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Almost everyone uses WindowsUpdate to keep their Microsoft products up to date, but what about all the other applications that you have on your system? Secunia, the well-known security research company, has a new web-based scanner: The Secunia Software Inspector relies on carefully crafted “Secunia File Signatures” to recognise applications on your system. The detected …
I have a DVD burner at home and at work, but I’ve never tried to make my own video DVD. I’m not particularly concerned about any legal ramifications. I’ve just never really needed to. Lately I’ve been doing some reading and thought I’d share a couple of things. The first is software called DVD Shrink: …
Our printer at church died the other day and we won’t have a replacement for a time. A piece of software that we use has to print reports before moving on to other functions. Someone suggested we download a PDF writer so that we could at least print the information to file. I assumed that …
From IT Security: When people read out a phone number, they use “phone rhythm.” No one has to explain “phone rhythm,” we all just seem to do it automatically, “…713…555…12…34”. Similarly, when we answer a phone call we all say, “Hello.” No one taught us to do that, but somehow we all seemed to pick …
I found this on Lifehacker: PortableApps Suite 1.0 stocks your USB drive, portable hard drive, or any other drive with a full complement of software, ready to run wherever you plug in. This new version of the suite (which we’ve loved on in the past) includes the latest portable versions of Firefox, GAIM, OpenOffice, and …
Some quick thoughts on Firefox 2 and IE 7… Firefox 2 doesn’t seem like it should be a whole new version. It seems about the same as 1.5, which seemed about the same as 1.0. But overall I still love the software, and the add-ons/extensions are great. I use this for 99% of my browsing. …
From TechRepublic: Computer users consistently use very simplistic logic when creating passwords. For example, many of us choose meaningful words, personal dates, or a word commonly found in the dictionary because it makes the password easy to remember. These common practices cause us to sacrifice the security that passwords are intended to provide. If you’re …
Do you use batch files at all to copy files from one place to another? If so, you know that you can use copy, xcopy, xcopy32, and other commands to do this. In the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools there was also a utility called Robocopy. The latest edition of TechNet Magazine talks about …
Microsoft has quite a few products that they are beta testing now, or have just recently come out of beta. I came across one that I don’t remember hearing about before (I must have missed it). Microsoft Expression isn’t a single product, but a suite of products that let’s you work with graphics, create web …
Regular reader Shawn tipped me off to this… By Anne Morris, Total Telecom 30 August 2006 New free browser promises to keep your Internet search habits secret. A new free Web browser has been launched that claims it will enable people to surf the Internet without fear that their information and search habits will be …