One of the things that can utterly drive website developers and designers insane is the difference in browser rendering. Sometimes it renders in FireFox, but not well in Internet Explorer. Sometimes it works in both, but dies in Opera or Safari or Konqueror. Well, want a free tool to help you see if your site [...]
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CreativePro Free Office Management Software
July 17th, 2008 
admin Small business owners must do everything on a shoestring. So, when great tools, especially great free software managment tools, then business owners tend to snap them up. CreativePro Office is one such tool. It gives you time tracking, project managment, client information, invoice and expense tracking, and much more. And it does it in a [...]
TrueCrypt Free Encryption Software
July 10th, 2008 admin I probably should have said on-the-fly encryption because that’s what TrueCrypt does. TrueCrypt gives a free way to encrypt a file, a bunch of files, or your entire OS installation.
Universe Sandbox Interactive Simulator Rocks
July 9th, 2008 admin If you are a fan of Stellarium, then you will love the Universe Sandbox. It is the brainchild of Dan Dixon. And it allows you to play around with the universe. It is interactive and highly addictive.
AutoIt Automates Mundane Admin Tasks
May 29th, 2008 admin Yesterday I needed a simple way to automate an install process for a client. The cost savings for me to do this would be substantial. This is both in terms of flight and accommodation costs and administrative costs on their end. The software vendor was pretty unresponsive to our need for a custom install script [...]
Windows 2000 Xp and Vista Password Recovery
March 27th, 2008 admin photo credit: booleansplit This is the typical scenario. Someone recently acquired a second hand computer from a friend of business associate. Unfortunately, that computer is riddled with spyware, viruses, and malware is password protected and no one knows what that password is. Have no fear, you may still be able to recover that Win2k, XP, [...]
PeerCasting Harnesses P2P Broadcasting
March 24th, 2008 admin The whole multi node aspect of the internet makes for some very interesting and very powerful applications. The problem is that most of us haven’t woken up to that power. The internet has a synergistic power about it that P2P really shows well. And PeerCasting has come up with a cool example of that synergy [...]
CarChip Pro OBDII Car Logger
February 8th, 2008 admin Ever since strict standards came into play, cars have been using the OBD (on-board diagnostics) computer to log certain information. Well, tapping into that on-board diagnostics computer can tell you a lot about your vehicle.
Untangle Free Sonicwall Alternative
December 2nd, 2007 admin If you are looking for a great all in one network appliance, you should take a look at Untangle. Untangle is a completely free open source network appliance app. It can do firewalling, VPN, spam blocking, web filtering, etc. So, if you’re looking for something that can do all that for free, then Untangle could [...]
TuneBite Legal DRM Hack
November 5th, 2007 admin The DRM hack issue is a cat mouse game between users and music publishers. The problem is that those types of hacks typically approach things at the programmatic level. Music publishers encrypt the files and users try to crack the encryption. And for most music lovers, they just want a good way to back up [...]
