Tech evangelist and Microsoft consultant Blake Handler hosts an impressively completist list of free Windows programs offered by Microsoft, dug from the trenches of Del.icio.us tags. It’s a handy bookmark for Control+F hunting. [via]
Windows only: Stalled Printer Repair is a portable application that detects and effectively removes stuck print jobs that are backing up your printer queue.
Windows only: If you’re running a home network with more than one or two machines, free network tool Advanced IP Scanner might save you a good chunk of time hunting down IP addresses and remotely connecting. The small utility scans a range of internal IP addresses and reports the status, name, NetBIOS/workgroup name, and MAC address on what it finds. You can then remotely shutdown, wake up LAN-listening machines, telnet or FTP into a machine—anything you’d normally be able to do, just in shorter order. It’s probably overkill for those with one or two machines with static IP addresses, but Advanced IP Scanner is a pretty sweet tool for networking geeks. Advanced IP Scanner is a free download for Windows systems only. Thanks, brodiemac!
Personal finance blogger Trent Hamm used to have one of those jobs that paid
every two weeks, and he found himself treating the occasional “third
check of the month” as a bonus. Looking back, he recommends anyone with
similarly non-rigorous discipline to treat those paydays like a trigger:
I adopted a routine of paying the bills every other
Monday like clockwork. I’d collect all the bills in a consistent spot
as they came in, then I’d sit down on bill paying day and go through
them, knocking all of them out. If I had more bills than cash, then I
tapped my emergency fund a bit, but with the further tactics below, it
wasn’t long before that wasn’t a problem.
To our paid-every-other readers: What tactics or routines did you adopt to avoid having your paychecks be spent upon arrival? Photo by RichieC.
The Addin Cleanup Tool is a small handy utility that will remove add-in entries from the list of installed add-ins, that can’t be removed anymore due to a problem with uninstalling the add-in. Normally the procedure would be to edit the registry and deleting a key, but now this tool from ASoft does the job for you and also creates a backup of what was deleted as well.
More information is available from here.
Canon’s PowerShot G9 offers serious shooters and value-minded professionals a feature-packed camera with
many of the advanced photographic capabilities of a high-end Digital SLR camera, in a lightweight, compact
package at an affordable price. The G9 features the same matte black, retro design that G-series fans have
come to appreciate, with a simplified control layout that is versatile yet easy to understand. This camera
is loaded with Canon’s latest and most advanced technologies, while raising the bar with the addition of
RAW Mode, usually reserved for larger and more expensive SLR cameras. Advanced photographers also have the
option of using RAW+JPEG simultaneous capture functionality, giving photographers the best of both worlds
- JPEGs for immediate use and RAW images for faithful image reproduction, and extensive, non-destructive
image editing capability.
MediaSmartHome.com has a tutorial on
obtaining a secure SSL certificate for a custom domain name and
installing that certificate on the Windows Home Server.
We are shown how to obtain the custom SSL certificate and how to get
into the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager on the Home Server
to import the new certificate.
The tutorial is available at MyHomeServer.com.
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