Archive for February, 2009
White Spaces Internet
White Spaces internet is one of the latest and perhaps most promising and close to reality internet technologies. It is supported by many of the biggest industry leaders such Microsoft and Google through alliances such as White Spaces Coalition and Wireless Innovation Alliance but also grassroots and non-profit groups that are closer to the consumer’s [...]
50 Ways To Help The Planet
50 simple things that can be done every day to live a greener life. (click on image to see them all)
Internet2, The Next Generation Internet
Internet2 is a concept born in 1996 as the needs of some universities and institutions where not being served by the traditional internet. Some universities met and decided to implement a non-profit internet that would provide high speed and high performance links for their use. The possible start back then was a 2.5Gbps network but [...]
Text File Stats & Watermark Images
Two GNU licensed freeware courtesy of Lune Rouge offer easy and lighweight means of achieving sometimes useful tasks. Firs off line TextStat described simply as Create statistics on a text file Using it is as simple as browsing for a file and then clicking the “TS” icon. Using TextStat it is possible to analyze any [...]
Enware Freeware & Dirhtml Index.html Generator II
Shortly after I wrote about the dirhtml index.html generator I received an email from its developer. In part due to my confusion about the way the sorting options were presented and how the output listing was actually sorted Eric, the enware developer, had released a new, then beta, version. It has since gone out of [...]
MP3 Creation, The Long Way
There are plenty of strictly speaking illegal means of finding and saving media. From the earlier methods of checking P2P sites and software to using places like rapidshare and torrents. The history of the internet is filled with smart and plain illegal means just to get one’s hands on music, video and software. Of course [...]
Tools To View And Analyze Disk Usage
As a followup to my post on TreeSize here are some other downloads I have come across that let the user view or visualize space usage on a disk. For this article I chose to analyze a folder that is approximately 945MB and has 28 subfolders and 170 files. Using a not so new Windows [...]
Safely Transfer Files Using WinSCP
WinSCP is described by its author as WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. It is a very robust and feature rich FTP client that supports secure file [...]
Encrypt And Hide Files With TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt is described by its author as Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux TrueCrypt is a feature rich, powerful and reliable software to secure any number of files, folders or even entire drives. It achieves this by creating a ‘virtual encrypted disk’. It is possible to hide most [...]
