Archive for January, 2008
Internet disrupted in India, Mid-East and Egypt
A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday.
India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage.
“There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt which has impacted internet connectivity in [...]
DNSstuff.com Alternative : 10 Free Sites
We have always been a fan of DNSStuff, in fact, We have been using it for many many years. Recently DNSstuff.com is becoming more and more commercialized. Because of this, We’ve searched for a replacement to DNSstuff and found a very able and suitable alternative.
| Ian and Peter’s DNS Tools
http://www.diggip.com/
http://www.dnsenquiry.com/
http://www.net-toolkit.com/
http://www.dnscolos.com/free-dns-report.html
http://www.mydnstools.info/
If there’s one [...]
Microsoft Second Shot Offer extended until June 30th 2008
Get a second chance to pass your Microsoft Certification exam—free offer!
Microsoft Second Shot Offer provides you with one free retake of any IT professional, developer, or Microsoft Dynamics certification exam for each paid exam you do not pass on the first try. This offer started on September 15, 2007 and suppose to end on January [...]
8hands - Brings Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and all your favorite social networks to your Desktop
8hands is a small and friendly desktop application that will simplify your social networking experience. Forget all those logins and refreshing of a million tabs – let 8hands do the dirty work for you!
With 8hands, you can organize and optimize your different online profiles from one place, while receiving real time notifications of your events.
But, [...]
Prevent Boss From Snooping On Your Google Search
There are chances that someone is secretly spying on your Google search tracks for various reasons. For example, the employer may monitor your Google search habits to know if you are looking for jobs elsewhere while the local ISP may be collecting your Google queries with the purpose of selling that data to large analytics [...]
Sysinternals Suite Download
The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006.
The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. Download Sysinternals Suite(8 MB)
This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. [...]
Freeware Utility to - 450+ common problems solved
Anti-Spyware/Anti-Virus/Anti-Rootkit Freeware Utilities :
check if there is a rootkit installed on my computer : F-Secure BlackLight
check if there is a rootkit installed on my computer : RootkitRevealer by SysInternals
check if there is [...]
GMail Drive shell extension
GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Gmail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside [...]
Karen’s Replicator
Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives! Karen’s Replicator copies selected files from one drive/folder to another. Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network.Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few minutes, or as long as several months, copy only files that have changed, and the replication of folder [...]
MySQL Acquired by SUN
MySQL Acquired by SUN
Sun acquired MySQL as announced today. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml
I was very surprised by this notice.
MySQL Chief Executive Marten Mickos confirmed the acquisition attempt in an interview at the Open Source Business Conference here but wouldn’t provide details such as when the approach was made or how much money Oracle offered.
He did, however, [...]
