Three Free Utilities
Everyone carries around a USB drive these days with a variety of utilities, these three have been very useful in the recent past.
CPU-Z – A great utility to find out what kind of memory is installed in a system. This is especially useful when a system is a plain box with out a service tag [...]
Free PowerShell eBook
Thanks to the Canadian IT Pro blog for this one.
Keith Hill is giving away a free eBook for PowerShell in PDF format. I’ve only begun to read it and I like what I see. Get it now at the best price around.
As an added bonus, check out Keith’s Blog, it has a lot of scripting [...]
Password Expiration Notifier
This is some really cool freeware (well, cool if you’re some kind of IT geek). Anyway, Redmond Magazine recently had a review of NetWrix Password Expiration Notifier. In a nutshell, it e-mails users when their Active Directory password is about to expire. This is huge for companies with remote users who only use webmail, local [...]
Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer
This has been covered a number of places before, but this is really cool and bares repeating. This free testing site, with it’s amble result data, can be invaluable when rolling out Exchange services. Whether it’s ActiveSync, Inbound SMTP, RPC/HTTPS, plus more, this Microsoft troubleshooting website is great. (And the SMTP test works with more than [...]
X-Mouse on Vista
Anyone used to using a UNIX-based OS like FreeBSD or Linux is familiar with X-Mouse.
In short, it changes the foreground focus (window, application or desktop) based on wherever the mouse cursor happens to be. This for many, speeds up productivity a bit by saving clicks (about a nano-second each).
To enable this in Vista, go to [...]
DSL
No not the Internet service, it’s Damn Small Linux. Linux you can run from a thumb drive, even a zip drive and it easily runs from with Windows, no virtual machine needed.
Give it a try and have fun; as always it’s Open Source and free.
Holy Skydrive!
Thanks to Bink.nu for this post. Microsoft’s free Skydrive, part of the Live.com suite of web products, now allows you to upload 25GB of data! That’s an amazing amount of storage for free. Hmmm, how many pirated Metallica songs would that hold?
More from the source: Skydrive Team Blog
Active@ UNDELETE
This comes from a friend of mine who lost a couple hundred pictures of his family and friends the day after Halloween. Not sure if it was a glitch with the camera or operator error, but his wife was not happy.
This is when he found Active Undelete, using this he recovered all the pictures and was the hero.
It works [...]
QuickTime Alternative
Anyone else sick of all the bundled software? Not that M$ would ever do anything like this, but the Apple QuickTime/iTunes/Safari installs which update and encourage you to download all three packages are getting a bit old. I expect this from Microsoft, but Apple, come on. They’re supposed to Think Different.
Anyway I digress, there is [...]
Microsoft IFilter Pack
Thanks to Paul Thurrott for posting this about the MS IFilter pack made available last week.
These Office 2007 search filters can be added to SharePoint, Exchange and SQL so that the new Office files based on XML can be indexed by the search service.
These filters are already apart of Windows Desktop Search 4.0 in Vista, XP [...]