For busy people who want to effortlessly stay informed, Vocalyze provides a personalized mobile news and entertainment service that turns Tweets, blogs and and other written web content into real-time audio podcasts. How about if a robot reads to you your favourite news articles while you are driving to work!!. The service switches between a male and female voice after a couple of posts, which keeps things from getting monotonous.
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Freebase blog: Mining knowledge from Wikipedia: Announcing WEX “…Through the efforts of Colin Evans, Al Marks and several other Metaweb developers the Wikipedia Extraction (WEX) system became a reliable, repeatable process to normalize the Wikipedia corpus into a simple, manageable data set…”
“BugMeNot is an internet service that provides usernames and passwords to let Internet users bypass mandatory free registration on websites. Started in August 2003 by an anonymous person, later revealed to be Guy King, it aims to allow Internet users to access websites that have registration walls without the requirement of compulsory registration. This came in response to the increasing number of websites that request such registration.”
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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.
Trend Micro is one of the top messaging, network and web security companies around and many fortune 500 companies go to Trend Micro for securing their mission critical endpoints, messaging and web. What many people don’t know is, they offer many free tools for the little guy the home user. Here are some of their goodies:
CLEAN UP TOOLS
HijackThis” Scan your computer to find settings changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. Trend Micro HijackThis generates an in-depth report to enable you to analyze and fix your infected computer.”
“Scan your PC for a wide range of Internet security threats including viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware. HouseCall identifies and fixes vulnerabilities to help prevent re-infection.”
“Scan and monitor your computer for potential infection and suspicious activities associated with Bots. Upon discovering a potential infection, RUBotted prompts you to clean your computer.”
“Clean your computer of CoolWebSearch infections. CWShredder is the premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch – a wide range of insidious browser hijackers.“
“Scan for hidden files, registry entries, processes, drivers, and Master Boot Record (MBR) rootkits. Trend Micro RootkitBuster can also clean hidden files and registry entries.“
Sources: Trend Micro Website
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Tagged free malware, free virus scanners, malware removal, recover data
“Multi-disc file backup and restore on CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs; create compressed backup archives with powerful password protection; split archives automatically across multiple CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray discs; restore archive contents to their original locations; integrated Audio CD ripper store your audio tracks as WMA or WAV files; new option for setting the number of copies you want to burn (available for all disc formats); discs can now be verified immediately without being ejected first (if the drive supports this feature); numerous other small improvements that make the program easier to use and more effective; burn files and folders on data CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs; burn Audio CDs from WAV, MP3, FLAC, WMA and Ogg Vorbis files; burn MP3-CDs from your MP3 files; burn Video DVD, Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (S-VCD); create and burn CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc images; burn speed and other options can all be set automatically” <Download>
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Tagged A Shampoo, burning software, CD, DVD, Free DVD burning software
“You’re probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You’ve probably also heard of Symantec’s solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!
Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. ……”
You’ve seen it before: a desktop totally cluttered with too many open windows. No overview, the workflow is affected. Dexpot offers up to 19 additional work spaces to spread out your work. Finally, a tidy desktop again.
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.
“No need to install anything on your computer. Use the easy upload interface to convert your file. Your original file will not be affected, and you can choose your own file name for the converted file which will instantly download to your computer…?
How about writing complex scripts without coding. How about automating email, ftp, excel, terminal emulation, Microsoft Access, databases etc
Now you can write powerful scripts without a code! Very interesting indeed if you are the type intimidated by Perl, Paython, Ruby, VBScript and Shell Scripting. I still do believe this is not replacement for your complex scripting needs but it does offer a real solution to lots of folks out there who need to automate fast without coding. It is all possible with Automate
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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?
Google’s free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages
Yahoo! Babel Fish provides free online text and web page language translation and it is free
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