Starting with this post, I am making a slight change in the title of this weekly post. It’s a small change from “website” to “webapp”. The basic reason is that is that I believe that most websites that are really useful or make life easier in some way, are a lot more than just good web design. They are more like functional web based applications. This is especially true of my favorite webapp to date: Evernote.
If you haven’t heard of Pandora.com before or know what it is, you are definitely missing out on one of the coolest websites on the web. Imagine listening to all kinds of music streamed right to your computer and out the speakers, all day if needed, for free.
We are now official, fully sanctioned, Google “fan-boys”! Cibertek.net is now running on Google Apps. We can share calendars and contacts across the domain and our email is scanned and filtered by Postini Spam filter.
Wolfram Alpha is my vote for the absolute coolest web site of the year. Ever since it went live in May, this site has gotten better and more interesting as I use it. If you can get past the name, this site should be bookmarked and/or added to your search bar.
I found a great way to connect some of my network devices to the internet without running or installing Ethernet wire and its not wireless. Its called a Powerline Network Adapter.
If you running Windows Home Server, Powerpak 3 Beta is now available. The main reason for the update is the new Windows 7 integration. WHS will be able to backup AND restore full Windows 7 images, integrate with the W7 libraries, and use Windows Search 4. It also includes some new features [...]
What Anti-Virus program should I use?
I get that question at least once a week. My answer is usually whatever AV program I happen to be running at the time. Over the years the answer has changed. Because I’ve had to rebuild, restore, or clean several of my system over the years because of viruses; I am a firm believer in having some sort of AV or Malware scanner running in the background. So I’ve tried almost every AV software out there from Norton (Symantec), McAffee, and One Care to Kaspersky
and ESET NOD32.
Microsoft says that “Everybody needs Windows Home Server”. Well, maybe. The main reason anyone will even need or take advantage of the Windows Home Server (WHS) is if they have multiple PCs. That includes old machines and Laptops running XP and above.
For years I have been trying to figure out the best way to filter or block web sites so that my kids can’t either accidently or purposefully browse to. Like a lot of families with Internet access with a single or multiple computers at home,
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