Various cool software and more

Capture online video streams

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Here is yet another capture program for capturing online video streams “Web Video Cap” (eg. for youtube etc etc).


Pros; Easy operations, it will capture everything in the background, its from our friends at www.nirsoft.net whom usually makes excellent tools.

Cons; Unless you stop it/configure it, it will capture EVERYTHING/ANYTIME.

As with most other capture products you need to install WinPcap (a resident background driver) so nothing new there.

Download Web Video Capture here; http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_video_capture.html

Read much more here; http://www.ghacks.net/2010/04/02/download-online-videos-with-web-video-cap/

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How To Move Large Apps Or Games To Another Drive

If you have Windows 7 you have some interesting new options when it come to moving applications (eg Games etc) to other locations, namely the “mklink” command.

Read the whole story/guide here

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MSN Account password hacked/forgotten

A friend of mine had his MSN account hacked and it was hacked good, thus the security question was obviously changed afterwards 🙁  so there was no way for him to regain access.

It was surprisingly hard but I finally found a link where you can rapport such problems and get assistance;
https://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wlidvalidation&ct=eformcs&scrx=1

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Parted Magic 4.9

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(Screenshot is from an older version than the current 4.9)

Yet another free partitioning CD (why in the world pay for Partition Magic), this CD will let you boot from it and resize your partitions and much more (free).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/files/

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Proxy bypass

So you are visiting this company that is filtering their Internet traffic, and you for some reason can’t reach this site you just have to visit RIGHT NOW, no problem here’s a list of proxy tools/sites to bypass such security measures;

http://geniushackers.com/blog/2008/01/09/another-list-of-proxy-sites-to-open-blocked-sites/
http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/04/free-web-proxy-list/ (older list but many still work)

or try these previous posts;
https://readmydamnblog.com/?p=1202 (Utility to browse via US proxy)
https://readmydamnblog.com/?p=1069 (create your own proxy)

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Nagios (windows) alternatives

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As primary a Windows admin I get a bit discouraged by products like Nagios – although it’s definitely a cool product installing it seem complex and with little knowledge on Linux maintaining it even more so.

So are there any Windows (free) alternatives out there?

Yes, and propably more than one, however is there any open source/free versions among these?

I found two;

OpenNMS

http://opennms.org/wiki/Installation:Windows


It claim to run on windows and have basic capabilities, I have not looked into details so I can’t say just how deep it goes (Nagius supports SNMP and very detailed monitoring, OpenNMS at a glance seem more like superficial monitoring).  Anyway, it’s free and may just be enough for you, so take a look at it.

Demo available at;
http://demo.opennms.org/opennms/index.jsp
user and password is both “demo”

SpiceWorks

http://www.spiceworks.com

I actually tested this once (a previous version), it is quite fine for smaller sites (and seem more extensive than OpenNMS), but when it come to wan connected sites it seem a bit heavy (works without agents installed).  Then again, it’s free and this one is quite easy to setup and manage.

Yet other alternatives (Non windows though) is;
http://www.zenoss.com/
http://www.zabbix.com/

And this one that seem commercial;
http://www.groundworkopensource.com/

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Advanced document management

Do you remember the song by U2 – “I still haven’t found what I am looking for”, are you forever lost when trying to keep order in your digital archive, can’t you ever find the document/picture/pdf/spreadsheet you are looking for – well then this may be of interest to you;

Benubird, benubird is a document management system that will analyze and organize your files/documents/spreadsheets etc. and add meta data to your files for better search results.  It seem very clever indeed and it is of cause free (as the bird 😉 )..

Give it a spin if you are working with large amounts of data, it looks very promising.

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Buddy backup – “free” online backup

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Now this is somewhat clever, I have not yet tried it so I can’t say for sure how good it works but the concept is clever.

You agree with some of your friends that you will use each other as backup-hubs, install Buddy Backupand then define each other as trusted friends, then your data is backed up to your friends computers via P2P (of cause in encrypted format so your friends can’t look at your data)..

It is free and rather clever.

Read their getting started guide here

Download it here  (sadly it is not available right now, a new version should be very close to release – even so close that they removed the old version – I have written to them requesting a release date but not received any yet).

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Paragon Partition Manager Free Edition

I actually did not know Paragon had a free edition of their partition manager software, but it turns out they do.

Now I am sure it is crippled just enough to be useless but I may be wrong, so you may want to give it a spin (heck it’s free so it won’t cost you a dime) 🙂

Update;
I just tried it out, and beside the annoying thing that you had to register during installation (which is send to you via very slow email) then it is actually surprisingly full featured, you can resize, delete and whatnot – now this may just be enough for most.  Try it before you spend money on something else or try out the equally free Gpart https://readmydamnblog.com/?p=910 which may offer a few additional features.

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