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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:35 |
FileHippo.com has been a repository for available programs for awhile now. A lot of companies have been using it has an extra facility to distribute there software. They just realeased a peice of sotware that scans your computer and finds the version of every peice of software that matches one in there repository. Then it displays a nice interface to download every program it finds. I've been using it for a couple days and its really easy. You can customize it to check when you login and to then close. You can also set it to ignore certain programs.
Here is some information from the website.
What is it?
The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check
the versions and then send this information to FileHippo.com to see if
there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your
browser for you to download. Please note that not all programs are
supported.
But it gets better...
The client is FREE, just over 100kb to download and only takes seconds
to run! In fact on our test machines the process is complete in under 2
seconds!
What are the requirements?
The Update Checker works on any Windows PC running Vista, XP, 2003,
2000, ME or 98.
It requires that the Microsoft
.NET Framework 2.0 is installed, which you may download directly
from here,
or the installer will prompt and download it automatically.
Update Checker v1.036
FHSetup.exe (152kb)
Download now
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:58 |
Filezilla is by far the best file transfer program out there. You can use it for scp or ftp and is very robust. Filezilla is a open source program that has been in production for years. It finally went production a few years back and is still coming out with new versions. Not only is it a client but filezilla also comes with a server too.
Here are some excerps from there website.
FileZilla Features
Overview
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and
SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user
interface.
Features
Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:
- Easy to use
- Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer
Protocol (SFTP)
- Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
- IPv6 support
- Available in many languages
- Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
- Tabbed user interface
- Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
- Bookmarks
- Drag & drop support
- Configurable transfer speed limits
- Filename filters
- Directory comparison
- Network configuration wizard
- Remote file editing
- Keep-alive
- HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
- Logging to file
- Synchronized directory browsing
- Remote file search
Download from here
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:50 |
This is something I just found the other day while looking for some new add-ons. Firefox offers collections which provide add-ons for a specific type of user. There is a social collection, web developer collection and so on. Something i never noticed before and something to look at the next time your adding things to your firefox browser.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/editors_picks
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 16:30 |
With Google Opendns and Ultradns all having free available DNS servers, you can pick and choose which is the fastest. I ran this tool at work and at home and it was 35 to 40% faster. At my home it found a different verizon DNS server, at work it found openDNS to be faster then my office's public DNS server. I run that dns server, so i guess i should get crackin at speeding that thing up. It was the second faster DSN server though, eh whatever. I noticed a difference almost immediately while cruising the interwebs, Domain lookups are much faster.
 
Here is the definition of DNS for everyone there
Domain Name System: A database system that translates an IP address
into a domain name. For example, a
numeric IP address like
207.219.116.4 is converted into netlingo.com. ...
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Monday, 14 December 2009 11:31 |
I found something really cool today. I hate apple software, its bloated and I'd rather not use it. I don't own an Ipod and i don't purchase music through itunes so i don't use the itunes software. I use Firefox so i don't use safari. The only thing i can't get around is Quicktime, some websites still use it. Until today i found a piece software named QT lite. It works flawlessly and implements easier with Firefox and other browsers. You can download it from a variety of sources just follow a search for Qt lite, quicktime alternative. Mostly from codec providers. Not that i really hate quicktime but its difficult to find the install without itunes and it installs apple updater which tries to install everything i don't need. So if your like me and don't want the bloatware of itunes and all its friends on your computer try the Quicktime alternative called qt lite.
found here: http://www.codecguide.com/qt_lite.htm
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