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Partitioning the hard drive is not a task which would be performed on a daily basis. It is commonly executed on procurement of a new hard drive. Some consider it a very risky and intricate process but with EASEUS Partition Manager, your outlook will change.
EASEUS Partition Manager (EASEUS PM) is a disk partition management tool, also an alternative to Partition Magic (currently known as Norton Partition Magic). EASEUS PM Software is available in four different editions; Home, Professional, Server and Unlimited. It’s a handy software designed exclusively to aid you with dicing a hard drive to your requirements and taste.
Features and Functions
- Offers a simple and speedy solution in configuring and administrating the hard disk partitions with a comprehensive control over the creation, deletion, resizing, moving and formatting of partitions
- Supports browsing the detailed information about all hard drives, partitions and file systems too
- Labels can be assigned to each partition and supports hiding or un-hiding of partitions
- Comes supplied with an elite element to resize or move the live partitions by making use of the free space without any loss of data
- Helps shrink the size of an existing partition in order to unite it with the available free space and construct a larger partition
- Gives a detailed and comprehensive set of instructions to aid the user in accomplishing a variety of projected steps
- Well-suited with Win NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista and can serve large disks ranging from 2GB to 1TB
- Incorporates a preference to create a bootable CD, that permits to supervise the partitions before Windows loads (could be needed for certain changes)
- Executes a bad sector test and a call on Windows’ CHDISK utility to mend the defects
- Secures and protects the settings, preventing them from unauthorized changes, by providing password locking capability
The Disadvantages
- The interface and the visuals are not too appealing or attractive, starting from the colors to the fonts used. Looking plainly at its aesthetics (appearance), it equals with the aged look of the previous operating systems
- Lacks any kind of backup preference for cloning the existing data
The Conclusion
The user interface may not be worthy of a reward but it balances for the wide-ranged powerful functionalities and ease of use. So grab a copy of EASEUS Partition Manager to make things simple and reclaim peace of mind.
Visit EASEUS Partition Manager’s website
SolarWinds Real-time NetFlow Analyzer is a traffic analysis tool that is designed to analyze the data that passes through your network connection in a 60 minute frame. It shows any request from each and every layer of the OSI model. This is very useful in order to analyze how your bandwidth resources are utilized.
The NetFlow Analyzer consists of two components. The configurator where you specify your device’s hostname and SNMP credentials, and the actual analyzer tool that captures network traffic.
Once you complete the configuration, the rest is as simple as it gets. Select an interface you want to analyze and start the Flow Capture. The collected data is archived to a database for future analysis. This database is compatible with Microsoft Access.
The SolarWinds Real-time NetFlow Analyzer also provides a series of useful tools that you can use right inside the analyzer to simplify your work. Applications like Traceroute, Port Scanner, Telnet or Ping make this an all-in-one compact application.
What I like most about this application is that I am able to analyze the data based upon five different criteria: applications, conversations, domains, endpoints and protocols.
- Applications: Seeing what network traffic every running application makes. The analyzer simply maps the application to the port it uses to send its data, thus making it easy to separate the flow into different groups.
- Conversations: Sorting the traffic referring to the source/destination IP addresses, source and destination port and/or protocol. By matching all these five, you get a single conversation with all its specifications.
- Domains: Using reverse DNS to identify the domain’s IP address and binding all of the conversations with that IP address under the same tree.
- Endpoints: Allowing you to see the traffic directed to/coming from a specific IP address on all ports, without any further separation.
- Protocols: Sorting the network traffic after specific protocols, TCP or UDP. Further separation will be made by individual applications.
All of these features these combined make SolarWinds Real-time NetFlow Analyzer a great tool for monitoring and analyzing network traffic.
SolarWinds makes the Real-time NetFlow Analyzer available at no cost via their web site.
Zelune has made its official release to the public; Zelune is a web proxy script similar to cgi-Proxy and PHProxy but offers a lot more speed. Zelune is coded in PHP using cURL, to optimize performance.
Files
Zelune offers an easy to edit library of files; it is recommended that you do not edit index.php or js/main.js. These are the files that will help to keep your proxy running; home.php and form.php can be edited without squashing a tomato.
Files included in the package:
/cookies - Cookies that are obtained when people use your proxy will be stored here; to avoid cached pages appearing, clear this folder regularly.
/js - The JavaScript files that are required to keep your proxy running are stored here.
/js/main.js - This is the main JavaScript file; if you do not know what you are doing, do not edit it.
/uploads - In case a website uploads any content to your proxy (i.e. a web ftp), the content will be stored in this folder.
form.php - This is the form that will appear on every proxified page that is visited; edit this file to add/remove ads.
home.php - This is the home page; edit this file if you wish to add/remove any ads or to create a proxy template.
index.php - After the form on home.php has been submitted, index.php will process all the “behind the scenes data;” do not edit this file unless you know what you are doing.
Read Me.txt - Read Me contains the release information about your proxy; you do not need to upload this file.
Installation
Step one: Upload all of the files except Read Me.txt onto a server (or a shared hosting account) that allows proxies; we recommend GoDaddy.
Step two: CHMOD the folder “cookies” to 777 (this can be done using a File Manager or a File Transfer Protocol). If you are using a Windows server, move onto step four.
Step three: CHMOD the folder “uploads” to 777 (this can be done using a File Manager or a File Transfer Protocol).
Step four: Ensure that “safe_mode” is off (this may already be the default settings on your server; if not, use the file “php.ini” to resolve the issue).
Step five: Ensure that “open_basedir” is UNSET (this may already be the default settings on your server; if not, use the file “php.ini” to resolve the issue).
Step six: Visit your root domain and test out your brand new proxy.
Get Zelune
Zelune is downloadable here. For a demo, click here. Zelune’s release is currently Version 2.0
Open Office v2.2 – a very important new release- now resolves numerous security breaches issues and introduces significant general and specific enhancements, such as…
- Enhanced display of text;
- In the Calc Module, Pivot Tables now have better support;
- The Base Module Several key improvements;
- The Mac version { X11} is now far more robust
- … plus numerous other enhancements!
Even if you already are using an older version of Open Office, it is highly recommended that you update your suite to the newest version.
Also, in the next major release of Open Office- OpenOffice.org has announced that they will be massively extending the power of the Base module {the Open Office data base application} with a new feature called Report Designer; based on an open-source reporting engine by Pentaho.
This will give Open Office users the flexibility to generate impressive business intelligence reports from multiple sources, including OLAP and XML, and save them using the OASIS Open Document format {.odt files}, as well as the ISO-authorized open-source ODF file format, plus others.
With proprietary applications, things can get very encumbering quickly, for the end users as well as the developers. Not so with the ultimate open-source solution and powerful alternative to the MS Office suite.
Open Office Suite Advantages
Unlike some office suites, the Open Office suite was not merely slapped together from a collection of separate pieces of software. It was engineered to be a completely streamlined office package, out the gate.
- All of the Open Office modules have a uniform look and layout;
- The Open Office suite adapts to your computer’s layout - change the look of your desktop, and Open Office will blend and match;
- Consistently use the same tools across the Open Office suite - for example, the tools you use to work with graphics within Writer are also found in Impress and Draw.
- This gives you the ultimate leverage of of learning each function once then use it throughout the entire Open Office suite, such as the ‘Styles and Formatting’ function;
- Don’t know exactly which application created a certain file? No problem- simply double click or File >> Open within any Open Office document, at any time, and the proper module will be launch;
- Enjoy macro-command power throughout the entire Open Office suite… switch an option in one package {e.g. the spelling-check option, etc.}, the change immediately takes place across all Open Office modules.
- And, because of this, info can be quickly and easily transferred throughout the entire Open Office suite;
- The default for all modules to save to, is the Internationally-accepted open-source standard, Open Document Template {.odt} file format- The ultimate in New World multiple cross-platform portability;
- Because all Open Office documents embrace this highly-popular XML based format, you’ll enjoy a substantial savings in disk space consumption {compared to the most common competing file formats} and you can now access your file information from within any .odt compliant application;
- Single installation- all six Open office modules are installed at the same time, and abide to the same open-source license- zero cost or royalties, ever… literally everything you’ll need in one mighty handy office suite;
- Feel confident knowing that the Open Office suite is reliability at it’s finest, considering it is powered by Sun Microsystems, is an ever-evolving community project spanning over 20 years, and was created from scratch to be a single integrated software experience…. What you want, exactly how you want it!
- Open Office utilizes a highly intuitive interface that is easy to learn, and uniform across the entire Open office suite, which means that it’s absolutely suitable for complete newbies… While at the same time allowing you to leverage what you do already know, via a compelling look and ‘feel’.
- Already have documents you’ve created using MS Office or other common office suites?
- Open Office can read MS Office files, as well as virtually all other popular office suite files, with a extremely impressive degree of accuracy- making the switch to the Open Office suite straight-away;
- OpenOffice.org has received reports in which Open Office users were actually able to to read files in which the origin application flagged as corrupt and unusable… Makes swapping multiple software files a breeze, and fully supports the highly-popular cross-platform .rtf format, as well!
WinSock XP Fix is a quick little utility which attempts to fix Internet connectivity issues which are caused by a corrupted WinSock configuration.
If some application has tweaked your WinSock configuration beyond repair, download WinSock XP Fix from Snapfiles.com and give it a try.
It’s one heck of a lot easier than reinstalling Windows.
