Written By: Roger on May 26, 2011 No Comment

Here are some free tricks and tools to help get your site at the top of search engine listings and to help drive more traffic to your site.

Submission

Submit your site to the main search engines…

Google: www.google.com/addurl
Yahoo: search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
Microsoft Bing: www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx
Independent Web Monitoring: wwww.dmoz.org/help/submit.html

Sitemap

Create and [...]

Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010 One Comment

TechNet is a great resource provided by Microsoft.  There is a wealth of information available.

Try it the next time you are stuck fixing a problem.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx

Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010 No Comment

Windows: Process Explorer
Download: Process Explorer
Purpose: Monitor and manage running programs
Platforms: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7; Windows Server 2008, 2003
Cost: Free

The great granddaddy of program monitors, Microsoft’s free Process Explorer just hit version 14. If you’ve never used Process Explorer, you’ve never seen what’s really going on under Windows’ covers. [...]

Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010 No Comment

Wiseval Photophant
Download: Wiseval Photophant
Purpose: Image resizer/converter
Platforms: Windows 7, Vista, XP; Windows Server 2008, 2003
Cost: Free

While there are many photo resizers floating around, there’s one I come back to again and again. Wiseval Photophant handles batch resizing, format conversions, watermarking, and renaming with just a couple of clicks.

If you want to [...]

Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010 No Comment

Windows: Recuva
Download: Recuva
Purpose: File undelete
Platforms: Windows 7, Vista, XP; Windows Server 2008, 2003
Cost: Free

File undelete has been a mainstay of the PC utility market since the days of DOS. As far as I’m concerned, there’s never been a tool that performs file undelete better than Recuva (pronounced “recover”). It’s fast, [...]

Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010 No Comment

Windows: SyncToy
Download: SyncToy
Purpose: File synchronization
Platforms: Windows 7, Vista, XP; Windows Server 2008, 2003; 64-bit version available
Cost: Free

Microsoft’s free SyncToy originally appeared as part of the Windows XP PowerToy package. SyncToy has been improved regularly. The latest version takes advantage of Ray Ozzie’s Sync Framework. SyncToy 2.1 has been around [...]

Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010 No Comment

One group of security professionals is using Trojan horse access points cloaked in printers and other office equipment to infiltrate clients who want their defenses tested.

“We have been toying with a variety different ways of getting hardware onto the network,” says Steve Stasiukonis, managing partner of security services firm Secure [...]

Written By: Roger on December 23, 2010 No Comment

Russia has finally buried the US…in spam. Russia topped the list of sources of global spam, with the US a distant 18th, according to Kaspersky Labs’ October spam report.

Kaspersky Labs said that the volume of spam coming from Russia doubled in October compared to September, as did the spam volume [...]

Written By: Roger on July 7, 2010 No Comment

VERSIONS & PRICING

Prices are down and you can get a significant discount if you forgo buying a physical disc, instead downloading the software, acquiring a trial version on a new PC, or installing it from [...]

Written By: Roger on July 7, 2010 No Comment

The pros and cons of Office 2010

8 things to Love

PowerPoint Broadcast: Show presentations remotely to anyone with a Silverlight-enabled Web browser.
Live Preview for paste: Saves [...]

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