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| New program now available - Disk Search | I've made a new app I've developed available in the PowerUsers Downloads section. It's called DiskSearch and it does what it sounds like - it searches for things on your disk. It can search by name, last access date and last modification date. This can be useful for IT administrators who are asked to generate reports of large hard disks on servers where some items may not have been touched in months or years. This app is console-based and can be run directly or via BAT files. The syntax looks like this:
ds [-a nn] [-m nn] [-n name] x:
where -a is a search by number of days since last access,
-m is number of days since last modification, and
-n is a name/term you wish to find somewhere in the filename
(either in the filename itself or its extension).
You can also combine an access or modification search with a name search term to restrict the results to what you're looking for.
Click "Read more" below or click Downloads in the pane on the left to get access to the app.
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| New downloads in PowerUsers Downloads section | I've added two new applications to the downloads area. Well, actually, one is new and the other is an updated version of an older app. The first is an updated version of Switch. Switch is a text replacement program that lets you quickly and easily make changes to text files. If you've ever tried to do a find and replace on a large document in Notepad and seen how LONG that can take, you'll appreciate the speed of Switch which can make changes to even the largest documents in a couple of seconds or less.
The second application is a new one I call DefragBySize and it does just what it sounds like it does - defragment files based on their filesize. You can run it manually or from a BAT file or by scheduling it (for, say, automated weekly defrags) and it will defrag the subdirectory (or whole drive) you give it file-by-file in order from the largest files to the smallest. The theory here being that this increases the chances of large files being defragmented properly since they will get first stab at large areas of contiguous free space. Or, at a minimum, it saves the defragmenting app from having to move the already-fragmented small and medium-sized files out of the way when you get to the large ones that need more contiguous space which is being occupied by them.
Both of these utilities are self-documenting as all my apps are. See the accompanying text document with each download for more details. Click "Read More" below to get the direct download links or simply click "Downloads" at the left menu and go into "PowerUsers Downloads" to find them.
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| Bootable Network Toolkit - 'Frenzy' | A new bootable toolkit for sysadmins is now available. It's called 'Frenzy' (not sure why) and it contains a lot of useful utilities for system and network administrators. Based on Free BSD 6.1 it contains tools for everything from tuning and analyzing networks, to testing computer hardware. It boots to a GUI environment making it a nice tool to keep in one's arsenal alongside a BartPE disk and a bootable Linux distro. It's free and available for download now.
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| Rejuvenate your Windows install! | Is your Windows XP install feeling sluggish? Windows 98 not booting as quickly as it used to? Then check out this guide to rejuvenating various flavors of Windows to restore them to decent speed again, without re-doing the install. More info on this story here
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| Firefox spyware predicted to arrive this year | The web browser Firefox is popular with techie types at least partially because it's less vulnerable to various spyware and hijackware. This is mostly due to Firefox not supporting ActiveX applets out of the box. But this benefit may not be long-lived. As Firefox's popularity and usage increase, so does its desirability as a target for spyware.
"For his part, Stu Sjouwerman -- founder and COO of Counterspy maker Sunbelt Software -- agreed that Firefox spyware is likely in 2005.
"I'm pretty sure you can expect one or two Firefox (spyware) exploits before the end of the year," Sjouwerman said. "The more popular a platform gets, the more likely it is to come under attack. Firefox -- which I use myself -- I don't think is going to be immune from that. If you go wide like this, you have to expect that your product will be exposed to a trial by fire."
Read the rest here.
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| New Palm Random MP3 Loader ready for testing | PowerUsers.info is happy to announce the availability of a 1.0 version of the new Palm Random MP3 Loader. For all of you Palm (or Windows) PDA users who wish you had an easy way to choose and load MP3s to your MP3-capable PDAs this may be your answer. I found that after the first time of searching manually through a few thousand MP3s for the 35-40 I wanted and could fit on my 256 MB SD card, I avoided the exercise again, even when I was growing quite tired of the songs I had installed. And because of the hassle involved I kept putting off erasing the ones I had and putting new ones in place. So this app was born out of my desire to make this task easier for myself. If you have an MP3-playing Palm or any other MP3 player or PDA that uses an SD (or other) media card that can be accessed with a card reader, try the app out. The download link itself is in the extended article text (click "Read More" below) and the forum thread for feedback is here.
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| Gmail from Google - Bad News! | BEWARE of GMAIL: Google violates your right to privacy. Googles new "Free" email accounts are nothing but a way to steal information from your private emails. They then target advertising to you. It will backfire on them. People are sick of this kind of invasion of their personal rights and privacy. At least I know I am.
"When you are logged into your Gmail account, Google will display targeted ads and other relevant information based on the content of the email displayed."
Oh this one is nice...
"Residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account."
Why in the world do they need to look at, and store, our old deleted email? I do not trust them and I would advise everyone to stay a mile away from Google's Gmail.
Google, You Suck!!!
Love,
Dios
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| Will Linux ever be a gaming platform? | Sure Linux gets a few titles but almost half of them seem to be based on the same game engines (Quake/Unreal). Will Linux ever be an "A" gaming platform so those who avoid it for this reason can fully embrace it as a home desktop platform?
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