I recently downloaded a software DVD ISO image from a vendor’s website, burned it to DVD, and tried copying it to a server. No luck, the DVD was bad. That was the second DVD, the burn on the first DVD failed outright. Since I didn’t really need a physical DVD except as a way to [...]
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NewsFire joins NewsGator on list list of free RSS feed readers available for the Mac platform. I got NewsFire as part of a past promotional bundle. It was my first real news reader, unless you want to count the reader that was built into Yahoo Webmail at the time. It had a nice interface and [...]
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SyncToy is a free utility from Microsoft that runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista. The latest version is version 1.4 which was released in October 2006. At it’s basic level SyncToy allows the synchronization of two directories. In this article I’ll show how I’ve used it to schedule backups to an external drive. The [...]
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Upgrades - Patches - Please Stop the Madness
It seems like all I did this past week was patch and upgrade. I already mentioned the iWeb ‘08 update.
Microsoft released 9 security updates so it took awhile to patch my VMs.
Apple also updated Boot Camp to version 1.4 and I got around to updating it this week.
VMWare [...]
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In my previous post about my problems with Superduper! I mentioned I used two free utilities to try and find out where all the space went.
Disk Inventory X
The first utility is Disk Warrior Inventory X which provides a graphical representation of your files. When the program starts you’re asked to pick a drive or folder [...]
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AutoRuns for Windows is a free utility from Microsoft (that they inherited when they bought SysInternals). It shows absolutely everything that starts when Windows starts and when you logon. It doesn’t just show the programs, it goes deeper to show the DLL’s loaded. There’s 15 different categories, from “Logon” to “Network Providers”.
The screenshot below shows [...]
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