Google Earth 4.3
Thanks to Rob for pointing this out in his 170 Spoons blog:? Google Earth 4.3 is awesome!
Karl’s Place
cool tools
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 [...]
Karen’s Power Tools
If you occasionally need a little program to get something done on your Windows machine, check out Karen’s Power Tools. Sign up for the free newsletter to find out about updates–she doesn’t overwhelm your inbox with a lot of email. Regarding the licensing, she says: As always, each program is free for personal/home use. And [...]
More Laura Chappell Goodness
I’ve said before that I’m a fan of Laura Chappell’s training on network traffic / protocol / packet analysis. I didn’t even know about all of the screencasts available from the site of Novell’s Connection magazine.? Check them out!
Scripts and Events on Cisco Routers
Did you know that Cisco routers have TCL and an Embedded Event Manager (EEM) that can trigger scripts?? I’ve known that they have TCL but haven’t played with it.? The EEM makes it even more powerful. Check out this very informative article at TechRepublic, including a link to a Cisco overviews and a Scripting Community.
Free 411 Service from Google
This has been around for a while, but I just found it–GOOG 411. Just dial 800-GOOG-411 (800-466-4411) to try it. I’m looking forward to trying out the text and mapping features. Check out the video preview:
Run Linux Apps on Windows with andLinux
Adam Pash has a great tutorial on lifehacker about how to run linux apps seamlessly on your Windows desktop with andLinux. It looks easy enough to give it a quick try.
UnxUtils for Windows
Another great tip from lifehacker… From the distribution notes:? “This are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.” UnxUtils
Online Bandwidth Calculator
Here’s a useful bandwidth calculator that a colleague pointed out today.
Tabbed Interface for PuTTY
Another great tip that I’ll use from the How-To Geek: install a little app that works with your free ssh client, PuTTY. Get the PuTTY connection manager here.
