Automatic Device Discovery - Network Monitoring Tool

Tool which automatic discover device on network

The network monitoring tool about which I want to speak today is OpManager by ManageEngine. This tool helps system and network administrators to monitor their network effectively. One good feature that I liked about this tool was its automatic device discovery feature. With the use of the automatic device discover feature an admin can search for all active devices on a particular IP subnet.

Important-

A Point to note here is that, with OpManager you can discover a single device , multiple devices from an IP subnet or import devices in the form of a CSV file by determining the IP addresses in the CSV file.

This network monitoring tool is Multi platform and can be installed either on Windows or Linux. A feature which I know that you won't like about this tool is that its free only to monitor 10 computer and if you want more out of it , its gonna cost you a bit. But atleast you can automatic discover 10 computer or devices for free and monitor them effectively. Good if you have a small organization.

Performing Network Assessment before voip deployment

Network Assessment before voip deployment

Many troubles are faced by system engineers when they integrate VOIP into the existing IT infrastructure. The basic trouble goes into finding whether the current IT or Network infra is compatible with VOIP deployment. Believe me, never always system integrators are right. Mostly some parts of the network are left without being analyzed, and the VOIP deployment is done, which is of course not perfect.

Fluke Networks has come up with NetAlly Voip Assessment Software version 7, which performs the task of analyzing the current network infrastructure before any Voip deployment and gives details regarding the networks assessment done.

NetAlly Voip Assessment Software Official Site

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Windows 7 is much more than graphics

According to me, Windows 7 the latest operating system from Microsoft will stand out to be a major performer in the desktop client operating system market. Till yet we have seen a lot of operating systems of Microsoft. We have also witnessed a lot of hype in the market about Microsoft operating systems every time a new operating system is launched. Do you remember the launch of Windows XP, the launch of Windows Vista and now of course you are witnessing the launch of Windows 7.

Being a technology enthusiast and a System Engineer I study a lot about operating systems. I don't know why everyone today is just busy blogging and telling people about Windows 7. Their are only graphics is this OS and nothing else. Don't you think so ?

If yes then you are wrong Windows 7 is much more than graphics. I don't say this because I am a big supporter of Microsoft, but yes as an engineer I will of course appreciate the effort made by Microsoft in creating this operating system. This OS is not only about graphics "Loud and Clear".

Let me give you an example, if you are a tech geek you will understand it quiet easily. Just the Technology VPN has been revived in a manner in Windows 7 operating system with the integration of Windows 2008 server that it could change the way we look at VPN. I won't speak much but in future if the word VPN is completely gone from Microsoft Operating System than it won't be a surprise for me.

Not many times we see Microsoft innovative. We know Microsoft because of the copy cat behaviour of their business. Yes Windows 7 is something which is making us , at least me to restructure the image of Microsoft in my mind. Microsoft is innovating not in some but in many technologies.

The open source lovers may find this article as something very weird and the writer a crazy person. Yes this is also a truth that how much good a paid technology could be on the other side people and companies trying to lower their cost, do go for the free versions. But as you know that Microsoft operating system dominates the client side OS, I think this time it will much easier for Microsoft.

open .xls spreadsheet files without using excel

How to open .xls files , when you don't have Ms excel installed on your computer. There is a easy and a better way and free too, to access your spreadsheets without installing Ms-excel. I prefer to either use Google Docs or Zohosheet , when I don't have ms excel installed.

Both these services are free to use , but zohosheet do charge if you use it for a corporate account but its free for indivisuals. With these services you are able to access office online which helps you not only creating a document but also sharing it with your friends.

Anytime if you don't have ms excel installed on your system do give these services a try. It also provides you an extra level of security because these services require your username and password for login and accessing the required spreadsheet or any other document.

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Windows XP vs Windows 7

Windows 7 is the latest operating system released by Microsoft but still the major market share is ruled by Windows XP. Windows XP which was till yet dominating the Client Operating System Market was given a push back by Microsoft Windows Vista. As Windows Vista was not a major success in the market,that's why Microsoft is bought a new OS Windows 7.

Although their could be thousand of differences between Windows XP and Windows 7. I found some major differences between both the operating system which are listed below.

Differences between Windows XP and Windows 7

1. One of the major difference between both the operating system is User Access Control. Where Windows XP doesn't have any UAC on other side Windows 7 enables the UAC feature which was introduced in Windows Vista.

2. Windows 7 supports DirectX 11 where Windows XP support Directx 9.

3. One major difference is regarding the graphics , where Windows XP lacks them on other hand Windows 7 is known for its visual appearance.

4. Their is a difference in speed of both the operating system where Windows 7 boots quicker than Windows XP

5. Networking features like Direct access and VPN reconnect which were not available in Windows XP but are introduced in Windows 7 also adds a point to this list of differences between Windows XP and Windows 7.

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What is the use of registry cleaner

Registry cleaner is a software which is used by users in order to rearrange the entire registry in Windows Operating System. Let look at the use of Windows registry cleaner in detail. Suppose you installed a new software which you thought is going to be of some use to you, but at what you found the next moment was that the software is of no use. What is the use of a software which is of no importance to a user. So you decided to remove the software. After removing the useless software, it doesn't removes all its registry settings , which makes your computer slow.

Now here is what registry cleaner is all about. The registry cleaner will be used by the user in order to clean all the registry settings which are not currently utilized by the operating system. Thus making the operating system fast.

List of RSS Readers

RSS Readers are the most common and one of the most important softwares for people today. I have created a list of known good RSS readers. The list is divided into Open source RSS Readers, Windows RSS readers and Mobile RSS Readers.

Windows RSS Readers

Snarfer - Snarfer is a Free RSS reader specially for Windows XP or Vista. This feed aggregator includes multi tab support, video support, embedded browser in preview pane and Web search using a number of popular RSS/Blog search engines including Blogdigger, Bloglines, Blogpulse, Feedster, Google Blog Search, IceRocket, MSN Search, and Sphere. Download snarfer Feed aggregator.

Active Web Reader - Active Web Reader is a Free RSS Reader which also allows you to bookmark web pages. It supports all major RSS Feed formats, it can import your favorites from internet explorer, supports tab browsing, organize RSS feeds into groups, auto checks RSS updates and can be customized to display feeds. Download Active Web Reader

Feed Demon - This Free feed aggregator is from Newsgator. This reader includes a Panic button (nice feature) which warns a user in case their are lot of unread items, can work on windows 98 and later, provides watching embedded videos , search in a feed search engine and download any music file from a podcast and copy it to ipod or any media player. Download Feed Demon

Qlock - Qlock is basically desktop clock with feed reader embedded in the software. Plus it provides Daily Forex rates, Sticky Notes, Multiple profiles, Countdown Timers, Integrated World Map, Qlock Sync which provides settings synchronization on different machines. For most of the above defined service you have to pay for the upgraded software. Download Qlock.

eRSS Builder - A very Simple news aggregator. The only feature I liked about it is that's Ipod friendly, which means it automatically synchronizes to ipod and its Free too. Download eRSS Builder

Chrysanth Netime Channel - A Free and Adware Free Software than converts Internet Explorer into RSS Reader. It will install a toolbar in Internet Explorer that will maintain the feeds. It's requirements are quite low - Pentium 2 , 64 MB ram , Windows 95 and internet explorer 5.0 . Download Chrysanth Netime Channel

Omega Reader - Easy to use RSS Reader. With this tool you can read your emails, news feeds, web bookmarks, files, contacts all at one place. Download Omega Reader

GreatNews - a fast RSS reader with many built in layouts. One feature that I liked about this reader is channel statistics which shows most or least viewed channels. Another feature that I like about this reader is auto subscribe, which automatically highlights RSS icon in Windows Status bar whenever any feed on a web page is found. Download GreatNews

Mobile RSS Readers

NewsGator go - Newsgator go gives user the ability to access RSS feeds on Blackberry, Java Mobile or Window Mobile. It also provides emailing of articles directly and play embedded videos. Embedded video playing capability is only for Windows Mobile. Download NewsGator go

Mobile RSS Reader Google Code - This version of Mobile news aggregator is a J2ME/PhoneME MIDP application. It also supports import of OPML feeds from internet or phone memory, and its Free too. Download Mobile RSS Reader from Google Code

FoCuS - Its a very simple RSS reader having upto 8 feeds storable memory. Supports Italian Language. Download FoCuS

SmartRSS - A RSS Reader for Windows mobile smart phone which also allows you to directly download podcasts to your computer. Features includes - scheduling of articles to be downloaded, text wrapping long RSS tittles, downloading multiple podcasts at the same time, set notifications when podcast download is complete and much more. Download SmartRSS

NewsBreak - allows you to save keywords and then it automatically performs feed searches based on keyword, allows to set alerts about important articles, supports windows mobile pocket PC or smart phone. Download NewsBreak

Open Source RSS Readers

RSS Bandit - This open source RSS Reader allows you to to synchronize your feeds with google reader and newsgator online, manage podcasts and much more. Download RSS Bandit

RSSOwl - A RSS reader for Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris with news filter, phase searches, multitabbed browsing and much more. Download RSSOwl

AmphetaDesk - Very Nice multi platform Open source software can be installed on Mac, Windows, Linux. The Display could be customized accordingly. Download AmphetaDesk.

BlogBridge - Open Source RSS Reader with Synchronization settings, integration with Delicious and Flickr and much more... Download BlogBridge

Vienna - An Open Source RSS Reader only for Mac OS X Operating System which includes Customized Display Style, Feed Filter, Tabbed Browsing, Different reading layouts and much more. Download Vienna

Watch World Clock on your Desktop

World Clock as a Desktop Wallpaper

This is an amazing software which I found will browsing a forum. I wanted to share this information with you. This is an amazing software which brings the world clock on your Computer Desktop as a Wallpaper. This software is only supported on Windows Operating Systems.



Supported OS: Windows Vista

, 2003, XP, 2000, 98, Me, NT


Download World Clock Desktop Software

Online Youtube Downloader List

Best Online Youtube Downloader List

This is a list of some best youtube online downloader, which will help you to download and convert videos from youtube.

Youtube is a major video hosting website today but doesn't provides downloading of its videos. The downloading process can be achieved by going to the following sites.

1.) Techcrunch - Techcrunch provided youtube download but now their service is disabled by Youtube . I am mentioning about their service because they have stated on their website that very soon they will again reinstate their online downloading service which was banned by youtube. They used to provide videos in flv format which could be viewed in vlc media player.

2.) Vixy.net - Vixy.net provides free video download from youtube and conversion of those videos into mov , avi , mp4 , 3gp and mp3 formats. This tool doesn't only provided online downloading videos from youtube but also converting them to many known formats.

3.) Videodl.org - Videodl.org has a nice interface and provides video download from youtube in flv format. The sites supported are YouTube, Google Video, and Break.com

4.) CatchVideo.net - CatchVideo.net is not only an Online Youtube Video Downloader but also acts as a Video Converter. It can convert Video in avi , mov , flv , 3gp , mp4 formats. It not only supports youtube but also many other Video websites like Metacafe, DailyMotion and Myspace.

5.) Vconversion - Vconversion is an online video download service plus online video converter service. It downloads videos from youtube and converts them into mpg, wmv, mov, mp4, 3gp, wav, flv and wav formats.

6.) Videogetting.com - Videogetting is similar to many above. It downloads videos from youtube and also converts them into wmv, mp3, mp4, mov, 3gp, avi, mpg, mpeg formats.

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Synchronize your Bookmarks with Xmarks

Bookmarks kept on local PC can be lost if the computer system corrupts. In order to save those bookmarks their backup is necessary. Xmarks is an online backup tool for bookmarks which not only backup your bookmarks but also synchronizes them if you decide to change your PC. With Xmarks all the bookmarks are kept on the Xmarks.com server and they are synchronized directly to your Firefox web browser with the help of Xmarks plugin.

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What is Xmarks?

Xmarks is a Firefox Addon plugin earlier called Foxmarks used to manage bookmarks on web . Xmarks the tool provides bookmarks backup and synchronization with the xmarks website. Multiple computers on the internet can share the same bookmarks through the xmarks website.

Xmarks is similar to Delicious.com which helps you to manage your bookmarks to delicious website. The difference between Xmarks and Delicious is that - Xmarks allows a user to mark out private and public bookmarks. Both Private and Public bookmarks in Xmarks are backed up by synchronizing the bookmarks to the xmarks.com website, but private bookmarks are not returned to the calling browser. A user in order to synchronize bookmarks will need an account at xmarks.com.



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Features of Xmarks

Xmarks earlier known as Foxmarks is a web based service and a firefox plugin which enables synchronizing and backup of your bookmarks.

Xmarks Features are:-

Smart Search - Smart Search is a feature of Xmarks which highlights the top 3 sites in the results of google search

Siteinfo - Siteinfo the feature of Xmarks displays the details of a site directly from the address bar of firefox web browser.

Sync and Backup - With this feature of Xmarks a user is able to save his bookmarks directly on the Xmarks website. The bookmarks can be private or public - it depends on the user.

Sync Profiles - The user in Xmarks has ability to term his bookmarks public or private on the basis of different profiles created by he user.

Online Access - This feature of Xmarks enables a user to access his information directly via browser on any computer, if Xmarks is installed and if Xmarks is not installed the bookmarks can be viewed by reaching the website of xmarks.com

Mobile Access - This feature enables a user to view his bookmarks directly via a mobile phone by going to mobile.xmarks.com

Secure Password Sync - With this Feature a user can save all his password on his Firefox web browser to the Xmarks.com server, and call them on any PC around the world any time.

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Hidden Administrator Software Review

Hidden Administrator 2.6 is a remote control software which is used to remotely control client computers without physical access. The software is free to try for 30 day and can be purchased for very little price. The software consist of 2 ends Server and Client. The server part is useful to monitor all remote "hidden administrator" servers and the client part is specially for administrating the client computers.

(Server Side)

(Client Side)

The server part can be installed without the physical access to the servers on the same subnet, but needs physical access to server incase they are not on the same subnet. The features of client part are as follows:- (as stated by the product manual)




Some of the most amazing feature that I liked about this software were remote registry editing , remote reboot capability, chatting, sending messages, data encryption and remote desktop. If someone asks me about this software I will say its a must for system administrators.

Mobile Blogging with Blogger

Blogger.com introduces mobile blogging right on the users dashboard. Any user in order to blog via mobile now only needs to enable mobile blogging in the blogger's dashboard. The mobile blogging option is quite traceable.

How to enable Mobile Blogging ?

To enable mobile blogging from blogger a user first need to logon , reach his blogger dashboard, above every blog he will now find a new icon specifying a mobile. Clicking that phone icon will show the user his claim code. Claim code is a series of digits which a user should send back to blogger.com via SMS {BLOGGR (256447).



The phone used to send the claim code will be associated with the blog by blogger.com and then that phone can be used to post - blog posts to your blog directly via SMS or MMS.



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BitsCast Rss Reader Review

Bitscast RSS Reader / News Reader Review

BitsCast is a free to use RSS Reader. Recently I downloaded it from here and want to share my experience with you.

When I downloaded and installed, I thought that I again have to go through the process of adding the Feeds of my Subscriptions or importing them, but a good news for Lazy people like me, this reader comes with a lot of your favorite subscriptions inbuilt like Yahoo, Youtube, CBS, CodeGuru, Cnet , BBC, CNN, PCWorld, Business Week, MSDN and many more..

(Click the image to see much clear preview)

With all these subscriptions added, this software also have some good settings which make it different from other similar softwares.

(BitsCast Settings)

1.) One Option which I like about this reader is a Proxy client which is actually absent in most of the RSS Reader. This option gives me the ability to implement this software in an organization were proxy authentication is required for internet access. Some people have quite problems with implementing software inside an organization where proxy is required for internet, all of you please note down BitsCast.

(BitsCast Proxy Feature)

2.) Another Feature that I liked about this software was email client. Yes you read it right, this software also provides an email client which can be used to send any web page link to your friend as email, like you normally do in your browser. All you have to do is to configure SMTP settings in BitsCast.

Its good for those who are regular in mailing links while browsing to their friends.

(BitsCast Email Configuration)

(Sending Emails in BitsCast)

3.) Last but not the least this software also contains a bit torrent client, but it's not as powerful as utorrent , bittorrent , etc..

(BitsCast Bittorrent Client)

The best thing I liked about this software is that, whenever I had used an RSS reader before, it alway has given me some problems while opening the URL's in its browser. While using Bitscast, I didn't got any error like this till yet, will be blogging about any error if received.

(Watching Youtube in BitsCast)

Yahoo Search Monkey - What is Yahoo Search Monkey ?

Yahoo Search Monkey

What is Yahoo Search Monkey?

Yahoo Search Monkey is an open platform service by Yahoo to provide enhanced search results by Yahoo Search. Yahoo search results were till now displayed in a classic manner, but now these search results can be modified by Site Owners, Developers and Users together.

Below you can see the search results for a particular search term "how to play a guitar", in yahoo classic search.



This a a result of a classic search by yahoo.

Now if we searched again the same term by utilizing the applications of Yahoo Search Monkey. The output is as follows :-




Note the difference between both the searches, in the second search enabled by search monkey applications their is a infobar below every search redefining the search in an enhanced way.

These applications are called Yahoo Search Monkey Apps or applications and can be discovered at the Yahoo Search Gallery which is currently in the BETA version. Adding and removing these applications is easy but you need a valid yahoo account in order to fully utilize these applications.

The most famous famous application till date are as follows:-

StumbleUpon --> This application allows user to see , a website review and rating on stumbleupon
Flickr --> includes photos from Flickr if any
Feed Discovery --> Extracts Posts from the Feeds
deliciousify --> enables meta tags from delicious
IMDB Infobar --> provides information regarding a movie if any

These applications comes in 2 formats enhanced and infobar both type of applications can be dicovered by going on the view options of the Yahoo Search Gallery.

How Yahoo Search Monkey Works?

The Yahoo Search Monkey Platform is driven by 3 types of users - Website Owner, Developer, User.

Website Owner --> The people who own a website or a blog
Developer --> People who want to provide some service from the information they recieved from Website Owners
Users --> People who enjoy this platform for searching

Website Owner and Yahoo Search Monkey

The Website owners can submit there website to Yahoo Site Explorer and the rest of the work will be done by Yahoo. The Websites owners must submit their website to Yahoo Crawler in the following format to take full advantages of the Yahoo Search Monkey Platform:-

1.) XML- Based Atom Feed - more information regarding XML- Based Atom Feed
2.) eRDF/RDFa Markup - more information regarding eRDF/RDFa Markup
3.) Microformats - more information regarding Microformats
4.) OpenSearch - more information regarding OpenSearch
5.) Custom Data Services - more information regarding Custom Data Services

Now after sharing the data with the above given formats the Website Owners can also work as developers and create some application which will provide information regarding their shared data right from the Yahoo Search. Please Note that in order for a user to use your application while searching, the user should add your application in his Yahoo Search Gallery. This task can also be accomplished by adding an Yahoo Search Monkey Application Button on your Website.

Developers and Yahoo Search Monkey

Yahoo Search Monkey can be utilized by developers in order to create custom application of their website called data service. These applications are created on the data submitted by the Website Owners. For eg. StumbleUpon and Feed Discovery Applications of Yahoo Search Monkey utilizes the data submitted by the Website owners and output the data as programmed by the developers.

More information - Yahoo Search Monkey Developers Guide

Links

Yahoo Search Monkey Website
Yahoo Search Monkey Developers Home
Yahoo Search Gallery

Clickbank HopAd Builder Overview

ClickBank HopAd Builder Overview

Clickbank HopAd Builder is a tool which enables clickbank users to display ads like google adsense on their website containing links of their hoplinks. This tool is absolutely free provided by clickbank. Their is a good news for the Wordpress users because a new wordpress plugin has just launched which enables wordpress bloggers to display text ads on thier blog from clickbank.

Clickbank Wordpress plugin video

(Video by hopadplugin.com)

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Yahoo added WebSlice

Hooray!!!! Yahoo added WebSlice

In an blog post written by Yahoo mail it has confirmed that Latest Feature "WebSlice" of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 has been added to Yahoo. To take full advantage of this feature users will have to download "Internet Explorer 8 optimized for Yahoo". The requirements for this browser are as follows:-

• Windows XP 32-bit Service Pack 2 (SP2) or higher
• Windows Vista
• Windows Vista 64-bit
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit

After Downloading and Installing "Internet Explorer 8 optimized for Yahoo" the users will be able to read read their emails directly from the Web Browser's dropdown menu. The user will also be able to access other services of Yahoo such as "Yahoo Search", "Yahoo ToolBar" and "Yahoo HomePage".



"This is looking like a strategy of Microsoft and Yahoo to move ahead of Google."

Original Post --> Would you like a slice of Mail with your Internet Explorer 8?

Internet Explorer 8 – What is a WebSlice?

Internet Explorer 8 – What is a WebSlice?

Once someone invented a technology known as RSS, it changed the way we look at Internet. We didn’t need to go to any site for an updated information, all the new web pages added to the current website were made available to us within a matter of seconds.

Now Microsoft comes up with something called a WebSlice. To understand it just think, what will you do if you have to constantly monitor a WebSlice (a part of a web page). Just understand that we can only utilize RSS in order to view a complete newly created web page, RSS as a technology can not deliver any part of a page with recent updates constantly. But with WebSlice we can constantly monitor a part or a slice of a web page directly from our Internet browser.

For example :- If you have to monitor stock price of XYZ corps with Yahoo Finance. You till now only have the option to open the web page of XYZ corps on yahoo finance and check its stock price. But with WebSlice, all you have to do is to add XYZ corps WebSlice to your favorite bar in your internet explorer, define an update schedule or use the default and that’s it. The stock price of XYZ corps will now keep changing at the scheduled time and after every new update your browser will flash your screen for a notice. Now you don’t need to open yahoo finance again and again for the checking the stock price.

The only disadvantage this technology could face is that, you can not add any WebSlice to your browser until the Website owner has implemented them. Say in the above eg. You would not be able to add the WebSlice for XYZ corps until yahoo finance has implemented it on their Web Server using a simple code.

Internet Explorer 8 - What is Accelerators?

Internet Explorer 8 – What is Accelerators ?

The Internet is changing. The feature called accelerator provided in Internet Explorer 8 is an amazing add-on people have ever seen. ‘Accelerators’ can be defined as an feature which is going to enhance and completely change the way people browse internet.

What is Accelerator?

How many times do you go to wikipedia to search for anything? How many times do you go to an online dictionary to find a meaning of a word? Every time you find some thing you note it down then go to google or any other website like wikipedia and then start searching for it. Just imagine if you don’t have to open any window or even you don’t have to note down any anything, what you have to do is to select the text in the internet explorer and hover your mouse over the accelerator button and that’s it. In the same window and even on the same page you will find your answer just take a look at an image below:-



Like the image above, which provides the information about maps on a single page of internet explorer , you can view many web services like this, using ‘accelerators’ feature shipped with Internet explorer 8. Even you can add or delete more accelerators with the Internet explorer 8 gallery.