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Cisco NETWORK Magic Pro 5.5

I put thiks here becausae this is about a product taht can be help;full, but is hard to find and can do harm as well as good. So, it is a rfecomendation wt he warnings.

This is not atryuly a free program. It is a comercail product and Cisco wants you to buy it. But you might get to use it for awhile, long enugh to find you network problems.
Download STIES taht maked it AVAILABLE will OFTEN tempt you with other things you do not really want. Some of which have been even harmfuyll.
Sitllo, if you can get it. Netrwork Magic can quickly five you a visual representation of what your network is doing.
This link from PCmag has some information about similar products available. You should be aware of the risk. Just becuase a big compnay has the link on the r website does not meant he PROGRAMS are trustworthy. Make sure you have a recovery plan in place.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348279,00.asp
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Cisco's Network Magic is a software Swiss Army knife for your network. Network Magic's Network Activity and Intruder Tracking are the big blades that slice away your networking confusion and provide information on all connected devices, ... New in version 5.5, Network Magic integrates with Cisco wireless routers and includes Trend Micro's Home Network Defender. And Cisco has also improved the parental controls since version 5.0, added support for 33 languages, and changed the interface's color scheme to blue. ..., the price has dropped $10 to $39.99 (direct).

My favorite Windows media player is now AVAILABLE on my favorite mobile OS.

I haven't had much time with it but so FAR so good.

Beta Warning!


April 3rd, 2014 - Announcing MediaMonkey for Android!

Quote from: Ventis Media

Ventis Media is proud to release a new member to the MediaMonkey family: MediaMonkey for Android is the media manager for serious collectors. It lets users sync, navigate, and manage their media, providing a unified view of their libraries across Windows and Android devices.

Key features in the initial release include:
- Wirelessly sync* Playlists and media, including file info, ratings, lyrics, play history, etc. with MediaMonkey for Windows 4.1.1.
- Manage Music, Classical music, Audiobooks, Podcasts, Video, etc…
- Navigate by Artist, Album, Composer, Genre, Playlist, Folder*, etc.) with support for multiple attributes (e.g. Genre=Rock; Alternative)
- Play with replay gain (volume leveling), an equalizer, and sleep timer
- Access, play, and download media from UPnP/DLNA servers*
- Edit properties for single/multiple files & LOOKUP lyrics
- Manage single/multiple files (e.g. play, queue, add to playlist, delete, use as ringtone, share)
- Plus player widgets, scrobbler integration, search, and more…

“This first release brings to the Android platform the level of control that MediaMonkey users have come to expect,” indicated Russell Samuels. “It’s not so much a media player as it is a media manager–our focus is on building a better management tool for very large media COLLECTIONS.”

*MediaMonkey for Android is available as a free download, with the following upgrades available:
o Wi-Fi Sync addon: Allows unlimited wireless synchronization. Available as an in-app purchase (USB synchronization is free).
o UPnP/DLNA addon: Allows unlimited UPnP/DLNA usage. Available as an in-app purchase.
o Advanced Media Management addon: Allows unlimited lyrics lookup, home screen customization, folder browser, with more to come. Available as an in-app purchase.
o MediaMonkey Pro: Provides all of the addon features described above in one bundle. Available via Google Play.

MediaMonkey is the music and movie manager for serious collectors. It works with your devices (Apple, Android, etc.), your files (MP3, AAC, FLAC, WMA, etc.), with you in full control of how your music is tagged, ORGANIZED and shared. It is available on Windows, Android, and Windows tablets.

MediaMonkey for Android is available now via Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ventismedia.android.mediamonkey

MediaMonkey for Windows 4.1.1 is available for download at:

http://www.mediamonkey.com/download

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This list of free software for audio LISTS NOTABLE free and open source software for use by sound ENGINEERS, audio producers, and those involved in sound recording and reproduction.

Windows Sysinternals has released Process Explorer 16 with VIRUSTOTAL integration.

There are a few DIFFERENT options.

Right-click any process and select "Check VirusTotal". Process Explorer then submits the file hash and displays the results.

Click Options > VirusTotal.com > Check VirusTotal.com and Process Explorer 16 will check all running processes and loaded DLLs with VirusTotal.

For the total geek experience check out the FULL Microsoft Sysinternals Suite.Slick...thanx for the heads up...Updates: Process Explorer v16.01, Sigcheck v2.02

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4 Feb 2014

Process Explorer v16.0: This release fixes a bug that could cause a crash when the VirusTotal COLUMN is added to the process view, and another that could cause a crash when verifying digital signatures.

Sigcheck 2.02: This release fixes a bug that caused the –u switch to filter results incorrectly.

Should I go for Dell Inspiron 15R Intel Core i7/ 4GB/ 1TB/ 15.6" OR
Lenovo Ideapad Z500 Intel Core i5/ 6GB/ 1TB/ 15.6"I would go for the Dell. But that is just me. Depends if you need the power of the i7. The 15R is one of Dell's run-of-the-mill CONSUMER laptops and is available with anything from a Celeron right up to an i7. As a result is is chunky and not super high quality.

The Ideapad on the other hand is a high quality luxury machine so although it doesn't have the same CPU power as the Dell, it is a much higher quality machine in both internal components and build quality.

Given the choice I would always go for the Ideapad over a 15R.As Cameron says - these are entirely different systems aimed at different markets. If you're in the market for an Ideapad, you're not going to look TWICE at the Inspiron - if you're interested in the Inspiron, the Ideapad shouldn't be on your shortlist.I would always go for Lenovo.
Of course they can be EXPENSIVE but I think that their quality is really good.
He hasn't been back since June...judging by the weather that was awhile ago...Quote from: patio on January 29, 2014, 03:02:05 PM

He hasn't been back since June...judging by the weather that was awhile ago...

Right.
It was sunny when he posted.
Now its is raining.

:-XYou obviously don't understand. In patio's and my part of the country, we've had quite a few days of sub-zero temperatures and plenty of snow too. See, we have a season here called winter.

The recent news of multiple Google Chrome add-ons actually being adware hosts has put the browser in a position to not only spy on users but to be exploited by malware by silent remote updates to the add-ons.

Quote from: MajorGeeks.com

According to Ars Technica, once the deal is done and the ownership of the extension is transferred, the NEW owners can issue an ad-filled update over Chrome's update service, which SENDS the adware out to every user of that extension.

My OCR program is MIA. So I went on-line

This is from a post by Amit Agarwal
http://www.labnol.org/software/convert-images-to-text-with-ocr/17418/

1. Google Docs – When you upload an image file or a scanned PDF to Google Docs, CHECK the option that says “Convert text to Google Docs format” and Google Docs will automatically perform OCR on the file before saving it to your account.

2. Abbyy FineReader – FineReader Online is a web-based OCR service that can instantly convert your PDF FILES and images into corresponding office file formats.

3. OnlineOCR.net – Online OCR, as the name suggests, is a cloud based OCR service that can HANDLE all common images formats including scanned PDFs. If you have multiple images that you would like to convert to text in one go, you can put them all in a single zip file and upload it to Online OCR.


Form more, click on the link given above.

Table is also from his web site.I have been using Irfanview (free) for OCR, and I also have Microsoft Document Imaging (MODI) which is part of Microsoft Office editions from Office XP to Office 2007. (What do you mean MIA?)
"MISSING In Action" is what i believe Geek is stating.Quote from: DaveLembke on January 10, 2014, 03:11:25 PM

"Missing In Action" is what i believe Geek is stating.

"Missing In Action" is what i believe Geek is stating.

I do know what the abbreviation stands for. MIA, KIA, WIA

You can download Internet Explorer 10 in the language that matches your version of Windows or choose the English version, which works with all versions of Windows 7.

If you need help finding out which version of Windows you're running, see Is my PC running the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows?

Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7Thanks EF From what I've seen of IE 10 in Windows 8 on the notebook PC I bought Feb. 21, I think it has a good chance of stopping, and perhaps REVERSING, the diminishing of IE's market share. Not to get into a browser debate, but is she fast like google chrome? I remember 8 being painfully slow.I haven't tried it on WIN 7 yet but on my Win 8 it loads kinda slow. After that though it performs well. If you use MSN as a homepage or for news, sports, tech articles etc you will like it. The tiles are kind of cool.downloaded it, IE 10 for win 7 x64 runs pretty fast (I am have 2gb of ram) But for some reason the UI reminds me chromeThis is great. Will try this one. Thank you for sharing!You need to remove the Ad from your sig.As a somewhat related TANGENT, anybody hear about that "CrashIE.com" website?

Well, apparently, it causes IE to hang. It claims this is the Javascript that causes the hang:

Code: [Select]for(x in document.write){document.write(x);}

Now, in my test, this allegedly caused IE8 to "hang"; what I FOUND odd was that, when I transplanted the alleged Javascript to a separate page, I did not encounter the script problem. So, I decided to see what it was actually doing.

It appears that CrashIE actually sends an infinite LOOP JS script to any browser that identifies as IE:
Code: [Select]for(;;)setInterval("void(0)",0)

If it finds MSIE in the browserAgent, the server sends that Javascript back. It's an infinite loop and will cause any browser to hang temporarily (at least). As you might expect, putting MSIE in the browseragent of another browser happens to cause this as well. I thought it was interesting because it's trying to be intentionally misleading.Quote from: patio on April 04, 2013, 07:17:58 PM

You need to remove the Ad from your sig.

As a somewhat related tangent, anybody hear about that "CrashIE.com" website?

Well, apparently, it causes IE to hang. It claims this is the Javascript that causes the hang:

Code: [Select]for(x in document.write){document.write(x);}

Now, in my test, this allegedly caused IE8 to "hang"; what I found odd was that, when I transplanted the alleged Javascript to a separate page, I did not encounter the script problem. So, I decided to see what it was actually doing.

It appears that CrashIE actually sends an infinite loop JS script to any browser that identifies as IE:
Code: [Select]for(;;)setInterval("void(0)",0)

If it finds MSIE in the browserAgent, the server sends that Javascript back. It's an infinite loop and will cause any browser to hang temporarily (at least). As you might expect, putting MSIE in the browseragent of another browser happens to cause this as well. I thought it was interesting because it's trying to be intentionally misleading.

I have seen articles about this add-on but never looked into it until today. It's actually pretty cool complete with an interactive 'Graph View'.

• Lightbeam for Firefox Homepage
  
• Lightbeam for Firefox Add-on

Lightbeam is a Firefox add-on that enables you to see the first and third party sites you INTERACT with on the Web. Using interactive visualizations, Lightbeam SHOWS you the relationships between these third PARTIES and the sites you visit.

This is a recommendation for a Beginner's Computer Programming.
Small Basic.
Specifically, the version now offered by Microsoft. It is so much easier to learn than Visual Studio and its various flavors. It is simple, clean and follows modern ideas about object programming.
It is a very good starting point for anyone wanting to know more about how computers work. An it can do some rather cool things with a little effort.
Here is the place to start:
Get Started with Small Basic
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx
Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 06, 2012, 04:59:31 PM

This is a recommendation for a Beginner's Computer Programming.
Small Basic.
Specifically, the version now offered by Microsoft. It is so much easier to learn than Visual Studio and its various flavors. It is simple, clean and follows modern ideas about object programming.
It is a very good starting point for anyone wanting to know more about how computers work. An it can do some rather cool things with a little effort.
Here is the place to start:
Get Started with Small Basic
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx

Well Geek, a little late in the game for me, but I can appreciate how it may very well help some of the youngins. Well done. overthehill

Never too late.

An interesting fact I found out some time ago, is that when starting a career in I.T., what ever the pupil learned in the first year of study, had been outdated by the third year.

List of Defrag Software - Free!
If you find the built-int Windows def rag lacks performance., try none nof these and see if it makes a difference. All of the items below are for Windows. Most should work on Windows 7 64 bit. (All did for me.)

1. Defraggler.
The freeware supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_defraggler

2. Auslogics Disk Defrag
Another freeware compact and fast defragmentation software
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download/

3. Smart Def
You may find Smart Defrag is a free disc defrag tool worth investigating.
http://majorgeeks.com/IObit_SmartDefrag_d5318.html

4. Puran Defrag Free
This freebie has intelligent directory optimization
http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag-Download.html

Let others know which you like best. Or recommend another.
I miss the original Defrag that showed the blocks shuffling. The modern defrag built into windows is boring, but I suppose one reason for this may be because drives and computers have increased in speed so greatly that the screen would be flashing wild with segments of data shuffled and this might be overwhelming to the viewer ( the display from the movie wargames with all the flashing comes to mind ) and Microsoft wants something that looks smooth and not something that displays rampantly wild changes that flash by.

I haven't tried anything other than the defrag built into windows, mainly due to fear of CORRUPTING a file system, but I suppose this may be simple paranoia since anything that would corrupt a file system would have plenty of warnings on google to avoid if it had issues.

Thanks for linking these, I will try them out with my spare system sandbox that I build and rebuild frequently when testing.

*The only issue I have seen with the defrag that comes with Windows is the one that comes with Windows XP and some large files that show as fragmented, but the defrag skips because it is unable to defrag them. These files are part of World of Warcraft install that are around 1.4GB in size each. and I think there was like 6 files like this that could not be defragmented. On a 40GB hard drive when you have around 9GB fragmented of the 40GB, it can not be a good thing with 22.5% fragmentation. I suggested to my friend to upgrade to a 160GB drive in which the fragmentation % would be less based on increased volume offset between the 9GB and 160GB capacity, which if the data remained fragmented it would only be around 5.625% fragmentation instead..I use and recommend Auslogics...I was always wondering why there are no defrag tools that are as optimal as possible by booting into a live linux mode to run the defrag tool from CD or DVD direct to RAM and able to shuffle the fragmented data blocks on a hard drive without having to work around swap space of when windows is active. To me it just seems as though this process would be more efficient and as defragmented as possible when nothing needs to use the hard drive and its idle awaiting the defrag vs having windows reading/writing data on the swap space during the process of ridding the drive of fragmentation. Unless the swap function is written as such to operate at the opposite end of the hard drive such as outter platter vs inner platter to where the data in the drive that composes swap data does not conflict with static data that needs to fit better to remove fragments. Or swap space is disabled during this process to only use system RAM and avoid writing of temporary data to an area where long term data should be stored.

At least someday with SSD's eventually replacing all HDD's fragmentation may be a thing of the past.Quote

At least someday with SSD's eventually replacing all HDD's fragmentation may be a thing of the past.

Don't bet on it. With very large data structures and weak tools, fragmentation will continue to be with us.

Maybe so, but an SSD is MUCH less susceptible (if at all) from a noticeable slowdown due to fragmentation.

Maybe so, but an SSD is MUCH less susceptible (if at all) from a noticeable slowdown due to fragmentation.

Microsoft has a of list some Powers *CENSORED* TUTORIAL in other languages.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/10592.powershell-dla-poczatkujacych-pl-pl.aspx

Inne języki

Ten artykuł dostępny jest również w językach:

English: Powershell for BEGINNERS (en-US)
Italian: Powershell per principianti (it-IT)
BRAZILIAN Portuguese: Powershell PARA Iniciantes (pt-BR)
Norwegian: PowerShell for Beginners (nb-NO)
Japanese: 初心者のための PowerShell (ja-JP)

One of the best, IMHO, is the password EXPORT and IMPORT thing.
To get more add-ins, SELECT tools then Add-Ins. It will open a new tab and you will see items RELATED to your search for 'password' in the add-in search bar.



Another one I like is the option to see your hidden password when you go to a page where is password was remembered.

Here is review of Rackspace Hosted Exchange. Originally posted on my blog (Link in the Signature), but figured I would share here as well.
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I had heard of Rackspace for years before running across a reason to try them out. So when the chance came I went for it and here's my story.

One day while sitting in a meeting with the “big guys”, I was pitching the idea of moving the entire companies email to a hosted Cloud environment. Our 2003 in-house Exchange system crashed. This crash wasn’t really uncommon just very convenient since it happened while I was telling everyone how bad it was. I inherited the system from my predecessors and it was bad from the beginning. The database corrupted itself once a week. The backup system wouldn’t complete which caused the logs not to clear. In return that would fill up the storage. This was a constant pain. So needless to say by the end of the day, my project idea was approved.

So I set out on the very tedious task of filtering through the plethora of Cloud based hosted Exchange solutions. I looked into about 50 of them and over about a month narrowed my choices to 5 finalist. The finalist were Office 365, PacHosting, Kerio, 1and1 and of course Rackspace. I know; I make it sound like a competition. Actually it was. You see for me to put my reputation on it I would need to be 100% confident. I looked into cost, reputation, features and of course storage. Rackspace won me over and signed up.

So I started the migration and Rackspace was great about it. They assigned a transition team to handle the migration for me. This was at no ADDITIONAL charge and they took care of almost everything. Now the migration took forever to do once it was started. Now I only tell you this in the effort of being completely honest. The reason it took forever was due to our poor database and the horrible T-1 connections we had at the time. Rackspace did a great job of watching the migration which started on Friday and lasted through the weekend. After a few forgotten password resets by noon on Monday morning the project was done.

Our service has some really cool features as well.

Outlook Web Access: Complete online email access. I love web mail access! It has all the same features as Outlook including tasks, calendar, reminders and shared features.
Office Outlook: Desktop access for some users is a must. Which isn’t a problem because Office Outlook 2010 is available at no extra charge to the users. Each user can login and download it along with a utility to setup their account for them.
Spam Filtering: Spam filtering is done using three layers filtration. Its like drinking WATER that is 99.999% percent clean, accept your reading email. (Yes I made up that stat.)
Hybrid Option: If you don’t need full Exchange email accounts, then you can use a cross between Exchange and Rackspace’s cloud based email system. An design option we actually use. We use the Rackspace emails (which are cheaper) for a few system email accounts, copier email accounts and for employees who don’t actually need an email account for company use, but need one to see their paycheck stubs. This option actually saves us a good amount of money on our monthly bill.
Directory SYNC: Password synchronization to keep the company’s on-premise Active Directory synchronized with Rackspace Hosted Exchange.
Mobile Access: Allows users mobile device access to their emails on the go. What I like about this service is the control I have. Not just any user has mobile access, but only the users I give permission to.
Control Panel: The control panel for the entire system is very easy to use and I can set my staff at different admin levels for management.
This does not include every feature they offer, just a few that I love. I didn’t even get into the archiving feature which is awesome. I highly recommend Rackspace for Hosted Exchange! We also use SharePoint and Cloud Server products.

To checkout Rackspace yourself go to http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/hosted-exchange/

NOTE: I am just a customer of Rackspace, I get no compensation for this review. Of course if you work for Rackspace and want to send me a check or some SWAG for my review I will be happy to accept it.

I got tired of this issue and inadequate pay and found a far better job. But I am sure others out there are still stuck in jobs/careers in IT or as the role of IT in other duties as assigned to their normal title, where the businesses find the cost of IT as an inconvenience and trying to get the money to run it as it should be run is like pulling teeth and your not getting paid as good as a dentist.

First off, link - http://mikelab.kiev.ua/index_en.php?page=PROGRAMS/chkflsh_en
It's a tiny program that requires no installation. You can use it to test any USB drive, whether that's a flash drive, SD card or USB HDD. There are SEVERAL different options or tests that can be run, but the primary purpose is to write data to the device, then read it back and check for any errors. This can be useful not only to diagnose a failing drive, but to test if your flash drive is the correct capacity - there are fake drives circulating, that report a capacity of say 64GB but in reality are only 2GB and thus anything written over 2GB gets corrupted.
Chkflash will also report read and write SPEEDS, and although there are better programs for this purpose (Atto, crystaldiskmark, HDTune to name a few depending on the drive and what you need to know) it's a nice feature to have as it just reports the speeds alongside the current operation. Right now I'm testing a 32GB USB3 drive I PICKED up, it's been running for 10 minutes, current speed 11.45MB/s, 33 minutes till the end of the test. That's just a write test - after this, I'll use the program to verify the written data and make sure it's all OK. The option is there to run one complete pass, one cycle, a specified number of cycles, or until an error is detected (possibly useful for write endurance tests).

There are other programs that do the same thing, I just wanted to make a RECOMMENDATION for this one as it's so tiny, yet does everything those others do. It's not something everyone will have a sue for, but it's worth keeping on one side just in case.

A word of warning - writing to the entire drive will obviously DESTROY any data on the drive. It's intended for use with a blank drive to avoid data loss, so ensure the drive is either blank, or you don't care about the data currently on it.I can definitely endorse this - I have been using this excellent application for some years, ever since I had a suspect Compact Flash card.

I haven't installed this yet. I'll give it a few weeks to see what bugs, if any, are reported. I'm a strong believer in a mobile antivirus being just an antivirus. Most of them have so many features that have nothing to do with MALWARE I refuse to advise their use. I have been happy to use Dr.Web Anti-virus Light and HONESTLY don't plan on switching. Since Malwarebytes is just FOCUSED on malware and if it proves to be stable it will be on my very short LIST of mobile AV recommendations.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile has been released!

Quote from: Malwarebytes blog - Marcin Kleczynski

We’ve gone mobile! After many months of development and testing, I’m pleased to announce the launch of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile.

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I have been looking into 3rd party text apps that I could use on my tablet. My tablet has no data plan but I often want to text with my mobile phone number from my tablet. I have been using Viber for a few weeks and it works well for the most part but does have a few things that I find annoying. Mainly that everyone you text has to also have Viber installed and that it's a social app.

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Viber - Texting, calling, photo messages and location-sharing with Viber users, anywhere!

* No registration, alias or invitations required
* INSTANTLY integrates with your own contact list
* Best-quality mobile calls using 3G or Wi-Fi
* Calls use your data plan
* Works on multiple platforms from Windows, iOS to mobile

Mighty Text - Text From Any Device

Send & receive SMS and MMS from your computer or tablet, using your current Android phone number. Messages stay in sync with your phone's SMS inbox.

* PowerView - Built for the text-obsessed. Carry on multiple conversations simultaneously in the web app and the tablet app.
* Text Directly From Gmail - SMS directly from Gmail on your computer. Just like a Google chat/hangout window.
* Phone Battery Alerts - WHEREVER your phone is, know exactly how much battery life it has LEFT from your Web App or tablet app.
* Edit Photos With Filters - Edit photos directly from the web app by adding Instagram-like filters, frames, stickers, doodle & more.
* Call Notifications - GET notified on your computer or tablet when someone calls your Android phone.
* Safe & Secure - Get peace of mind knowing that all your information is safe and secure.
* Texts use your data plan

Link - http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping
(Requires you to sign up for a free account to use the service)

This is a little different to most product reviews and recommendations, in that it's not really a product but a service, provided by thinkbroadband.com. I don't know how well I'm going to explain this so I would recommend reading through the info on their site, but I'll give this a go.

Basically, what this service does is ping your IP every second, and store the results - minimum latency, average latency, maximum latency, and packet loss. Doesn't sound too useful on the face of it. However, put those results onto a graph - and not just any graph, a nicely coloured one! - and you have something potentially very useful. You can see how your connection changes over time, for example if your ISP implements traffic management at peak times, or when you're downloading a lot of data you can see how that affects your latency. So, how is that useful? Well, if you seem to always have problems playing online games, you can use this to determine if your connection is always bad, or if it goes bad at certain times. If you're experiencing problems with VOIP such as Skype, perhaps your issue is high packet loss - this shouldn't happen, but if it does, the graph will show this, and give you some information so you can speak to your ISP and resolve the issue. If your connection seems much slower than it should be, well, this doesn't show your bandwidth but if your latency is consistently high, this could indicate either a congested link to your ISP, or an issue on the line. Also, because ping packets are tiny, there's nothing to worry about in terms of bandwidth usage - they quote around 70MB a month. If your IP changes, you will need to update your profile to keep the graph alive and accurate.

For an example of what the graph looks like, click here - that's a static graph of my connection over the last 24 hours. Their FAQ section will explain in great detail how to interpret your graph, and I'm still getting used to this so I'm admittedly not the most knowledgeable, but I'll attempt to explain what this shows. I have a fairly thin green section, which doesn't spike, so I have a nice steady minimum ping, which is a good thing. The blue section also remains fairly steady, so my average latency mostly remains low, also good. You can see between 6pm and 10pm the yellow section has a general UPWARDS trend, this could be due to me downloading a lot, or it could be traffic management in place. I know I was making fairly heavy use of my connection around those times, so this is expected. The fairly random yellow spikes are also nothing to worry about, they're a peculiarity of some routers and connections. I have no red line at the top, so no packet loss, which is great. So, in short, this shows a fairly healthy connection with no issues with high latency, packet loss, or traffic shaping - hurrah!

I probably haven't explained this all too well, but hopefully this will inspire a few of you to head over to the site and check it out. There's nothing to lose by setting it up, and once done you don't have to worry about a thing, it'll keep the graph updated and keep it online for you to view at any time, so you can look BACK over past days or weeks to see any changes to your connection. Again, this is on of those tools that you may never need, but is potentially a very useful source of information (and something cool to look at).Sounds like an awesome tool I am sure people will find it useful.Thanks, I certainly hope so!
I've never come across anything similar to it so I wanted to share it with the community.Interesting... going to check this out and register with one of my alias junk e-mail accounts to avoid spam flooding my regular e-mail.

A few years ago, I was assisted here at CH with a way to log my PING output to CSV with MIN, MAX, Average. I have used this a bunch of times to graph my networks with excel graphs.

Recorded some interesting latency spikes as well as can see how my latency rises from minimum of 30ms to around 60ms through Comcast at around 9:30am each day and it doesnt drop back to 30ms until after around 10:30pm. The large latency spikes through Comcast are also in a pattern such as a large spike that always happens before the transition from 60ms to 30ms when people are shutting off their computers and are going to sleep. Not quite sure why every night there is that spike at this transition period when the connection to my ISP all of a sudden gets fewer requests for internet traffic and a sudden drop in packet volume.

One website that I was monitoring and trying to find a solution for was www.yahoo.com. If I ping it I get very bad latency. I was hoping that I would be able to ping it a few times and find all the alternate IP's they use for their domain points of presence and find one that was nice and quick among the many that are crap, and then be able to just make a hosts file entry to point directly to this IP in relation to www.yahoo.com and skip the random point of presence connection that I get from the DNS. But they are all crappy 100 to 1000 ms and sometimes request too long etc. Yet I ping www.google.com and I am getting nice and strong responses of less than 80ms and mostly 30-50ms.
Here is data I collected with my batch file that pinged and collected 1 minute log samples to a CSV file.

The rise in average latency (educated assumption is customers waking up and giving comcasts infrastructure exercise until most go to sleep.) The interval values are in minutes for each sample collected and colors are given for MIN,MAX, and Average.



[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]Quote from: DaveLembke on May 28, 2013, 02:37:52 PM

Interesting... going to check this out and register with one of my alias junk e-mail accounts to avoid spam flooding my regular e-mail.

I have been having a few issues with my Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 the last few days and was hoping to find a NON-Root way to backup my non-Google and non-default app data. I wasn't hopeful. Backups with Android can be deceiving. When you see 'Backup' what actually gets backed up is just the .apk file which is what you download from the Google Play Store. That doesn't do much good for all of the hard work you have put into advancing to high levels in Angry Birds, Fragger, Greedy Spiders #1 and #2 or whatever your favorite games are. I know Titanium does this but it requires root access and I don't care to root my device just to get a backup if I can avoid it.

A little SEARCHING and I soon found a few different non-root app backups that include the data within the apps. Most are not free and I didn't really like them anyway. Until I found Helium - App Sync and Backup. Helium is free and allows you to backup your non-default apps and the app data! You can also CHOOSE to save some space and just backup the app data. Just read through the instructions and you should have a reliable backup started in no time at all. You do have to install a desktop app if you are not rooted and it takes a few more steps without root but is simple and you are walked through the process with on-screen prompts. A true app data backup without root access!

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All Android users can use Helium to backup and sync Android applications.

Helium lets you backup your apps and data to your SD card or cloud STORAGE. With Helium, you can sync app data from your other Android devices-- even if they are not on the same network. Set up backup schedules with Helium, and never lose data again.

Helium Premium Features:

No Ads
Android to Android app sync
Automatic Backup schedules (coming soon!)
Cloud backup and restore
* Dropbox
* Box
* Google Drive

I too have a pile of flash drives from 64MB all the way to 32GB in size as gathered through the last 10 years. I have since put most of them in a upside down DVD Spindle cover that became a good table top bucket for them, and my pens, and random screws and jumpers etc.

One feature I miss that they have done away with in all the modern ones I have seen is the LED to glow and show if its powered or not as well as the blink when its being used. I had one the one day that is a newer type without LED and it was connected and then I went to transfer a file and it wasnt there, nothing to look at on the device to see if its mounted anymore but the computer itself under my computer in Windows etc. In the end I found out that a small fuzz ball had made its way into the plug and was causing an intermittent connection. In which this new flash drive which also is 99% plastic vs the metal outer USB port also came with no cover so as it shifts around in my pocket, lint gathered in the USB 2.0 slot of it.

Now I check them and blow them out like you had to do with the NES game cartridges before each use if they dont have covers. *Someone needs to market USB covers that fit all USB 1.1 and 2.0 device male plugs. I only buy them with LED indicators & retractable covers.Yeah, the Magnum is ANOTHER top contender in the reviews I linked to, but is beaten by the Sandisk. I agree the pricing for the 64GB versions is high, but worth it if you need that speed. I'm planning on picking up the 32GB as it seems better value for money.
I just have a USB2 combo card READER that does everything - I transfer, at most, a few hundred MB of pictures off my camera's SD card once every few months and it's fast enough for that. Plus, I won't have front USB3 ports, so a USB3 reader would require me leaning over the top to plug it in, which makes me sound very lazy (not far from the truth) but there you have it. I can see the advantage if you have a higher end camera, maybe one that shoots in RAW so the files are pretty large, and you have a lot to transfer, and $10 is pretty reasonable.Quote from: DaveLembke on September 18, 2013, 05:14:55 PM

Now I check them and blow them out like you had to do with the NES game cartridges before each use if they don't have covers.

I transfer, at most, a few hundred MB of pictures off my camera's SD card once every few months and it's fats enough for that.

"Blowing" on cartridge games ruins them. The moisture in your breath both condenses onto the colder metal contacts and corrodes them over time. In some cases the moisture is enough to make a electrical connection with the other component and so seems to be "fixing" the problem.....

Some say the adhesive is less effective.

Less effective at what?? Than what?

Did you find out about the hold down being a ground of sorts as mentioned above ? ?

Rearrange your windows in the taskbar like you WOULD with tabs in Firefox.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/TaskbarShuffle.html

Very useful program.Agreed...been using it for a long time, being "keep THINGS in order" freak Sweet. Thanks.
[update] I rebooted and it stopped working. Uninstalled.

Quote from: Dias de verano on May 18, 2008, 04:10:12 AM

[update] I rebooted and it stopped working. Uninstalled.

Since there are complaints about both AVG and Avast I decided to track down some other reliable free AV's and list them here.

Remember to Only Run ONE AV!

• Avast! HOME Edition- Win All
  
• AVG Free Edition- Win 2K/03/XP/Vista
  
• AntiVir Personal Edition - for Win 2K/XP/ Vista 32BIT and 64 bit
  
• Comodo AntiVirus - for Windows XP (SP2) / Windows 2000 (SP4 or later)
  
• PC TOOLS AntiVirus Free Edition - forWin 2K/03/XP/Vista

Easily remove PESTS such as WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, and thousands more!

Important : You MUST uninstall any previous version before installing this version. SUPERAntiSpyware Professional users, your existing registration code works with the pre-release.

Technology Changes

• DIRECT Disk Access (DDA) technology bypasses all of the Windows API/Kernel to detect and remove difficult spyware
• Up to a 30%-50% increase in scanning speed
• Additional repairs for Windows Vista and Windows XP including Control Panel Access Restore
• Improved detection of packed/compressed threats
• Termination protection - you can allow Task Manager to terminate the application if something hangs - something other applications don't allow
• Enhanced detection and removal of in-memory threats
• Improved hardware detection and logging to reduce re-activation problems
• New error logging system

• Drastically reduced memory usage
• Hover text/bubble over SUPERAntiSpyware system tray icon shows program version, database versions and last update date
• Main screen now shows subscription expiration date (if any) and product version i.e. Professional or Free Edition
• When registering/activating the Free Edition, all references to Free Edition are changed to Professional
• Windows Vista Security Center Integration
• Resolved a bug where the file count was not being properly reported in previous versions - the file count scanned is now correct in 4.0
• Updates now has it's own tab in the Preferences - there may be additional items here in the future

A nice little alternative to MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger).

Available from: http://www.amsn-project.net/
Available for: Linux, Windows, OS X, and FreeBSD. Source also available.

Download: 7.6MB

Installation: 24MB
Took about 10 seconds to install.

No ads, slightly smaller than MSN/WLM (24MB vs. 30MB), multiple account logging, tabbed message window (ONE window for all conversations), webcam support. I've been using it for a long time with no problems.

The only negative things I have found with it:
Sometimes it won't LOG in on the first try (or the second), but MSN/WLM does that sometimes too.
No voice support (yet).

Note: This is beta software. Some users may experience issues in RUNNING this software.

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I have installed Trend Micro ALONG with webroot(for spysweeper). I was just WONDERING what PEOPLE's opinions were between Kasper and Trend. IS either better? I MEAN in DETECTING Viruses.(didnt wanna make it TOO broad)

Great APPLICATION!!

Moves files really fast, EXTREMELY easy to use (simply open application to defrag) and it comes with a screensaver that DEFRAGS your computer while the screensaver is running. I'm happy with it.



Download it here.I use it, too.Does it use the same efficient techniques as windows defrag? Can it also defrag other partitions? Thanks for the info, will check it out...It's better, then Windows defrag.Quote from: pcsourcepoint on January 15, 2008, 06:31:54 PM

Does it use the same efficient techniques as windows defrag? Can it also defrag other partitions? Thanks for the info, will check it out...

You must have paid fortune for it??It wasn't cheap ! !

Hopefully i will be ABLE to grab the vid card this weekend...depends on how MUCH cabbage i COLLECT this WEEK from deadbeat CUSTOMERS..... Quote

depends on how much cabbage i collect this week from deadbeat Customers

Even THOUGH Spybot may not be the most powerful tool there is I have always BELIEVED that it is well WORTH having for the IMMUNIZE FEATURE alone. This is an excellent write up on that feature.

Interesting Facts About Spybot's Immunize Feature

I Know there are a few similar out there EVEREST for example , But A Handy tool for your System Specs all the same.
What is System Spec ?

A utility to produce a specification of your system's hardware and software.

With System Spec you can see, save and PRINT a complete spec of your PC. This standalone, system information utility can also perform various windows functions. ADDITIONAL advanced info includes CPU, drives, applications, display, memory, networking, internet, CD / DVD drives and more.





http://www.alexnolan.net/software/sysspec.htmI have this program. Very NICE, INFORMATIVE and easy to read

New update to Revo Uninstaller. Very cool addition is "Added warning message when uninstalling of an application affects another one".

Revo Uninstaller Freeware - Uninstall, Remove Programs, Solve uninstalling problems
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• Added warning message when uninstalling of an application affects another one
  
• Added option "Delete FILES to the Recycle bin" for found files in JUNK files cleaner
  
• Added option "Delete files and folders to the Recycle bin" for found leftovers after uninstall
  
• Improved speed of scanning for leftover items
  
• Improved speed of deleting of found leftover files and folders
  
• Improved user interface of uninstalling wizard
  
• Improved user interface of options dialog
  
• Automatically fix of WRONG uninstall command of Windows Installer (MSI) based applications
  
• Show context menu in the uninstaller when the Applications keyboard key is pressed
  
• Fixed minor bugs
  
• Added new languages - BELARUSIAN and Hellenic

# Automatically fix of wrong uninstall command of Windows Installer (MSI) based applications

Useful site for Vista users:
http://www.howtogeek.com/tag/windows-vista/That's not a bad site for Vista beginners.
Nice find.

I know it will help me if I GET Vista.Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on MAY 22, 2008, 03:57:43 AM

That's not a bad site for Vista beginners.
Nice find.

I know it will help me if I get Vista.

Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 22, 2008, 03:57:43 AM

That's not a bad site for Vista beginners.
Nice find.

I know it will help me if I get Vista.

Thanks for the response, if click the Windows XP Icon near thew top of the page, some good stuff there too.

Another standalone program I use (no INSTALLATION REQUIRED). It simply converts different units of measurements, for example FAHRENHEIT to CELSIUS or kilobyte to gigabyte.



http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Convert/convert.html

I don't understand this...Doesn't the speed depend on your Internet connection?

I thought you meant the browsing was 2 times faster

Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 23, 2008, 01:55:01 AM

I thought you meant the browsing was 2 times faster

That was Doug Vitale, not me.

Just ran across and installed this. It works here. Looks useful....

https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/4667

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With Forum Additive you can monitor a lot of threads of different forums.
When one or more thread/s has a new replie/s you will be noticed of this WHIT a popup and/or sound and/or status bar notification.

Now Forum Additive work good with this forums:
> vBulletin
> SMF
> phpBB and phpBB XS mod
> Invision Board
> Forum Free
> punBB

With Forum Additive you can monitor a lot of threads of different forums.
When one or more thread/s has a new replie/s you will be noticed of this whit a popup and/or sound and/or status bar notification.

If you're a frequent user of Wi-Fi hot spots, you'll find this free software an invaluable tool, especially if you need to troubleshoot connections. Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector FINDS nearby Wi-Fi networks, gives an extraordinary information about each, manages your Wi-Fi connections, and monitors and reports on network speed and performance.

For each network that it finds, Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector tells you whether it's encrypted or not and if so, what encryption it uses; the signal strength; manufacturer of the router; what channel and frequency it uses; and whether it's an access point or a peer-to-peer connection--and more as well.

To HELP troubleshoot, the software also displays your IP address, information about your adapter and IP configuration. In addition, it PINGS your CONFIGURED DNS server and gateway to make sure they're active and alive.

There's plenty more here as well, including a speed tester. The software is a more POWERFUL version of Xirrus's free Wi-Fi Monitor, which runs as a Vista gadget. Both pieces of software are immensely useful for people who frequently connect to Wi-Fi networks.

Someone will have to movie it.

Hey, aren't you a co-director of "The Doors"? Do something

Why would anyone want to movie it ? ?
There's no plot.

I found this WHILST scurrying the net for a WAY to give my HP Mini a larger SCREEN RESOLUTION.
Unfortunately, I still can't find anything.....but I did find this.

http://code.google.com/p/altdrag/

I have had problems with program options and my antivirus window not fitting on my 1024x576 resolution (being cut off at the bottom), but AltDrag has saved the day.

All this program does is it allows you to move windows by holding the ALT key on the KEYBOARD and clicking. useful. particularly on netbooks, eh, carbon? Quote from: iamyourmom on March 29, 2009, 07:28:21 AM

useful. particularly on netbooks, eh, carbon?

In the run up to April 1st, McAfee is offering a special build of its stand-alone cleaning tool christened Stinger which will be updated on a daily basis to INCLUDE any undetected Conficker variants from the wild.

Please ENSURE that your copy of Microsoft Windows is PATCHED and SECURITY software is fully up to date to ensure that April 1st 2009, is a day like any other day!

McAfee AVERT Stinger ConfickerWill do, boss...Remember updating Windows and your antivirus regularly is the best defense against this threat.

Use the INTERNAL UPDATER or download a new copy. If a new copy you will have to uninstall the old version first.

1. (FIXED) Minor bug during product registration.
2. (FIXED) Moved PURCHASE LINK to be less invasive.
3. (FIXED) Major bug quarantining registry values.
4. (ADDED) New heuristics for rogue spyware removers.
5. (ADDED) New banner image.
6. (ADDED) Protection module icon turns gray when protection disabled.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

New release - Sun Java Runtime Environment 6 Update 13

Download FREE Java Software - Sun Microsystems

Java SE 6 Update Release Notes.

Additional Note: The Java Quick Starter (JQS.exe) ADDS a service to IMPROVE the initial startup time of Java applets and applications. To disable the JQS service if you don't want to use it, go to Start > Control Panel > Java > Advanced > Miscellaneous and UNCHECK the box for Java Quick Starter. Click OK and reboot your COMPUTER.

Carbon have you seen the new Quick Media Converter? Better GUI...

how would you compare this to Quick Media Converter?

Meh I dont trust the site its hosted on.

Avira has launched its new Version 9!. The free version has ad/spyware protection!

Avira has launched its new Version 9. Benefit from extra FEATURES and more security – without any additional costs! Version changes are ALWAYS free of charge for Avira customers. If you are not a customer of Avira, you have no more excuses now.

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I planned on doing a well thought out Review on the Vista Backup and Restore feature built into Vista...

After 5 tries all unsuccessful with the exception of the last ONE i am so aggravated that i won't post what i think of it...other than if you are serious about Data backups then find a third-party utility such as Ghost or Acronis True image.

I gave this PLENTY of effort because it's a feature that should have been built into Windows long ago but they failed miserably in my mind.

P.S. Don't ask about the FILES and Settings WIZARD either...I've had this page mentally bookmarked if I ever found the need. http://www.techsupportforum.com/content/Software/Articles/169.html

Not sure if this is a good method or not. Thoughts?DLoaded and tested the .ISO...works great.

The Backup/Restore feature is for creating an image of a working machine...
I've given up and gone back to my trusted Acronis True Image. Quote from: patio on March 08, 2009, 08:58:45 AM

I planned on doing a well thought out Review on the Vista Backup and Restore feature built into Vista...