nLite's WinOS Boot CD customizerHere's another "note from the field", a post about a tool tested and proven in a customer environment. Ok, so here's the technical backgrounder: Customer orders a Lenovo tower PC and of course it comes pre-loaded with Vista, but with XP downgrade rights. We're wanting to use this as a staging server for document images to be burned to Blu-Ray disks (hey, they hold 25GB of data) using CyberLink's InstantBurn application. We've also ordered a SATA Raid controller... Read Full Story

nLite's WinOS Boot CD customizerHere's another "note from the field", a post about a tool tested and proven in a customer environment. Ok, so here's the technical backgrounder: Customer orders a Lenovo tower PC and of course it comes pre-loaded with Vista, but with XP downgrade rights. We're wanting to use this as a staging server for document images to be burned to Blu-Ray disks (hey, they hold 25GB of data) using CyberLink's InstantBurn application. We've also ordered a SATA Raid controller... Read Full Story

Tungle Calendar SyncIn a perfect world everyone would use the same e-calendaring system, but of course that is not (and never will be) the case. What would be the benefit of everyone having access to each other's calendar? So that when you want to schedule a meeting with one or more people you wouldn't have to endure dozens of emails trying to get everyone to agree on a date and time to meet. Enter Tungle, a web service that crosses over the proprietary calendaring boundaries so that you can... Read Full Story

Tungle Calendar SyncIn a perfect world everyone would use the same e-calendaring system, but of course that is not (and never will be) the case. What would be the benefit of everyone having access to each other's calendar? So that when you want to schedule a meeting with one or more people you wouldn't have to endure dozens of emails trying to get everyone to agree on a date and time to meet. Enter Tungle, a web service that crosses over the proprietary calendaring boundaries so that you can... Read Full Story

Use CD-RW and DVD-RW like a removable diskCyberlink's InstantBurn-5 software turns your CD-RW, DVD-RW and rewritable BlueRay discs into a removable media drive. You can drag and drop files from folders, send unwanted files to the Recycle Bin for deletion, rename files, and change file property information. The verification function checks whether data has been written properly, ensuring the reliability of the data. InstantBurn supports UDF (Universal Disk Format) versions 1.02, 1.5, 2.0, 2.0... Read Full Story

Use CD-RW and DVD-RW like a removable diskCyberlink's InstantBurn-5 software turns your CD-RW, DVD-RW and rewritable BlueRay discs into a removable media drive. You can drag and drop files from folders, send unwanted files to the Recycle Bin for deletion, rename files, and change file property information. The verification function checks whether data has been written properly, ensuring the reliability of the data. InstantBurn supports UDF (Universal Disk Format) versions 1.02, 1.5, 2.0,... Read Full Story

For those WebEx and GoToMeeting users out there dreading your monthly bill, you might want to take a look at DimDim, an open source based web conferencing solution. DimDim has three versions, Free, Pro which is priced from $99 to $495 per year and Enterprise starting at $1995 per year. The pricing brackets are based on DimDim hosted software and concurrent users. Compare that to WebEx at a web published price of $69 per host per month, and you begin to see the savings. For 50 host users th... Read Full Story

For those WebEx and GoToMeeting users out there dreading your monthly bill, you might want to take a look at DimDim, an open source based web conferencing solution. DimDim has three versions, Free, Pro which is priced from $99 to $495 per year and Enterprise starting at $1995 per year. The pricing brackets are based on DimDim hosted software and concurrent users. Compare that to WebEx at a web published price of $69 per host per month, and you begin to see the savings. For 50 host users th... Read Full Story

Addonics NAS Adapter for USBIn my quest to provide some networked storage on my home network I stumbled upon the Addonics USB to NAS adapter. Priced at only $55.00, this adapter provides two much needed features in a very small form factor and inexpensive to boot. In a nutshell, you can take any USB hard disk, attach the Addonics adapter and turn that disk drive into a NAS storage device accessible via SMB or FTP. The real BONUS feature here is that this adapter can also serve as a network ... Read Full Story

Addonics NAS Adapter for USBIn my quest to provide some networked storage on my home network I stumbled upon the Addonics USB to NAS adapter. Priced at only $55.00, this adapter provides two much needed features in a very small form factor and inexpensive to boot. In a nutshell, you can take any USB hard disk, attach the Addonics adapter and turn that disk drive into a NAS storage device accessible via SMB or FTP. The real BONUS feature here is that this adapter can also serve as a network ... Read Full Story