We are featuring Howcast as a good source for instructional video content. With tens of thousands of short, helpful, high-quality videos to choose from, Howcast will help you with pretty much anything you need to know about; from How to Bake a Cake to How to Survive an Alien Abduction. The quality of the content is far superior to what you will find in youtube.
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If you have a program that doesn’t run in native Windows 7, try:
Study Hacks: “explores strategies for building a life that is both remarkably accomplished and remarkably enjoyable. Its primary audience is students, but at least half the content is non-student specific, and the site enjoys readers of all ages.
Study Hacks is run by Cal Newport, an MIT postdoc and author of the popular advice guides How to Become a Straight-A Student and How to Win at College. His new book, How to Be a High School Superstar”
If you’re an existing user:
Settings->Mail/Contacts/Calendar->Your Mail Account
If you’re using Yahoo! Mail or Yahoo! Calendar for the first time:
Settings->Mail/Contacts/Calendar->Add Account->Yahoo->Enter your account info and click next.
You have all sorts of files and you want to convert between them. Look no further than Zamzar. Don’t ask me what Zamsar means but they do damn job of converting all kinds of files types online for free. We tested it and it is rock solid. Give a try.
“Open Office database (“Base”) tutorials for novices. A new venture, but maybe it can help you not waste time that I had to! Contains links to other Open Office tutorials, too. These tutorials are for the HSQL variant supplied with OpenOffice version 2… which is a potential Access slayer. (I didn’t like Adabas, which came with the commercial version of OO version 1)”
Is configuration management and anomaly detection software.
Cfengine is the standalone, open-source datacenter management platform run by leading enterprises since 1993. Customize your IT systems, align to network, business and regulatory needs, monitor problems, automatically repair and maintain systems more effectively than with proprietary software. Cope with new and legacy systems and adopt on a phased basis. Cfengine yields reduced costs, improved efficiency and higher return on investment for the lowest cost of adoption in the industry.
A very useful egrep like tool posted by ShowUsYour<Regex>
“I’ve long thought of writing a little tool like grep (or egrep) which would allow me to quickly use regex to search for text within files. This weekend while reading an article about Standard I/O and Console Applications I discovered the Windows command-line tool FindStr.
FindStr.exe is a command-line tool which searches for patterns of text in files using regular expressions. Let’s say I’ve got a folder full of documents and I want to search through and find any instance of the pattern “WebService” I can fire up a Command Prompt, change the path to my where my folder is and use FindStr.exe to perform the search:
cd c:\MyFolder findstr /s /i WebService *.* >Results.txt cd c:\MyFolder findstr /s /i WebService *.*This displays a list of all lines in all files in which the search term was found.”
Read the full article at ShowUsYour<Regex>
The Joornaal does not endorse specific products or specific software. However, we cannot help but notice Splunk, A software which makes the job of IT Infrastructure management (Applications Management, Security and Auditing) under one platform and does such a good job. We believe these dudes are into something huge. Who needs to buy expensive multiple IT infrastructure management software, when the ingenious Splunk brings under one umbrella? My SysAdmin buddies are happy with Splunk
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How strong is your password?
Download the handy Mandylion Research Labs BruteForce Attack Time Estimator (excel template) and see for yourself an estimate of how fast a password is hacked by these widely available tools running on today’s desktops
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Corporations have been backing up their data in multiple locations sometimes offshore to safeguard against loss. Now the average home user have access to the same facilities that huge corporation had access to with very cheap and easy to use tools. Today, we would like to bring your attention to two of the best online back up available in the market.
Hey you could lose your data, you could accidentally delete it, it can be stolen and or it can be lost. There are many ways you could lose very important data so back it up.
We believe this is one of the best Windows online backups out there. If your computer data is important to you for $54.95 you will get unlimited online back up. It is secure and very easy to use.
Carbonite launched its online backup service in May 2006. Our industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. So far, we have backed up and protected more than 2.5 billion files and restored more than 160 million lost files for customers in over 100 countries.
Mozzy is really simple online backup and you cannot beat the price of unlimited backup for $4.95 a month. It is one of those online backups that you should give serious consideration if you are not backing up your data. Hey what does your data worth to you?
