NowITWorks.net » admin http://www.nowitworks.net A team of technology experts - at your service Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:44:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Nathaniel’s Tip of the Day http://www.nowitworks.net/2009/01/27/nathaniels-tip-of-the-day/ http://www.nowitworks.net/2009/01/27/nathaniels-tip-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:46:52 +0000 admin http://www.nowitworks.net/?p=143 Is your processor 64-bit capable? With SecurAble, you can find out in about 2 seconds.

According to its website, “SecurAble probes the system’s processor to determine the presence, absence and operational status of three modern processor features:

  • 64-bit instruction extensions,
  • Hardware support for detecting and preventing
    the execution of code in program data areas, … and
  • Hardware support for system resource “virtualization.”

   

Here is the site to download -  http://www.grc.com/securable.htm

It also goes in-depth about Hardware DEP – fun stuff!

]]> http://www.nowitworks.net/2009/01/27/nathaniels-tip-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Nathaniel’s Handy Tip of the Day http://www.nowitworks.net/2009/01/13/nathaniels-handy-tip-of-the-day/ http://www.nowitworks.net/2009/01/13/nathaniels-handy-tip-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:33:10 +0000 admin http://www.nowitworks.net/?p=133 To those of us that live in the future and use Vista, (yes, I’m an optimist!) I wanted to share some of the Sidebar Gadgets that I have found the most useful since the time of release. I recently went through an update check on them all so they should be current.  I get most of my gadgets from http://thehobbylounge.com. Please note that you have to register to download.

 
So- what’s in the rar?*

Digital Clock – nice clock gadget, with many different options.

Egg Timer – basically, a timer in the shape of an egg. Useful for getting people out of the office, tell them your time is limited and set the egg timer!

EmptySpace – allows you to customize your sidebar by putting empty space between gadgets.

GadgetSpacer – same as above.

iStat battery – this is a useful battery status gadget for laptops.

iStat wireless – also very useful for laptops.

Multimeter – very handy gadget for showing CPU and memory usage. Several versions are available. The Q version is for Quad Core. The 2.10 version is much more advanced than the prior.

NetworkMeterv2.3 – good for network usage. 

PackageMapping-1.3 – find out where your packages are. The site this is pulled from is packagemapping .com. This uses google maps to pinpoint where the item is. Highly recommended.

PaperClip – clipboard collection.

Server-ping – real time ping status for up to 5 machines! Make sure to enable use LED in the options. It’s possible to monitor up to 50  with the pro version.

UptimeMeterV1.5 – self-explanatory

 

(*Editor’s note – rar is  a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery, and file spanning. Source: Wikipedia)

]]> http://www.nowitworks.net/2009/01/13/nathaniels-handy-tip-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Nathaniel’s Find of the Day http://www.nowitworks.net/2009/01/05/nathaniels-find-of-the-day-3/ http://www.nowitworks.net/2009/01/05/nathaniels-find-of-the-day-3/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:03:13 +0000 admin http://www.nowitworks.net/?p=128 If you have a Windows Mobile device, chances are you are less than happy with the mobile browsing experience that IE gives you. It’s pretty bad – there is no Flash Player, pictures take forever to upload (if you can see them at all), and did I mention how sl-ow it is? Well fret no more!

Skyfire has just released their new beta browser and I think I’m in love. It’s fantastic – you can watch videos, listen to music, check your social networking sites or whatever you need from the internet that you couldn’t previously get on your phone. No longer is the IPhone the lone purveyor of  YouTube on the go! No longer is Active X and Flash the bane of your mobile experience!

If you have a Windows or Symbian (Nokia) phone, you owe it to yourself to download this as soon as you have a chance.

http://www.skyfire.com/

I give this 4 out of 4 lightsabers.

(Image source: Wikipedia Lightsaber Collection)

]]> http://www.nowitworks.net/2009/01/05/nathaniels-find-of-the-day-3/feed/ 2 Nathaniel’s Find of the Day http://www.nowitworks.net/2008/12/29/nathaniels-find-of-the-day-2/ http://www.nowitworks.net/2008/12/29/nathaniels-find-of-the-day-2/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:54:27 +0000 admin http://www.nowitworks.net/?p=122 I was tooling around this weekend trying to find a media center that can play Divx, Xvid, H.264, .MKV, etc  video files and I finally found a winner. Windows Media Center does not like any of these formats, though Divx and Xvid will be available with Windows 7 edition.

The XBMC Media Center is an Open source little bit of wonder. It comes in a Windows, Linux, or Mac client and can do pretty much everything you would wish for out of an open source media center. (BluRay support is not quite there yet)

http://xbmc.org/

It’s an 80 meg exe, and pretty lightweight. It ran great on my wife’s old laptop, and streams music and video from other networked devices like a champ. You can also use a Windows Media Center Remote and Transceiver, though it takes a good amount of work.

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Update: I hate saying something can’t be done so I took 5 minutes and tested the application in a portable context and found that it does not have to be installed on every machine you use it on. Once you install it on your machine, you can take the application folder and move it from machine to machine and use it like that. You won’t get the right click explorer extension, but you can right click on the file in question and choose “open with” and open it with the Unlocker exe. You can also drag the file onto the unlocker exe. Be aware that unlocker deletes and bypasses the recycle  bin, so use it carefully.

I tested further and found that you only need two files out of the install folder for this to work, Unlocker and the Unlocker driver.  Those 2 files are attached. When you run it in this fashion a 3rd file will auto create for the config. 

I tested this on my user.dat file with is always locked by the system.

Again, the app can be found at : http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

DL Link http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/unlocker1.8.7.exe

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