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These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for July 1st from 10:24 to 10:24:

• MonitorES - Monitor Energy Saver v0.3 - Tiny utility MonitorES pauses your media player, turns off your monitor, and sets Google Talk to away whenever you lock your PC.

  Using the utility is a no-brainer: just start it up and choose whether to start the screensaver or turn off the monitor when you lock the workstation—the options for pausing media or setting your messenger status are under the Options button. Once it's running, locking your workstation with the Win+L shortcut key combination will also turn the monitor off at the same time.

  MonitorES is free and open source, available for Windows only. If you simply want to shut the monitor off without anything running in the background, I've written an article about how to shut off the monitor and alternately lock your PC with a shortcut, or you can use previously mentioned PushMonitOff to turn off the monitor.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for June 24th from 20:49 to 20:49:

• MSPmentor | The Ultimate Guide and Blog to Managed Services -

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for June 21st from 20:07 to 20:07:

• Snowbird / l.madhavan - Snowbird is a tiny, portable file explorer packed with features that fits nicely into a flash drive toolkit.

  In our testing, Snowbird was quite responsive and, compared to Windows Explorer, extremely fast when dealing with network locations. There's a built-in copy handler which, while not as robust as the dedicated copy handlers in our Hive Five, offers error correction and the ability to pause transfers. More than the default Windows copier can do, that's for sure.Snowbird also sports breadcrumb navigation across the menu bar, an integrated search tool, and support for basic mouse gestures. Clicking the middle button and moving the mouse in various directions allows you to navigate through the directory structure. The only shortcoming of Snowbird is that, for some reason, the developer hasn't added drag and drop support yet for copy and paste. You can use keyboard shortcuts and the right-click context menu, but there is no drag and drop between folders.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for June 17th from 20:37 to 20:37:

• http://www.iphone-notes.de/mobileconfig/ - iPhone OS 3.0 Tethering Settings via Mail or iPhone direct download

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for June 5th from 19:12 to 19:12:

• Office Warfare » Window Hider - Window Hider is one of my favorite applications I have for this site. The basic idea behind Window Hider is that you have some programs you like to run, but that maybe your boss doesn’t like you to run. Be it games or just Internet Explorer tuned to your favorite website or video streaming site. Now you probably wish you had a way to prevent your boss from seeing them beyond the quick and dirty close them all as he walked into the office method.

  That is why I have written Window Hider. You give Window Hider a list of programs and a shortcut key then when it detects you pressing that shortcut key it hides those windows in your list. Window Hider also, as a recent addition, will hide all the programs in your list if you put your mouse in the upper left hand corner of your window. You can filter the windows by title text as well.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for June 3rd from 09:13 to 09:23:

• DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) - irSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively.

  Using DirSync Pro you can make incremental backups. In this way you'll spare lots of time because you don't have to copy all the files each time you want to update your backup; only new/modified/larger files would be copied.

  Use DirSync Pro to easily synchronize files from your desktop PC to your USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, …). Use this USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, …) to synchronize files to another desktop PC.

  Unlike many other synchronization software, DirSync Pro is Open Source; it is 100% free of charge, 100% free of commercial text, 100% free of advertisements and Junk

  DirSync Pro has a user-friendly User Interface which helps you configure many options to your needs. You can use DirSync Pro also through the command line which makes it very flexible for running in batches.

• Device Remover - The Powerful Device Manager - Device Remover
• Growl for Windows - System notification tool Growl for Windows is a slick, customizable, universal alert system for your applications—so you don't have to be jealous of your Mac friends anymore.

  After installing the utility, you'll have to download plugins to support application-specific notifications—the current set of plugins supports iTunes, Firefox, Microsoft Outlook, Pandora's AIR application, Visual Studio, and there's even a command-line utility to send notifications to Growl, which you could launch from your own custom AutoHotkey scripts.

  You can customize almost anything about the notifications, including selecting from a number of included skins. Clicking on the tiny monitor in the screenshot will allow you to place the notifications where you want them to appear.

• Products - Patchmate - Fullerton Enterprises - Updating your Windows install over a slow connection, or as part of multiple installations, can be a time-consuming pain. PatchMateXP bundles all current updates onto an easy to use deployment disk.

  We've covered methods of slipstreaming and creating your own custom Windows update disks before, with tools like Windows Update Maker, AutoPatcher, and nLite. PatchMateXP offers a radically simplified—albeit all or nothing—approach to updating your Windows installation. Updated monthly, PatchMateXP is meant to be burned onto a CD and run from within Windows. It applies every update release for Windows. If you need granular control over your updates to avoid known complications with your hardware, peripherals, or software and a particular Windows update you'll definitely want to skip PatchMateXP and check out the tools above for more selective installation. PatchMateXP is a free tool, Windows only.

• Lifehacker - RadarSync Keeps Your Programs Up To Date - Drivers - For some, downloading software is a daily habit. Spot, download, install, forget. Problem is, a lot of applications don't have built-in tools for staying updated. Instead of checking each program—manually—to see if it's up-to-date, RadarSync checks and updates all the apps on your system for you.

  After installing and running the system scan, RadarSync highlights your installed applications that are out of date and lets you choose which updates you'd like to install. After downloading—from what RadarSync states as the official programs' servers—you can launch the install process directly through the RadarSync interface, or run it later from the saved file.

  RadarSync is compatible with both the 32 & 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Vista only, and while we've featured it once before a while back, its functionality is worth another mention. It's also not the only app of its kind that we've mentioned, so if it doesn't quite fit what you're looking for,

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for June 3rd from 09:09 to 09:09:

• Lifehacker - KillCopy Speeds Up Disk Transfers and Securely Deletes Files - File Transfer - t's no secret that the default copy handler in Windows is miserably inadequate. KillCopy runs circles around the default handler with tons of customizable options including a secure over write of moved files.

  Killcopy, like previously reviewed TeraCopy and FastCopy, handles local and network file transfer with radically more efficiency than the default Windows file copier. There are a host of features including the ability to toggle settings like copy verification for important files, parallel read/write to boost speed, and whether to prompt, overwrite, or skip if a file already exists. The feature that really sets KillCopy apart from other custom copy handlers is its ability to securely overwrite file locations. You can instruct KillCopy to scrub the previous location of a file with 1-3 passes of data, making secure deletion part of your basic file handling.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for May 15th from 08:57 to 08:57:

• Edgeless - If you're sporting a wide-screen monitor or dual monitors, Edgeless wraps your mouse cursor around one far edge to the other, saving you the long haul through the middle.

  Edgeless is a simple and portable application. You do have to install it to extract the executable, but after that you can just copy it out of the installation directory. You simply tell it whether you want it to wrap horizontally, vertically, or both. From then on when you push the mouse cursor against the edges of the monitor, Edgeless will jump the cursor to the opposite edge, effectively wrapping it around the monitor. Unfortunately Edgeless only works on single and dual-monitor setups; for testing, we had to disable the third monitor to get it to work. For another multi-monitor friendly application that will cut down on the time you spend mousing about, check out Multi-Monitor Mouse

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for May 13th from 13:54 to 13:54:

• DownTester: Test the download speed of your Internet connection - For a quick and dirty assessment of your connection speed, it's tough to beat sites like Speedtest.net. For a more customized, accurate test, Down Tester is the way to go.

  If you need or want a finer degree of control over the speed tests you conduct, Down Tester is a customizable speed tester. You specify which remote files it downloads for its test, how long it will download each file, and what kind of connection it forms with the remote host. For our own test, we selected three popular Linux distributions and downloaded 20 seconds worth of each .ISO file. As you can see from the screen shot, with just three remote locations there was quite a variety in download speed. The more files you add, therefore, the more accurate a picture of your connection Down Tester creates. The application is tiny, under 50k, and portable. Down Tester is freeware, Windows only.

These are my links to webpages I found interesting while surfing the internet for May 7th from 09:45 to 09:45:

• TestDisk 6.11.3 Download - Freeware Files.com - Utilities Category - TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery utility. TestDisk was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table).

  TestDisk is a free and useful program which queries the BIOS ( DOS/Win9x) or the OS ( Linux, FreeBSD) in order to find the Hard Disks and their characteristics ( LBA size and CHS geometry). TestDisk does a quick check of your disk´s structure and compares it with your Partition Table for entry errors. If the Partition Table has entry errors, TestDisk can repair them. If you have missing partitions or a completely empty Partition Table, TestDisk can search for partitions and create a new Table or even a new MBR if necessary.