Managing a Child’s Allowance, the Online Version

The New York Times has a helpful article today about online resources to manage a kid’s chores and allowance. I haven’t read through it fully yet, but it mentions several sites including FamZoo, ThreeJars, Count My Beanz, My Job Chart and Tykoon. I briefly checked out MyJobChart and Tykoon, and they both seem pretty good.

London Olympics 100m final video simulation (in LEGO)

The Guardian (UK) has a cool video recreating Usain Bolt’s gold medal winning run in the 100m race. The best part is is that it is done all in LEGO!

NTFS Permissions Reporter

I work as an IT Manager at a company, and we have a mixed Novell/Microsoft network. We are slowly phasing out the Novell portion of the network, and are dealing more and more with Microsoft permissions. The permissions options used to be complicated, but as new generations of server operating systems come around, things get …

ESET Rogue Application Remover

I first heard about this on ghacks. ESET’s Rogue Application Remover has been released yesterday. The free program has been designed to remove rogue applications from a Windows system and to remove changes that they have made to the operating system’s Registry. According to ESET, the application focuses mostly on “rogue applications that affect the …

Goodbye to Windows Live (and Whatever It Meant)

From the New York Times: If you own a Windows-based PC, you may like the operating system well enough. Or you may merely tolerate it, if you give it much thought at all. But whatever your feeling, “love” probably isn’t the word that immediately comes to mind to describe it. I bring this up because …

Free Network Monitoring Software – Spiceworks

I work as an IT Manager at a hospitality company. As is the case with many companies, IT is seen as an expense. We make money from the attractions, restaurants, and hotel. The less money that is spent on IT, the better. Well, thankfully there are sorts of free/open source options out there. One that …