Monitor Your Data Closet Temp on the Cheap
Check out my first post on ChurchIT: Monitor Your Data Closet Temperature for Under $75. And check out the rest of the 8BIT Network.
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Build an iPhone App with PhoneGap
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. [...]
Google Goggles — Visual Search
This looks very interesting.? I don’t see it in the Android Marketplace yet, perhaps because my phone is not running Android 2.0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgfz0zPmH4
VNC to Mac OS 10.5 from Windows
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 [...]
Server Performance Monitoring
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.
Free Powershell Tools
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.
Do I Really Have a Virus?
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
Unlock Those Locked Files
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 [...]
Google Earth 4.3
Thanks to Rob for pointing this out in his 170 Spoons blog:? Google Earth 4.3 is awesome! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4LfKcn3WxE
Copytext – Copy “Unhighlightable” Text
Copytext is a little app that I haven’t tried yet, but I’m blogging about it so that I can find it when I need it. There are times when you want to copy text from an app, but it’s in a place where you can’t highlight and choose “Copy”.? This little app will pull that [...]
