Sep
02
I just realized that I haven’t written anything about LogMeIn Hamachi² here. Just like the predecessor Hamachi, Hamachi² is a peer-to-peer VPN service. Free version for non-commercial use and reasonably priced for commercial. I’ve been a fan for years – great way to link my various computers together. Hamachi² changed things a bit by moving …
Aug
13
It has been a while since I mentioned Microsoft’s Security Essentials antivirus application. This is what I’ve standardized on for the family and friend home machines that I “manage” for them. Simple, light-weight and has worked very well for us over the past year. Pretty easy to forget about it since it is definitely one …
Jul
23
I was starting to fear that only Google was innovating in the browser space, but this Tab Candy intro video shows that Mozilla is definitely still in the game. Check it out: An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Jul
18
It has been a long time since I last looked at software to improve boot speeds (“Windows Startup Tuning” from December ‘08). A new option recently crossed my radar though and it has some interesting wrinkles. For starters, Soluto is probably the prettiest little startup manager you’ve ever used for Windows. Definitely a non-traditional GUI …
Jun
18
The latest beta of Flock’s “social browser” is out now and I thought I’d give it a look this week. I’ve checked it out in the past but generally been pretty underwhelmed… In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever written about it before. However, this latest version is based on Chromium which is the same …
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