Entries Tagged as ‘Software’

August 24, 2006

Flash Speedtest

Very cool visual speed test.  Link.

August 11, 2006

Pirated Stuff

Found this guy on WordPress.com.  He’s got tons of crap to download…most of which has the “crack” along side with it. 

August 6, 2006

VMware Appliances

Right from the VMware site: a huge list of pre-installed and packaged VMware appliances, ready to be used.  Great resource.

August 5, 2006

Evolution

If you haven’t seen or used Evolution yet (on your linux desktop), you need to.  It’s basically a free Outlook.  Anyway, a developer has ported this software over to Windows.  I’ll be installing this next week to see how it works and compares to Tunderbird.

August 5, 2006

PixelPost

I’ve had some people ask me over the past month how to start a “photo”-blog.  I’ve told them to hack the hell out of CMS packages like WordPress and TextPattern…or you could try PixelPost, who just released version 1.5.  This software is written totally around the photoblog concept.  Give it a try.

July 11, 2006

OpenDNS

I started using OpenDNS today.  It seems like a pretty cool concept in DNS management.  They list ways to change your router settings and even individual computer settings.  The service is totally free, there is nothing to install, and they claim to make your internet “faster”, “safer”, and “smarter.”  I can vouch for the faster [...]

June 28, 2006

Online Visio-esq Software

Pretty cool Visio style software that is free and web-based.  Link.

June 21, 2006

Network Security Tools

A huge list of the “top 100″ network security tools, all submitted by respondants to a huge survey.  Evidentially, this list was published in 2000, 2003, and now 2006.  Link.

June 21, 2006

Solaris 10 and ZFS

Ten reasons to switch to ZFS with Solaris 10…and why we need to do this where I work.

May 29, 2006

Resetting Windows Passwords

An article on resetting passwords in most flavors of Windows, with links to respective tools.  Check it.

May 27, 2006

Canvas for WordPress

As Drew pointed out, Canvas 1.1.2 is now released for WordPress 2.0.  I think this will be great for some “on-the-side” designer types, wanting to do a quick blog, change things around on the fly, etc.  Personally, to get a theme that you have written to work with Canvas is a pain in the ass.  [...]

May 22, 2006

Packet Sniffers

Seems like these things are sometimes hard to come across…although the Google always knows where to find them.  Anyway, here is a link to Ettercap and SmartSniff.