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Posted in Backup/Recovery, Utilities on Feb 6th, 2008
The Magical Jellybean keyfinder has helped me out many times in recovering lost Windows CD-Keys. In this age of “Product Activation” this tool is extremely useful. Below is a brief description of the utility from their website:
The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install […]
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, […]
Posted in Backup/Recovery, Security, Utilities on Jan 29th, 2008
ZipGenius is the perfect all-in-one zip and compression utility. It converts and opens .zip files as well as 20 other compression formats. You can also create self extracting .EXE files for distribution as well as add a customized signature to your archives. The one reason I prefer to use ZipGenius over the free utility in […]
KeePass is a utility for managing the myriad of passwords required to navigate the modern Web. Since I’m very conscious of network security I must have well over 100 different credentials ranging from security critical sites such as brokerage accounts to novelty sites like MySpace.com. Can you imagine having to remember all of those credentials?
KeePass […]
Posted in Backup/Recovery, Security, Utilities on Jan 24th, 2008
RockXP is great for retrieving lost activation keys and passwords in WindowsXP. This utility can save you hours of phone calls to Microsoft in resolving a lost product activation key for a reinstallation of WindowsXP. RockXP also comes with a nice password generator and will even help with recovering lost MSN Messenger passwords. The RockXP […]
Posted in Security, Utilities, Virus/Spyware Removal on Jan 20th, 2008
Aah yes, the legendary Spybots Search & Destroy. This program has been a standard tool for I.T. folk in the scanning and removal of all things spyware for almost a decade . As of this post, their spyware database is up to well over 100,000 items. Spybots S&D is easily one of the top 5 […]
Posted in Utilities on Jan 18th, 2008
PrimoPDF® is a great utility for creating .PDF files out of ordinary documents. It’s free (of course) and a cool thing is how it appears as a printer to your PC. All you have to do is print whichever document you would like to convert and select PrimoPDF® as the print device from your printer […]