Archive for February 2010
WordPress Applications for iPhone, Android and Blackberry
Many of our students have asked about following the blog with their new Android phones (and other phones). Here’s how:
Test Drive Windows 7 Online
Microsoft offers an online test drive of Windows 7. If you have broadband and have not upgraded, Microsoft’s Virtual Windows 7 online allows you to see how Windows 7 works.
System Information with LookInMyPC
LookInMyPC (via BillMullins’ Blog) is an excellent program to analyze your computer. With the ability to gather information about your computer and the capability to email it. This software is an excellent tool for anyone.
Free Backup Programs
Being an IT Director in an Educational Environment, we are always looking for alternative solutions that save money and programs for the end user. Here is ten of the top backup programs. This lineup includes backup solutions for MAC, Linux and Windows users.
Recommended for: IT Pros-Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
NASBackup was designed to replace tape backups. The easy to use interface allows the end user or IT professional to backup data as a full, compressed or incremental backup.
Recommended for: IT Pros
Restore Backup Live is designed for IT professionals (approx. 400+mb) download. Restore Backup works on the Enterprise (Large Network) Level.
Recommended for: IT Pros-Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
This software was around along time before the latest vampire fade. An excellent program that can be used in a complex network environment, Bacula also can be used on a single computer.
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Home Users and System Admins may like a simple form of backups. With JaBack, the program backs up your important files and folders. The backup set it creates is created in standard ZIP format. This allows flexibility in restoring the data using any zip software. This 22 mb download allows for scheduling, emailing, FTPing while backing up your files. JaBack is an excellent program for MAC, Windows or Linux
Recommended for: MAC users
If you need to backup your MAC, Mathusalem is a good little program we recently installed on our MAC in the classroom. Although this program is no longer updated, this small program works excellent for MAC users. (<2mb).
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
BackupPC is another excellent program that can be used to backup any of your computers to another disk or computer.
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Cobain Backup allows for the encryption of your backed up files. This program is another excellent program to backup your files that allows you to backup locally or remotely.
Recommended for: IT Pros – Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Bonkey is one of the most powerful backup programs. Allowing you to backup to Amazon S3, locally, remotely or across a network, Bonkey is one of the most powerful free programs available. (Supports encryption, sql and many other backups)
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Areca’s open source solution allows you to backup your computer and marks your files with versions allow you to see different files and to restore only the one’s you need.
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Comodo backup is a great home user backup solution. Comodo’s interface is easy to use and offers dozens of features.
Don’t forget to check out this file synchronization tool at WhatsOnMyPC.
KMPlayer – Media Player
KMPlayer is one of the best media players (up there with VLC Player). With a broad range of codecs and video capturing capabilities, KMPlayer is an excellent alternative to Windows Media Player and other free media players.
Free E-Learning from Microsoft
Free Security E-Learning from Microsoft.
PFBackup will not install in Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft has a utility to backup your email (Contacts, inbox, outbox, etc.). If you have performed a Windows Recovery or reinstalled Microsoft Outlook and PFBackup will not install or uninstall, you can use an extraction utility to install the software.
Use a utility such as http://legroom.net/software/uniextract or WinRar to extract the files and to install.
~Dawn Babian, GSAE
Researchers warn of likely attacks against Windows, PowerPoint
Chat with People across the World
Like to chat on the internet and use your webcam? Want to meet someone new?
Chat Roulette allows people to communicate with other people across the world. A webcam is required and a microphone is optional. Chat Roulette shows video of who you are communicating with in a small screen and also yourself. You can type or even talk to the person you are chatting with (VoIP). Chat Roulette allows you to have a more personal conversation with other people across the world than something like yahoo chat. If you don’t like the person you are in contact with for whatever reason, you can simple hit next to connect with someone else.
~M. Weddington
Remove Aurora Malware from a Windows Domain
~M. Weddington
HBGary Inc has created a free utility that will scan for and remove the Aurora malware from a Windows Domain.
Check it out
Information (DarkReading)
Windows Stop Error After Update
~Cody
f 0X7E STOP errors in Windows XP at boot after a Windows Update may be fixed by hitting F8 at bootup and selecting Last Known Good Configuration or going to safe mode and doing a system restore. If this fails try the steps below.
1. Boot from your Windows XP CD to get to Recovery Console (see how)
SQL Server Native Client
You can download SQL Server 2008 Native Client here
You can download SQL Server 2005 Native Client from here
Google Buzz with Caution
John Carney over at LakeNeuron explains the privacy settings on Google Buzz.
This setting turns off the public view of who is following you. For more details, see his post.
1) Go to google.com
2) Choose Settings / Google Account settings
3) Click “Edit Profile”
4) UNCHECK the box marked “Display the list of people I’m following and people following me”
5) Scroll to the bottom and click “Save Changes”
Google vs. Facebook
Google is looking at competing with Facebook and other Web 2.0 sites. See a slideshow here.
Microsoft Outlook Cannot Start
Use the Outlook.exe /resetnavpane command at the run line or search line in Windows 7. This will reset Outlook.
Windows 7 Classic View
Many users come to me and ask for the old ‘Start’ button back with the Windows Vista menu. To put Windows 7 in this view, simply right click on the desktop and select personalize. At the bottom of the Window, select the Windows Classic Theme.
Drag and Drop Encryption
We are always featuring encryption and security articles along with freeware on our blog. One of the easiest to use is featured (Again – an excellent resource for our students) over at Whatsonmypc. Drag and Drop allows you to basically ‘Drag and Drop’ on what you need encrypted. Go over and take a look at this program.
Explore the Universe with Celestia
Celestia is an excellent simulation program that allows you to explore the solar system and the galaxy. Free Download for Windows, Linux or Mac
Download TTC Shelbyville’s Technical Blog in PDF Format
Download the entire TTC Shelbyville – Technical Blog – Download
1522 Posts w/pictures (From 2007 – February 2010)
Includes Interactive Internal and External Links.
Free VPN with OpenVPN
OpenVPN is a method of connecting to secure servers allowing your data and web surfing to be secure. OpenVPN
~Dawn
