cool toolsAwesome Drop is cool. You want to copy some files to your Android phone, but don’ t have a cable handy. Browse for the Awesome Drop app in the Android Market. Install it an run it. It tells you the URL and code to enter in Chrome on your computer (it uses some HTML 5 [...]
I didn’t realize until this week that you can’t use the Amazon S3 web console to transfer files larger than about 300 MB into S3. In fact, sometimes files less than 300 MB will fail to transfer. CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a free tool that lets you transfer files to and from S3, and it [...]
Check out my first post on ChurchIT: Monitor Your Data Closet Temperature for Under $75. And check out the rest of the 8BIT Network.
Here’s a great video from Jonathan Stark, showing how you can turn a web app into a native iPhone app with the free tool PhoneGap. When combined with jQTouch, the jQuery plugin for mobile web development, you have a complete system for building native apps for various mobile platforms, all from html, css, and javascript. [...]
This looks very interesting.? I don’t see it in the Android Marketplace yet, perhaps because my phone is not running Android 2.0.
I’ve been trying for a while to get the Mac “Screen Sharing” to work.? I want to control the Mac from a Windows Vista machine.? Even though Screen Sharing is just a VNC server, my RealVNC client would seem to connect for a split second and then the connection would go away. I finally found [...]
The August issue of Technet Magazine contained a great article called “Taking Your Server’s Pulse“.? I especially appreciated learning about the counters that the Microsoft Service Support Engineers look at when troubleshooting problems.
Tyson Kopczynski, author of Windows PowerShell Unleashed wrote a blog entry over at NetworkWorld called “5 free PowerShell tools to ease your Windows management pain“.? They look like they’re worth investigating, and also led me to The PowerShell Guy and Dmitry’s PowerBlog.
Here’s a great article at Lifehacker about how you can know if a file is really infected, or if your antivirus software is giving you a false positive (shouting “virus!” when there really isn’t one). Read the article and check out the online multi-engine scanning tools at Jotti’s malware scan VirusTotal Virus.org
If you’ve been around Windows very long, you’ve run into files that were locked by other users or processes.? The free utility Unlocker, which I read about in the February 2008 issue of TechNet magazine, will solve this problem for you.? Just right-click on the file and choose Unlocker from the context menu. Thanks to [...]
