Windows Freeware Links and Reviews. Updated Frequently…
Posted in How-To, Networking, PC Maintenance, SysAdmin, Video on Nov 25th, 2008
Logmein has been around for some time now and has grown into a very reliable and usable product. Logmein’s primary function of remote access to a single PC located at home or at work is absolutely free. Logmein also offers a myriad of pay options for IT administrators as well as corporate users for enterprise level remote access. Once […]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Graphic/Multimedia, Networking, Video on Nov 24th, 2008
VLC is a great award winning software to use when you have a video or audio file in a format that Windows Media Player and others do not easily play. I have occasionally experienced problems playing .AVI files and DVD’s in WMP, but VLC takes care of these issues as it plays everything from .AVI […]
Posted in Networking, Utilities, WebDev on Aug 18th, 2008
Speedtest.net is a flash based bandwith tester that seems to be very accurate. I like how it can detect ISP upload compression and how you can visually select multiple locations to test your bandwidth from. I have found the tool very accurate and the Flash animations make it fun to use.
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Posted in Fun Stuff, Networking, Utilities on Feb 20th, 2008
AnalogX makes some pretty cool freeware and posts them on his site at AnalogX.com . One of my favorites is the Internet Traffic Report Client . ITRC provides very interesting data and is a fun little toy for any networking geek to play with. More info from the website here:
How many times has your Internet connection been sluggish, […]
Posted in Data Storage, How-To, Networking, Video on Feb 16th, 2008
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. FileZilla is a full featured FTP client, is the best free FTP client I have ever used and rivals products like CuteFTP and WinFTP. FileZilla is a pure open-source project with tons of support and […]
Posted in Networking, PC Maintenance, SysAdmin on Feb 9th, 2008
RealVNC has been around for awhile now and provides a simple remote server and viewer package for any desktop PC. The VNC project is particularly popular in the Linux community for providing remote access to Linux desktops. RealVNC is a nice alternative to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in Windows as it provides “overlay” access […]
Posted in Networking, Security, Utilities on Feb 4th, 2008
Angry IP Scanner is a wonderful, simple to use, IP scanning utility which allows the user to quickly determine IP usage on a Local Area, or Wide Area network. Its simple to use interface delivers a birds eye view of the following: Within an IP range - live vs. dead hosts, ping statistics, host name, […]