With so many FTP clients to choose from, finding the ‘right’ one can be a daunting task. I’ve tried so many, from CuteFTP, FireFTP and even used Windows Explorer for FTPing, and I’ve found that FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client with lots of handy features. It supports resume on both downloads and uploads, [...]
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Best Defrag Utility
Hey, just bringing another software review, this time it’s a defrag utility called Mydefrag. In the context of administering computers, defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems. It does this by physically organizing the contents of the disk to store the pieces of each file close together and contiguously. MyDefrag was formally called JkDefrag [...]
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Hard Drive Usage Statistics
This is an app that’s useful for people with a LOT of information on their system, or if you need to work on someone else’s computer and they had no idea where they were saving everything. (Or maybe they don’t want you to know *wink wink*)
WinDirStat is a disk usage stats viewer and cleanup tool [...]
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Dubaron Disk Utility
Dubaron is a software company that makes Freeware, Open source libraries, &
Commercial libraries. I still can’t believe they just give this away! Dubaron Diskimage is the ultimate tool to backup and restore partitions, entire harddisks, usb keys, floppy drives and (read-only) optical media (CDs & DVDs). Ok, so it’s not Norton Ghost, nor was is planned [...]
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Best CD Ripper
I use WinLame to rip CDs and convert them into VBR MP3s on the fly.
Why use VBR MP3s? Well unlike regular lower bit-rate codecs, LAME can use VBR to provides the best Sound Quality to space ratio, and WinLAME makes the process as easy as 1 2 3.
Lame is a Codec, and WinLAME is a GUI for [...]
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Web Dev Without the Web
Web Dev Without the Web: Or how to create your own local server for building and testing websites.
The nice guys over at Apache Friends have made it easy to get your own webserver up in no time! Just goto http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html and grab the file you need for your type of computer (Windows, Linux, or even Mac) [...]
Blackberry Apps
New wordpress blackberry app
The new Wordpress app for Blackberry
So your on the road, in a traffic jamand you have a great idea about a new blog post. But getting the laptop is out of the question. So what is one to do? Simple! Just point your Blackberry browser over to blackberry.wordpress.com and download the Wordpress App for blackberry [...]
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The easiest way to copy Blu-ray Discs
I’ve been a DVDFab user off and on for years, but I must say that their newest edition to the lineup, DVDFAB Blu-ray to Blu-ray is the easiest Blueray copier I’ve seen yet! (Click on screenshot for a larger view)
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Process Monitor v2.8
In case you’re new to filemon and regmon, what this app can do for you is watch what a program does on your computer. You start Process Monitor first, (No installation needed) and then proceed to set up filters. The easiest way to get started is to drag the sniper scope icon to any other programs window. Clear the current view by pressing Ctrl-X. Then Process Monitor will show you every file that your application that you have filtered, reads/writes/creates/deletes, as well as every touch it makes to the registry. You can see this would be very helpful if saw, you wanted to know exactly what your application was doing at any given time.
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Windows 7 Review
Windows 7 is a major upgrade from Windows XP, if this is the route you are taking, you missed out on a lot of new features brought about by Vista, and you might be a little overwhelmed at first at everything that has changed in 7. However, if you were a Vista user, then the only things to really take note of, from a users perspective, is that the Start bar has received a major reworking. Getting familiar with the new start bar is pretty easy and …
