Virtualization now cross platform Adobe has taken application virtualization one step further than Softgrid/Thinstall, now you can use the web aware Adobe Air applications on any compatible platform (basically any web-able os). Its an interesting idea that surely will appeal to many web-service providers. Link
Another free WinZip replacement (supports many formats incl RAR), have not tested it yet but it looks promising. http://www.jzip.com/
A different solution for online backup is to use Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk is a software that utilize the Amazon S3 storage network which is very fair priced (approx $0.18 pr GB a month + an upload fee of about the same). The solution has a quite good agent software (also comes in a USB […]
Update Apr 8th, 2008: Please see warning against Keepit.com elsewhere in my blog A company www.Keepit.com offers 2GB of free online backup-space (at least in Denmark) which may be quite nice for many users, may be enough to store your pictures and mail. The client software is not the worlds most advanced I have been told, […]
First you get the happy news, Truecrypt will now offer system drive encryption, and you go to bed with a big grin on your face.. Sorry for being the carrier of bad news, but you might as well wipe that grin of your face and start rethinking your security plans.. Sure, we are not talking […]
Be careful what you have on your laptop when entering the USA, the security checks are no longer limited to your physical goods, according to the Danish online magazine ComOn.DK quite a lot of people have had to hand over their passwords to their laptops, in order for the Security personnel at the US airports […]
Some stupid ¤#?# at Microsoft has seen fit to change the parameter to Mstsc (Remote Desktop) in SP1 (Vista/Win 2008) and SP3 (XP). Before you typed “Mstsc /Console” to connect to the console session at a server (basically some not so well written applications only worked here), but that was then – now say hello to […]
You may have heard about the excellent utility TrueCrypt which create encrypted virtual drives or partitions!? But now it has been released in a version 5.0a which should support the underlying OS (that is transparent bootup encryption of the system drive). Excellent.. I have not had time to check it, but if it works its utterly […]
Need to administer a remotely located server that has not enabled remote desktop!? Sure you can make a GP or do some registry editing, but hey it all takes time, some nice guy has made a util that will deal with this for you, just point and click.. http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/06/remotely-enable-remote-desktop.html
I found one serious shortcoming to GPS navigators, what good is it when you forget the unit in the rental car in France 🙂 Standing in the Airport in Copenhagen I got a call from AVIS that they found my GPS unit in my rental car in Basel airport… How useful is it then 😉