I’ve been using Microsoft’s Synctoy for awhile now to do daily backups of my laptop files to my server.
It works great, for the most part. But I’ve noticed that with the “Echo” function (which I use), it does make a mirror of my laptop files, deletes any files from the server that are no longer [...]
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gcal/thunderbird sync
Someone posted this site on a listserv that I’m on.
Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird
It talks about an Add-On for Mozilla Thunderbird that allows you to create and use your Google Calendar inside of Thunderbird.
Rock. On.
DVD Flick
This looks like a really good opensource package for DVD authoring. I found this via a tutorial on lifehacker.
DVD Flick is a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take several video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD [...]
Cutting Edge
I just upgraded my laptop to Windows Vista Business and Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise.
I thought Vista was going to take some time to figure out, but Office. Whew. I can see how things are more intelligently organized, but I can imagine that alot of people are going to be seriously complaining about it. [...]
Google Browser Sync
I just started using this between a few computers, and it works GREAT ! I have it configured to just synchronize my bookmarks, not my cookies, history, passwords, etc.
Firefox users, try it out !
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords [...]
microsoft live writer test
i’m trying out Microsoft’s Live Writer application.
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service.
Blogging has turned the web into a two-way communications medium. Our goal in creating Writer is to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun [...]
OSSEC HIDS - Open Source Security
OSSEC HIDS - Open Source Security
pretty neat little tool that i saw on /. this morning.
OSSEC HIDS is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and active response.
Unix & Windows versions available.
The PC De-Crapifier
yorkspace.com » The PC De-Crapifier
The PC De-Crapifier is designed to remove a specific list unwanted software in an unattended fashion. Before running, the user may select exactly what software should be removed. Currently, it is targeted for use on most Dell machines…
Nvu
Nvu (pronounced N-view) is a light, standalone web page editor that offers drag and drop WYSIWYG page creation with CSS and Javascript support. Nvu will publish directly to your FTP server from the desktop and plugs into the W3’s validation service to make sure your X/HTML’s kosher. Nvu’s got tabbed editing, in-application preview, spellcheck and [...]
wink
www.debugmode.com/wink/
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
# Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However [...]
