Some things change – others stay the same…
Free Key Finder Utility
February 8, 2009 — cybercityblog
Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder v2.0.1
The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware open source utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your registry. It allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 family of products. It also has a community-updated configuration file that retrieves product keys for many other applications. Another feature is the ability to retrieve product keys from unbootable Windows installations.
Freeware – http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/
Send a bunch of links at once.
March 2, 2008 — cybercityblogHere’s a handy tool: Linkbun-ch What is LinkBunch? A web tool to bundle a bunch of links. It condenses multiple URLs into one short address. Quite often I have to send a list of links to someone to review, or a list of links I want to send to myself to remember, and research latter when I have a chance. With LinkBunch, you take a list of links and put them into one “bunch”, which becomes just one single link–which looks like a TinyURL or SnipURL link–and save that one link instead of having find a place to store my list. If you use Firefox there is an extention that will open the list of links in your browser – all tabbed up and ready to review.
Online Backup Too Cheap to Ignore!
February 16, 2008 — cybercityblogOK, Internet backup is just too cheap to Ignore. The prices start at Free and are very reasonable for what you get. I’ve tried Mozy, IDrive, and several others. Most of the free services offer you 2GB for personal use. If you want to use it for business purposes they want you to pay something and I think that’s fair, particularly as the prices are now very cheap. I encourage small businesses to start using one of these services for your important files. Identify the most important files in your organization and ask yourself; what would you do if you lost them? These are the files you should backup on one of these services. I think IDrive is the one with the best features.
You want some other solution to backup your workstations and servers, but in some cases where your total backup is small IDrive could even do that job.
The best way to learn how easy it is to protect your most important data is to sign up for a Free account.
Give it a try! (Click that box you know you should try it!)
Google Docs – Email to Spreadsheet Feature
February 11, 2008 — cybercityblogAre you familiar with Google Docs? This is Google’s answer to Microsoft Office Suite – web app wordprocessor, Spreadsheet, and more. It’s worth checking out and setting up an account. A free set of apps to create and store documents online. These are not as powerful as Microsoft Office apps but the are pretty sweet for free.
They just released a feature that I have been talking about for years: Spreadsheet Input via Email. (Think InfoPath .)
Email a form to an email list and the responses are returned to your Google Docs Spreadsheet.
All free. Google will inherit the earth (and then start charging us.)
