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These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 19th from 23:07 to 23:12:

• Axence Software - Network Monitoring, Network Mapping & Application Monitoring- Free NetTools - Free application Axence NetTools is a comprehensive suite of networking tools for your PC, including a network scanner, inbound/outbound connection monitor (NetStat), port scanner, and other network and bandwidth measuring tools. NetTools is very similar in ways to previously mentioned network monitors like Look@Lan, but if you want to get elbow deep in your network, it's another great option to add to your toolbox.
• Tweak UI For Windows Vista : Ultimate Windows Tweaker From WinVistaClub - Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a Tweak UI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable application to customize your Windows Vista to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, It can make your system faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. The tweaker detects whether you have IE 7 or IE 8 installed and accordingly offers you the relevant tweaks only.
• Merge MP3 - If you are looking for ways to merge a bunch of MP3 files into one larger file, and don't like the command line solution I wrote about earlier this week, try Merge MP3. The application is tiny, the interface familiar, and it will allow you to drag-and-drop MP3 files onto a playlist, change the order, preview the audio, and then mix them all down to a single MP3 files along with APIC images and ID3 meta-data. Perfect for creating a mix or joining files from an audiobook you've ripped from multiple CDs. Merge MP3 is a free download for Windows.
• ProduKey - Recover lost product key (CD-Key) of Windows/MS-Office/SQL Server - ProduKey is a portable free application designed to show you the product keys of Microsoft operating systems and popular software like Microsoft Office, Exchange Server and SQL Server. This feature is handy but we have seen similar functionality in old repair tools of the week like Magical Jellybean Key Finder. However, Produkey has a nice feature for us computer technicians. It has the ability to get the keys off another harddrive or even from another computer over the network.

  Imagine this situation. A client brings in a computer that has a copy of Windows XP on it that isnt booting. You determine that some critical Windows files are corrupt and it needs a format. However, the client lost their disk and the license key.
  No problems. Install their harddrive into one of your systems, fire up ProduKey and point it to the second hard drive and wham bam, you have their Windows license key.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 17th from 21:01 to 21:01:

• BlackFriday Buying Spreadsheet - BlackFriday Buying Spreadsheet

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 17th from 02:06 to 02:10:

• Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool - Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completely reliable version of this software tool
  aimed at memory failures detection.
• PC Wizard 2008 - PC Wizard is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies
  and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results. It is also a utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 16th from 04:13 to 04:16:

• CloneDrive - When you download that disk image file to a PC without a DVD or CD burner, grab yourself a copy of the free CloneDrive to use it.

  The barebones CloneDrive associates itself with .ccd, .dvd, .bin, .iso and .img disk image files and mounts them as if they were a physical, optical disk. Similar disk image mounting utilities include Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel and Daemon Tools. CloneDrive is a free download for Windows only.

• ISODisk, free software for mount and create ISO disk image - You don't have a single .iso file to open, you have a pile you need to go through. ISODisk will help you cut through the pile and find the files you're looking for. ISODisk is a free application which allows you to mount a disk image and browse it like a regular drive. ISODisk won't mount other disk image formats like .nrg, .mdf, or .dmg files but shines at mounting up to twenty .iso images with unique drive letters. ISODisk will also create disk images from non-encrypted disks.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 15th from 22:00 to 23:00:

• Stockvault.net | Free Stock Photos and Free Images -
• DoubleKiller - find and remove duplicate files (Big Bang enterprises) - DoubleKiller is a fast and easy to use application for finding and removing duplicate files.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 14th from 21:33 to 21:33:

• shutdownguard - Google Code - Ever update your system through Windows Update or install a new piece of software, and when the process completes, your system automatically shuts down or reboots? Of course you have. It's annoying, right? Free application ShutdownGuard addresses this problem by preventing Windows from automatically shutting down, rebooting, or logging off without confirmation. Each time it prevents a shutdown action, you'll see an alert in your system tray asking if you really want to shutdown. If you do, click the alert. If not, just keep on keeping on. The lightweight ShutdownGuard is a free download, Windows only.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 13th from 12:28 to 12:28:

• Simple Port Forwarding v.2.0.4 | PcWinTech.com - Simple Port Forwarding is a now freeware application (was previously $15) that is designed to make forwarding ports on a router easy. This application would be useful to both technicians and clients.
  While most technicians know how to port forward a router, this application has a growing list of game/application ports so we know which ports need to be forwarded and saves us having to search for the ports. To use it, you just select which router you are using from its evergrowing list, enter the username and password of the router/modem, choose which game or application you want to port forward and press the Update Router button.
  It also has some other nice time saving features such as the ability to show the default username and password for the modem you have chosen.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 11th from 01:11 to 01:11:

• Folder2Iso Main Page (Official Page). - Folder2Iso just creates an iso from any kind of folder (with the subfolders).
  Its a GUI of mkisofs.
  No need of installation , really small exe

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 11th from 00:48 to 00:48:

• Free DVD Creator: Create & Burn DVD from AVI DivX MPEG WMV MP4 to DVD. - Free DVD Creator provides you a handy tool to convert and burn DVD movies from video files. It can create DVD from all video formats such as AVI to DVD, DivX to DVD, Xvid to DVD, MPEG to DVD, WMV to DVD, MP4 to DVD, MOV to DVD, RM to DVD…Then you can play the DVDs on portable or home DVD player.

  With Free DVD Creator, you can create DVD movies with NTSC or PAL video standard, 4:3 or 16:9 video aspect, 720×480/720×576 or 352×240/352×288 video resolution. Create DVD menus with built-in DVD menu maker. And burn DVD movie disc or just create DVD files (.ifo, .vob) on your hard drive.

  With Free DVD Creator, you can easily turn the vacation, wedding and family movies into DVDs that you can burn and share with your friends and family. And it's completely FREE! Have fun~

• DVD Flick - DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation.
  Features
  Windows Forest Awards 2007 Copper prize (4th place)

  * Burn near any video file to DVD
  * Support for over 45 file formats
  * Support for over 60 video codecs
  * Support for over 40 audio codecs
  * Easily add a menu
  * Add your own subtitles
  * Easy to use interface
  * Burn your project to disc after encoding
  * Completely free without any adware, spyware or limitations

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for November 9th from 22:36 to 22:36:

• BgInfo - How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo. It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop's background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen.

  Because BGInfo simply writes a new desktop bitmap and exits you don't have to worry about it consuming system resources or interfering with other applications. BgInfo works on Windows 2000 SP4 Rollup 1 or above.