by R.I. Pienaar | Jan 7, 2004 | Uncategorized
Since the iPaq I got has both bluetooth and wifi it is very useful in a networked environment and so the obvious requirement is a networking tool that can do the usual diagnostics work. I found a excellent freeware tool called vxUtil from Cambridge Computer Corporation.
Features:
- DNS Audit
- DNS Lookup
- Finger
- Get HTML
- Network Interface Info like ifconfig or ipconfig
- IP Subnet Calculator
- Password Generator
- Ping and Ping Sweeper
- Port Scanner
- Quote
- Time Service client
- Traceroute
- whois
All round excellent tool one that I often use, view the extended entry to see screenshots of it in action.
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by R.I. Pienaar | Jan 7, 2004 | Usefull Things
A co-worker mentioned the RIAA Radar, it helps you quickly and easily discover if you are sponsoring RIAA or if you are targeting your ripping at the right people. Nice.
From their frontpage they have a quick overview of how it works:
When you run the RIAA Radar, it uses Amazon Web Services to get the album information. It then checks the record label data given by Amazon against a local database based on the official list of RIAA members (but heavily added to beyond that), and returns the result based on a match.
by R.I. Pienaar | Jan 6, 2004 | Uncategorized
I have created a new category for iPaq and Pocket PC related postings, I am hoping to post here bits about all the software I use on my iPaq mostly as a place where I can come back and find things that I loose but also in the hope that someone will be finding it interesting.
A shortcoming in the Pocket PC 2003 OS in my view is the lack of a simple to locate battery monitor, the battery monitor only appears when the iPaq is nearly flat otherwise it is buried deep in the settings menus. I found a good freeware system tray battery meter at Birdsoft and it works really well so far, below a screenshot of it in action. It does not provide much functionality but clicking on the icon allows you to click on short cuts to the power management and the battery management of the iPaq, not much else you would want from such a tool.
by R.I. Pienaar | Jan 2, 2004 | Usefull Things
Someone pasted a link to their DVD collection today on IRC, turns out they used a on-line service called DVD Profiler.
It is a windows app that has a ad supported freeware version with the option to pay $20 registration to remove them. You enter DVD’s into the system by bar-code and it has a database of bar-codes, you can also search based on title and so forth. It can sync with their on-line database and store your profile there for a convenient off-site backup and you can view your DVD list on-line, mine can be seen here.
It supports maintaining a wishlist, various filtered searches and can run a number of reports on your DVD collection. For each DVD there are reviews, cover images, zone and special feature information. The data are however user contributed so some of it is incomplete etc.
The UI isn’t 100% perfect but so far this is a great service, I can only wish they would extend it to support audio CD’s as well.
by R.I. Pienaar | Dec 30, 2003 | Usefull Things
I noticed a new repeating query in my blog log files, quoting from the BlogPulse web site:
BlogPulse Key Phrases, Key People, BlogBites, and Top Links are mined daily from new entries in over 80,000 weblogs using machine learning algorithms and natural language processing techniques. BlogPulse mines for bursty phrases and person names instead of for the most popular ones. The most popular phrases and names change very slowly over time. The burstiest phrases and names are those whose frequency of occurrence has increased significantly over the past two weeks, often dramatically
A quick play with it shows that it is rather interesting but not perfect, it’s language algorithms needs tuning a bit but it looks like a great start.
