Head on over to http://globalthoughtz.com/ and check out their list of the Top 50 free sofware downloads for Windows. This is some great information. I personally use a majority of these programs myself. I’m sure you will find some great applications you never knew about.
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ATI has changed their user interface a bit for the newer Windows 7 Catalyst drivers. They seem to have hidden some important features that you would use if you connect your PC /HDTV via HDMI. If you are having trouble finding the HDMI options just fallow these steps. (my problem was finding the overscan option to turn it off)
Right click desktop
Enter Catalyst Control Center- advanced menu
Graphics dropdown – Desktop & Displays
Click on configure and it will take you to the HDMI options
If you want a quick and simple solution for scanning your network Angry IP Scanner is a great tool. The interface is easy and simple and provides results in a readable report. I use this tool almost daily to help troubleshoot and setup networks.
Here is a easy way to make an image file in the ISO format with tools included in OSX.
1. Insert CD/DVD source
2. Open up a Terminal, you can then identify the device that is your CD/DVD drive by using the following command:
$ drutil status
Vendor Product Rev
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-835E GAND
Type: DVD-ROM Name: /dev/disk1
Cur Write: 8x DVD Sessions: 1
Max Write: 8x DVD Tracks: 1
Overwritable: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB
Space Free: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB
Space Used: 364:08:27 blocks: 1638627 / 3.36GB / 3.13GiB
Writability:
Book Type: DVD-ROM
3. Umount the disk with the following command:
$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Disk /dev/disk1 unmounted
4. Create the ISO file with the dd utility (may take some time), also replace file with whatever name you choose.
$ dd if=/dev/disk1 of=file.iso bs=2048
5. Test the ISO image by mounting the new file (or open with Finder):
$ hdid file.iso
6. The ISO image can then be burnt to a blank CD/DVD.
I just recently started using Logmein-Hamachi as an easy way to connect back through the internet to my home network. If you are using OSX and you want to use Hamachi you will need to download the free client. For someone not to familar with using the terminal portion of OSX it can be slightly confusing. Before running hamachi you will need the latest tun/tap device drivers to create the VPN tunnel this can be accomplished by downloading the latest drivers and following the installation instructions from here. Once you have Installed the tun/tap drivers your ready to install and use hamachi. Download the hamachi package here. Once you downloaded it follow the steps below.
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I just ran into a program that requires the Rosetta component of OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but didn’t trigger the the download/install prompt. After finding instructions on how to install the component with the DVD that came with my MacBook, I found out that I no longer knew where my install DVD was kept. The next option I looked for was a link to download Rosetta, but I didn’t have to much luck. What I did find out is that if you try to install software written in code for the PPC flavor of Apples you would be prompted to download the software automagically. So if you’ve lost your DVD or don’t have a working drive in your Apple, this is the easiest method I found to get rosetta working, I used this link stopemptyinput1-0.zip its an old automator action, all you have to do is start the installation and Snow Leopard will prompt you on whether or not you want Rosetta once you ok the install your done!