for IT professionals that are doing data migrations, server consolidations, virtualization, or just a plain old clean up (data reorganization). LinkFixerPlus allows run reports on your files, then you use a different process to tag the links in the files with […]

COBOL Today

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

COBOL, or the Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages that are still in use.

It certainly is not as flashy as Sun Microsystem’s Java, and the language is not useful for the development of Internet applications. However, the programming language has quite a few uses left. Though it was once criticized […]

Broadband Over The Electrical Grid?

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Although the broadband network over electrical cable concept and solution has exsisted for years, believe it or not, an official international standard in this field does not exist. This is probably the reason we still connect over Ethernet and telephone cables.

However, this could all be coming to an end. A group working within the IEEE’s […]